An Irishman Abroad

iancm25 · 12-03-2017 3:17pm

I usually enjoy this but god almighty Jarlath needs to be a little less self-absorbed. Not every story needs to be related to his life.

He has had a great selection of interviewees over the last couple of years in fairness and I do listen to most of them in full. But every week I have a 'throw the iPhone at the wall' moment when JR says something cringeworthy that relates to his life/career/family etc.

jack presley · 12-03-2017 3:18pm

Is there anyone involved with Irish Rugby that he hasn't had on on yet?

Britch · 22-05-2017 8:27am

Solid episode other day with Jon Drennan who writes with Guardian and Times.

Britch · 22-05-2017 8:27am

Solid episode other day with Jon Drennan who writes with Guardian and Times.

Britch · 22-05-2017 8:27am

Solid episode other day with Jon Drennan who writes with Guardian and Times.

Britch · 22-05-2017 8:29am

Interesting on Australia, he had tendancy to lose run on himself but wouldn't be alone there on the podcast.

Terrontress · 21-06-2017 11:03am

I listened to this most recent episode with James McClean and the interview was pathetic. He just asked the same sort of questions as he would ask any sportsman, how do you motivate yourself, when did you first realise you love football, do you want your kids to play football.
I wanted to have him ask McClean about his stance on the poppy. McClean mentions it once and Jarlath brushes over it. About his relationship with Twitter, the abuse he has given out and received. About having played for Northern Ireland and switched to the Republic.
That was an absolute waste of an hour of my time, of McClean's time.

Britch · 21-06-2017 2:23pm

Ah here. McClean can barely speak and speaks in a monotone, Jarlath was doing his best with a guy whose default is to mumble. If you want a good interview Seamus Coleman was excellent and came across brilliantly. Also re poppy those interviews are via FAI so probably heavily PRed and monitored so it will be vanilla sorry, that's the world of football. Sam Barry tennis player was fascinating and brilliantly done, Jon Drennan as I said was good, and older ones like Jerry Flannery excellent.

Britch · 21-06-2017 2:23pm

Ah here. McClean can barely speak and speaks in a monotone, Jarlath was doing his best with a guy whose default is to mumble. If you want a good interview Seamus Coleman was excellent and came across brilliantly. Also re poppy those interviews are via FAI so probably heavily PRed and monitored so it will be vanilla sorry, that's the world of football. Sam Barry tennis player was fascinating and brilliantly done, Jon Drennan as I said was good, and older ones like Jerry Flannery excellent.

Terrontress · 21-06-2017 6:05pm

Britch wrote: »

Ah here. McClean can barely speak and speaks in a monotone, Jarlath was doing his best with a guy whose default is to mumble. If you want a good interview Seamus Coleman was excellent and came across brilliantly. Also re poppy those interviews are via FAI so probably heavily PRed and monitored so it will be vanilla sorry, that's the world of football. Sam Barry tennis player was fascinating and brilliantly done, Jon Drennan as I said was good, and older ones like Jerry Flannery excellent.

I thought that McClean came across as more articulate than I had expected him to. And it seemed like he wanted to go down the poppy route but Jarlath steered him away from it.

I don't think Dunphy, Matt Cooper, or any other decent interviewer would have let such a massive topic slide

Birdsong · 21-06-2017 8:30pm

Heard the Seamus Coleman interview, thought it was very good. The. Sam Barry one also very enjoyable, his commitment to tennis from such a young age and to be fair his parents was amazing.

ClashCityRocker · 23-06-2017 12:43pm

I thought it was a decent interview, he's given his reasons for not wearing the poppy before so i can understand Jarlath not wanting to go over it again really. The parts about Seamus Coleman's injury and Ryan McBride's tragic death were interesting.

I also enjoyed when Jarlath started a question with "aside from this podcast my day job is a stand up comedian..." and McClean says "oh right, i couldn't tell..." :pac:

deisedude · 16-07-2017 5:52pm

Listened to about 10 minutes of the Bob Geldof episode and started nodding off. Stating the bleeding obvious but my god is Geldof full of self importance. Doesn't help when Jarleth tries to mimick a pseudo intellectual either

_feedback_ · 15-01-2018 2:08pm

Have been dipping in and out of this podcast for a few months. The only thing that keeps bringing me back is the quality of guests he gets.

How can somebody with such a successful podcast have so poor audio? It sounds like he is recording it on a phone in the toilet most of the time.. Overall I don't like his style and the way he goes so long-winded to get to a question. Also his massive false spiel about his sponsorship partners are a bit much. Don't get me started on the false laugh which appears now and again for no reason..

Sorry for the rant, but it's a pity that he hasn't developed a better style over time. I still listen occasionally because a guests name grabs my attention. Listened to Mick McCarthy and Brian Kennedy recently who had really interesting stories. Brian Kennedy in particular has a really interesting story to tell.

Come on Jarlaith, pump something else in to it to make it a bit more bearable!

Utopia Parkway · 16-01-2018 4:50pm

_feedback_ wrote: »

Have been dipping in and out of this podcast for a few months. The only thing that keeps bringing me back is the quality of guests he gets.

How can somebody with such a successful podcast have so poor audio? It sounds like he is recording it on a phone in the toilet most of the time.. Overall I don't like his style and the way he goes so long-winded to get to a question. Also his massive false spiel about his sponsorship partners are a bit much. Don't get me started on the false laugh which appears now and again for no reason..

Sorry for the rant, but it's a pity that he hasn't developed a better style over time. I still listen occasionally because a guests name grabs my attention. Listened to Mick McCarthy and Brian Kennedy recently who had really interesting stories. Brian Kennedy in particular has a really interesting story to tell.

Come on Jarlaith, pump something else in to it to make it a bit more bearable!

That's how I feel about this podcast. The idea is good and the quality of guests is very good. My problem is the host. Who is not very engaging and for a stand-up comedian, not very funny.

Dots1982 · 17-01-2018 6:03pm

Anyone think or notice that jarlath seems like a quite right-on liberal type but his show seems to only invite upper class or middle class guests on?

cloudatlas · 18-01-2018 4:30pm

Dots1982 wrote: »

Anyone think or notice that jarlath seems like a quite right-on liberal type but his show seems to only invite upper class or middle class guests on?

Recent interviewee Brian Kennedy was from a very humble back ground.

Rumpy Pumpy · 18-01-2018 6:27pm

I think the fact that most people he has on are from a middle class background shows that Ireland is a relatively middle class kind of country, rather than it demonstrating bias on behalf of Jarlath.

It’s not a bad podcast, but I sometimes feel his softly softly approach has resulted in missed opportunities considering the calibre of guest he has gotten. Not to go all Paxman on them, but to explore a new side to guests that the listener isn’t used to. It can feel a bit safe.

spucey2 · 27-01-2018 4:49pm

Have just started listening to this as a result of listening to the Kilkenny Cats Laughs episode.
Enjoyed it.
Then listened to Chris O' Dowd & Sharon Horgan (returns) and enjoyed those...with the exception of the sound quality. There are editing programs available which can kill that crappy (sometimes intermittent) background noise which doesn't add to the podcast.

Absolutely no reason not to edit out background hiss.

Aside from that, I've signed up to the archive via app and the sound quality is atrocious compared to pretty much every other podcaster.

nilescraneo · 30-01-2018 7:28pm

Wonder would it be possible for the lads to through a single episode without mentioning the pox that is twitter. I go out of my way to avoid it in my own life, but second captains might as well be a subsidiary of the twitter brand the way they constantly go on about it.

deisedude · 29-04-2018 3:37pm

The latest episode with Barry Keoghan is terrible. Not Barry's fault as he seemed quite open to talk about anything but Jarleth didn't ask a remotely interesting question

Uncle Mclovin · 29-04-2018 10:21pm

Jarleth loves the sound of his own voice so much that Barry barely got a chance to speak.

cloudatlas · 29-04-2018 11:37pm

deisedude wrote: »

The latest episode with Barry Keoghan is terrible. Not Barry's fault as he seemed quite open to talk about anything but Jarleth didn't ask a remotely interesting question

I agree it was such a shame as Barry sounds like he has such an interesting story normally Jarlaith has a kind of structure, takes the interviewee back to the beginning and finds out thought processes and turning points with this one it was just very random, he jumped around.

Blanco100 · 10-10-2018 9:17am

this podcast seems to have run its course now which is a shame.

who hasnt he interviewed yet and who would everyone like to hear in a decent interview?

Worztron · 10-10-2018 10:50am

Blanco100 wrote: »

this podcast seems to have run its course now which is a shame.

who hasnt he interviewed yet and who would everyone like to hear in a decent interview?

I'd love to hear Morrissey from the Smiths being interviewed.

Shoebox1926 · 14-10-2018 2:03pm

Blanco100 wrote: »

this podcast seems to have run its course now which is a shame.

who hasnt he interviewed yet and who would everyone like to hear in a decent interview?

Its gone to ****e, he doesnt get good guests anymore and interviews way too many sports people, sorry but I find them the most dull, boring people and most of them have monotone voices. I cant listen to them, my eyes glaze over, everything they say goes over my head as I just cant concentrate on what theyre saying. I used to be a patreon and listen every Sunday but his guests are so boring now I unsubscribed a few months ago, I check in every few weeks to see of anything interesting has been posted but it never has been. I listen to the pod casts anyway unless theyre a sports person but I never take anything from them or find them engaging anymore. Also he mostly only interviews men which I think gets boring after a while.

snotboogie · 11-02-2024 10:32am

He seems to not interview guests anymore and does “Irishman running” where he periodically talks to Sonia O’Sullivan and “Irishman in America” where he talks to to Marion McKeone about US politics.

10 years later and retrospectively a lot of the early episodes really languish and even rely on the worst type of mawkish Irish expat tropes.

An Irishman Abroad

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