Added Time: The Irish Times Sports Podcast: Recent Episodes
Added Time: The Irish Times Sports Podcast
Every Monday, Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent talk sport - GAA, rugby, football and more - with their Irish Times colleagues and special guests. Supported by Fitbit.
This week's podcast is a detailed preview of Saturday's Champions Cup semi-final between Leinster and Northampton Saints at Croke Park.
Nathan Johns, Gordon D'Arcy and John O'Sullivan look back at the last time Leinster played in Croke Park, when one member of the panel scored a memorable try. They also discuss whether the venue has a bearing on the game and what sort of game we can expect on Saturday
Part two is an interview with Northampton's head coach Sam Vesty, focusing on the Saints' defensive improvements, recruitment strategy, attacking philosophies, and the key role of players like Fin Smith and Alex Mitchell in their game plan.
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In the coming weeks, World Rugby will decide on a proposal to implement a new 20-minute red card. Already seen in the southern hemisphere and Super Rugby, the proposal allows sides to replace a red carded player after 20 minutes in order to preserve the spectacle of a contest, to not kill off games when teams are reduced to 14 players.
Critics of the move say that the measure risks admitting defeat in the battle to change player behaviour and eradicate high tackles as a result of poor technique. The impending decision has been pitted as a battle of philosophies, of attitudes of leniency towards high shots both sides of the equator.
Owen Doyle, a former international referee and an Irish Times columnist, joins Gordon D'Arcy and Nathan Johns to discuss the potential new law and what impact it could have.
Produced by John Casey.
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News of Leinster's recent signing of All Black Jordie Barrett has split opinion. Is this a fair reflection of the dominant province flexing their muscle, or an unfair benefit of the IRFU paying their best players via national contracts?
Next season, 10 Leinster players will have their salaries paid by the governing body via central contracts, the other provinces combined have three. Is this a cycle of dominance, or a worrying portend of Leinster pulling ahead and destroying competitive balance in the provinces?
Gordon D'Arcy joins Nathan Johns to discuss the issue, how we got here and what can be done about it.
Produced by John Casey.
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Few things get the Irish rugby public as excited as a young talent at outhalf. Dannah O'Brien has been on the scene for a while now, making her debut against Japan in 2022. Fresh off starting in Ireland's defeat to Italy last weekend, O'Brien joins The Counter Ruck to talk through her career to date, the first two rounds of this year's Six Nations and how Ireland are trying to progress from last year's wooden spoon.
Gordon D'Arcy also joins host Nathan Johns to talk through the best of the weekend's rugby action including Leinster's win, sickly Munster's defeat and some eye-catching moments from the southern hemisphere.
Produced by John Casey.
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Former Ireland, Leinster and Leicester backrow Shane Jennings joins Gordon D'Arcy and host Nathan Johns. The historical links between Leinster and Leicester, opponents this weekend in the Champions Cup, are profound. In 2005, Jennings and current Leinster head coach Leo Cullen left the province for a two-year stint at the English club. When they returned, they played a significant role in a culture shift that saw the province transition from perennial underachievers to European champions.
Also on this episode of The Counter Ruck, John O'Sullivan breaks down Ireland women's defeat to Italy in the Six Nations.
Produced by John Casey.
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Gordon D’Arcy and Nathan Johns talk through Ireland's defeat to France to begin the women’s Six Nations. We also pick through the best of the action following a mixed weekend for the provinces in the URC.
A week on from the Six Nations, we look at which fringe internationals, now playing before the return of European action, have the best chance of forcing their way into Andy Farrell’s reckoning ahead of the summer tour to South Africa.
Produced by John Casey.
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Ireland begin their Six Nations campaign a number of months after winning the first edition of the WXV3 competition. It was a much-needed confidence boost in an era largely defined by governance controversy off the field and spiralling performances off it.
John Cronin was director of rugby at Railway Union RFC, coaching a number of current and former Ireland internationals. He has been a prominent voice in the media and on social media advocating for change in the women's game. He joins John O'Sullivan and host Nathan Johns to preview the upcoming tournament, assess the balance between Ireland Sevens and 15s, debate the introduction and omission of certain key players and assess if Ireland can avoid once again finishing at the bottom of the table.
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Gordon D’Arcy and Gerry Thornley join host Nathan Johns to pick through the final round of the Six Nations championship.
Ireland weren’t perfect, but had enough to get over the line against Scotland to earn back-to-back titles for just the third time. Given the way the final matches unfolded, have teams started to figure out the Irish attack? Was this the last we will see of Peter O’Mahony in a green jersey? How will the other teams look to progress after a very competitive tournament? Our panel picks through these issues and more in the latest episode of The Counter Ruck.
Produced by John Casey.
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Scotland and Ireland have seen plenty of animosity in their contests in recent years. Yet the Scots have not won since 2017, while they haven't been victorious in Dublin since 2010. Can such a one-sided fixture truly be a rivalry, or do the two sides simply not like each other?
Gordon D'Arcy and John O'Sullivan join host Nathan Johns to preview this weekend's Six Nations title showdown.
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England’s best performance in recent memory sent Ireland to a narrow defeat in London.
Hopes of back-to-back Grand Slams are gone, offering a timely reminder of just how difficult it is to win it all.
Gordon D’Arcy and Gerry Thornley join host Nathan Johns to pick through where it all went wrong for Ireland, where England excelled and why a Six Nations title, even without a Grand Slam, is not to be sniffed at.
Produced by John Casey.
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Gordon D'Arcy and John O'Sullivan join host Nathan Johns to preview Ireland's upcoming clash with England.
Where are England in this transition period? Will their blitz defence cause problems? Have we learned anything new from the Ireland team selection? All this is and more is discussed as the panel predict a strong England performance that will test Ireland's Grand Slam ambitions.
Produced by John Casey and Suzanne Brennan.
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In this extended chat with England’s World Cup-winning number eight, Nathan Johns and Gordon D’Arcy preview this week’s Six Nations clash at Twickenham.
We also discuss how Dallaglio could have declared for Ireland, his memories of touring for the Lions with D’Arcy as well as England’s muddled thinking in this year’s championship.
Produced by John Casey.
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With Ireland’s current crop of U20s training against the senior side today at the Aviva Stadium, we took a deep dive into the underage structures in Irish rugby.
John O’Sullivan has covered age grade international sides for a number of years, and he joins host Nathan Johns to recall his memories of following Irish teams around the world.
From dramatic penalty shoot-outs vs South Africa to meeting players’ parents, John has plenty of stories regarding Ireland’s young players.
We also look at the efficacy of the system. Does Ireland bring their U20 graduates through to senior level quickly enough? Do our young players get enough game time? Can the provinces alone offer the best youth talent an outlet to grow?
Produced by John Casey.
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Ireland were not at their fluid best on Saturday but they did not have to be, beating Wales 31-7 at the Aviva Stadium.
How did Wales stilt the Irish attack somewhat? Just how good is Ireland’s defence? Does Andy Farrell have a replacement bench to rival the South African bomb squad?
The panel chats through all the talking points from the Irish victory, as well as the other notable games from the weekend. England, Ireland’s next opponents, come in for some heavy criticism after their defeat to Scotland, while France’s downfall under Fabien Galthié brings to mind memories of the end of the Joe Schmidt Ireland era in 2019.
Produced by John Casey
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Is fullback Ciarán Frawley’s best position? How much of a loss will Hugo Keenan be? What to expect from debutant Oli Jager?
Gordon D’Arcy and John O’Sullivan join host Nathan Johns to react to Andy Farrell’s team announcement. The panel looks at if there were any other options to replace Keenan, is picking a 6/2 split on the bench somewhat of a risk and why Stuart McCloskey makes the bench instead of Garry Ringrose.
Saturday’s opponents, Wales, also are analysed in detail. We look at if Sam Costelow will change their game plan at outhalf. Given the threat of Tommy Reffell to the Irish breakdown, Gordon D’Arcy recalls preparing to face previous dangerous Welsh flankers and how Ireland can nullify the Leicester backrow.
Produced by John Casey.
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Despite being tipped by some as wooden spoon contenders for this year’s Six Nations, Wales have lost their opening two matches by a combined margin of just three points.
A second half comeback against Scotland and a strong opening 40 minutes in Twickenham vs England have allowed Wales to already exceed the expectations. Ahead of their trip to Dublin to take on Ireland this weekend, Mike Bubbins, a former Cardiff and Wales underage backrow, joins Gordon D’Arcy and host Nathan Johns to talk through Wales’ resurgence of sorts.
The panel discuss Wales coach Warren Gatland’s decision to rely on a younger cohort of players, the attacking brand of rugby displayed by domestic sides and how the country looks to recover from a turbulent 12 months of financial trouble, administration controversies and middling performances on the pitch.
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For all the positivity surrounding Ireland’s two wins to open up this year’s Six Nations, a concern for the concession of scrum penalties remains simmering in the background.
Against France, Andrew Porter was penalised twice in quick succession in the first half. After half-time, the French replacement front row eked out a further penalty, cementing a clear advantage.
Scrumming down against Italy, Ireland fared much better, winning as many as four scrum penalties, but still conceding a handful of decisions.
“Your reputation precedes you, good or bad,” says Mike Ross, the former Ireland tighthead prop.
“For some reason we’ve been identified as a side that can give penalties away in the scrum. Sometimes I would question if the referees are actually looking at what they’re seeing or going with preconceived notions.”
When there can be such volatility, Ireland finding themselves on the back foot one week only to dominate in the next fixture, questions arise. Is it the opposition, personnel, a different referee interpretation?
Ross joined host Nathan Johns on The Counter Ruck Podcast on this Six Nations down week to take a deep dive into Ireland's scrum. Is the scrum a concern, how important is it and do officials referee the set piece consistently?
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After Ireland put Italy to the sword in the Aviva Stadium, the panel discusses standout performances form Jack Crowley and James Lowe, Ireland's impressive defensive record and the latest disappointing Italian performance.
We also talk through Wales being more competitive than previously thought, the low standard of play across the board so far in the tournament and the infamous TMO decision that left Scotland reeling. With the Six Nations taking a break this weekend, Gerry and John pick their player of the opening rounds of action.
Produced by Declan Conlon and John Casey.
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Former Leinster out-half and current Argentina head coach Felipe Contepomi joins his old teammate Gordon D'Arcy on today’s podcast.
Italy's new head coach, Gonzalo Quesada, is a former teammate of Contempomi. The former Leinsterman tells us what to expect from his old friend as he prepares his Italian side for their clash with Ireland at the Aviva on Sunday afternoon.
Contepomi also discusses his time coaching Leinster's trio of young out-halves and why he believes the province is right to spread game time between them, as well as how he has adapted to coaching given how much rugby has evolved from his playing days.
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Fresh off covering Ireland's win over France, Gerry Thornley joins host Nathan Johns and John O'Sullivan to review the victory that sets up Andy Farrell’s team as favourites for the Six Nations.
We discuss the French media's strong reaction, how Ireland looked a better-coached side, the impressive second row pairing of Joe McCarthy and Tadhg Beirne as well as Jack Crowley's coming-of-age performance at out-half. We also analyse if Ireland has a scrum problem, while looking at the U20s win over France in Aix-en-Provence.
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Irish Times rugby correspondent Gerry Thornley previews Friday night’s clash from the Stade Velodrome in Marseille.
With both teams exiting last year’s World Cup at the quarter-final stage, a opening round win will go some way to deciding the winner of this Six Nations tournament. In terms of Irish players to watch out for, Jack Crowley steps in to fill the void left by the now-retired Johnny Sexton at fly-half, while Leinster lock Joe McCarthy is a hugely exciting prospect.
While watching Ireland’s captain’s run, Gerry talks through team selection and where the game could be won and lost for Ireland.
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Gordon D'Arcy and John O'Sullivan join host Nathan Johns to preview the Six Nations ahead of Ireland's opening game away to France on Friday night.
The panel discusses selection, captaincy and Ireland's poor record following World Cup campaigns.
We also hear from Clare native Noel McNamara, the attack coach at Union Bordeaux-Begles. Newly installed at the French club, McNamara works on a daily basis with a number of players in the France squad, most notably Maxime Lucu, the man expected to be tasked with replacing the absent Antoine Dupont.
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The Counter Ruck is a new rugby podcast from The Irish Times. Launching on Monday, January 29th - just in time for the Six Nations.
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With the coronavirus throwing everything into flux, this morning we’re in the surreal situation of having a perfectly-poised Six Nations table that looks likely to be a good seven months away from any conclusion. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to tease out what it all means and where we go from here.
Documentarian Ross Whitaker is also in with us to talk about his documentary The Boys In Green which tells the story of Ireland in the Jack Charlton years and what it felt like to finally make a mark on the world stage. It goes out on RTE tonight.
All this in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Rules come and rules go but Congress is always with us. Fresh from an invigorating weekend at Croke Park, Sean Moran joins us in studio for a look at how the new backpass rule came to be and brings the lowdown on the next GAA president.
Who do you support? How and why did that come to be? How important is shirt colour? Emmet Malone has carried out the most comprehensive survey on football fans ever in Ireland and he’s on the line to tell us all about it.
All this plus your first and best Cheltenham tip on your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
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Stop all the clocks. Turn off the Tweet machine. Rugby is goosed, ruined and everything in between. England have beaten us to a bloody pulp and nothing remains but entrails and outrage. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to pick over the carcass of Twickenham. It's gonna get grim, baby. It's gonna get grim.
Keith Duggan was in Tuam yesterday to see the flourishing of Galway as contenders. They put the hurt on Tyrone to the tune of 19 points, the biggest defeat of Mickey Harte's time in charge. Can they go all the way? What's the difference between them and the league's other form side, Monaghan?
All this - plus an impassioned plea in favour of the black card from a Hurling Man - in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
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Twickenham week in the Six nations and all of a sudden, a Triple Crown is at stake. Who are England now, exactly? Are they the team that beat New Zealand in the World Cup semi-final or are they about to lose their third test match in four games? Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey tease it all out in studio.
Former international referee Owen Doyle got a huge reaction to his column in the Irish Times last week on supporter behaviour at schools rugby matches. He joins us in studio to talk about the latest worrying trends, Garda intervention and what can be done. While we have him, we drill down into some of the refereeing in the Six Nations so far and look ahead to what faces Jaco Peyper at Twickenham on Saturday.
Throw in a trip to Wexford to see a mad, mad day's hurling and that's your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey.
With two wins from two gathered into the hold, the Andy Farrell train is rolling merrily along. Gavin Cummiskey and Gerry Thornley are in studio to break down Saturday's win over Wales and we hail Captain Johnny Sexton, for that is how we should address him now.
Tyrone and Kerry's league game was moved to Edendork and Ian O'Riordan managed to find his way there against all odds. The game was interesting for two individuals in particular - David Clifford and Cathal McShane - for very different reasons. We talk yellow cards, targeting players and jobs for the boys.
All this and a nation apologises to the Welsh women's rugby team for our crap showers. Free as the air you breathe in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
The Six Nations is here and it is well in itself, French kissed to life on Sunday in Paris with the home side's win over England. Ireland's campaign got off to a steady start on Saturday, eventually overcoming a physical Scotland side but picking up some body blows along the way. Gavin Cummiskey and Gerry Thornley are in studio to break it all down and to look ahead to Wales's visit to Dublin next Saturday.
The FAI have received a bail-out that we're not supposed to call a bail-out, to the tune of somewhere north of €30m. With its immediate future apparently secured, the game can breathe a sigh of relief and set about putting its house in order over the coming months. Emmet Malone has the details and he joins us on the line..
Add in some SuperBowl chat - Hail to the Chiefs! - and that's your Monday morning Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
The Ireland squad are in Portugal so it must be (checks notes)... the start of the Six Nations? Okay. Andy Farrell's new broom has swept the team announcement - not to mention the Irish press pack - to foreign climes for a longer run-in than everyone is used to. Before hopping on a plane, Gerry Thornley joins Gavin Cummiskey in studio for our bumper Six Nations Preview. Spoiler alert: one of them tips France for the title.
Speaking of uncommonly early starts, the GAA national Leagues got underway over the weekend, with Kerry and Dublin tangling in Croke Park on Saturday night. Seán Moran is on the line to gauge what's at stake over the coming weeks, especially with Tier Two championship places on the line down the divisions. And we reflect on what it is exactly that makes Cork such a desperate league team.
Gav talks to us about the death of Kobe Bryant too, all in your Monday Added Time with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
The most compelling soap opera in rugby goes on and on. Fresh from the announcement that they are to be relegated to the English Championship, Saracens have drawn Leinster in the quarter-finals of the Champions Cup in April. Gavin Cummiskey is in studio to walk us through the latest twists and turns in a story that has plenty of room to run in it yet.
The big drama from the Liverpool v United match on Sunday took place off the pitch, with Roy Keane and Jamie Carragher eyeballing each other in the Sky studio over the hot topic of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's future. Michael Walker joins us on the line to weigh up where United go from here and whether patience will or won't be a virtue in this scenario.
Throw in a dispatch from the club finals and that's your Added Time this Monday, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
And we're back! The first Added Time podcast of 2020 is here and it's in your face. Or your ears, at least.
Gavin Cummiskey is in studio to pick the bones out of the Champions Cup weekend. Leinster are sailing, Munster are failing, Ulster are somewhere in between. What does it all mean for the rest of the tournament? And with the Six Nations just under three weeks away, how are Andy Farrell's options shaping up?
We have Ian O'Riordan in the house as well - and he's brought is runners with him. His €250 Nike VaporFly runners, to be exact. Inasmuch as a pair of running shoes can be controversial, these babies are - Ian explains why, how and what happens next.
Throw in the story of mighty Magheracloone, the club with the sinkhole in their pitch who are about to play in an All-Ireland final, and you have you Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Eamon Donoghue.
For the final Added Time podcast of 2019, Mary Hannigan and Emma Duffy of The42 join us in studio to review the year in women's sport. With The Irish Times Sportswoman of the Year awards coming up this Friday, we all put up our top five women's sport moments of the year and worm our way through the selections until we reach the top.
From Katie Taylor to Ciara Mageean to Rachael Blackmore to the hockey team, it has been a momentous year for women's sport. The women's World Cup, the Dubs, Sanita Puspure - it's all in here, the boundaries of sport being pushed further and further out with each passing month.
All in your final Added Time of the year, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
The grim reality of the FAI's catastrophic accounts was revealed last week to be even worse than everyone imagined. What sort of future can it have now? How will it get out from under its debt to become a going concern? Emmet Malone joins us in studio to try to make sense of the worst week in the history of the association.
Gavin Cummiskey is in with us too, picking over a Champions Cup weekend that had wins for Leinster, Munster and Ulster. We also, despite our best efforts, get into some more World Cup fall-out - Gav was one of the journalists who sat down with Rory Best last week and his insights into the particular circumstances of that interview are well worth hearing.
Finally, film-maker Kevin Brannigan pays us a visit to tell us about his documentary In League With Gaddafi which goes out on RTE One tonight. The story of a group of Irish soccer players brought by Brian Kerr to play a match in Libya in 1989 is a hell of a caper, including Charlie Haughey, guns, beef and even a little bit of football.
All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Was 2019 a vintage year for sports books? Mal and Pat are joined by old friend and Irish Examiner sports columnist Kieran Shannon to pick their favourite titles of the past 12 months.
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Munster gonna Munster. The ghosts of winter Saturday Nights Past came calling as Thomond Park rocked to another nail-biting Champions Cup encounter, this time against Racing 92. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to break down the rugby weekend that was, with a fair amount of excitement at the already clear impact of Stephen Larkham. We also delve into Joe Schmidt's book, released last week to a very mixed reception.
Charlie Gallagher was the iconic Cavan footballer of the 1960s but somewhere along the way he got lost to the ages. Paul Fitzpatrick has written a beautiful biography of one of the greatest Ulster players in history, a celebrity in his own time who came to a sad end in later years. Paul joins us to tell a story not many people know or will have heard of.
All this - plus Brendan Maher and the charms of winter hurling - in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
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Crunch time in Dublin 4. Ireland v Denmark VI - This Time It's... well, it's likely to be quite similar to the five that have gone before. Denmark won't be shaking in their boots, Ireland won't be exactly cowering either at the thought. Winner goes to the Euros, loser goes to the play-offs. Emmet Malone is on the line to give us Mick McCarthy's likely team and rate our prospects for the evening.
The Champions Cup is back, back, back and Irish teams put together a clean sweep on the opening weekend. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to hail Connacht's mighty victory over Montpellier, the stand-out result of the weekend. Was anger over the World Cup driving the Irish players? Can it last?
All this in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Rugby barely had time to catch 40 winks before the Champions Cup has come rapping on the door and rousting it for another season. With defending champions Saracens the talk of the towns and all four Irish provinces ready to go, the stage is set for a fascinating competition, whatever happens. Gavin Cummiskey is in studio to break down the Saracens scandal and talk us through the pools.
It's massive seven days for the Ireland soccer teams, both men's a women's. The men have a friendly against New Zealand ahead of next Monday's crunch tie in the Aviva against Denmark, while Vera Pauw's women's side play Greece tomorrow lunchtime in Athens, having started the campaign with two wins from two. Emmet Malone has the lowdown on a crucial international week.
All this plus the regrettable dickishness of Pep Guardiola in today's Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Some weeks, the whole thing is like trying to fit a quart into a pint pot. The amount of sport that fizzed around the place over the weekend is almost too much - but we've done our best in your Monday Added Time. Forgive us our misses.
Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey run the rule over the World Cup final in our last rugby pod for, oh, a fortnight or so. South Africa are world champions but it's a complicated story to cheer for. Meanwhile, England look to have played their final in the semi-final - the lads assess the mental mistakes that led to their downfall.
Mary Hannigan is in studio to break down a famous weekend for Irish hockey as the women’s team qualify for the Olympics for the first time. It's the end of a long road and Mary has been on it with them for over two decades of reporting on the Irish team. On a grey morning in Dublin, it's the brightest spot around.
All this plus Katie Taylor's latest world title in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
It’s here, at last. The World Cup final is upon us as England take on South Africa in Yokohama. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey have one more pod in them, breaking down the match-ups and the ready-ups. Also, in a turn up for the books, why they both want England to win.
All in your final Thursday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin.
England saved the signature performance of the Eddie Jones era until it couldn't have mattered more. In stuffing New Zealand in Yokohama on Saturday, they sailed into the World Cup final in grand style. There they will meet South Africa, whose win over Wales on Sunday had none of the fireworks, albeit the same reward. With Gavin Cummiskey in studio and Gerry Thornley on the line from Tokyo, we pick the bones out of semi-finals weekend.
Arsenal's reputation as the Premier League club eternally closest to a nuclear meltdown was further burnished over the weekend as club captain Granit Xhaka had a public falling out with the home fans as he was being substituted at The Emirates. Amy Lawrence of The Athletic has the inside story of how the club got to this point and how much of it is the fault of Unai Emery.
All this plus some jaw-dropping Tiger Woods factoids on your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
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The World Cup fall-out continues apace. After Isa Nacewa's cutting assessment of Joe Schmidt's final year, it feels like there is a lot of water to flow under the bridge before we can put the tin lid on Japan 2019. Also, there is the small matter of the semi-finals to dig through.
Gavin Cummiskey is back from his travels, disappointingly with one arm as long as the other and a distinct lack of presents for the troops. We plough on, all the same, with him in studio and Gerry Thornley on the line to break down the timing of Nacewa's intervention and the extent to which he was talking for the current squad members with whom he is close.
All in your Thursday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent
Let the autopsy begin. Ireland are out of the World Cup at the quarter-final stage - again. Ireland have been hammered when it matters most - again. Why does this keep happening? How could we have imagined anything else? Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are on the line from Japan to pick over the bones of it all.
Sports book season is upon us. Adrian Russell has written The Double, the story of Cork winning the football and hurling All-Irelands in 1990. It's one of the great GAA tales, driven by two classic managerial firebrands in Billy Morgan and Canon Michael O'Brien. Adrian dropped into studio this morning to tell us all about it.
Throw in a lament for the new Gaelic football rules voted in by Special Congress over the weekend and you have Episode 100 of Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Ireland will make history when they beat New Zealand in the Rugby World Cup quarter-final on Saturday. That’s the view from Tokyo as Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are reasonably bullish that Joe Schmidt’s team can make the final four of a World Cup for the first time.
The two-time defending champions and number one side in the world start as 12-point favourites but as Schmidt opts for a dozen players from the starting team that beat New Zealand at the Aviva stadium last year, there is a belief that this Ireland squad have the tools and belief to cause an upset.
In doing so they will eke out another few weeks for captain Rory Best, forwards’ coach Greg Feek and Schmidt, all of whom step down after the tournament. The boys also explain why they think Japan’s fairytale has another chapter or two in it, which would make grim reading for the Springboks.
All of this and more in the Added Time podcast with John O’Sullivan and Mary Hanningan.
It’s moving week for our rugby and soccer teams – by the end of it there’s a good chance we’ll have either have moved on or moved out.
Gavin Cummiskey and Gerry Thornley check in from Japan, where the Rugby World Cup has been lit up by the hosts. How did nobody see Japan coming? Where do Ireland stand ahead of the quarter-final against New Zealand? Will the fact that this could be Joe Schmidt’s last week in the job have any effect?
Emmet Malone is in Geneva as Mick McCarthy’s Ireland team prepares for the crucial Euro 2020 qualifier against Switzerland on Tuesday night. Here, too, there are questions. Will Aaron Connolly start? Why were Ireland so dreadful against Georgia? And are the nervy Swiss actually there for the taking?
All this on your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and John O’Sullivan.
Find your hatches, batten them down. The Rugby World Cup is descending into farce and there doesn't seem to be a thing anyone can do about it. Typhoon gonna typhoon and the Scots and Italians gonna go home sore, it seems.
Proper rugby brain John O'Sullivan is in studio to co-present as we check in with our men in Japan. Gavin Cummiskey and Gerry Thornley bring us a weather report first and foremost but also the latest updates from the Ireland team hotel ahead of the game with Samoa on Saturday.
All in your bonus Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and John O'Sullivan
Fake news is alive and well and it's taking over the Rugby World Cup. Despite reports that the sky is falling in over in Japan, Gavin Cummiskey is here to reassure one and all that Ireland are not going to be typhooned out of the competition this weekend. Contingency plans are in place and the road to a glorious quarter-final exit is secure for now.
Meanwhile, back this side of the globe, we have a new football superstar. Emmet Malone joins us from Abbotstown where Aaron Connolly has just been called into the Ireland squad for the Georgia/Switzerland double-header after his man of the match performance for Brighton against Spurs on Saturday.
All this plus the glory of Ciara Macgeean on your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Times: 05:37 Rugby 23:21 Football
The morning after the borefest before. Ireland have dealt with Russia like a library clerk enforcing a minor fine - nothing too brutal, just a quietly bloodless transaction. And through it all, we have no real idea of where Joe Schmidt's side stand.
Gavin Cummiskey and Keith Duggan are on the line from Japan. They bring us a mood of pessimistic limbo, with nobody quite sure if we're still one of the best teams in the world or if we'd be as well packing our bags and heading home early. On the upside - Bundee Aki, Robbie Henshaw and Chris Farrell are organising a weekend of shore leave so maybe everything will turn out okay.
All this and Mrs Pat Nugent's latest World Cup haiku on your Friday morning Added Time with Malachy Clerkin.
A pall falls over a stilled nation, the last of the early autumn warmth gone from the air. Ireland have lost to Japan in the Rugby World Cup and all hope has gone. Let's get through this one as best we can, yeah?
Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey call in from Kobe to pick through the entrails of the latest World Cup disaster. Was it the tactics? Was it the lack of Johnny Sextons? Where do we go from here?
On a slightly cheerier note, John Delaney is finally an ex-FAI employee. Emmet Malone is in studio to walk us through the terms of the divorce and to lay out exactly why Delaney's pay-off is in the region of half a million euro.
Just to complete the trifecta, Ian O'Riordan has been watching his beloved World Athletics Championships in despair as the plainly unfit for purpose host city of Doha continues to claim victims.
All this plus a timely World Cup haiku in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Happy Jack Carty Day, everybody. The Connacht number 10, who was arguably Ireland's fifth-choice outhalf 18 months ago, will start against hosts Japan on Saturday morning. Now that's a meteroic rise.
Gavin Cummiskey was at the team announcement this morning so we got him on the line to fill us in on all the news.
On top of which, we learned a lot about haunted hotels, how World Rugby have screwed over Fiji and how far you have to go to get arrested in Japan.
All this in your extra-special Thursday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Matchday One has come and gone and all is for the best in this best of all worlds. Ireland have tanked Scotland and the bandwagon is starting to pick up speed. Bring it on, we say.
Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey join us on the line from Japan after an opening weekend that couldn't have gone a lot better from an Irish point of view. We pick a few nits and try to damp the fires a little - long way to go and all that - but on the whole, the livin' is easy this fine Monday.
Of course, the World Cup hasn't been without needle. Mary Hannigan is in studio to break down the breakdown everyone's talking about - Are you Team Jamie or Team Eddie? Also, how many extras are ITV paying for their in-studio re-enactments? Inquiring minds need to know.
All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Rugby Opening Weekend Review 4.15 TV Review with Mary Hannigan 26.35
It's here! At last, it's here!
If not the Rugby World Cup quite yet, at least your super special Added Time preview show. Our men in Yokohama are primed and ready and, unique among the travelling Irish press pack, they haven't written a word about Sumo all week. Purists, they are.
Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey walk us through Ireland's opener against Scotland on Sunday. With the rain coming in sideways, will it just be a glorified Six Nations encounter? If it becomes a risk-averse game, does that suit Ireland? How will Iain Henderson get on calling the Ireland line-out?
There are big old fish frying elsewhere in the tournament too. The tie of the weekend is undoubtedly South Africa v New Zealand. Potentially the most impactful game is likely France v Argentina. Lots to see, plenty to get out of bed for.
All in your bonus Thursday edition of the Added Time podcast, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Times: 00:30 Super-Duper Saturday 03:37 Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey on Ireland v Scotland 16:24 New Zealand v South Africa 22:32 France v Argentina
Five-in-a-row, three-in-a-row, same but different. It's all about the Dubs this mizzly Monday morning as they gathered up the men's and women's All-Irelands over the weekend, making their own bits of history align the way.
Sean Moran and Keith Duggan join us to talk about Saturday night's replay in Croke Park and all that flowed from it. Dublin's most impressive final victory came after one of the best first halves of football anyone can remember. And though the futures of Jim Gavin and Stephen Cluxton may be up in the air, there's no sense that Dublin's job is finished.
Joanne O'Riordan is on the line to talk about the rain-ruined women's final, which Dublin came through in the end to beat Galway. They have changed in front of our very eyes over the years, from the team that threw away All-Ireland after All-Ireland at the start of the decade to comfortably the best team around now. Turns out it's almost certainly down to Joanne trolling Sinead Goldrick in 2014.
And chiming in from downtown Tokyo, Gavin Cummiskey is on the line with news of Robbie Henshaw and Joey Carberry. More thrillingly, he brings tales of his unease in the face of basic Japanese good manners.
All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Women's Football Final 0.00 Men's Football Final 10.30 Rugby 35.00
The prep is done, the players are ready, all that's left is to gather up the passports and go. Ireland beat Wales in their last World Cup warm-up game on Saturday and head to Japan ready to rock. Gavin Cummiskey is in studio to assess where everybody stands, from Rory Best to Garry Ringrose to Jack Carty and beyond.
Ireland's soccer fortunes got a boost last night in Tbilisi with Georgia holding Denmark to a draw. Ahead of Tuesday's friendly against Bulgaria in the Aviva, Emmet Malone calls in from the Irish camp in Abbotstown.
We talk camogie too and the whole weird world of GAA celebration songs.
All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
History will have to wait. Dublin's drive for five came got halted at the last yesterday, with Kerry pushing them to a replay in the All-Ireland final. Sean Moran and Eamon Donoghue are in studio to break down a game that was as flawed as it was compelling.
The Ireland squad for the World Cup has been submitted to World Rugby and predictably enough, has leaked out into the world despite the IRFU's best efforts. Gavin Cummiskey joins us with all the ins and outs.
Throw in the great Irish rowers being great yet again and that's your Monday Added time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there. You know Ireland's rugby World Cup preparations are going badly when the rugby writers are quoting Dylan in their intros. Gavin Cummiskey and Gerry Thornley are in studio to pick over the entrails of Saturday's hiding in Twickenham and singularly fail to talk us down off the ledge.
Dublin will meet Galway in the women's football All-Ireland final in three weeks after they came out on top in yesterday’s semi-final double-header in Croke Park. Joanne O'Riordan is on the line to break down a grinding Dublin win and a knife-edge cracker for Galway over Mayo.
And we couldn't let the day pass without acknowledging the insanity at Headingly yesterday. Patrick Madden talks us through the glory of Ben Stokes and his winning of the third Ashes Test.
All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Cricket 1.00 Rugby 8.49 Women's Football Semi-Final 31.15
Strike up Slievenamon. Book that AirBnB in the Golden Vale. Pop the bottle of cider. It's a Tipperary world and the rest of us just live in it today.
All-Ireland champions for the third time this decade, Tipp take centre stage in today's all-hurling edition of the Added Time podcast. Keith Duggan and Sean Moran joins us to break down a final that ultimately left a lot of people cold. Not Tipp people, of course. Other people.
Had the game already turned in Tipp's favour before Richie Hogan's red card? Why weren't Kilkenny able to reorganise the way other teams have done when down to 14 men? What more can we ask of referees than what James Owens did?
All this and more in your Monday Added time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
The Dublin threshing machine rolls on, reducing all before it to dust. Happily, we have much to discuss this Monday morning, with an All-Ireland final on the horizon, however much of a done deal we imagine it to be three weeks out. Keith Duggan and Eamon Donoghue are with us to break down the weekend in Croke Park.
Indecently early though it is, there's rugby to talk about. Gavin Cummiskey is in studio to sing a sad song over Joey Carbery's ankle and lay out the detail of the three either/or calls Joe Schmidt would need to make if the plane to Japan was taking off in the morning.
There's also a couple of fun tales from the early pre-season around the NFL, with the contrasting stories of Antonio Brown and Damon Sheehy-Guiseppi.
All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Times: 00:05 - Intro on the NFL 06:40 - GAA with Keith and Eamon 32:45 - Rugby with Gavin Cummiskey
With the honourable exception of Mayo v Donegal, the conclusion of the Super 8s turned out to be much ado about nothing. Thankfully, the upshot is that we have been left with a cracking weekend of All-Ireland SFC semi-finals to look forward to, with Mayo v Dublin on Saturday evening and Tyrone v Kerry on Sunday. Keith Duggan and Eamon O’Donoghue join us to chat through the games and non-events of the weekend just gone, and to preview the fireworks that (hopefully) await us.
We also have some insider knowledge on what lies ahead for the footballers of Wexford as Paul Galvin takes the helm.
The English Premier League returns on Friday night and for many people that means one thing – Fantasy Football is back. Why cheer for just one team managed by Pep or Klopp when you can assemble your own team of over-paid professionals, and give far too much thought to who takes corners for Wolves? Joe Lepper of www.FantasyFootballScout.co.uk joins us on the line to examine why the game is such a phenomenon and, more importantly, to give us some vital tips and tricks for the season ahead.
All this in your Tuesday’s Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Times: Gaelic football: 7:00 Fantasy football: 30:45
Hurling! Hurling! Hurling!
Another Tipperary v Kilkenny final then, to end the decade. Boring? Anything but. After a weekend of eye-watering tension in Croke Park, Jackie Tyrrell joins us to gorge on a pair of stone-cold All-Ireland semi-final classics. How does Cody keep doing it? Why couldn't Limerick live with Kilkenny? What made Wexford tighten up with the line in sight? Where have Tipp found a bench from all of a sudden?
Another momentous occasion took place at Lord's last week when Ireland played their first ever test match against England. Not alone that, they skittled England out before lunch on the first day before going on to play out a stunning, if weird, game that ultimately ended in defeat. Ger Siggins was there for the Irish Times and he's in studio to try and make sense of it all.
All this in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Hurling: 5.45 Cricket: 27.45
The sun is out, the sky is high and Shane Lowry is the Champion Golfer of the Year. How's your Monday going? Could it be any better?
Philip Reid was in Portrush for every stroke of Lowry's momentous week and from a service station somewhere in the north, he joins us to walk us through it all.
Sean Moran and Eamon Donoghue in situ as well to break down the weekend that was in the Super 8s. Are Donegal and Kerry the only teams who might hold a candle in the Dublin wind? How many days have Mayo left in them? How steep is the learning curve for Meath and Cork?
All dealt with in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Too. Much. Sport.
That's what your Sunday was. Way too much. From Killarney to Lord's to Wimbledon to Croke Park to Ballybofey, there was just no end of it. So here we are, putting it all in a nice neat package for you on the Added Time podcast.
Sean Moran is in studio to talk about the GAA weekend that was. Kilkenny put an old-style beatdown on Cork, Tipp ended the Laois fairytale, Kerry blitzed Mayo and Diarmuid Connolly is back in the Dublin fold. Much to discuss.
All of it is just a preulde to the biggest sporting event ever to be held on the island when the British open comes to Portrush this weekend. Philip Reid is on-site already and watched Tiger Woods play yesterday afternoon. He's on the line to preview the year's fourth major.
All in your Monday morning Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Eamon Donoghue.
Nothing like a good old-fashioned earth-moving shock to light up a summer weekend. Laois are through to the All-Ireland quarter-final after yesterday's seismic win over Dublin and even the most heart-broken Dubs must have a little room in their hearts for it all.
Today's Added Time kicks off in celebration of Eddie Brennan's charges before hurtling headlong into an extended preview of the football Super-8s, Seán Moran and Eamon Donoghue are in studio to run the rule over the eight remaining counties in the football championship.
Meanwhile, the Irish Open was a resounding success in Lahinch last week, with Spaniard John Rahm taking it for the second time in three years. Philip Reid was our man on the ground and he joins us to break it down and also to look ahead to next weekl's British Open in Portrush.
All in your Monday morning Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Eamon Donoghue.
Laoise 0.10 Super 8s 6.30 Irish Open 34.30
The BBC’s Sarah Mulkerrins has been in France this past month covering the Women’s World Cup. Settled in Lyon for Tuesday's semi-final between USA and England, the Galway native guides us through the ground-breaking tournament from Megan Rapinoe backing up her White House comments, with goals, to the misguided moral compass of Phil Neville.
We are blessed by the presence of Sonia O'Sullivan in The Irish Times building to discuss the latest twist in the Caster Semenya story.
Need a GAA fix? Ian O'Riordan (and Sonia) run the rule over the hurling finals in Leinster and Munster as Wexford and Limerick temporarily topple the mighty towers of Kilkenny and Tipperary. Davy Fitz's gets his overdue credit as a master tactician. Also, Aidan O'Shea's kick-pass gift for Armagh, along with all the football qualifier news, gets a good airing on the Added Time podcast, presented for one week only by the dynamic duo of Gavin Cummiskey and Mary Hannigan.
4.30 Sarah Mulkerrins on the Women's World Cup 20.25 GAA 37.25 Caster Semenya
Donegal anointing as everyone's second team continues apace, the last, best hope for humanity in the quest to stop Dublin. Keith Duggan was at the Ulster final yesterday and joins us to report on another impressive display. Eamon Donoghue has the rundown on Saturday night's Munster final as well as we studiously ignore the usual water-boarding in Croke Park.
James Sugrue was just another promising Irish golfer this day last week but now his life has flipped upside down on account of his winning the British Amateur Championship in Portmarnock. Philip Reid calls into Added Time towers to tell us about how he beat massive odds to qualify for the Masters, the US Open and the British Open all in one fell swoop.
All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey
Donegal v Cavan 3.30 Kerry v Cork 11.45 Golf 19.15
Let the bonfires burn. Roscommon are Connacht champions again and this time they went through Mayo and Galway to get there. Keith Duggan was in Salthill for the latest chapter in Anthony Cunningham's increasingly impressive coaching career and he joins us to talk about it - and also to pick over Galway's demise.
In hurling, Sean Moran took in the ever-so slightly phoney war in Thurles yesterday between Limerick and Tipperary. Did it matter? Will it matter? And what of Saturday night in Parnell Park and Wexford Park? Exactly how difficult is it for pundits to know the permutations ahead of time?
All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Eamon Donoghue.
Times:
Golf: 00:14 Hurling: 03:33 Football: 23:54
GAA all the way on today's Added Time podcast. Limerick have got their groove back and their demolition of Clare in the Gaelic Grounds on Sunday has them ticking over beautifully ahead of next weekend's trip to Thurles. But the beauty of the hurling championship is that Clare still have a route through to the knock-out stages and if they can gather themselves ahead of Cork's visit to Ennis, their year isn't dead. Ian O’Riordan was in Limerick and he joins us in studio.
The Ulster Football Championship continues to be the World Cup, the Grand National and the Ashes all rolled into one. Cavan and Donegal will meet in the final after another weekend of top-class action. Keith Duggan was in Breffni Park for Donegal's win over Tyrone on Saturday night and we give him the floor to wax on and wax off about Michael Murphy and the rest of his countymen.
Throw in some aggressive non-lamenting for the Leinster Football Championship and a look ahead to Ireland v Gibraltar and that's your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey.
So much for the summer. There's no sun, the rain is down for the day, the hurling's gone boring. Thank God for the Ulster Championship, which served up another barnburner on Sunday between Armagh and Cavan. Keith Duggan was there and he's on the line to tell us about it and to look ahead to Tyrone v Donegal this Saturday.
On Friday night, the feelgood factor around the Ireland soccer team will face its sternest test yet, with Mick McCarthy's side heading to Denmark for their latest Euro qualifier. Emmet Malone joins us from Abbottstown as we ponder the surprisingly golden late chapter in Glenn Whelan's career.
All this plus watching the Champions League final in LA with Chris O'Dowd, coming atcha in your Tuesday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Eamon Donoghue.
Saturday brought the curtain down on the rugby season, ending with the heart-warming sight of Sean O'Brien lifting the Pro-14 trophy after Leinster beat Glasgow in Celtic Park. Sunday brought the news that O'Brien is going for hip surgery and will miss the World Cup, ending his international career. Gerry Thornley is in studio to pay tribute to the man he ranks as the best captain Ireland never had.
Wexford and Galway played out a stop-start, weather-beaten draw in Salthill over the weekend, leaving the Leinster Hurling Championship on a knife-edge. What is up with Galway? Where are Wexford? And can we get a roof on Pearse Stadium please? Keith Duggan was there and he as all the answers.
We'll also dig deep into Roscommon's win over Mayo in Castlebar, all in your Monday Added Time with Malachy Clerkin and Eamon Donoghue.
The last knockings of the rugby season are upon us and Leinster are through to another Pro 14 final after their facile victory over Munster on Saturday. Gavin Cummiskey is in studio to dig through the unravelling of Munster's season and to look at where they go from here.
The Ulster Championship has kicked into gear over the weekend and is delivering already. Paul Fitzpatrick of the Anglo-Celt newspaper joins us on the line to talk about Cavan's first win over Monaghan in 18 years on Saturday night.
And in hurling, the All-Ireland champions Limerick are on the back foot already after Cork went to the Gaelic Grounds on Sunday and mugged them good and proper. Sean Moran was there for us.
All this and the most boring golf major ever in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
In the end, Leinster's fifth Heineken Champions Cup final finished in their first defeat, squeezed till their pips squeaked by a Saracens side that is clearly the best in Europe. Gavin Cummiskey is in studio to tell us where it all went wrong and to sing songs of praise to an unstoppable Billy Vunipola.
The Munster Hurling Championship is up and running and already there have been more home defeats than in the whole of last year's competition. Sean Moran was in Páirc Uí Chaoimh to see Tipperary find their mojo again and he joins us on the line.
Plus we have plenty of Waterford v Clare and we wail our lament for poor sacked Chris Hughton.
All in your Monday Added time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Put the good china away, hide all the fancy photo frames, maybe put a bit of plastic over the furniture. Leinster and Saracens are meeting in the Heineken Champions Cup final and it's going to be rowdy.
Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to break down the biggest club game of the year between the no-argument two best teams in Europe. It's Sexton v Farrell, it's Itoje v Ryan, it's Conan v big bad Billy Vunipola. Seconds out, and all that.
All in your extra bonus Added Time with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
DA! DA! DA! DA-DADA-DAAA!
Play the music, play the games. The summer is with us and that means The Sunday Game. An Irish institution, it's 40 years old this season and there's a new presenter in the chair.
Joanne Cantwell and programmer editor Rory O'Neill are in studio to bring us behind the scenes of the country's biggest GAA show. What happens when there's a big upset like Carlow beating Kildare and you've only sent one camera and no commentator? Why do people in every county think they're biased against them? And will they be attaching electrodes to Joe Brolly anytime soon?
All this on your bank holiday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
The strictly wheat-from-chaff part of the rugby season is upon us, with the quarter-finals of the Pro-14 the next sort-out to be decided. Gavin Cummiskey is in studio to walk us through Munster v Treviso and Ulster v Connacht next weekend.
While it's not too often we get too het up about distance running on the pod, when we go in, we really go in. In that vein, nothing could have pleased us more than the hilarious - if potentially serious - spat between 'Sir' Mo Farah and Haile Gebrselassie in the build up to the London marathon. Ian O'Riordan breaks it all down, along with Eliud Kipchoge's latest incredible marathon feat.
We also have the brilliant story of the Irish Aussie Sinead Diver and Marcelo Bielsa saves the world - again.
All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Get ready for a knock-down drag-out fight in this year’s European Rugby Cup final between unarguably the two best teams in the continent. Leinster had their Sexton-factor back during their impressive win over Toulouse at the Aviva on Sunday, while Saracens ignored the jeers of the crowd to record a comfortable win over Munster on Saturday. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to run the rule over the weekend’s action.
The NFL draft takes place this week but already the off-season has thrown up far more stories than you’d expect, and probably many more than the NFL hierarchy would like. Daniel Comer joins us on the line from Miami to tell us about shock transfers, in-fighting and a bizarre sex scandal.
All that and a look at how BT Sport and Channel 4 covered the Billy Vunipola controversy in their respective broadcasts, in your Added Time podcast, with Pat Nugent and Gavin Cummiskey.
Times: Rugby - 07:34 NFL - 28:00
It might be time to get out the brochures for the Bulgarian property market again, folks - Tiger Woods is back winning majors. His victory at Sunday Masters reclaims him from the realm of YouTube golfers and puts him back on a level in world sport that no other golfer can imagine reaching. Philip Reid was on-site to see it all unfold in Augusta and he's on the line to tell us all about it.
Although the Heineken Cup semi-final weekend is looming, the rugby has momentarily taken a back seat while Israel Falau doubles down on his homophobic worldview to become the biggest story in the sport. Gavin Cummiskey and Gerry Thornley are in studio to talk about the termination of Falau's contract with Rugby Australia - and, of course, to preview Munster and Leinster's semi-final matches.
All this in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Philip Reid at Augusta - 6.50 Rugby - 22.15
The time has come, the hour is upon us. John Delaney and selected members of the FAI Board are up in front of the Dáil on Wednesday, there to explain the famous €100k loan among other things. Emmet Malone joins us in studio to lay out the issues that should come up and to explain the very rare opportunity our politicians have to make the association account for itself.
It's Masters week and in keeping with the past few years of the event, it couldn't look more open. Our man Philip Reid has arrived in Augusta and he joins us to assess the chances of Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry, Justin Rose and all the rest of them.
Throw in a little Wrestlemania chat - and we mean a little - and you have your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Start - WWE 6.00 - FAI 29.35 - Golf
If this Monday morning has you feeling a little like Jacob Stockdale, we're here to turn you into Keith Earls. Gavin Cummiskey and John O'Sullivan have all the goods on a monumental Heineken Champions Cup weekend that saw Munster and Leinster make it through to the semi-finals... eventually.
We have Jackie Tyrrell on the line to tell us why he's still holding judgement on Limerick's All-Ireland chances, despite their absolute domination of the 2019 league.
And Seán Moran joins us to laud Mayo's league title, about which he is not in the least bit sniffy. Also, why was Seán O'Shea the one caught on the edge of his square defending against Diarmuid O'Connor for the crucial goal?
All this and more - including Michigan Sate bringing down Zion Williamson - on your Monday' Added Time with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Rugby: 4,40 Hurling: 21,00 Football: 34.35
John Delaney, eh? Never a dull moment. Is he gone, is he not? Is he more powerful than ever or suddenly vulnerable? And how is a football reporter supposed to cover a match when the man everyone is talking about is sitting 10 feet away as a world of rumours swirls around? Emmet Malone walks us through another surreal weekend covering the FAI and the Ireland football team.
Limerick and Waterford will meet on Sunday for the first ever league final clash between the counties, both of them having taken as much from the league as they could have wished for. Sean Moran and Malachy Clerkin were in Nowlan Park for the semi-final double-header on Sunday.
Throw in the comings and goings in the football league and you have your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
2.45 Football Leagues 7.45 John Delaney 29.45 Hurling League Semi-Finals
Stop all the clocks. Cut off the telephone. Abandon all hope as Ireland's rugby World Cup dreams are reduced to a block of mouldy cheese in the back of the fridge...
Or maybe not. Gerry Thornley is in studio to implore everyone to keep the faith as Joe Schmidt faces into the most testing six months of his managerial career.
Katie Taylor and Michael Conlan both did their business with a minimum of fuss in America over the weekend. Johnny Watterson chimes in on how their respective pro careers have gone so far and what awaits in a huge summer for both of them.
And it's Mick McCarthy's first full week on the job as Ireland manager so there must be a bit of FAI brouhaha somewhere in the ether. John Delaney's 11th-hour trip to the High Court over the weekend to stop The Sunday Times running a story about his €100,000 loan to the association has at least given Emmet Malone something to detain him ahead of the Gibraltar game on Saturday so we have him on to walk us through it all.
All this plus a racing pigeon story that will blow your gaddamn socks off in today's Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent
Back on track, sort of, for Ireland at the weekend, with two late French tries taking the gloss off an otherwise dominant afternoon. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to break down Joe Schmidt’s last ever Six Nations game at the Aviva and to look ahead to the showdown with Wales this coming Saturday.
Manchester United's incredible win in Paris last weekend looks to have copper fastened Ole Gunnar Solkjaer's hold on the manager's job - or at least made it close to a certainty that he will get it. Patrick Madden from our online staff was in the Parc des Princes last Wednesday and reckons it's the right call for the club. We're not so sure...
We also have some deep hurling chat and, given the week that's in it, a Lucky 15 to follow over the cliff on Day One at Cheltenham.
All in your Monday edition of Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
First: Cheltenham 5.30: Rugby 25.00: Hurling 35.00: Manchester United
As a bonus edition ahead of Ireland v France on Sunday, we present for your listening pleasure a live event held for Irish Times readers on Thursday night in the Land Rover showroom in Sandyford, Dublin. Malachy Clerkin was the MC as a panel consisting of Brian O’Driscoll, Jamie Heaslip and Gerry Thornley talked about the Six Nations, Ireland’s slump, the madness of Johnny Sexton and the genius of Joe Schmidt.
It feels a lot like this is a crucial week in Ireland's rugby year - and not just in terms of the Six Nations. France come to Dublin at the weekend looking rejuvenated. Given how things have gone so far, are Ireland looking for a performance now or just the bare result? Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio with all the answers.
With Mark English and Ciara Mageean both taking bronze on Sunday night, two medals is a fine return from the European Indoor Athletics Championships. Ian O'Riordan is our man in Glasgow and he joins us on the line to reflect on the weekend.
The GAA story of the day is without a doubt Leitrim's promotion from the basement division of the football league. Terry Hyland has only been with them since October and already he has lifted them to Division Three at the first time of asking. We talk to him about promotion, second-tier All-Irelands and the merits of not accepting your place in life
All in your Monday morning Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Running Order: Rugby 3.40 Athletics 20.20 Leitrim GAA 31.50
You can stuff all the sport you like into a weekend, there's still no guarantee any of it is going to be any good. After a jam-packed weekend full of promising encounters, it generally turned out to be underwhelming all round.
Gavin Cummiskey is in studio to pick over the bones of another unimpressive performance from Ireland, this time in Rome. Where has it all gone wrong? And can it be fixed any time soon? Is this 2007 all over again?
Keith Duggan was in Tuam to see Kerry pick up their fourth win in a row against Galway. Were Kerry all that or was it just another grind in a game involving Galway?
And even the golf flattered to deceive, with Rory McIlroy's promising start ultimately of no use to him against the might of Dustin Johnson in Mexico. Philip Reid is on the line with the ins and outs of another encouraging/deflating week for Ireland's best golfer.
All in your Monday morning Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Is this the most It's Only The League hurling league ever? Sean Moran, Pat Nugent and Malachy Clerkin inhaled every last bit of small ball over the weekend and emerged more assured than ever that it is, in fact, still only February. The main findings were that Limerick look impressive, Kilkenny have work to do and we really, really need a black card in hurling.
With Liverpool and Manchester City slated for Champions League action this week, Emmet Malone joins us to explore whether or not Europe is anything more than a subplot in the main story of both clubs' season at this point
And after a week off, the Six Nations is back this weekend. Gerry Thornley is in studio to tease out selection issues ahead of the Italy game. Can we afford to experiment? Can we afford not to?
All this and more in your Monday morning Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Concerns about Conor Murray's form are somewhat allayed as John O'Sullivan and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to discuss Ireland's 22-13 victory over Scotland at Murrayfield, and following France's "Waterloo" at Twickenham is the latest Les Bleus player revolt imminent or are they too damn lazy?
Emmet Malone used to work the train line. 30 years after attending a division two promotion scrap between Manchester City and Chelsea, our football correspondent swaps Maine Road for The Etihad to witness Pep Guardiola's men inflict a 6-nil hiding on the Londoners.
"Why journalists, or how they report on conjecture and rumour, that's your profession, not mine," says Dublin manager Jim Gavin after Kerry's one-point victory in Tralee. Ian O'Riordan returns from his ancestral home to assess this emotionally charged affair. In absentia, Diarmuid Connolly gets a mention. The Dubs still need him. Ian tells us why.
All in your Monday lunchtime Added Time podcast, with Gavin and Mary Hannigan temporarily sitting-in for Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Nothing makes a grim Monday morning grimmer than having stayed up deep into the Sunday night that preceded it watching the lowest scoring SuperBowl in history. But at least we have the rugby to cheer us up...
Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to pick over the entrails of a chastening weekend. Are we just bully-fodder now? Is it really such a great thing to be the best-behaved boys in the class all the time? And where now for Robbie Henshaw? So many questions that didn't exist this time last week.
Kerry are up and running in the football league with two wins from two over northern counties, this latest one away in Cavan. Sean Moran was there to see it and joins us to run the x-ray machine over Peter Keane's young team ahead of a crunch tie against Dublin in Tralee next weekend.
All in your Monday lunchtime Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to break down the most highly anticipated Six Nations in years, with Ireland going in as favourites and everyone else licking their lips at the thought of bringing them down.
What can go wrong for Joe Schmidt? Will Manu, Mako Maro and BIlly bring the heft that sees England rise to the top again? Can Wales overcome the loss of Taulupe Faletau? Will this be the tournament where everything comes off for Finn Russell and the Scots. Can France realistically continue being plump useless or will they turn it around when we least expect it? Won't somebody give Conor O'Shea a hug?
All these questions and more will be answered in your Added Time Six Nations preview, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
(In earlier upload of this podcast, our interview with Mark Leibovich had an audio problem which is now fixed - apologies for any inconvenience caused.)
It's a cold-weather podcast this morning, as we huddle up and wait for January to pass. To warm us ever so slightly, the leagues are back in the GAA and there's the prospect of this Sunday's SuperBowl on the horizon. We won't be shivering for long.
Ian O'Riordan has thawed out just enough from his Sunday in Nowlan Park to come and and talk us through the opening round of the hurling leagues. Brian Cody was cracking jokes after Kilkenny's win over Cork so we obviously have to wonder is anyone going to take this seriously at all, at all.
And ahead of the SuperBowl, author Mark Leibovich joins us to talk about his brilliant book Big Game, recounting the past four years of the NFL and taking us inside the mind (and house) of Tom Brady.
There will, of course, be a deep dive into Monaghan's win over Dublin in the football league, including some egregious poor-mouthing from the podcast's Monaghan representative.
All in your Monday morning Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Another European rugby weekend, another four from four for the Irish teams, meaning all four provinces are through to the knock-out stages. With the Six Nations around the corner, the game couldn't be in better fettle - and neither could we. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to look back and look forward.
Shane Lowry's win in Abu Dhabi on Saturday was a phenomenal show of bottle and guts, coming back from four shots down with six holes to go. Philip Reid joins us on the line to take about a career-changing victory for the big Offaly man.
Sean Moran is in as well, walking us through Central Council's decision to bin the hand-pass restriction rule over the weekend. Was this inevitable and will the other four rules make any difference at all?
All that plus the attendant madness of both NFL games on Sunday night going to overtime and the everlasting Tom Brady - check it out, your Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Timings:
00:14 - NFL 06:00 - Rugby 25:53 - Golf 36:33 - GAA
You can't ask more from a rugby weekend than all four provinces winning and the chance of all four qualifying for the knock-out stage of European competition. Gavin Cummiskey and John O'Sullivan join us to talk about another few days of stunning success for Irish rugby.
The field in the title race in English soccer got chopped from three to two yesterday with Tottenham's hopes surely zapped at the hands (and feet) of David de Gea and Manchester United. Emmet Malone is in studio to talk Ole v Poch, City v Wolves and the tale of Jose Mourinho and the 10 showers.
Throw in some hot GAA penalty shoot-out chat and that's your Monday morning Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
It's the first Added Time podcast of 2019 and for most of it, we're essentially trying not to tell Pat Nugent what happened in the NFL on Sunday night. In that spirit, Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to break down the Christmas rugby and look ahead to three huge games in the Champions Cup this coming weekend.
And Philip Reid is in with us to look ahead to Pádraig Harrington's imminent announcement as the 2020 Ryder Cup captain as well as another Sunday of Rory McIlroy flattering to deceive.
There's also a bit of doping news from America where USADA have nailed a 90-year-old track cyclist for testing positive for trenbolone last summer. Anything - anything - to keep the mental finish of the Eagles v Bears game from finding its way into Pat's orbit before he gets to watch the highlights.
All in your Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Driving home for Christmas? Let us be your co-pilot and we bring the curtain down on 2018 with our Added Time review fo the sporting year.
Allow Malachy Clerkin, Pat Nugent, Mary Hannigan and Gavin Cummiskey to ease you down the road with talk of the Grand Slam, beating the All Blacks, the women's hockey team in the World Cup final, Limerick's rise, the eternal Dubs and how Mullinalaghta left the best of the year til last.
All in your last and loveliest Added Time of the year.
With seven shopping days to go before we can turn our attentions to what's in the bargain bin at the sales, it's time for the first annual Added Time Sports Book of the Year podcast. Get in, get schooled, get out and buy.
(Note, these books are for you. What you decide to buy as presents are your own business but here at Added Time, we think of you and you only. Treat yourself, then get the brother a voucher or something.)
Cliona Foley joins us in studio to go through our top picks of the year, leading up to the big reveal of the best of the best of the best.
All in your Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
With the Irish provinces skating to a clean sweep in Europe over the weekend, it's little surprise that The Irish Times rugby squad are in fine fettle. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in the house to talk mad stats, flag rows and deadly finishes.
And we have some sporting royalty in studio as Sonia O'Sullivan joins us along with Ian O’Riordan to talk about the weekend's European Cross Country Championships and also to assess the athletics year in general.
Throw in the magic of Mullinalachta and your Monday couldn't get off to a better start, all in your Added Time with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
If you're confused by the glossy sheen in the sky over Dublin this morning, fear not - it's just a reflection of the shiny suits of the Uefa executives still in town after yesterday's Euro 2020 draw. And though of course we mustn't get carried away with drawing Denmark and Switzerland, it's fair to say that qualification is now a certainty and John Delaney is a football genius. Emmet Malone is in studio to join in our not-at-all premature celebrations.
The clock is ticking on the 2020 Olympic cycle and there's a very real threat to boxing's place at the games. We have Johnny Watterson in the building to explain the background to a complicated situation that has left the likes of Kellie Harrington and Joe Ward in limbo less than two year out from the games.
The huge NFL story that broke over the weekend saw Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt being released from the Super-Bowl favourites after a domestic violence video featuring him emerged on TMZ. Irish Times writer Dan Comer joins us to break down yet another sorry situation involving an American football player and violence towards women.
All this in your Monday morning irish Times with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
It's the usual story - you wait over a century for an Irish team to do a small bit of succession planning and then two come along at once. In the wake of Mick McCarthy/Stephen Kenny on Sunday evening comes Joe Schmidt/Andy Farrell on Monday morning. So basically, everything's sorted manager-wise for the next four years ion soccer and five years in rugby - whatever will we talk about?
Plenty, that's what. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to assess Schmidt's legacy and break down what Farrell and possible Stuart Lancaster have to offer in his wake come the end of the 2019 World Cup.
And Emmet Malone joins us on the line to talk all things McCarthy/Kenny. Is it the best of all possible worlds? Would it have been too early for Kenny to get the job? And is John Delaney really out the gap for another two tournament cycles?
All in your Monday morning Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey.
All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. At least that's how it feels this Monday morning with the All Blacks put away and Ireland's rugby stock soaring to previously unimagined heights.
Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are still on a high after it all, after the drama, the sheer compelling nature of Saturday night. We take all the time we need to luxuriate in it, pausing of course to hail Peter O'Mahony along the way. And the lads give their best guesses on what's in store in the coming months as Joe Schmidt and Steve Hansen decide on their respective futures after the World Cup.
(Spoiler: enjoy Joe while you can)
Emmet Malone is in Aarhus for tonight's Nations League international against Denmark. The national soccer team hasn't been at this low an ebb in a long time and yet we soldier on with no change of either manager or fortunes on the horizon. Despite it all, Emmet is in cheery enough form when he joins us down the line.
All this, plus a find farewell to the great Weeshie Fogarty, on your Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey.
It's only Monday but already All Blacks week is off to a flier with Steve Hansen stirring the pot over whether or not Conor Murray is going to play on Saturday. Gavin Cummiskey spent his Sunday evening hanging out with the New Zealand coach and refusing to take his bait.
Gerry Thornley and Gordon D'Arcy join us to break down the win over Argentina and look ahead to Saturday's showdown at the Aviva. We talk greedy Kiwis, Irish imperfections and whether or not England were robbed at Twickenham.
The Irish soccer team play Northern Ireland on Thursday on the 25th anniversary of the dramatic night in Windsor Park when the two countries met in a vital World Cup qualifier during one of the most harrowing periods of the Troubles. Michael Walker and Emmet Malone join us to revisit a night of unheralded tension in Belfast in 1993.
All in your Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey.
Tis the season to get reading, fa-la-la--la-la, etc, etc. The Sports book market kicks into gear over the coming weeks so we wanted to give an insight into the lowest of the low, the poor (we're always poor), benighted ghost-writers who ferry the thoughts of the sportspeople each year to shelves and stockings throughout the land.
Mary Hannigan has had the pleasure of helping Des Cahill tell his story this year, as Gavin Cummiskey has done in the past with Bernard Dunne and Geordan Murphy, as Malachy Clerkin has done with Ruby Walsh. We get into the ups and downs, the endless transcriptions and the rows won and (mostly) lost.
Jordan Larmour has doubled down on his scintillating performance against Italy on the weekend by calling out the All Blacks, conferring upon him instant hero status. John O'Sullivan joins us to break down Saturday's win and to read the runes ahead of the Argentina game.
We also tell the brilliant story of Katrina Parrock, the three-time All-Ireland camogie champion who scored the winner in yesterday's women's FAI Cup final for Wexford Youths.
All in your Added Time podcast this Monday, with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey
The road to the World Cup starts in, eh, Chicago this Saturday as Ireland take on Italy at the start of the November series. We get stuck into the month ahead with John O'Sullivan and Gavin Cummiskey, pondering, among other things, the depth of the Ireland squad and the marginally less-than-certain future of Joe Schmidt.
Later, Neil Cotter joins us in studio to talk about his new book Dublin: The Chaos Years. It details the, in hindsight, frankly weird period between the 1995 and 2011 All-Irelands when the Dubs were our version of the England football team, hyped up to the last and sure to exit the championship the first time they ran into a decent team. Or, as the rest of us like to call it, the good old days.
Throw in a bit of love for Paul Mannion and that's your Tuesday Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey.
The Heino giveth, the Heino taketh. After an opening round of games in the Champions Cup in which the Irish teams made merry, the second weekend brought everyone back to earth with a thump (or a non-wraparound tackle to the jaw, whichever you prefer). Leinster lost, Ulster got minced, even Munster's bonus-point win against Gloucester came at a cost.
Gerry Thornley is on the line from southern France and Gavin Cummiskey is in studio to break down a weekend of sloppiness, breakaway tries out of nothing and overweening refereeing.
The Irish Times's own Eamon Donoghue spent his Friday night chasing shadows live on TG4 as The Underdogs were comprehensively beaten by Dublin's third string. After licking his wounds for the weekend, he has fronted up to tell us all about it.
All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey.
Timings:
Rugby 05:24 Underdogs 25:29
Once again, the weekend just gone showed the Heineken Cup to be the competition that other rugby tournaments can't reach. From Leinster's whizz-bangery on Friday night to Munster's grinding epic in the wind and Ulster's kick-start win over Leicester on Saturday, there was endless fun to be had.
Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to look back and also forward as the second round of games moves into view. And of course, we take a little time to pray for the soul of Freddie Burns, the Bath player who had the worst five minutes of his life against Toulouse.
Emmet Malone and Malachy Clerkin were in the Aviva on Saturday night to enjoy/endure Ireland v Denmark. Emmet is the more experienced hand in these matters and so was better able to digest it. We break down Martin O'Neill's undying love for Cyrus Christie, the slightly disappointing showing from Matt Doherty and ask, 'What does Harry Arter really want?'
All this plus why Katie Taylor is many thing but not - repeat not - the new Million Dollar Baby in your fresh new Added Time with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
04:37 Rugby 29:41 Football
The rugby season ain't the rugby season until the Aviva is buzzing and Leinster and Munster are facing off. John O'Sullivan and Gavin Cummiskey watched Saturday night's 30-22 win for Leo Cullen's men and they're in studio to talk shoddy refereeing, the non-booing of Joey Carbery and the dawn of this season's Champions Cup
After Liverpool and Manchester City played out a surprisingly dull 0-0 draw on Sunday, Emmet Malone is in to break down a game where there was just too damn much respect between the sides. And since it's an international week, we take Jurgen Klopp to task for his slating of the Nations Cup and ask why does Alan Shearer have against poor old Cyrus Christie.
All this plus some early-season club hurling shocks in your Monday morning Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Rugby 4.30 Football 25.00
America found themselves swept away on a blue tide in Paris at the weekend, with Francesco Molinari leading the European team to Ryder Cup glory. We talk to Malachy Clerkin in France to ask him what’s wrong with the USA team, and why can’t they all just get along?
Gavin Cummiskey looks back at the weekend’s action in the Pro 14. While the sky seems to be the limit for Joey Carbery as he produced a sublime display in the demolition of Ulster, there’s a chance that next weekend’s game at the Aviva could be a slightly watered-down version of the Leinster v Munster rivalry.
And Irish Times soccer correspondent Emmet Malone joins us in the studio to talk about the extraordinary allegations that have emerged over the weekend regarding Cristiano Ronaldo.
Kathryn Mayorga, a 34-year-old Las Vegas native, told Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine the Portuguese soccer player raped her after they met in a club in June 2009.
That's Monday’s Added Time podcast with Pat Nugent and Gavin Cummiskey.
Golf: 2.30
Rugby: 14.50
Ronaldo Allegation: 24.25
It's the mid-2000s all over again. TG4 have a new series of The Underdogs and Tiger Woods is turning Sunday nights into the usual cakewalk again. Anyone got a Klaxons album for us to listen to?
Colin Byrne and Philip Reid join us to talk all things Tiger and to preview the Ryder Cup. The Americans are favourites on paper but the course at Le Golf National looks like it could be a leveller this coming week. Colin takes us into the team room in what he calls the most draining week of the year for the players involved.
Eamon Donoghue owes the Irish Times sports department a lot of weekends off from the past few months as he has been moonlighting as a wannabe midfielder for The Underdogs on TG4. He's in studio to tell us about the challenges of being in a reality show, the extreme fitness challenges involved and why Paul Galvin is the sharpest football mind he has ever come across.
Thrown in Liam Sheedy's immanent ratification as Tipperary manager and your Monday Added Time is bursting at the seams.
Brought to you by Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Oh, Shane Ross. Or maybe that should that be Hapless Ross, the sports minister who keeps finding new and interesting ways to show off his lack of interest in sport. What fun, what fun.
On this morning's Added Time, we have Mary Hannigan on to talk about our dear sports leader in the wake of his Dominant Puspure balls-up. And also to break down another triumphant women's football final for Dublin.
Gavin Cummiskey is in studio after a thrilling Saturday in the Rugby Championship with South Africa beating the All Blacks and Australia going down to Argentina. A year out from the World Cup, this doesn't spell good news for Ireland.
And with the Champions League group stage starting tomorrow night, Emmet Malone takes a look at Liverpool and Tottenham, two contenders who've made contrasting starts to the premier League season.
All in your jam-packed Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Japan’s Naomi Osaka won her first Grand Slam tennis title at the weekend, giving a brilliant display to take the US Open title, but her achievement has almost gone under the radar. All attention has been taken by the extraordinary on-court showdown between Serena Williams and umpire Carlos Ramos, which has kickstarted a massive debate in the sport covering sexism, racism, pernickety umpires and entitled superstars. Journalist Amy O’Connor joins us in the studio to examine the various angles.
Irish soccer is in the doldrums again, with lots of wailing, gnashing of teeth and questions being asked of the management. Emmet Malone joins us on the line from Poland ahead of the friendly on Tuesday to try to convince us that things aren’t that bad. Or at least that if they are that bad, ditching our manager might not be the way to solve the problem.
And we look back at Cork’s win over Kilkenny in the All-Ireland Camogie final, where a tight game between the two best teams in the sport somehow managed to be dreary and boring. Does the sport need some rule changes, or has the game just been caught up in the GAA’s infamous “paralysis by analysis”?
All that in your Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
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GAA: 0.10
Tennis: 5.45
Soccer: 25.30
It's the morning after the latest brick in the Dublin skyscraper has been laid and talk of an eternal empire is unavoidable. The four-in-a-row is here, will it end at five, six, seven or what?
We have a special guest in studio to talk us through the final - Monaghan's Conor McManus is here, along with Irish Times GAA correspondent Seán Moran. Conor's insight into what it's like to be caught in the teeth of the Dublin machine is worth far more than ours, so we basically let him at it.
Elsewhere yesterday, the first Old Firm of the Stevie G v Brendan Rodgers era kicked off - and kept kicking, as these games tend to. Michael Walker is on the line to talk about Gerrard's first months in an impossible job and whether or not Livingstone away is going to be enough for Rodgers in the long term.
All that, plus the dawn of Seeemon Zaybo, in your Monday Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
GAA: 3.40 Old Firm: 25.30
It's All-Ireland football final weekend and the mood is curiously downbeat. Is it a foregone conclusion? Are the Dubs a shoo-in for four-in-a-row? Have Tyrone very much going for them other than a sneaky feeling Mickey Harte will come up with something?
Darragh Ó Sé and Seán Moran join us to pick through a final that everyone seems to have made their mind up on already.
Summer's gone. Kaput. Past tense. How do we know? We know because Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to chat about the new rugby season. How do Leinster top the perfect season? How do Ulster survive the departure of a full back-line? How will Andy Friend lift Connacht? Who has made better signings than Munster? (Spoiler Alert: Nobody).
There's also a mad finish to the All-Ireland under-21 hurling final, an even madder finish to the Kerry hurling final and almost no mention of the Pope.
All this in your Monday Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Limerick, you're a... champion? Feels weird to even say it but it's true. After all the decades of broken-hearted journeys home from Croke Park, after finding every possible way on every possible day not to do it, Limerick finally ended their 45-year famine.
Pay Nugent is back in situ as we break down what was ultimately a poor All-Ireland final saved by a madcap ending and an incredible story. Why were Galway so flat? How did Mike Casey do so well on Johnny Glynn? Will Limerick dominate for years now or will they even get out of Munster in 2019?
Sean Moran and Keith Duggan join us to break down the final game in the greatest hurling championship.
Manchester City have had the Year-In-A-Life treatment from Amazon Prime. 'All Or Nothing' was released last Friday and Pat watched it all so you don't have to. Or maybe you'll want to after you hear his verdict on it.
All this on your Monday morning Added Time with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
After 10 years of more downs than ups, of more slings and arrows than outrageous fortune, of people presuming the good times were gone and were never coming back... Tiger Woods nearly won a major again on Sunday night.
Oh, and Tyrone are back in an All-Ireland final with Mickey Harte at the helm.
Keith Duggan joins us to break down the weekend's All-Ireland football semi-finals as Tyrone took care of Monaghan and Dublin laid waste to Galway. And we try to settle the question that hangs over the football championship - are Dublin actually enjoyable to watch?
Ian O'Riordan has one job to do before vacating his boutique Berlin bolthole and coming home from the European Athletics Championships and that's fill us on a mixed week for Irish athletics. Outside of Thomas Barr and Ciara Mageean, he reckons there wasn't a whole lot to shout about.
And since we're now a gymnastics powerhouse, we felt it was only right to get Cliona Foley on the line to tell us all about Rhys McClenaghan, the pommel horse prince of Newtownards.
All in your Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey.
Timings:
00:25 Malachy and Gavin on Tiger's form 03:55 Keith Duggan on the weekend's GAA 20:07 From Berlin, Ian O'Riordan reports from the European Championships 32:40 Cliona Foley tells us about Ireland's gold medal winning gymnast Rhys McClenaghan.
Nothing like a wholesome, happy sporting triumph to bring on a good dose of political cynicism. Sports minister Shane Ross couldn't even allow the Ireland women's hockey team make it through their homecoming parade without elbowing his way into the spotlight. Johnny Watterson is in studio to round off the good news story of the sporting summer with reality's cold, dead hand.
As the GAA summer heads for the shore, Seán Moran joins us to talk about the Galway hurlers' stickability, the Galway footballers' mental collapse and Monaghan's ultra-professionalism.
Checking in from Berlin, Ian O'Riordan breaks down the European Athletics Championships, with Thomas Barr and Ciara Mageean the big Irish hopes for the week.
All in your Tuesday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey.
Timings:
02:48 Seán Moran on the weekend's GAA
18:30 Johnny Watterson on Ireland's hockey heroines
31:50 From Berlin, Ian O'Riordan on Irish hopes this week at the European Athletics Championship
Monday morning, coming down. This is what a hurling hangover feels like. After a weekend of unbelievable action at Croke Park, we're pale and drawn and washed out by it all. But if the hurlers can go again, we can too. Not all heroes wear helmets. Sean Moran is in studio to put some order on it all for us.
The mighty Natalya Coyle has had an amazing summer in the modern pentathlon, winning her first ever silver medal at a World Cup and leading the Irish team to a podium finish in the European Championships. She's in for a visit to tell us about her rise through the ranks, balancing her training and how Ireland accidentally won a silver medal in Hungary.
And the Ireland women's hockey team will play a World Cup quarter-final on Thursday, having topped their pool as the surprise packages of the tournament in London. Johnny Watterson was there last week and joins us to break down how this has happened and what hockey needs to do to capitalise on their moment in the spotlight.
All in your Monday morning Added Time with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey.
Find what you're looking for:
2.45 Hurling with Sean Moran 24.00 Pentathlete Natalya Coyle 35.00 Hockey with Johnny Watterson
Now that's what Sundays in the summer are for. From Clones to Carnoustie, it was hard to know where to look at times, such was the sheer gut-gouging drama of it all. The Super-8s came alive, the British Open delivered yet another stellar final round and all you had to do was find a way to keep on top of it all.
That's where we come in.Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey were in St Tiarnach's Park to see Monaghan dominate Kerry for 72 out of the 75 minutes and still not come out on top. Sean Moran checks in to break it all down, as well as the Dublin v Tyrone game in Omagh he was at on Saturday night.
Philip Reid calls in from Carnoustie where he reported on a final round that saw seven different players lead the British open at one stage or another. Ruairí Croke manned the liveblog on Sunday afternoon and he joins us in studio where we talk Molinari, Rory, Tiger (!), Spieth and the countless other storylines from a mad day's golf on the east coast of Scotland.
All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey.
Like the day after the day after a wedding, the World Cup hangover has taken hold and left us with nothing but hollow, fear-filled regret. Or maybe that's just us at the Added Time podcast - everyone will have their own way of coping.
To fill the void, even just momentarily, Emmet Malone joins us from Istanbul airport to break down a final that was in keeping with the rest of the tournament, given that loads of weird stuff happened and France just kept on keeping on to see it out.
Ian O'Riordan checks in after another scintillating weekend for Irish athletics and tries to answer the riddle of quite how we became a world-dominating powerhouse all of a sudden (Hint: we probably poxed it a bit).
If the first weekend of the Super-8s hasn't exactly set the world ablaze, it has at least set up what could be a barn-burning second weekend. Keith Duggan spent the full weekend in Croke Park and joins us to break down where Kerry in particular go from here.
On top of that, there's an earth-shaking hurling quarter-final between Kilkenny and Limerick to break down as Brian Cody's men depart the championship in another blaze of glory.
All in your Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
The World Cup is down to the last four, and the tension is rising. Emmet Malone joins us on the line from Russia to explain why he’s feeling a little out of step with the press pack – not only has he been underwhelmed by Belgium so far, he also simply can’t bring himself to wish England well. And yes, he knows he probably should be a bit more mature and just rise above it all, but …
Ireland enjoyed an extraordinary weekend of success at the European Under-18 Athletics Championships in Hungary, Ian O’Riordan talks us through a brilliant weekend, explains where the gold rush came from and tells us how excited we should be (spoiler: we should be pretty excited).
Galway laid down a marker in the Leinster hurling final on Sunday, delivering a hugely impressive performance against Kilkenny. Sean Moran looks at how the Tribesmen seem to have returned to the heights they reached last year, and why that is very bad news for any other teams with designs on Liam MacCarthy.
All in your Added Time podcast with Pat Nugent and Mary Hannigan.
World Cup with Emmet Malone - 4.25 Mary Hannigan - 19.45 Athletics with Ian O'Riordan - 25.30 Leinster Hurling Final with Sean Moran - 35.40
The first Monday of July and the football championship is down to the last dozen teams. So is the World Cup, as kismet would have it. The weekend saw the end of some big hitters in both competitions so now it's time to sift through the ashes.
Ian O'Riordan is in studio to tell us about Saturday night's mega-qualifier between Kildare and Mayo in Newbridge. We look at the qualifier draw and what it means for the Super-8s and, of course, we get into a bit of mandatory 'whither-Mayo' chat.
The provincial hurling finals couldn't have been more different yesterday. Sean Moran was in Croke Park for Galway v Kilkenny and Malachy was in Thurles for Cork v Clare. Sean joins us on the line to make sense of it all.
Emmet Malone calls in from St Petersburg to break down a World Cup that has lost Germany, Spain, Argentina and Portugal since last we talked to him. We try our best not to admit it's all opening up for England.
And Mary Hannigan is in studio to talk about Emile Heskey, the A to Z of Harry Kane - including things that mostly have nothing to do with Harry Kane - and much, much more.
All in your Monday Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Ten days into the World Cup and, as the Flight of the Conchords lads would say, it's business time. Keith Duggan calls in from Kaliningrad ahead of Spain v Morocco tonight and to tell us about the different sides of Russia he has seen on his travels.
Mary Hannigan is in studio to talk World Cup Celebrity Catchphrase, Doug from Bristol, Shirley Bassey and Roy Keane, God love him.
Kerry and Donegal announced themselves in style over the weekend in the football championship. Ian O'Riordan was at the Ulster final in Clones and Malachy was in Cork for the Munster 'decider'. We break it all down guess at their prospects when they come to face the Dubs.
And Gavin Cummiskey does his last bit of penance before heading off on his summer holidays, checking in to glory over the greatest ever season of Irish rugby after the series win over Australia last Saturday.
All this in your Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Timings:
03:59 First up, Keith Duggan reports from Kaliningrad 12:05 On all the best and brashest World Cup telly, it's Mary Hannigan 25:47 Ian O'Riordan on the weekend's GAA 40:05 Gavin Cummiskey reflects on Ireland's stunning turn Down Under
After a weekend that packed a month's worth of sport into 48 hours, Added Time is here to ease you into another week of it. We have golf, we have rugby, we have the World Cup, we have the GAA Championships, we have everything short of a review of Taylor Swift at Croke Park - but only because we don't have the time.
Gerry Thornley is on the line from Australia after Ireland's impressive 26-21 showing on Saturday morning.
Emmet Malone joins us from Sochi after a free-wheeling and thoroughly enjoyable first weekend of the World Cup.
Mary Hannigan is in studio with her take on what a televisual feast it has all been so far.
On top of all that, we have Roscommon v Galway in the Hyde and a drab finish to the US Open after a chaotic Saturday night, which may or may not include some outrage at Phil MIckelson.
All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Timings:
05:30 Emmet Malone in Sochi 18:43 Mary Hannigan on World Cup TV 32:17 Pat and Malachy on the weekend's GAA 38:59 Gerry Thornley in Australia on Ireland's win
Nothing like a meltdown from one of the favourites to kick a World Cup into gear, so muchos gracias to Spain for sacking their coach just over 48 hours before their opening game. Emmet Malone joins us from Sochi to bring the lowdown on everything on the ground, ahead of the big kick-off tomorrow night.
Mary Hannigan is in studio with her take on the world's greatest sporting jamboree, covering all the latest on Freddie Flintoff, Rasputin, Martin 'n' Roy and whether it's okay to quite actually like England and wish them well this time around.
That loveable bunch of rogues FIFA are having their moment, with rivers of cash flowing their way on the back of the World Cup. But as Laura Slattery from our business staff tells us, just not quite as many rivers as was previously the case, due to the growing toxicity of the brand since Brazil 2014.
All this to tide you over until the glory of Russia v Suadi Arabia in your Added Time World Cup preview with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Timings:
04:00 Emmet Malone reports from his post in Sochi. 23:50 Mary Hannigan doesn’t quite sing a football song, but gets pretty close to it. 37:30 Laura Slattery on why Fifa’s toxicity is repelling some of the big brands.
Ireland have lost a rugby match for the first time since somewhere around the Mesozoic period. Gerry Thornley was in Brisbane to see the 18-8 defeat at the hands of Australia and joins us on the line to pick the bones out of it.
The Munster hurling championship has entered the red zone and started shedding teams, with Tipperary and Waterford bounced out this weekend. Sean Moran was in Thurles for Tipp's madcap endgame defeat to Clare, in which Tipp exited the summer with their best performance of the season for the second year running.
We also go deep into Leinster hurling, the scheduling wrinkles the GAA needs to sort out for next season and the Stephen Cluxton injury that has the potential to blow the football season wide open.
All this in your Monday Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Timings:
03:19 Gerry Thornley on Ireland v Australia
17:40 Malachy and Pat talk football
27:22 Sean Moran on the Munster hurling championship
The provincial hurling championships have been rip-roaring fun so far, with the new format delivering brilliant games and huge controversies. We’re joined by Nicky English and Sean Moran in the studio (1.22) to assess where everyone is at – from Tipperary’s wild mood swings to Limerick’s rising tide; from Cork’s lack of a killer instinct to Davy Fitzgerald’s betting tips. And just how far ahead of the pack are Galway?
We’re also joined on the line by our rugby correspondent Gerry Thornley in Surfer’s Paradise (24.23). He sets the scene for us ahead of Ireland’s first test against Australia this Saturday, and we discuss options v improvements, what the Aussies want to get from the series and the ramifications of Joey Carbery’s move to the red side.
All in your Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Carlow's historic victory over Kildare yesterday made today a de facto bank holiday in the county and came about after a couple of years of serious progress under Turlough O'Brien. Centre-back Daniel St Ledger joins us to talk about a day he couldn't have dreamed of for most of his decade in a Carlow jersey.
Sean Moran is in studio to pick the bones out of the Munster Championship matches between Tipperary and Cork and Waterford and Clare. Keith Duggan was in Salthill for Galway's brutalising display against Kilkenny so we'll have him on the line as well.
And as the curtain comes down on Leinster's incredible season, Gerry Thornley is in studio to dig into how this all came about for a province that was in crisis mode as recently as two years ago.
All in your Monday Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Added Time has moved to Monday mornings for the summer, because there's just too much sport to talk about to be leaving it until Friday. Think of us as the pleasantly settling digestif to your weekend's gorging.
Ian O'Riordan and Gavin Cummiskey join us in studio to break down all the good and all the bad in GAA and rugby over the past 48 hours.
Malachy Clerkin was in Omagh for Monaghan's win over Tyrone, Ian saw Dublin get pipped at the post again, this time by Wexford and Seán Moran spent his Sunday at the Gaelic Grounds watching Limerick beat Tipperary. All three have dispatches to share.
Gavin was in the RDS on Saturday for Leinster's Pro-14 semi-final win over Munster. He tells of his love for James Ryan, a love that cannot be broken. And a bit about the Ireland squad to be announced this week for the Australian tour.
All in this week's Added Time with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
It's the last Added Time Friday podcast before our switch to Mondays and there's a lot to get through.
After the explosive start to the Leinster Hurling Championship last weekend, it's the turn of Munster this weekend to get out of the blocks. Seán Moran and Keith Duggan look ahead to Limerick v Tipperary and Cork v Clare, with a little Wexford v Dublin thrown in for good measure.
The Pro-14 is getting to the sorting-out stage, the with RDS hosting Leinster v Munster in the semi-final on Saturday. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey break down another spin of the wheel for the biggest rivalry in the Irish game.
There's also some hot Tyrone v Monaghan chat and a bit of FA Cup quizzing too.
All in this weekend's Added TIme podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
It's raining outside so summer must be here. The championship kicks into gear this weekend so we've assembled our GAA team to thrash it out. Seán Moran, Ian O'Riordan and Keith Duggan join us to look ahead to the great Irish distraction.
In football, we break down whether or not the Dubs are all vulnerable, will Mayo come again, can Kerry's young blood provide the required infusion and if there are any contenders up north. Plus, we pick our bolters for the Super 8s.
In hurling, we assess Galway's chances of a back-to-back, what Tipp are going to do about their defence and ask why people are dismissing Kilkenny's All-Ireland chances. Also, the glory of the new round-robin structure and which of the outsiders can come from the pack.
All in your Added Time championship preview, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
It's only four short years since the Champions Cup was restructured to the liking of the big French and English club and yet here we are with an Irish team going into the final as roaring hot favourites. Gavin Cummiskey and John O'Sullivan are with us to break down the pinnacle of the club rugby season and lay out the reasons why Leinster cannot lose.
The road to test-playing status for Irish cricket has been long and often hopeless but this weekend they play Pakistan in Malahide and take their place among the nations of the earth. Our man Emmet Riordan is in studio to tell us all about it and he has dragged former captain Trent Johnston in along with him to break down what we can expect from Ireland's first ever test match.
There's also snooker, naked press conferences and a fair amount of cursing.
The Giro d'Italia comes this year with an overload of controversy attached. Cycling writer Shane Stokes tells us why he has decided against attending the start of the race in Israel and fills us in on the doping row surrounding Chris Froome and Team Sky.
Real Madrid and Liverpool have found their way to the Champions League final, yet somehow a consensus has built up that neither team is really all that good. Miguel Delaney joins us to drill down into why this might be so and also to lament the sad end to the road for Arsene Wenger.
Also in the mix we have the start of the Gaelic football championships, the return of the Sunday Game and the poker playing magazine writer who might just have found the way out for the rest of us.
All this in your bank holiday weekend Added Time Podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
In a bumper podcast this week we have Sonia O’Sullivan and Ian O’Riordan in the studio to talk through the issues around Caster Semenya and this week’s IAAF ruling on athletes with Differences of Sexual Development (or DSDs).
Do we need a new classification for athletes beyond male and female or are people being punished for their natural gifts?
Katie Taylor takes to the ring on Saturday night in a world title unification bout that has gone curiously low on the radar. Johnny Watterson joins us to preview the fight and predict what Katie does next.
Tony Evan’s book ‘Two Tribes’ recalls the tumultuous 1985/'86 season in English football and the titanic struggle for supremacy between Liverpool and Everton, played out against the backdrop of Heysel, hooliganism and hatred (mainly directed towards Margaret Thatcher). Ahead of next week’s Champions League second leg, and after the tragic events of Tuesday night, we also touch on AS Roma and their history of violence with Liverpool.
There’s also Jose Mourinho getting his excuses in, and golfers picking their walk-on music, all in this week’s Added Time podcast with Pat Nugent and Mary Hannigan.
Bilbao, here we come! With the path apparently clearing for both Leinster and Munster to stride on to the Champions Cup final, we have Gavin Cummiskey and John O'Sullivan in studio to go through the formalities of previewing this weekend's semi-finals. Never ones to get ahead of ourselves, both lads predict an All-Ireland final - what could possibly go wrong?
Mo Farah is back in the spotlight this weekend, running the London Marathon on Sunday and aiming himself towards the race in Tokyo in 2020. Ian O'Riordan joins us to thrash out how we should feel about Farah these days and why all the unanswered questions around him have shattered his reputation.
There's also, finally, a goodbye to Arsene Wenger, a love-letter to the World Snooker Championships and the best UKIP sausage-roll headline you're ever likely to come across.
All in today's Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Mary Hannigan.
The world greatest horse race is ready for the off at Aintree on Saturday and for Katie Walsh, this will be her sixth attempt at winning the Grand National. She joins us from Liverpool to fill us in on what its like to ride in the race all jockeys dream of winning and tells us about the year she was going so well in the race, she was afraid to admit it to Barry Geraghty when he asked her.
Conor McGregor's latest adventures have been front-page news across the planet, cementing his transition from sports star to what-will-he-do-next celebrity. We talk to Dave Hannigan in New York about the circus around the MMA fighter.
There's also Masters champion Patrick Reed and the tensions brought about by sporting talent, Sonia O'Sullivan on Caster Semenya and the feet of clay belonging to heretofore presumed nice guy Harry Kane.
All in this week's Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Jackie Tyrrell and Ian O'Riordan are in studio to talk about the new-look, super-tactical Kilkenny team that Brian Cody has fashioned and a Tipp side looking to end a desperately poor run of league final defeats stretching back a decade.
And with the Manchester derby coming up this weekend, Michael Walker digs deep into the mind of Pep Guardiola, his brilliance and his vulnerability and the building blocks of his management style going back to his time as a player.
As well as that, we talk about how April became Not The GAA Club Championship month, we laugh heartily at Sergio Garcia and we hope against hope that Jordan Spieth doesn't reduce the Masters to a cakewalk.
All this in your new episode of Added Time with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
There's nothing like Masters week. And for as long as anyone can remember, there's nothing like this particular Masters week. With so many of the Augusta regulars in such good form in the run-up to this year's tournament, it feels like there's no way we aren't in for a classic.
Which can mean only on thing: Bonus Podcast.
Our golf correspondent Philip Reid joins us from the media centre at Augusta National and talks Tiger, Phil, Rory and the buzz that has electrified the place this year like no other. He also makes his pick for the green jacket - and it's not one of the top five in the betting.
Veteran caddie Colin Byrne is on Rafa Cabrera-Bello's bag this year and has 25 years of experience inside the ropes at the tournament. He came into us before heading Stateside to share his insights, including his memories of the 2007 Masters when his man Retief Goosen was leading the tournament standing on the 12th tee on Sunday.
All this in your super extra bonus Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
With the Six Nations but a glorious memory now, the Champions Cup takes over and both Munster and Leinster welcome foreign big-hitters this weekend with the rest of the season at stake. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey run the rule over Munster v Toulon and Leinster v Saracens to see which patched-up outfits can remain standing into the closing stages of the tournament.
The GAA leagues are coming to their zenith as well we have Ian O'Riordan and Keith Duggan on the Dublin v Galway Division One final that has been spiced up considerably by their recent encounter.
Malachy Clerkin has some eye-opening stats about Cavan v Roscommon and we break down the other finals as well.
There's also plenty of Aussie cricket disgrace, the hurling league semi-finals and, er, Leinster cycling routes.
All in today's Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
Due to popular demand (mainly from the host) Mary Hannigan returns to Added Time podcast duties to bring her particular brand of wonder to the weekend's sport.
The Ireland soccer team are back on the road tonight and that means Emmet Malone is back on the road with them. He joins us to preview the game against Turkey and we end up delving deep into questions of nationality and identity along the way.
Mayo and Donegal face off on Sunday to decide the final relegation spot in Division One of the National Football League and we have Seán Moran and Keith Duggan on to riddle it out. In hurling, we look at Galway and their need to flip the switch sometime soon and get stuck into the year properly.
Also in the mix, we have the club hurling final replay, protests against elitism in the boat race and a conspiracy theory around Rory Best and The Irish Times Grand Slam poster.
All in your Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Mary Hannigan.
On a weekend of total sporting overload, who better than our Sport on TV columnist Mary Hannigan to guide the Added Time Podcast through it all?
Ireland are in Twickenham chasing only their third ever Grand Slam against an England side playing for their rugby lives. Gavin Cummiskey has found himself accidentally going under-cover in the England camp and he brings us a dispatch from Pennyhill Park and John O'Sullivan joins us on the line as well to break it all down.
St Patrick's Day means the GAA club finals and in times past, it meant the Railway Cup. It also meant one of the first serious rows between the GAA and the national broadcaster. Historian Mark Duncan tells us about the bizarre face-off in 1954 when Radio Eireann proposed combining coverage of the Railway Cup with a soccer match from Dalymount Park. We'll chat to Eamon Donoghue about the games between Cuala and Na Piarsigh and Nemo Rangers and Corofin as well.
And of course, we will pay tribute to Jim Bowen, presenter of Bullseye, purveyor of speedboats and catchphrase machine who died this week.
All in Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Mary Hannigan.
Scotland blew the Six Nations apart with their win over England in Twickenham and now they're coming to Dublin armed and dangerous again. They can't, can they? They won't, will they? Gavin Cummiskey is already talking about the Grand Slam while Gerry Thornley is a bit more cautious. The lads break down the clash of the weekend.
Playing the Dubs in Croke Park on Sunday will be a stern test for the plethora of new faces in the Kerry side, and already there is pressure on Eamonn Fitzmaurice to find a way to make them all click together. Darragh Ó Sé and Ian O'Riordan join us to take the temperature of the Kingdom.
Also in the mix, Limerick v Galway face off in the first properly important hurling match of the year, Arsenal are so very Arsenal and we give you the can't-miss-dead-cert Lucky 15 for Cheltenham.
All in this week's Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
After the France game, the rest of the Six Nations was supposed to be an easy-street freewheel to the Paddy's Day showdown at Twickenham. And yet here we are, the day before Wales come to Lansdowne Road and suddenly everyone's a teensy bit nervous.
Everyone, that is, except Gordon D'Arcy who is predicting a double-digit win for Ireland. Ain't no thing.
We have Gordon and Gerry Thornley in studio to break it all down.
Keith Duggan and Ian O'Riordan join us for a deep dive into where Mayo are at ahead of their Division One clash with Dublin in Castlebar on Saturday night and also to preview the relegation shoot-out between Donegal and Kildare.
Plus we have moaning golfers, the least-worst motions at Congress and the background to Malachy Clerkin's one-on-one interview with outgoing GAA director general Paraic Duffy.
All in this week's Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.
ends
When Tipperary and Wexford met in the League semi-final last year, it was as good as Tipp's year got and the first sign that Wexford still had a long way to go at the top level. Sean Moran and Ian O'Riordan are in studio to preview their first meeting since, as we tuck into the meatiest portion of the National Hurling League, with all counties facing four games in the next 21 days.
And with Bohs v Rovers among the fixtures kicking off the new season of domestic soccer tonight, Emmet Malone and Ruaidhrí Croke are here to talk about a National League that is beginning to feel increasingly comfortable in its own skin. A league on the rise or another false dawn?
Plus we'll bring you the story of the 83-year-old marathon runner who is still waiting for his damn prize money, and the unlikely (and, frankly undeserved) favourite to win an Oscar, Kobe Bryant.
All in this week's Added Time, from presenter Malachy Clerkin and producer Pat Nugent.
Johnny Sexton spared the country a week of introspection with his drop goal from the gods last Saturday, meaning we welcome Italy to the Aviva presuming all is well. Will Ireland's second Six Nations game follow the usual script or will Italy's newly exciting backline do unthought-of damage?
Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to thrash it all out.
And with the Winter Olympics starting this weekend, Mary Hannigan joins us to break it all down as a televisual experience and we're joined from the athlete's village by Irish slalom skier Tess Arbez.
Plus there's the end of Wes (RIP), relegation six-pointers in the GAA and, er, Jerry Seinfeld.
All in this week's Added Time, from presenter Malachy Clerkin and producer Pat Nugent.
There are big weekends in sport and there are weekends like this, where the only sane course of action is to embrace the fact that you're of no practical use to anyone in your life until Monday morning. And even then, the SuperBowl will probably leave you zombified until Tuesday.
Presenter Malachy Clerkin and producer Pat Nugent have it all in this week's Added Time.
We've got Gordon D'Arcy in studio and Gerry Thornley in Paris to talk about the unfamiliar feeling of facing France in the Six Nations in a miasma of glorious overconfidence. What can possibly go wrong?
And with Brian Cody facing calls for the sack - well, A call for the sack - after 20 years and one league game, we'll have Jackie Tyrrell and Sean Moran in to ponder the ins and outs of league form at this time of year.
We'll talk Tyrone v The Dubs, Patriots v Eagles and tell the long and winding story of how we finally arrived at a name.
All this and plenty more in your super soarway Added Time.
Attention sports fans: welcome to the first episode of The Irish Times Sports Podcast.
It will however be the last episode with that rather bland title - listen for details of a competition to give us a less generic name.
Hosting the show is Malachy Clerkin, assisted by producer Pat Nugent.
Today's first episode features Sean Moran and Keith Duggan on the hurling and football leagues.
After that, Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey look ahead to the Six Nations.
We hope you like it, and we would love your feedback: sport@irishtimes.com.
Or tweet: @MalachyClerkin
Thanks for listening.