Episode 3375: Martin O’Neill Live At The Gaiety Theatre, Revenge For Yerevan?

We’re not sure if we’ve mentioned but we recorded our penultimate live show of the year last night at the Gaiety Theatre in front of a brilliant crowd of World Service members, members who know that the weekend don’t end until Tuesday morning. 

We’re going to be putting out some of the best parts of those Gaiety shows in the coming weeks, and up first is a conversation we really loved with former Ireland manager and Ken’s dear old friend, Martin O’Neill. We chat about his other life as an underage GAA star, the unique experience of playing for Cloughie at Nottingham Forest, and his glory days with Ireland. 

‘Glory days’ and ‘Ireland’ are not words seen in close proximity to each other too much at the minute, while every other international team under the sun seems to be basking in the g word. How should we be thinking about tonight’s return leg against Armenia? Does hope spring eternal or has that particular body of water been dammed? And yes, we’ll be putting out a late night pod after the game this evening once those questions have been answered!

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Big love to the Monday crew at the Gaiety pic.twitter.com/vM7hDLuvi2

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