Episode 3048: Down Goes Rory, Ok To Choke, The Kingspan Question, C’est Troy Bien

Rory McIlroy was 4 shots clear at the top of the leaderboard early in yesterday’s final round of the Irish Open, was playing at his home-from-home course Royal County Down, against a field shy on world class golfers… nothing could possibly go wrong.

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Malachy Clerkin of the Irish Times wants to take away the stigma of choking in sport, thinks putting is the base issue and explains why he thinks Rory will win another major, but simultaneously comes to the realisation that he may be the last person alive to admit that these late-Sunday collapses are a problem.

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The 1,700 page report into the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people in west London in 2017, released 12 days ago, accused Kingspan of “deeply entrenched and persistent dishonesty” and having a “complete disregard for fire safety”. We discuss Shane Lowry ending his association with Kingspan and whether Cavan GAA should follow suit.

Ken was eager to bring up Troy Parrott after his 4-goal salvo came up in the post-show review of our football episode from earlier today, and there’s more discussion of minor members of 20th century British high society than you would perhaps expect.

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JPB joins us to talk about the NLD, the measures Ange Postecoglou has taken to address what are quickly becoming world-famous problems, and how Arsenal are likely to approach a week when they’ve had no favours from the fixture computer.https://t.co/9LXbk7G03t pic.twitter.com/s7XSSPZHC0

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