Episode 3259: Football Championship Keeps Delivering, Big Guns Keep Losing, Minor Murph, Wilson’s Wedding
Donegal are the latest fancied team to suffer a setback in this thrilling All-Ireland football championship, losing to Tyrone in Ballybofey in another cracking game last Saturday evening.
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Oisin McConville and Paul Flynn reckon it doesn’t have to be terminal – and if all the big guns have lost once this season, it might just stand to them in the long-run. We look ahead to Galway v Derry, and wonder aloud why Oisin is feeling a little smug.
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After the horrific events at Liverpool’s victory parade yesterday we examine the inevitable reactions in the wake of tragedies of this nature.
Plus there’s Wilson’s football wedding, electric Murph, Newcastle’s flowers and numbers madness.
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