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What’s the Story? Podcast

WTSpod with Danny & Mero

Multi award-winning podcast from Dublin, Ireland. Everyone has a story to tell...

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Chapter 46: North Korea, What's the Story?

What’s the Story? Podcast ·

2016/05/21

This week on the award winning WTSpod Danny & Mero welcome author and film producer, Paul Fischer, to the podcast to discuss the maddest country on the planet, North Korea. Paul's book "A Kim Jong Il Production: The extraordinary true story of a kidnapped film maker, his star actress and a young dictators rise to fame." documents the story of a set of daring kidnappings by the secretive state all in a bid to create some block buster movies in the name of North Korea. The story of Choi Eun Hee,

01:22:48

Chapter 45: Fitzpatrick's Castle, What's the story?

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2016/05/14

This week the award winning WTSpod is bringing you the history of the award winning Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel. Killiney Castle has stood, overlooking Dublin since the 1700's and is steeped in history, no more so than the last 45 years under the guidance and ownership of the Fitzpatrick Family. Owner and CEO, Eithne Fitzpatrick Scott-Lennon and her son, Mark Scott-Lennon joined us to give us an idea of what its like running one of Ireland's most famous hotels and the stories behind it. A true

02:05:43

Chapter 44: Eurovision, What's the Story?

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2016/05/07

It's the Eurovision extravaganza on WTSpod this week as we welcome Eurovision 1994 winner Charlie McGettigan and journalist / Eurovision expert Brian O'Reilly to Fitzpatrick's Castle for chapter 44. Mero was reluctant to be involved in this chapter and Danny had to clamp his wheels to stop him leaving the studio. Along with Paul Harrington, Charlie McGettigan is etched into Eurovision history with the song Rock 'n' Roll Kids. The song completed a historic three in a row for Ireland, a feat which

01:45:39

Chapter 43: John Connors, What's the Story?

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2016/04/30

This week on the award winning WTSpod, Danny and Mero were joined by actor and activist John Connors. John came to the attention of the nation on the smash RTE drama "Love/Hate" as Patrick, the man who killed criminal kingpin "Nidge". More recently John featured on Irish screens as part of the documentary "I am Traveller" which focused on exploring the identity of Travellers in modern Ireland. John brings us through his life on the camp in Darndale on Dublin's north side and how he got started

01:42:58

Chapter 42: John Ross Crangle, What's the Story?

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2016/04/23

This week Danny & Mero are joined by yet another Borough legend. John Ross Crangle. JR, as we know him, is a world cup winning Pitch and Putt player and has won four Leinster Championships. What makes these accomplishments on the course even more impressive is JR was able to achieve this while battling his demons off the course. In an emotional chat with the lads Jr describes what life is like with a gambling addiction and how it brought him to some dark times. From having to get loans for

01:20:00

Chapter 41: What's the story with MMA?

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2016/04/16

Following the tragic death of Portuguese MMA fighter, Joao Carvalho, in Dublin this week Danny & Mero take a look at the reaction and try make some sense of it all. The lads obtained a copy of the letter Minister for Sport, Michael Ring, mentioned on national radio this week and take a closer look at what he said in that letter. Following the call for an outright ban on MMA in Ireland from some groups, Danny asks about deaths in other sports and Mero pushes for much needed regulation in

01:31:58

Chapter 40: Bernard Jackman, What's the Story?

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2016/04/07

This week the lads had the pleasure of speaking to a rugby legend. Bernard Jackman was capped over 90 times while playing in the blue of Leinster and managed to lift two Celtic Leagues and Heineken Cup before retiring in 2010 due to concussion related injuries. A true legend to the Leinster faithful, Bernard Jackman also lined out for Connacht and Sale Sharks earlier in his career, winning a European Challenge Cup along the way. He has also represented Ireland at test level. Bernard spoke openly

01:49:27

Chapter 39: What's the Story with Mero & Danny?...

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2016/04/02

This week the lads are loving April Fool's Day. Having played a joke on the listeners they talk about some other decent pranks from April 1st including Google, The Dublin Spire and floating people. April 4th 2016 marks the 48th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King jr so the lads talk a little about this and other historic assassinations including Danny going full geek on one in particular. Mero talks about his experience at the recent 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter

01:30:05

Chapter 38: Ian Taylor, What's the Story?

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2016/03/26

This week Danny & Mero had the pleasure of speaking to Ian Taylor, who in 2008 became the youngest Irishman to have successfully climbed Mount Everest. Besides conquering the world's highest peak, Ian Taylor has climbed Kilimanjaro 19 times and is currently working on leading a team to the South Pole through a new route.Ian is a leading motivational speaker and trains teams for mountain expeditions around the world. You can learn more about Ian and join some of his tours to Everest and

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