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Tales From The East Stand

Gary Parsons & Karl Reilly

Podcast by Gary Parsons & Karl Reilly

sports & recreation professional

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03:03:18

TFTES 212

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2022/08/23

We have a difficult night in Budapest Thursday and a very enjoyable night in Tallaght Sunday to review, and two special guests in studio to help us do it - Chef Ray Whelan and Ray Whelan Senior. The Rovers cooks give us a peek inside the dressing room and talk their famous curry, fussy eaters, Shannon flights and this summer's other trips to Malta, Bulgaria and North Macedonia, where Ray Senior stole Bradser's seat on the bench. Ahead of the FAI Cup tie in Drogheda, most of the last hour of the show

02:24:14

TFTES 211

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2022/08/16

No goals to talk about this week with our Derry report, an interview with Kevin McCluskie from Budapest ahead of Thursday's tie with Ferencvaros, and Part 2 of the TFTES Hotline Overseas Supporters Edition, from USA, Mexico and Australia: featuring Eamonn McConville, Paddy Flannelly, Yailenne Llanas, Gary Armstrong, Sean Fields and Ste Seery.

02:29:14

TFTES 210

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2022/08/11

A bumper show to celebrate group stage football with an epic 97th minute goal from Gary O'Neill in Tallaght and almost an aggregate tonking after success in Skopje. We also have Part 1 of our TFTES Hotline Overseas Special where you'll hear from Hoopers living in England, Europe and Canada - Johnny Wilson, Alan Honeyman, Niall Keenan, Podge Amond, Gary Warren and Mick Fallon.

01:53:35

TFTES 209

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2022/08/02

There's an FAI Cup TONKING to discuss, Angel Kostoski joins us from Skopje ahead of Thursday's big Europa League game and we interview Tommy Stewart, who famously scored Rovers' winner in Israel in 2010.

01:56:14

TFTES 208

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2022/07/29

We're back with the biggest news stories of the past couple of weeks - the TFTES 5-a-side draw, Prof's Golden Goal and Chris McCann's birthday. We also have reports on Drogheda and Ludogorets (x2), #Hoopermandela and a look ahead to tonight's FAI Cup tie against Bangor Celtic with Eddie Kearney and Adam Maher.

02:20:58

TFTES 207

Tales From The East Stand ·

2022/07/17

TFTES On Tour~! You'll be regaled with tales from St Julian's in Malta, where everything except the game was entertaining, and hear from eight Hoopers who made the trip in a new edition of the TFTES Hotline. Plus: Metodi Shumanov fills us in on Tuesday's Bulgarian opponents, the nouveau riche Ludogorets of Razgrad.

01:57:48

TFTES 206

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2022/07/08

It's the Rory Gaffney show with two goals and two assists in Ballybofey and another great European night in Tallaght. Stadium manager Nicola Coffey has all the info you need on the construction of the new north stand, and Shaun McCarthy, a Hoop living in Malta for over 20 years, tells his story ahead of our journey there next week.

02:49:25

TFTES 205

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2022/07/01

Gar is back to celebrate his own 200th episode in a show almost as long as your drive to Ballybofey this evening. There's the wins over Bohs and Pat's to dissect and a look ahead to the Hibernians tie next week, with former Rovers and Maltese international Luke Dimech before journalist Gianluca Lia gives us the lowdown on our Champions League opponents.

02:28:53

TFTES 204

Tales From The East Stand ·

2022/06/23

TFTES heads out to CityWest as 'Ooh Ah' Paul McGrath (not that one) fills in for Gary this week. We talk a poor performance in Dundalk, Paulie's lockdown wedding, his European away curse and his starting XI vs Bohs (after a few edits). There's an hour long interview with former Hoops left-back Richie Byrne from the 1 hour 8 minute mark.

02:12:02

TFTES 203

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2022/06/16

We have a Champions League trip to Malta to plan and a Father's Day edition of the TFTES Hotline which sees eight Rovers Dads and their sons and daughters call in together.

02:34:02

TFTES 202

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2022/06/10

Mid-season break shmid-season break. We squeeze out every last drop of news, there's a European draw preview with Pico Lopes and Dave Downey before the last hour, In Memoriam: Declan Keogh AKA Big Dec, a larger than life Rovers fan who was loved by so many around the league.

02:27:14

TFTES 201

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2022/06/02

There's reaction from our 200th episode in Ringsend before the three games we have to catch up on, from the hill in UCD, to a shock defeat in Drogheda and then back to winning ways against Duffer and Joey's Shels. The last hour is an interview with members of the SRFC Media Team and some of the people behind 'Clear The Head', Barry McCarthy, Phillie 'Captain Hook eyebrows' Maguire and Graham Moran.

03:03:05

TFTES 200

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2022/05/23

It's our 200th episode extravaganza~! This special show was recorded a couple of weeks ago in front of a live audience in the Irishtown House in Ringsend, the birthplace of Rovers. Everyone on our guest list is a local and they talk about what the Ringsend community means to them, beginning with current Rovers players Sean Kavanagh and Sean Gannon, who talk about growing up in the area, their careers and being on opposite sides of the 2019 FAI Cup final. Next up are our youngest guests and TFTES bus

02:04:36

TFTES 199

Tales From The East Stand ·

2022/05/18

We talk that big win over Derry with a samba atmosphere and going back to college on a Thursday. There's news on next week's 200th episode and a musical edition of the TFTES Hotline, as Gary, Karl and some of our 7 callers attempt to write some original Rovers chewns.

02:26:58

TFTES 198

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2022/05/12

We have the 3-1 wins over Finn Harps and Sligo to review before looking ahead to the big one against Derry. With three Tallaght games in the space of a week, there's two out of the ordinary but very home based interviews with ballpersons Riley and Faith, and the groundstaff, Billy Mullen and Ciaran Cornwall on what it takes to have the best pitch in the country.

02:12:22

TFTES 197

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2022/05/05

The Sligo trip and the possibility of Bradser leaving for Lincoln is mostly on our mind this week but aside from that, it's the Joe Barnes Show~! A legendary Rovers fan who has been supporting the club for an astonishing 82 years, we celebrate Joe's birthday with his first interview on the podcast and by hearing from five of his friends about why they love him.

03:01:35

TFTES 196

Tales From The East Stand ·

2022/04/28

We've a lot of catching up to do, with our view on the three wins over Pat's, Dundalk and Bohs, who are falling apart again. Most of the last hour is an interview with Rovers' Community Officer Tony O'Neill.

01:40:00

TFTES 195

Tales From The East Stand ·

2022/04/21

The match reports are held off until next week as we have Sean Francis in studio, who tells us about starting out at Birmingham City and the English non-league, moving to Cobh and then onto Rovers in the mid 90s. We talk our many home venues in his seven years at the club, Rico, his strike partnership with Tony Grant, podium goal celebrations, Cup final days, derbies, dancing, coffee and...hair gel.

02:38:53

TFTES 194

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2022/04/13

We talk Greener's rocket and the late win at Tolka Park on Friday, and, to mark 35 years since the loss of Milltown, there's a couple of interviews. First, Robbie Tormey and John Doyle tell us the origin story of the Milltown monument and how it was erected in 1998. The last hour and 25 minutes of the show is a chat with LOI legend and Rovers' 1985/86 Player of the Year Mick Neville, and Hoops fan Robbie Murphy, who got to live the dream by playing alongside the four-in-a-row team in a friendly in

01:54:15

TFTES 193

Tales From The East Stand ·

2022/04/07

The bogey bus made it home from Ballybofey with a 3-0 win and with Damien Duff's Shelbourne up next, there's a Tolka Park theme to this month's TFTES Hotline as 10 callers answer our questions about exercise, the nomadic years, jerseys, substitutions and superstitions.

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