So, as we discuss on today’s podcast - I have written a book, it’s called This Is The Life, and it’s to be released by Penguin Sandycove this Autumn. Here’s the cover, and you can pre-order it from today right here
“Ok Richie, you’ve got 1 min to explain the German club football ownership model AND the Qatari regime’s human rights abuses”
“Any wiggle-room there? 5 seconds here or there?”
“NO. **Exactly** 1 min”
@RichieSadlier
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Unbelievably good lower Hogan Stand tickets for Dublin-Kerry on sale right now on ticketmaster - as in, literally the best tickets in the house. Bewildering. The entire ticketmaster thing has been a sorry mess all summer
Milltown GAA are delighted to announce we'll be turning on the lights at the pitch on weeknights again this year!💡 Starting next Mon 8th Nov, the lights will be on 7-9pm Mon-Fri to provide a safe place for people to exercise in the dark evenings!🤩🌟👌
#milltowngaa
#milltownlgfa
Still in a bit of a daze after last night’s book launch. There were so many people there that I genuinely love - it’s rare to get a night like it in your life. Thanks so much to all who came, to the SC listeners who came out in force, and to all of you who’ve read it already 💙
I know I’m biased as we’re in a loving committed podcast relationship, but Oisin McConville is already comfortably the best co-commentator RTE have - engaged, tells us things we can’t see from the coverage, funny 👌🏻
Thrilled to bits to win Dublin’s AFL 5 league yesterday with this brilliant group of fellas. Goodbye (for now!) to what truly was the *best* league in the world - home to UFC fighters, an Irish international cricketer, an Olympic sprinter, and A LOT of Coronas fans
Years of media reports in Ireland about alleged child abuse by a prominent swimming coach were overlooked by Irish authorities.
Now, a true-crime podcast may help bring him to justice.
By now you’ve probably all already listened to Ep8 of “Where Is George Gibney?” but having listened this morning i feel honour-bound to say once again how proud I am to have known
@younghorgan
&
@CiaranCass
for the last 17 years. It’s an extraordinary achievement lads ❤️
Can I just say that I’ve always loved the Scotland rugby team (I’ve just got so much RESPECT for them!), and I hope they get the win this morning that their mental fortitude and exemplary rugby skills so richly deserve 🏴
.
@kenearlys
txted me on the morning of that county final, and I remember it verbatim. It said “I kept an all-night vigil for you”. He had stayed up drinking *all night*, and felt the need to txt me at 7.30am. He is a sad excuse for a friend and today’s outburst was yet more proof
In a scarcely believable show of cruelty, Ken launches an unprovoked attack on Murph today, comparing his (unfortunately televised) performance in the 2007 Galway senior county final to that of RB Leipzig last night
SO CRUEL
Imagine Galway-Mayo in castlebar with a crowd made up only of vaccinated supporters this summer. Never mind the health-care workers, just a vast uninterrupted chorus of vaccinated pensioners roaring “kick the fucking ball in, will ye” at bemused possession-retaining half-backs
NFL announced that Super Bowl LV in Tampa will host 22,000 fans — 7,500 of which will be vaccinated healthcare workers being given free tickets to the game.
Beautiful! That was exactly how a gold medal should be won - put the shits up us for 3 mins, mounting excitement for 2 mins, absolute utter joy for the last 60 seconds 🥇
GAANOW looks to
@Kerry_Official
Club SFC as Kerins O'Rahillys overcame Dr. Crokes 3-18 to 2-17 at Fitzgerald Stadium!
@drcrokesgaa
were ahead by nine points with ten minutes to go, but two Tommy Walsh goals and another by Karl Mullins in stoppage-time saw
@korgaa
take the win!
This is
@murphm95
and I’s favourite GAA clip on YouTube, as referenced on today’s show. The first score alone is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen
I talked to a lot of people who, like myself, had no idea how today was gonna go. Turns out the only man who was sure was Damien Comer, who decided this morning Galway were gonna win, and he went out and won it. Kick-outs, turnovers, tackles, scores… he just did the business 💪🏻
The only hurling that mattered today - Athenry,
@Galway_GAA
feile hurling champions 2022. Very proud of my nephew Enda and his brilliant team-mates
@cumannathanri
.
@younghorgan
is the most completely committed, determined, decent man I know. "Where Is George Gibney?" is heartbreaking and is also full of people who embody those words I use to describe him; committed, determined, decent. It’s magnificent, and I’m very proud of my best mate❤️
Aaaaaaahhhhh!!! Just the biggest congrats to my sensationally talented brother
@johnmurphyedit
for his IFTA award for
@quietgirlfilm
- so richly deserved for such a fuckin’ decent, big-hearted person ❤️
The half-time analysis of last night’s Leinster minor hurling final on tg4 was a real delight. Michéal Ó Domhnaill is a pro… and I’ve never seen Jamie Wall looking so well
Heartfelt thanks to
@GalwayGAA
+ Coiste Peil na nÓg for choosing Dad as the 2023 winner of the Bertie Coleman Award for distinguished service to underage football. We’d such a lovely evening. And to everyone from
@milltown_gaa
who showed up in such numbers, as they always do 💙🤍
Just want to thank ONCE AGAIN my partners
@adidas
and
@Elverys
for my beautiful new football boots… in exchange ONCE AGAIN for the full recommended retail price 😒😖
I’m going to go out on a limb and say this was the best point scored by a
@SecondCaptains
World Service member all weekend - take a bow, Eoin Cleary (
@Smiley_014_
)
1. Had a chat on new GAA 2-tier c’ship proposals on the show today. Really disappointed by lack of imagination shown. Giving us the same idea (with 1 minor tweak) isn’t a choice. Really worried by speed this is happening, and far from sure John Horan is the man to deliver us this
Barry's Tea - Photo (1994)
"No. It was – someone else."
This is the earliest Barry's Tea ad that we've posted so far. It's almost like a mini-episode of a soap-opera, such drama and intrigue! Does the daughter ever find out who this "someone else" was?
@BarrysTeaTweets
We were delighted to have past pupil
@saveciaranmurph
visit us today to chat about his work, his book and, of course, his career as corner forward for
@milltown_gaa
.We wish Ciarán all the best and thank him for a very entertaining afternoon 🔵⚪
@milltown_galway
@MilltownHeritag
This was such incredible news to get late this week - third in the paperback non-fiction in its first week, and 7th in overall sales (alongside your Osmans, your Aislings, and your Holohans of this world)… thanks so much to everyone who’s bought the book so far! 💙🤍
If/when the GAA announce the news that this week's fixtures will be cancelled, they should also give clear guidelines to all club teams as to how feasible the idea of collective training is for the next few weeks. this goes a lot further than a few inter-county league games
Overheard (not by me) on a GAA sideline in 2021 - “is that the same Ciarán Murphy that writes in the Times? Jaysis… that picture they use in the paper must be from 15 years ago”
This deadly piece is in the FA programme for tonight's Ireland/England game, was shared to 4 million England fans this morning by the FA twitter account... and it was done by **WORLD SERVICE MEMBER**
@cackjollins
👏👏
It’s been a year full of rancour, ill-will and foul language between
@kenearlys
,
@EoinMcDevitt
and I but an outburst by one of my co-hosts (no, not *him* - the other one) at the end of today’s football pod, out now, will shock even hardened SC listeners 🥺
Great news! Uncle Jim’s book “Sean Purcell And Frank Stockwell” is now available online from the mighty Kenny’s bookshop in Galway. It’s a wonderful publication, the launch in Tuam on Saturday was really special. And all proceeds go to Tuam Cancer Care ❤️
I’m voting in the Dublin South Central Soviet tomorrow and I’m happy to support Rebecca Moynihan (LAB), who is a great local representative and will make a brilliant TD. If you’re the type of person who listens to a sports journalist for political advice, then give her your No 1
Some days it’s work, and some days it’s sitting at your auld pair’s kitchen table talking to one of your all-time favourites. Yesterday’s show on David Storey’s brilliant “This Sporting Life” available here
Just an ocean’s worth of respect and love for
@younghorgan
and
@CiaranCass
as the finale landed this morning. Work that will stand the test of time, a high-water mark for the medium, and a chorus of wonderful people finding their voice ❤️
🚨FINAL EPISODE IS OUT NOW🚨
🎙️Where Is George Gibney?
🎙️Episode 10: Sea Swimming
#WhereIsGeorgeGibney
@BBCSounds
Gibney stays silent but Judy, Caroline and many more don’t. A gathering of strength 🌊 🌊 🌊
🔊Listen now wherever you get your podcasts
I have voted🗳 and it felt great! Don’t miss the chance to feel a part of it tomorrow when we’ve
#VotedForYes
- please get out and make it happen. Polls open til 10pm.
The night I got my junior cert results, I went... TO THE GALWAY FOOTBALL ALL-IRELAND FINAL PRESS NIGHT IN TUAM STADIUM (how's that for some on-message
#JuniorCert
nostalgia)
He can’t help stealing a long glance at the ball as it goes over, the Cusack Stand in paroxysms behind him. Who couldn’t love this game? Who couldn’t love this player?
via
@IrishTimesSport
To all of you wondering - my mother was actually supporting Brazil (she actually used the phrase “samba football”), but she’s delighted for KDB. He’s a great bit of stuff all the same
Two tickets in 303 lower Cusack available if anyone is on the look-out. A €50 donation to Focus, or the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, will get you the pair
Thanks so much to Noel, Pat and all at
@IrishTimesSport
for carrying an extract from my new book “This Is The Life” today.
Book is on-sale **everywhere** from next Thursday!
@PenguinIEBooks
Attn: all
@TyroneGAABlog
fans travelling to Tuam. If you’re looking for a post-game feed, why not stop into Galway’s tidiest village? On your way home if going thru Sligo, *MILLTOWN* has 2 beautiful restaurants - Finns beside the church, and Sheridans at the top of the hill 👌🏻