Clifford Unstoppable, Pedant’s Of the World Unite, When Ireland Took On The Basques

What’s your man Early like? A regular question posed to the non Ken Early members of the Second Captains team. In this week’s Taster episode Eoin and Murph give some thoughts on their colleague.

While Oisin McConville joined our front-liners Paul Flynn and Michael Murphy for a very special All Ireland final preview.

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We also tripped back in time to 1979 to hear how a young Ronnie Whelan – then playing for Home Farm – led out an Irish team against the Basque Country in what was a very hot political atmosphere (and climate judging by this photo).

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