The Stand With Eamon Dunphy

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I wasn't sure if I had wanted to listen to that interview, but think I will based on the comments from the last two posters

Whether you like Dunphy or not, these podcasts should be essential listening for anyone with even a passing interest in Irish politics and society.

He consistently gets interesting guests and allows them to express their views without swamping them with his own agenda/beliefs.

I don't necessarily always agree with the guests and/or Dunphy but it's refreshing to hear proper interviews considering the tripe that gets rolled out elsewhere.


The fact that it's a free podcast with no ads is great....wonder if there's a plan to go more commercial at some stage...must be costing him money.

Well, this podcast has achieved the impossible….I listened to Oliver Callan without wanting to switch off after about 3.8 seconds

After a clunky opening, it actually turned out to be an interesting interview expertly handled by Eammo.

Callan was clearly all set to discuss his sexuality/being in the closet etc. but Dunphy took the road less travelled by (talking about Gerry Ryan, the Troubles, Gay Byrne etc) which was quite refreshing.

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Yeah....I feared the same....there's a few awkward bits alright but Eammo doesn't really indulge him too much to be fair.

It seems that Callan is possibly getting out of comedy (if I picked it up correctly) and focusing more on journalism so good news all round :pac:

Arghus wrote: »

I was really not that interested in listening to an interview with Oliver Callan, but I thought it was a great interview. Both men had a lot of interesting things to say and the, admittedly staggeringly accurate impressions, were kept to a minimum.

When I listen to this Pod I almost feel like there's two Eamonn Dunphys out there in the world. There's the complete spoofer who talks about football on TV and there's this other guy who is warm, respectful, erudite and wise. He's an excellent interviewer who isn't afraid to let the interviewee talk or disagree with him. The Stand is rapidly becoming one of my favourite shows.

Very true. The eamo act on tv is simply to get attention and keep his profile up.

Pidae.m wrote: »

Also what the 10yr old kid said to him.

It's more the fact that these kids believe what they're saying that makes it so lamentable and funny.

Whoever recommended this pod day 1 - nice work. Gets better and better.

Another great couple of interviews with Tony Connelly and, in particular, Clare Daly.

I’d say if the average Joe on the street is asked to give an opinion about Clare Daly they’d probably say something like “Is that yer wan that hangs around with Mick Wallace???”

To be honest, I’d have said something similar myself until relatively recently – the interviews that Dunphy has done with Mick Clifford have also been excellent and have highlighted that Daly & Wallace have played huge roles in in exposing the Garda scandal.

Another issue with Daly is that she seems to be always brought on to the likes of Prime Time, Vincent Browne etc to act as a contrarian and her opinion is drowned out by flunkies from FF/FG and she generally ends up looking like a left-wing crank.

It’s hard to identify exactly what Dunphy is doing to get people talking so openly, but it’s obvious that his guests are very at ease and relaxed in his company

I haven't listened to it yet, but I'll be quite annoyed if Dunphy just agreed with everything that Brolly said.

I both like and dislike Brolly. He is intelligent and his writing can be insightful and cogent. But he can also be full of bullsh*t and a complete WUM.

Dots1982 wrote: »

I had to make an addition.

True!

buyer95 wrote: »

I like Ken Early's work. He writes fluently and thinks cogently.

But he's wrong.

Dots1982 wrote: »

How about when he said that Dublin GAA has a great backroom who all get “the ethos of the GAA” and then literally 2mins later said Jason Sherlock was a “capitalist GAA man” “not a GAA man at all”, forgetting that Sherlock is a key member of that backroom. Loads more examples as well but that one stood out.

He’s a complete bull****ter who like many old people looks back at their own playing era as been superior.

Brolly has been repeating himself for far too long now. He talks about the great days of football. Does that include his 2 ulster final wins which are right up there with the most rancid football games in history.

If anything Football is miles ahead of what it used to be. The All Ireland semi finals/finals this decade now produce at least 1 game that stands up for all time. I can hardly think of any all ireland semi final in the 1990s that would stand up to some of the semi finals since.

If you listened to brolly you'd think attendances had fallen by about 80% with the state of the game. The crowds overall have been as good as ever. From a participation, attendance and media interest level Football is the sporting drug of the nation.

Brolly was moaning about it being too serious and players obsessed with money. Does he not realise that the media that he's part of has as much to do with matters like this as anything. Football sells papers and gets people onto blogs.

Even listening to him laud Tohill for his time at United was a bit contradictory. Fair play to Tohill if he got a contract out of it but a bit hypocritical to be then slating the modern day player.

Brolly has also moved from 3 different papers the last 5 or 6 years. Were the ones he left giving him too much money or something?

In fairness to Dunphy you could sense that he badly wanted to point out some of Brollys nonsense but Joe was shouting the loudest.

What did people make of the Bertie episode?

Bertie sounds very smug and satisfied with himself these days and Dunphy didn't do much to ruffle his feathers really, but it was nonetheless an interesting 40 mins or so imho.

Not bad going for a podcast with no apparent sponsorship or advertising

There is a lot of repetition. Mick Clifford to discuss the Maurice McCabe trial. And Nicola Tallant to discuss the Kinahan / Hutch feud. Both very good journalists, and interesting topics, but there is little additional to report each time they are on, It's still well worth a listen.

I still can't figure out the point of the podcast. It's well produced, it has good guests, but nobody is on the shill anything (apart from the paper they work for) and there is no sponsor or ads. Is it just a (very enjoyable) hobby for Eamon?