Meeting The Pope, Bradley Takes On The FAI, Sharlene’s Final Leg
Welcome to our weekly world service best of show which this week includes Charlie O’Leary meeting The Pope, Dion Fanning on Stephen Bradley taking on the FAI, and Sharlene Mawdsley on the pressure of running the 400m relay final leg.

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Plus we covered the 6N, Nunez’s miss, City’s fall and all the PL and CL stories and next week we review Man City V Liverpool and Wales V Ireland, chat to Andy Lee and will be all over the women’s internationals and big GAA matches.

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