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Today we release our 3000th Second Captains Podcast!🖤 A special show with one of our first ever guests is on the way. A massive thank you to our members for supporting us for so long and for giving us nights like this one🤍

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3 years

That's one we'll never forget🇮🇪

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Radio commentaries always make it that little bit better? Listen to @radiokerrysport and @pauriclodge on @RTERadio1 do the business🎙️ The best analysts out there, Oisín McConville & @Flinto23 , are coming shortly to 🖤🤍

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❤️🇮🇪

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He was a dude on top of everything else. RIP Big Jack ☘️

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A huge number of members have requested that our episode on the Belfast rape trial & consent be made free-to-air. So here it is. Join us to support independent journalism like this & RT if you feel the conversation is worth sharing... 👇

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Huge exclusive coming tomorrow on The Second Captains Podcast. Sean Dyche gives his first interview since his sacking at Burnley to @RichieSadlier and The Player's Chair. Trust us, you don't want to miss it🖤🤍

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This appears to have made a lot of you cry today but you still seem to love it. It's Jack in his own words accompanied by the beautiful music of the late Conor Walsh and edited by @Younghorgan 🎧

Jack Charlton In His Own Words

Second Captains tribute to the late Jack Charlton. Music from Conor Walsh and The Lucid. https://open.spotify.com/track/5pZdU8e2q1oVfXv8wO6ehA?si=YH5vffkNTEWG5Q6iz6Ai4Q Audio from an interview with

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We’re closing in on ten years as @SecondCaptains this year, which feels pretty mad. Almost 20 years working together in total. Thanks to our members for all the support over the years. Here’s to a brilliant 2023🖤

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Tonight, one of the biggest awards in world media has gone to ‘Where Is George Gibney?’ 🥇🇮🇪 💪 @BBCSounds @Younghorgan @CiaranCass @diylan

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DEAR SPORTING WORLD, these are the types of skills the Irish are bringing these days. More on today's show 🇮🇪☘️ #InspectTheDamage @alimeeke @IreWomenHockey

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Conor McGregor's address to the the Irish people gets the Second Captains treatment #ICanSpeakMyNativeTongue

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‘Where Is George Gibney?’ gets nominated for the Podcast Academy Awards in the US! One of two British or Irish podcasts chosen by the judges🇮🇪

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We won! 🇮🇪 ‘Where Is George Gibney?’ is an honouree for Documentary Pod, Crime & Justice Pod and wins Best Original Music Score/Best Sound Design in the worldwide @TheWebbyAwards 2021!

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"This is gonna change your life you know that?" "It's gonna change Ireland, women's football in Ireland." 🔊👆

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We can confirm that after an intense SC company investigation, @hicksimon 's baby daughter has been identified as the culprit of this recent official tweet. She has been dismissed as our head of social media w/ immediate effect & we would like to apologise for any confusion caused

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8 years

REVEALED: Exclusive photo of Pat Hickey seconds before his arrest

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1 year

We're closing out this year's series of Second Captains Saturday on a massive high with the amazing @michaelsheen 💚 And with rumours of boyhood trials at Arsenal doing the rounds, Enda Walsh will surely be in a cold sweat Saturday at 1 on @RTERadio1 📻

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5 years

BIG NEWS: We’re proud to present a brand-new, international investigative podcast series produced by Second Captains & presented by @younghorgan . Announced in London today, 'Where is George Gibney?' is 2 years in the making & coming soon to @BBCSounds

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7 years

Second Captains has turned 5 years old - with over 30 million pod listens, 5 tv series, 3 radio series, 2 annuals & almost 10k beloved members on board. Thanks for joining us & not leaving when we did #grungeweek . Here's to the next 5♥️ Full video at 🎥

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Here's Jack speaking about his brother, an emotional Bobby Charlton, at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards. As mentioned on today's tribute show☘️(via @mrdanwalker )

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Here's Pelé at Dalymount in 1972 for Santos FC. Beautiful footage not only of the man himself but the Dublin crowd that day. We used quite a few of the shots in our opening sequence for our tv show on @RTE2 back in the day. See it below...🇧🇷

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3 years

How FEEL GOOD is this?❤️ Watch @HamiltonRTE bring down the Second Captains house last week😭😂

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4 years

How incredibly cool is it to see two Irish vests in the leading pack in the Olympic marathon? After more than 20 miles on the streets of Los Angeles?! RIP Jerry Kiernan, we’ll pay tribute on tomorrow’s show ☘️❤️

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6 years

HOCKEY IS POPULAR

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5 years

Your spacious bike lanes, outdoor gyms and thick blonde hair not much use to you now, eh Denmark #coybig #shaaaaaane

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5 years

On today's show @saveciaranmurph begs Ireland's politicians to stop saying "senior hurling" in an attempt to impress potential voters. Here's the reality, sports fans...

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7 years

As requested, here's the @guardian_sport brick-by-brick video of Eric Cantona's kung fu kick from 1995 mixed with the famous BBC radio commentary by Jonathan Pearce & 'Take My Hand' from Matt Berry 👌

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4 years

The comments under this, and the vast majority of articles related to our Danny Rose interview today, are exceptionally grim.

Sky Sports

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Danny Rose has opened up about his experiences of racism in everyday life, revealing he was stopped by police in Doncaster last week.

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We tried to move on from the David Silva debate, World Service members but all those Man City fans defending him have radicalised Ken...

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Absolute Carnage

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‘Where Is George Gibney?’ has just won gold at the British Podcast Awards 💚 @Younghorgan @CiaranCass

British Podcast Awards

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The winners of Moment of the Year, supported by @acast are: Gold: Where Is George Gibney? @bbcsounds Silver: Ways to Change the World @krishgm @channel4news Bronze:Who Shat on the Floor at My Wedding @mother_pukka #britpodawards

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The Donegal Romario 🇮🇪💪

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Bryson DeChambeau's silent movie power performance on the practice range (as described on today's show)

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We're proud to say that this Thursday we'll be chatting to @IanWright0 A legendary footballer, broadcaster and someone we've wanted to interview since the day we started Second Captains

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3 years

Believe it or not, @kenearlys is NOT on holidays.

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We’re so excited to welcome the playwright, author, critic and broadcaster Bonnie Greer on this week’s Second Captains Saturday. Here’s a reminder of the moment on BBC’s Question Time in 2019 when the Irish audience fell in love with her. Tune in from 1pm tomorrow on @RTERadio1

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4 years

Brilliant to see ‘Where Is George Gibney?’ voted the 5th best podcast in the world in 2020 by the @guardian ’s culture writers. @BBCSounds @Younghorgan @CiaranCass @diylan @jasotweet

The 20 best podcasts of 2020

We went down a YouTube rabbit hole, Alan Partridge made a triumphant return and a singular look at cold war espionage came with an irresistible earworm. Plus more of the year’s best pods

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8 years

Second Captaineers: Like this tweet if you want an early, breaking news pod on Ranieri in the morning on The World Service. Your call 🎙️🌎👍👎?

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2 years

Another Second Captains Saturday, another incredible guest☀️ Mick Lynch, the @RMTunion General Secretary who has captured the public's imagination in the UK and beyond joins us tomorrow. 📻1pm on @RTEradio1 & around the world at 🌍

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7 years

We ❤️ Le Drop ☘️

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4 years

The story of George Gibney and our podcast has just been tweeted to 49 million followers🗽 @younghorgan @CiaranCass @KillianDown @trickearney @bercarley @fionabennett4g1 @212cran @LouKennedy2 @OTooleGary @wattersonjohnny @MOSullivanTD @jasotweet @diylan @MichaelFleming_

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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.

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Today’s show welcoming Ken back from the World Cup was a lot of fun. Finding this photo of us (including Ken when he was our bouncer?) was even more fun #SexyCaptains 👬👬🕺

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4 years

We’ve been talking about it on air since the day it happened 2005 and have been using the soundbites ever since. But the wonderful work @BigDirtyFry has taken it to the next level. #HesTheGuy who played out today’s show.

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Coming August 27th @BBCSounds

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Pierce's documentary delivery becomes so intense that he momentarily forgets his own name

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Guess who’s coming back? ☀️🚴🏻‍♂️🐇

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3 years

'Where is George Gibney?' has won 3 Gold & 1 Silver at the NY Festivals Awards to go along with: 🏆Rockie Award🇨🇦 🏆Prix Europa Special Commendation🇪🇺 🏆Webby Award🇺🇸 🏆British Podcast Award🇬🇧 🏆Justice Media Awards🇮🇪 Please listen, share & keep the story alive💚 @BBCSounds

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6 years

So who wants a bonus, breaking you-know-what? 🌍🎙

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8 years

Votes for a #BigSam SC podcast special today? @kenearlys is like a wild dog waiting to report on this story with your blessing. RT for yes

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3 years

What a hero, what an effort in the fight. Well done @emmetbrennan91 🇮🇪

RTÉ Sport

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"It's heartbreaking." An emotional Emmet Brennan speaks openly after his narrow defeat to Dilshod Ruzmetov in the men's 81kg light-heavyweight division. #Tokyo2020 #RTESport #Olympics Watch live - Live updates -

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All of us at Second Captains are thinking of Seamus and his family ❤️

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The @SecondCaptains helping to pass the time at Mount Everest Basecamp while we wait for a weather window for our summit attempt #IrelandOnEverest #BloodyWind

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Oh my god it happened

Ciarán Murphy

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2 years

Well well well, what do we have here

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Just when you thought you couldn't love Shane Long any more he roars GAA minor style into the mic

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Mayo’s Andy Moran, 2017 Footballer Of The Year, has announced his retirement from inter-county football. Speaking exclusively on The Player's Chair, one of the iconic faces of the GAA told @RichieSadlier he has called it a day. Coming tomorrow morning to

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This was our first trial live event in our new studios last night & it was such great fun doing a small live show just for our members. Thanks to everyone who came to see Roddy & @AkaPaulHoward . We’ll have regular, early evening, short live podcasts running smoothly in 2023🖤

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7 years

TOMORROW To listen, become a member at (it takes 2 minutes!)

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3 years

You thought you'd shed all your Kellie tears yesterday didn't you? Well think again. Here's our own tribute to @Kelly64kg 🥲 LISTEN🎧|Kellie Harrington Olympic Champion☘️

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Thank you so much to all our members for your support in 2020. Without you ‘Where Is George Gibney?’ wouldn’t have been possible. Nor would ‘Isolating’ w/ @phlaimeaux . 👨🏼‍🦲🧔🏻👩🏼‍🦱 Your squealing emails have also kept our egomaniacal presenters in check. Thanks for backing us.❤️

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The rumours* are true. The next guest to challenge for our Greatest Non-Sportsperson Sportsperson title is @ConanOBrien . Listen from Saturday at 1pm on @RTERadio1 and wherever you get your podcasts. *that thing we said on yesterday’s podcast

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This photo was taken right at the start of Second Captains & today we broadcast the 2000th episode of our podcast. We've a very special show brewing for our members starring Young Eoin, Frances Murphy, LaVar Ball, Steve McClaren & much more. ❤��Shortly at

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@RichieSadlier @EoinMcDevitt @RBoydBarrett Sound🔛 #DirtyGet

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Limerick Champions Of "The Greatest Sport That Was Ever Played By Any...

As requested, the Second Captains tribute to the Limerick hurlers of 2018. And Dalo.

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3 years

Our podcast production with @BBCSounds ‘Where Is George Gibney?’ has just been nominated for Non-Fiction Podcast Of The Year in the Rockie Awards in Canada 🇮🇪

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❤️

Ian Wright

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2 years

Everybody knows what Match of the Day means to me, but I’ve told the BBC I won’t be doing it tomorrow. Solidarity.

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Interesting #dreamteam development just now at Dublin airport? 🇮🇪

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“Come on Sam!” @Sammmy_Be ’s grandad, Pat Cashin, cheers his grandson on to victory on the final stage of the Tour de France! ...Isn’t this just lovely...

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Here is the article @WeeMissBea wrote about her father - please read

Aisling Bea: ‘My father’s death has given me a love of men, of their vulnerability and tenderness’

The comedian’s father killed himself when she was three. She was plagued by the fact he made no mention of her or her sister in the letter he left. Then, 30 years after his death, a box arrived

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Here's some big, big news for the Isolators in your life 🐰🧩🚲 @phlaimeaux #Isolating3

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"We've only lost one test to the scummy Irish...we'll get em back" - Eddie Jones, 2017. Our scummy hands are just going to leave this here😬. More on this in today's 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 special. Plus Ken on Jose. Go get it 👇

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Anyone for a @secondcaptains football jersey? 🖤🤍🖤 @ONeills1918

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Oh I’m sorry I thought this was America

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Klopp just gave the best 30 seconds of post match interview I’ve ever seen. Complete with f-bomb on live tv. What a man. #LFC

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We’re cooookin’ on gas, WE’RE COOOOKIN ON GAS!

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We just shone the Ken Signal over Fairview

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3 years

Here's @Younghorgan and @CiaranCass accepting the Justice Media Awards overall award and national broadcast journalism award today, thanks to @LawSocIreland ❤️ Full speech is here:

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On Saturday evening Sligo play Wicklow in the Div 4 league final, and it will be an emotional occasion for all involved as it falls on the one-year anniversary of the death of Red Óg Murphy, a hugely talented Sligo and DCU footballer

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You have to hand it to Wayne Barnes. His stubborn refusal to give NZ a yellow card under any circumstances is creating a febrile atmosphere at Lansdowne.

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5 years

“DON’T FORGET THAT”

Boris Johnson

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On my way to see Her Majesty the Queen

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We reflect on the tragic news of the murder of Ashling Murphy today and the fact that for so many women, the act of just going for a run can stoke so much discomfort and fear

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4 years

Plans 2020

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3 years

There’s live shows and then there’s Second Captains live shows🖤

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7 years

Non-members: This show has just dropped into all your podcast feeds on iPhone and android.

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7 years

A huge number of members have requested that our episode on the Belfast rape trial & consent be made free-to-air. So here it is. Join us to support independent journalism like this & RT if you feel the conversation is worth sharing... 👇

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👩‍🍳🧑‍🍳👨‍🍳Chef Early & his team are about to serve up a v tasty football podcast but while you wait, here's a newsflash⚡️ We're delighted to announce that our summer show 'Second Captains Saturday' is back for its 5th series this weekend on @RTERadio1 📻 Join us @ 1pm on Saturday❤️

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4 years

Due to the importance of the subject matter & the huge reaction to @fionndavenport 's story, we have decided to make last week's pod on the Mother & Baby Homes accessible to all. Thanks again to Fionn & all our members for their support. Listen now below🎧

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‘Where Is George Gibney?’ wins silver tonight at the British Radio Academy awards! 🏆

The Radio Academy

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The Winners of The Impact Award are: • GOLD - @BBC1Xtra • SILVER - @secondcaptains @BBCSounds • BRONZE - @messageheard @SrebrenicaUK #UKARIAS

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Check out the coolest Irish live television performance of all-time (Andy on vocals)...Even Gaybo looks slick. @andyk_irvine on @RTERadio1 NOW 📻

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4 years

Please enjoy an excerpt of Ken's review of Liveline's review of Normal People #WhatWouldYouSeeInAPornoMovieMary Full show here:

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4 months

Arriving in your Episode feeds this Wednesday… 👀

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3 years

Our week in Berlin ends with 2nd place and a special commendation in the Prix Europa awards! 🇮🇪 Here’s @Younghorgan at the ceremony last night where our series ‘Where Is George Gibney?’ was up against 15 other finalists from around Europe.❤️

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5 years

Rugby World Cup show coming up later today which will include: 🏉Absolute carnage 🏉Incredible gongs 🏉Matt Williams and James Lowe (SFOL) Here's #Breffni with more

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