The Lockdown Life: Recent Episodes
Jamie Flynn
The Lockdown Life Podcast features long form conversational style interviews with interesting people from the worlds of football, poker and other areas.
Padraig O'Neill speaks about his journey at EPT Prague where he become the first ever Irish EPT champ and walked away with over €1,000,000
Current Galway United Captain and former Limerick FC captain Shane Duggan talks about his career and getting ready for the 2021/22 season
Bobby Ryan is a former Irish footballer who won the League of Ireland with both Bohemians and Shelbourne. He worked with current Ireland manager Stephen Kenny at several clubs and played in the Champions League, UEFA Cup and Intertoto Cup.
Richy Sheehy AKA Kevin Murphy (Cork's Biggest Liverpool Fan) is a comedian and musician best known for his viral song We Got Salah Do Do Do Do Do Do. Richy discusses going viral, meeting the Liverpool team, and life as a comedian.
Fintan Gavin talks about his biggest poker wins, commentating on huge Omaha games in Kings Casino in Rozvadov and the upcoming Irish Open Winter Festival on PaddyPowerPoker
Con Murphy is an Irish broadcaster who worked for RTE for 22 years. He is also a keen poker player.
Conor O'Driscoll is a professional online poker player. Conor recently won $122,000 in the PartyPoker WPT Online and $228,000 in the GGPoker Global Millions event. 9 days prior to this run, Conor found out that he was expecting his first child.
4-time Asian Poker Tour player-of-the-year Sam Razavi. We discuss Sam's transition from actor to poker player, grinding the live tournament circuit, the poker community in Asia, and money management as a poker player. Sam also shares some stories about missed flights, betting £1000 on a game of FIFA, and losing your wife in a poker game!
Marcel Luske is #2 on the Netherlands all-time money list with over $5million in career tournament earnings. He finished in the top 25 of the WSOP Main Event on three separate occasions (14th in 2003, 10th in 2004, and 23rd in 2017).
Andy Black is #1 on the Irish all-time money list. He is best known for finishing in 5th place in the 2007 World Series Of Poker Main Event where he won $1.75mil.
Derek McCarthy discusses his career as a footballer and as a sports scientist working with Blackburn Rovers, Preston North End, Limerick FC, Jordan U-23 National Team, Shanghai SIPG, Buriram United, and the China National Team
International Master Alex Astaneh Lopez is a 3-time Irish National Chess Champion and former professional poker player. We discuss Alex’s career in both games and talk about the crossover between chess and poker.
John Duthie is a Television Director, founder of the European Poker Tour, and is currently the President of PartyPokerLive. John shares some great stories about his life in TV, business, poker and gambling.
Landon Tice is a 21-year-old poker player from Florida. Landon started out playing micro stakes cash games 18 months ago and today finds himself battling in some of the toughest games online. We discuss Landon's journey so far, how he studies poker, and his approach and adjustments for live poker.
Miikka Anttonen discusses his transition from professional poker player to writer, and shares advice for current and aspiring poker professionals.
Irish poker legend Padraig Parkinson shares stories about some of the biggest names in the game and recounts his 3rd place finish at the 1999 World Series of Poker Main Event.
Legendary poker commentator Jesse May talks all things poker and gambling. We discuss Jesse's start in gambling, his early trips to Las Vegas in the 1980s, being a poker pro in the 1990s and what it was like to witness a £1million poker hand in 2000.
Gary Blackwood (aka GazzyB123) talks about his life as a professional poker player and Twitch streamer.
Brendan Storan discusses his illustrious career which included winning the League of Ireland and FAI Cup with Limerick, playing against Real Madrid in the 1980 European Cup, and facing a 19-year-old Diego Maradona in a League of Ireland XI tour to Argentina.
Irish footballer Garbhan Coughlan discusses his career in the League of Ireland, winning the First Division title three separate times, playing versus Manchester City, and what life is like with his current club, Southern United, in the New Zealand Premiership.
Former Liverpool player Paul O'Donnell talks about his move to Liverpool FC as a 16 year-old from Limerick, Ireland. Paul spent 4 years at Liverpool and discusses his experiences, achievements and struggles during his time there.
UEFA 'A' Licence coach and sports psychologist Michael McCarthy speaks about his start in the game, the best moments of his career, his best XI and the future of sports psychology in football.
Tommy Barrett, a UEFA Pro Licence coach and manager of Limerick FC, speaks about his playing career, his transition into coaching, his time at Limerick FC, and the future of senior soccer in Limerick.