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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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02:20:01

TFTES 328

Tales From The East Stand ·

2025/06/09

It's part two of our 2000s series. Brian McKenna and John Byrne, who was part of the takeover of the club by the fans and media officer for five years, talk 2004 and 2005, with stadium skullduggery, unpaid wages, examinership and the High Court, survival, Roddy's reign, relegation heartbreak and a new dawn under Pat Scully.

01:23:38

TFTES 326

Tales From The East Stand ·

2025/05/26

We have Aaron McEneff's late winner in Derry and Irish managers winning league titles across the continent to talk about. No, not Robbie Keane - our author series continues with Sue O'Connell and 'The Man Who Saved Barcelona FC': The Extraordinary Life of Patrick O'Connell', the Dubliner who led Real Betis, in search of their first European trophy on Wednesday night, to their only La Liga in 1935.

03:09:16

TFTES 325

Tales From The East Stand ·

2025/05/23

We've got IKEA, haircuts, tonks and three wins out of three to talk about (first hour) before the conclusion of our Goodbye Goodison series with Robert Goggins, Robbie Gaffney, and Rovers and Everton fans Paul Clayton, Anto Matthews & Craig Mahon (Members Corner) and Dean O'Reilly.

02:01:41

TFTES 324

Tales From The East Stand ·

2025/05/15

No match reports in this one as we've got the Juz-Line, Christine Allen's women's team update and a double author feature, starting with Cian Manning's "I Love Me County: Waterford Sporting Stories", ahead of Friday's trip to the RSC. Then, for our Goodbye Goodison series, you'll hear from Steve Zocek on his book 'Goodison Memories: Looking Back Before Looking Forward', before another Everton fan, Ben Winstanley (A View From The Bullens) talks Sunday's emotional farewell to the famous ground. PS:

02:14:50

TFTES 323

Tales From The East Stand ·

2025/05/07

We're back to winning ways against Sligo, with Greener's 100th LEAGUE goal and a new TFTES Hotline. Paul Hayes, Nathan Johnston, Eric Brennan, Tony Grant, Damian Brennan, Greg Donaghy, Darren Gillen, Tommy Tormey and Dan Fulham are our nine callers with topics ranging from strike partnerships, 90s bands and Asian holidays to bad driving habits.

01:24:46

TFTES 321

Tales From The East Stand ·

2025/04/29

We see how long we can go without talking about the games as two former Hoops are interviewed - Santry era winger Brian Byrne, and first, Karl Sheppard, a league winner at both Rovers and Cork, who meet at Turner's Cross on Friday.

00:50:37

TFTES 320

Tales From The East Stand ·

2025/04/23

A short, special episode this week, with Bobby Best: In Memoriam. Eight good friends of Bobby - Giggsy Hand, Mark Butler, Mark Turner, Mick Byrne, George Kelly, Robert Goggins, Jim Conroy and Mick McCarthy share their memories of the great man.

01:45:19

TFTES 319

Tales From The East Stand ·

2025/04/16

There's a recap of the home wins over Waterford and Cork, Pico's fatherhood and Greener's 100 Club, and the Members Corner with Rovers website and internet pioneers Paul Thomas and Gerry Matthews, and a cameo from Forkie on the SRFC Ultras forum (2018 replay). Christine Allen reports on the women's team, including another Ruesha Littlejohn free kick.

02:21:19

TFTES 318

Tales From The East Stand ·

2025/04/10

We got the Galway trip from the perspective of two different buses, and an inevitable 14th consecutive win out west, and a new edition of the TFTES Hotline with Jimmy Maguire, Dunster, Aidan O'Reilly, Dean Creevey, Eoghan Rice, Macdara, The Gent and The Hogg.

02:11:43

TFTES 315

Tales From The East Stand ·

2025/03/19

We talk the win in Drogheda with Ed McGinty's injury-time penalty save, and, in an international week there's another double author feature with "Shades of Green" by Chris Lee, and "Lansdowne Road", co-written by Gerrard Siggins. The 30th anniversary of the Lansdowne Road Riot passed by recently, so Ger, along with four Rovers fans - Bill Gleeson, Phelim Warren, Graham Merrigan and Con Murphy - recall the events of that day against England.

02:38:29

TFTES 314

Tales From The East Stand ·

2025/03/12

We talk our first league win of the season against St Pat's, and although we're a week late for International Women's Day and World Book Day, Hannah Dunne interviews Rovers players Melissa O'Kane and Fiona Owens ahead of the women's team's first home game in Tallaght on Saturday, and there's a double author feature with two Rovers fans who have written non-football books. With Friday's trip to top of the table Drogheda, Dr Thomas Tormey, who has been Historian in Residence with Louth Library Service

01:37:58

TFTES 313

Tales From The East Stand ·

2025/03/05

We talk the St Pat's and Sligo games, Rory, Roddy and Ian Harte. There's an interview with St Pat's fan 'Dodge' as Rovers look for their first league win of the season on Friday night.

03:19:05

TFTES 312

Tales From The East Stand ·

2025/02/27

We've a lot to catch up on but the first hour and a half relates to tonight's game against Shelbourne at Tolka Park, with some chit chat about recent podcasts, the LIST OF HATRED, starting XI and predictions and an interview with League of Ireland legend Mark Rutherford, who played for both clubs. There's penalty shootout heartbreak in our Conference League knockout tie with Molde, a Dublin Derby loss at Lansdowne Road and then a home game against Cork that was rained off. Our other interview is the

01:56:15

TFTES 311

Tales From The East Stand ·

2025/02/26

It's the fifth and final part of our 1990s series with Justin Mason and Tommy Tormey. We relive the 1998/99 season, with a guest appearance from Jim Conroy about being in Turkey in the summer of '98. We talk the FAI Super Cup, Jason Sherlock's helicopter, the hole in the net at Oriel Park and more, before a new era under Damien Richardson in Santry begins. On the topic of programme notes...Con Murphy reads a sample from Rico.

02:14:38

TFTES 310

Tales From The East Stand ·

2025/02/12

There's a preview of the Molde tie with Norwegian sports reporter Vegard Flemmen Vaagbø, a round up of all the news since Christmas and a Chelsea, theatre, quiz and car themed TFTES Hotline, with Gary O'Neill among the 10 callers.

02:16:07

TFTES 309

Tales From The East Stand ·

2025/02/12

It's our first podcast in two months and we've got Stephen Jones' review of our Civic Theatre Show, and a double author feature. Eamonn Donohue (Cabra Cadabra, 2015) becomes our first novelist to be interviewed, and we round off our look back at Stamford Bridge with Nik Yeomans, whose new book is called Blue is the Colour: The Complete History of the Chelsea Shirt.

03:26:06

TFTES 307

Tales From The East Stand ·

2024/12/11

We've got news on our return to the Civic Theatre on January 11th, Phelim Warren's report on the Rovers in the Community Project (from 49 mins), Goran Arbutina on everything you need to know about Thursday's opponents Borac Banja Luka (1 hour 33 mins), and two TFTES Hotlines ahead of Saturday's Member's Club AGM, with four of the six candidates up for election - Ciaran Kane, Colm Nolan, Sean Blake and Denis Donohue - calling in (the hour mark). Later, eight fans share their Vienna experience: Brian

02:06:08

TFTES 305

Tales From The East Stand ·

2024/11/14

We talk Rovers getting 7 points in group stage football after the win over Welsh champions TNS, and Mark Langshaw, author of 'A League of Our Own: The Cymru Premier Story', tells us about the only book written about domestic football over there. Plus: the karma of Derry losing the FAI Cup final to Drogheda, with Dave Webster returning to the podcast for a chat about a fairytale end to his 17-year career.

01:25:08

TFTES 304

Tales From The East Stand ·

2024/11/06

We reflect on the last day of the league season which saw the title go to Shelbourne, and we're joined by John Lumley from TNS ahead of Thursday's Conference League group stage game in Tallaght.

01:18:33

TFTES 303

Tales From The East Stand ·

2024/10/31

We're Zoomin' on Halloween to talk the wins in Belfast, with the Graham Burke Show, and Dundalk, which takes the title race down to the last day. Harry Moore hosts the quiz final between Gary O'Neill and Conan Noonan in front of the players and staff at Roadstone.

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