Episode 1660: Why (Some) Irish People Celebrated Our Losses At The Rugby World Cup, And The Crazy Tale of An Irish Football Team In Gaddafi’s Libya
Happy New Year, Second Captains World Service Members! We welcome in the new year with our last couple of helpings from our Liberty Hall shows, kindly sponsored as ever by O’Hara’s Brewery. First up, we try and discover why some Irish football fans couldn’t contain their glee as our rugby team flamed out at the World Cup in Japan last year.
Ken Early sets out the case for the contrarians, while Jerry Flannery and TheJournal.ie’s Sinead O’Carroll try and talk some sense into the man.
We also bring you the wild tale of “In League With Gaddafi”, a documentary which aired last month on RTE, about a joint Pats/Bohs team that travelled to Libya in 1989 to play a football match – at a time when the Irish government were doing shady beef deals with the country, and the IRA were doing even shadier arms deals with Colonel Gaddafi.
Extended preview: In League With Gaddafi.
Documentary using RTÉ Archives and told by Brian Kerr and the League of Ireland players who went to Libya to play against a Libyan side in 1989 when the Gaddafi regime was public enemy number one.
Watch on @rteone from 9:30pm tonight pic.twitter.com/uHszcVAy93
— RTÉ Soccer (@RTEsoccer) December 9, 2019
The documentary’s director Kevin Brannigan was on stage, along with two of the players who travelled – Johnny McDonnell and John Byrne, and they did full justice to a deeply strange tale.
Only 12 days left to watch ‘In League with Gaddafi’ on the RTE Player. Then that’s it. It’s over. https://t.co/zPRKp8jfU9
— Kevin Brannigan (@KevinBrannigans) December 30, 2019
Plus there’s confused Ken, the one bright spot of our rugby world cup, and Brian Kerr’s relentlessly interesting life.
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Ken reports from yesterday’s FAI AGM which featured finger-pointing, the avoidance of mentioning you-know-who’s name by certain parties, and some bureaucratic group therapy
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Go to PatreonIf it’s St Stephen’s Day, then it simply must be time to play our brilliant interview with Stephen Kenny, our current Ireland u-21 manager, soon to be our next senior manager.https://t.co/oPW9y74t6o pic.twitter.com/TuHCCyrLFH
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