Episode 3098: Crowds, Cocaine, Decisions, Regrets
We look at developments over the last 24 hours of a David Coote story that keeps spiralling and spiralling.
We talk about Claudine Keane’s response to criticism of her husband Robbie’s participation in the FAI’s annual caps presentation ceremony, and trace the story of how Ireland’s record goalscorer came to be so unpopular with a section of the Irish crowd.
Then we talk to Dan Hancox about his new book Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World. What is a crowd? Why do they have such a bad reputation? Is this demonisation the fault of anyone in particular? And why do today’s football crowds love cocaine so much?
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