Episode 2631: Connacht Defy The Demographics, Wounded Munster Into SF, Terenure’s Template
Ulster were firm favourites to beat Connacht at home in the URC QF’s but Andy Friend’s side out-thought and out-fought their opponents in what feels like a significant result for both sides.
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Why do Ulster continue to struggle in knockout games and why does the province provide so few players to the Irish set up? Gerry Thornley joins in studio to look at what Connacht have done on and off the pitch in recent times, and if an injury-hit Munster can have any optimism against Leinster in the SF next week.
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We look at how Terenure have become the template for others to follow by rebuilding the club top to bottom over the last 10 years, resulting in a 50 point drubbing for defending champions Clontarf in the All Ireland League final at the Aviva.
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We also hear from one lucky man holidaying with Shane Curran in the Bay of Naples, and the GAA GO controversy rumbles on, with RTE getting hit hard on this issue… by two of their own flagship programmes, Liveline and The Sunday Game.
“By next weekend, four of the biggest Munster Hurling Championship games will have been on Pay-Per-View.”
“Who is accountable?”
Donal Óg Cusack spot on here.
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