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Tommy, James and Paddy are talking through the opening weekend of Championship action - Tommy was in Ballybofey, Paddy was in Castlebar and James kept an eye on it all!, we get stuck into plenty - enjoy!
(00:30) - A Beautiful Monday after a fine weekend.
(05:00) - Mayo beat Sligo - did they meet Jimmy’s standards? O’Shea, Debutants, Sligo.
(13:00) - Challenges for the underdogs
(16:00) - Donegal-Derry deepdive: Tally credit, Ó Baoill and Patton’s class, Squad balance
(41.00) - Around the Provinces: Tipp’s Steven O’Brien, Galway Cooke, Meath’s answers, Quarters in Ulster and Leinster.We’ve got a Members Football Pod coming for you later this week too.
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This is Monday's OTB Breakfast Bite - your FREE bitesize taster of this morning's full Off The Ball Breakfast.
On this morning's show, Alan Quinlan reviewed a fine weekend in the Investec Champions Cup for both Munster and Leinster.
We looked back on yesterday's Allianz Hurling League final with Sarah O'Donovan and Ryan O'Dywer.
Plus, football writer Dan Bardell talked Premier League.
But this morning's Bite takes us first to a huge evening for Munster at the Stade Marcel Deflandre, and then we ask Sarah if Cork's hurlers have peaked too soon.
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All-Ireland winners James Skehill and Paul Murphy think you can't play down the hype around Cork after the Rebels eased to a 10-point win against Tipperary to be crowned National League champions for the first time since 1998.
How much have Tipperary improved during the league this season? And will it be enough to get out of Munster this summer?
They also reflect on Waterford's win against Offaly in the One B final and discuss if Offaly would have benefitted from another season in the second-flight?
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In our new season of 'Inner Drive' with Allianz, Will O'Callaghan spoke to hurling and football legend, Sean Óg Ó hAilpín. An icon of Cork hurling, Seán Óg is a three-time All-Ireland winner with the Rebels. He won Hurler of the Year in 2004 and captained the side to Liam MacCarthy in 2005.
In this deep dive into his journey from Australia to Ireland and his GAA career, we spoke to his sister Sarote, journalist and author of Sean Óg's biography, Michael Moynihan and John Gardiner, a fellow team mate and Cork half back.
Inner Drive is brought to you by Allianz, Proud sponsors of the Allianz Leagues for over 30 years #StopTheDrop
All archival footage used under Creative Commons.
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This year marks ten years of AIB's sponsorship of the All Ireland Football Championship. To mark the occasion, Armagh goalkeeper Ethan Rafferty sat down with OTB's Tommy Rooney to talk about their defence of the Sam Maguire.
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Injured Louth captain Sam Mulroy has told Off The Ball he hopes to play some part in this year's All Ireland Championship. He sat down at this week's AIB All Ireland Football Championship launch with OTB's Tommy Rooney.
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Newbridge hosted this week's launch of this year's Leinster Football Championship. And it was there that OTB's GAA correspondent Tommy Rooney caught up with Louth midfielder Tommy Durnin.
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Newbridge hosted this week's launch of the Leinster Football Championship, and it was there that OTB's GAA correspondent Tommy Rooney spoke to Westmeath centre-back Ronan Wallace.
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Former Kerry footballer Kieran Donaghy reacts to the sad news of Kerry legend Mick O'Dwyer's passing.
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This is Thursday's OTB Breakfast Bite - your FREE bitesize taster of this morning's full Off The Ball Breakfast.
On this morning's show, Kieran Donaghy reacted to that breaking news of the passing of legendary Kerry footballer and manager, Mick O'Dwyer.
James Tracy helps preview this weekend's Investec Champions Cup action, which includes our LIVE game on Saturday - Leinster v Harlequins at Croke Park.
We had a very special edition of 'You Had To Be There' with Irish tennis legend (and award-winning author) Conor Niland.
Plus, we caught up with Olympic gold medallist, Daniel Wiffen.
But this morning's Bite takes in some of Kieran Donaghy's Micko tribute, and then we're off to the pool with Daniel Wiffen.
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Mick O'Dwyer, a pillar of Irish sport over the past eight decades has died at the age of 88. As a tribute, we'd delved into the OTB archives to bring you some of our best 'Micko' material.
00:00:13 - Various Micko tributes from down the years on OTB
00:00:57 - a career-spanning interview from Newstalk Breakfast, conducted in August of 2011.
00:21:11 - Kieran Donaghy and Eoin Sheahan give their reasons for Micko's inclusion on their Kerry Mt. Rushmore
00:27:44 - from the same year as above, the late great Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh recounts his memories of O'Dywer the player, and the manager.
00:29:50 - from 2019, renowned racing photographer Pat Healy gave that night's Friday Night Racing an hilarious recounting of his own brush with Micko.
00:32:57 - Pat Spillane a couple of years back with his own warm words for his former manager.
00:35:09 - and we finish on 2019, with one of our final encounters with Mick O'Dwyer, as Maire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh caught up with the man himself.
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This is this morning's OTB Breakfast Bite - your FREE bitesize flavour of this morning's full Off The Ball Breakfast.
On this morning's show, The Athletic's Mark Critchley broke down a thirteenth Premier League defeat for Manchester United.
We spoke to Cork City boss Tim Clancy about their much sought-after starlet Cathal O'Sullivan.
And ahead of their Leinster Championship first round clash with Laois, we were joined by Wexford football manager John Hegarty.
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Wexford and Laois help get the 2025 Leinster Senior Football Championship underway on Saturday evening when they go head-to-head at Chadwicks Wexford Park.
Ahead of that game, OTB's GAA correspondent Tommy Rooney caught up with Wexford captain Liam Coleman, and his Laois counterpart Brian Byrne.
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A date with Dublin awaits the winner of this Sunday's Leinster Football Championship meeting of Longford and Wicklow at Glennon Bros. Pearse Park.
OTB's GAA correspondent Tommy Rooney caught up with their respective captains Paddy Fox and Dean Healy.
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The Leinster Football Championship was launched on Monday with dark clouds hovering over a pair of counties who will meet in round 1 on Sunday.
OTB's GAA correspondent Tommy Rooney caught up with Carlow captain Mikey Bambrick to discuss the spiky parting of the ways between the panel and former manager Shane Curran.
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Offaly will go into this year's Leinster Championship on a high following their Division 3 success in the Allianz Football League.
They'll look on with interest this weekend as they'll face the winners of the Meath/Carlow clash.
Faithful skipper Lee Pearson caught up with OTB's GAA correspondent Tommy Rooney.
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This year's Leinster Football Championship was launched under the pall of coaching uncertainty within two counties.
One of them is Meath, whose defender Sean Rafferty told Tommy Rooney they're in the dark over Joe McMahon's and Martin Corey's reasons for departing the Royals' set-up.
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As the philosopher Kurt Cobain once wrote, 'no apologies'. All-Ireland winners James Skehill and Paul Murphy are back alongside Will O'Callaghan for this week's edition of The Hurling Pod.
The lads look ahead to the sold-out Division One B and One A finals this Sunday, discuss the fall-out from the venue controversies for the lower division deciders, and discuss the rest of the news from the past week...
On the podcast:
0'00" - We're sorry for saying sorry too much. 'Hurling is hot' at the moment but should the 1A and 1B finals have been stand-alone fixtures?. 'What happens in football, I couldn't care less!'.
16'45" - There should be footage of Division One A games on League Sunday, even if they're dead rubbers.
27'19" - Managers very unhappy about the venues for last weekend's lower division hurling finals. No 65m lines in Iniskeen!? Put some respect on lower-league hurling. The task is facing Willie Maher, and why will we be having a podcast with him soon?
47'20" - James Mahon's red card upheld on appeal, Shane O'Donnell reports, Brian Hayes' injury not as bad as first feared.
1'07'20" - Preview of the Division One A and One B finals. Are Limerick fans right to have slight worries?
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This is Monday's OTB Breakfast Bite, your FREE bitesize taster of this morning's full Off The Ball Breakfast.
On this morning's show, former Ireland internationals Alan Quinlan & Hannah O’Connor joined us to discuss Munster’s victory over Connacht and Ireland’s emphatic win over Italy in the Women's Six Nations.
OTB’s GAA correspondent Tommy Rooney rounds up the weekend’s football finals in Croke Park.
And Ger, Colm and Arthur kicked things off with the Performance Rankings, running through the good, the bad, and the amber of the weekend’s sport.
But this morning's Bite takes us first to Hannah O'Connor's review of Ireland's W6N win in Parma, and then we reflect on Kerry's victory in the Allianz Football League Division 1 decider with Tommy.
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