Episode 3562: Zohran’s High Flying Knickerbockers, FAI EGM Looms, English Annexe Euro Cups
The build-up to Ireland’s friendly against Qatar has been dominated by talk about the looming Nations League fixtures against Israel. It looks likely that an EGM will be called so that the General Assembly can debate and vote on whether the fixtures should go ahead. We hear what the Ireland manager and players have been saying this week about the issue that looks likely to define the year in Irish football.
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The New York Knicks are back in the NBA finals, and the reigning champion Oklahoma City Thunder are currently fighting it out with an alien for a chance to meet them there. Brian Murphy tells us about how excited New Yorkers are getting, and how Victor Wembanyama is re-writing the game.
We also discuss the Murphys’ upcoming holiday to Ireland, whether our Murph has been giving them the bum steer, and what it must be like to be Spike Lee and Zohran Mamdani right now, as they experience the month of their sporting lives.
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Go to PatreonJim McGuinness is free to continue as Donegal manager for the rest of the season – and Dara Ó Cinnéide and Paul Flynn find themselves on opposite sides of the hottest debate of the GAA summer so far.
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