Second Captains Part II

I'm a big fan of Dave Hannigan but given he's been away for so long I'm not sure he's bed placed to comment on what Ireland has become.

I spent the whole Gazza story waiting for someone, anyone, to correct Gary Parker to Charles.

Poor Shay is having a Eoin-facilitated meltdown trying to get Kenny to admit Arsenal are good defensively

You couldn’t pay me enough money to listen to a podcast about some random dead golfer one of the staffers had a hard on for

They missed Valverde Bowl completely with this stuff

Jesus I'm shocked he's brilliant I presume he's being snapped up by a "bigger" outfit.

Dara Ó Cinnéide is a beautiful human being. I seem to be in the minority but I like Paul Flynn's analysis , he just needs someone alongside him doing the coverage. Dara is a great addition

long story short: a goal was correctly ruled out by var that probably would have stood without var. the referee and the var officials made the correct decision in the correct way in very pressurized circumstances

Interesting that he is not able to say - best of luck to him, I agree, really enjoy his contribution to the pod and his writing style, his reporting from the last world cup in particular was excellent

It depends where’s he’s going I would have thought. I don’t think Ruaidhri O’Connor has been on the pod since the Indo started their podcast

I hope he'll be able to come back on the pod but the way they were talking, it felt like he wouldn't be

I did a quick search on my podcast app and it seems the last time that Ruaidhrí O'Connor appeared on the podcast was this time last year (May 2025).

Joe Molloy's Indo podcast started in September 2024 and RO'C has been regularly on that from day one. The Left Wing has been going for even longer than that and RO'C has been a regular contributor.

Maybe RO'C realised he was spread too thin, or else the lads were happy that they had the 'Irish rugby journalist' angle covered by having GT

Commiserations to Ken and all the other Celtic haters around the world, fairytales aren’t real but Paradise is

And the penalty on Wednesday was very clearly the right decision ;)

Hail hail

I don't think Kens level of interest in Scottish football registers enough for him to be a hater. Largely indifferent I would think.

People complained about teams with the biggest budgets winning everything. Now, they're complaining because the smaller fry have come up with a way to compete again. A real shame that Celtic won it again, hopefully Hearts go one better next year.