Podcasts

[Walter Cronc]

Haven't done them would love to, I was, back in the day, when I was about 13 in Belgium with Eurochildren, spent couple week at the beaches of Ostend and would have seen and explored those battlements, early 80's, they were very accessible at time, fascinated by them.

My dream trip would be with a mobile camper trace some of the places around Europe that were significant to historic events, not just limited to WW2

Ye can lift me on the way MR2. No sh1te talk about Antrim football though!

[JimStynes]

D Day the tide turns on Spotify.

Excellent listen for anyone interested in WW2. Paul mcgann narrates it and is very good.

Excellent so far. Thank you for the suggestion.

Off topic any fellow WW2 nerds ever visit the Normandy beaches etc. Would love to do it

I binged that series. Very well produced and narrated. Would love a similar one about the Vietnam war if anyone has any recommendations.

[RedHand88]

D Day the tide turns on Spotify.

Excellent listen for anyone interested in WW2. Paul mcgann narrates it and is very good.

Excellent so far. Thank you for the suggestion.

Off topic any fellow WW2 nerds ever visit the Normandy beaches etc. Would love to do it

No but its a bucket list point for sure!
Wife looked at me like in complete bewilderment when I mentioned it. She'd be more interested in a beach in Southern France than Northern...

[Tony Baloney]

Ferry to Cherbourg would have you on top of the action.

Was in Paris at the weekend there and was chatting to some Yanks who were going over to Normandy to see the Bayeaux Tapestry and do the "beaches" for a couple of days.

[lurganblue]

Enjoyable GAA Podcast this week with Houlie. A proper Armagh Legend. Houlie was the star player for me as a young lad.

[bennydorano]

Was out cycling listening to it, class act our Gérard on & off the pitch. I do think he scored a screamer (but not a volley) v Fermanagh in Irvinestown that Oisin was referring to but Houli couldn't remember! We were behind the nets that day, think it was the first game in year of the draws (but I cud be wrong).

[tintin25]

Was out cycling listening to it, class act our Gérard on & off the pitch. I do think he scored a screamer (but not a volley) v Fermanagh in Irvinestown that Oisin was referring to but Houli couldn't remember! We were behind the nets that day, think it was the first game in year of the draws (but I cud be wrong).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E6nkezLbuw

[bennydorano]

Cheers. I can still hear the clank of half bottles of Bo behind those nets

[JoG2]

Enjoyable GAA Podcast this week with Houlie. A proper Armagh Legend. Houlie was the star player for me as a young lad.

A great guy, handy soccer player too

[Truthsayer]

Good GAA Podcast with Conor Gormley. Had quite a career. Niblock needs to let it flow more naturally.. is like he's trying too hard to get soundbites or engender emotive reaction to hype up the podcast.

[quit yo jibbajabba]

He was trying to make fermanagh down at the weekend sound like peak Kerry Dublin in an aif

Not phenomenal. Not one bit

[Louther]

Good GAA Podcast with Conor Gormley. Had quite a career. Niblock needs to let it flow more naturally.. is like he's trying too hard to get soundbites or engender emotive reaction to hype up the podcast.

As they say "who is the guest interviewing Niblock this week?"

[Truthsayer]

That's the problem not every podcast or match will be brilliant but he tries to hype them up as that... then when you do get a brilliant one is like you always say that...
Gormley one is very good though... interesting him and Oisin looking back on their era Tyrone v Armagh...
Niblock needs to hold off more and just let them chat instead of trying to contrive it to be more dramatic or something..

[dec]

A recent episode of Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time (which can make almost any subject at least a little bit interesting)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0029qh3

The Battle of Clontarf

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the best known events and figures in Irish history. In 1014 Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, defeated the Hiberno-Norse forces of Sigtrygg Silkbeard and allies near their Dublin stronghold, with Brian losing his life on the day of battle. Soon chroniclers in Ireland and abroad were recording and retelling the events, raising the status of Brian Boru as one who sacrificed himself for Ireland, Christ-like, a connection reinforced by the battle taking place on Good Friday. While some of the facts are contested, the Battle of Clontarf became a powerful symbol of what a united Ireland could achieve by force against invaders.
With
Seán Duffy
Professor of Medieval Irish and Insular History at Trinity College Dublin
Máire Ní Mhaonaigh
Professor of Celtic and Medieval Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge
And
Alex Woolf
Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of St Andrews

[Milltown Row2]

That's the problem not every podcast or match will be brilliant but he tries to hype them up as that... then when you do get a brilliant one is like you always say that...
Gormley one is very good though... interesting him and Oisin looking back on their era Tyrone v Armagh...
Niblock needs to hold off more and just let them chat instead of trying to contrive it to be more dramatic or something..

They need to change the title though.. The GAA football social, like lets call a spade a spade, no more interested in hurling than the man on the moon