Alan Quinlan
speaker
866 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Alan Quinlan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If I met the local electrician, I was intrigued by his job, how he qualified.
um so that that's been one good thing that's helped me it doesn't make you excel in that that field yourself but it just i had that intrigue as a young kid and i've always had it about how people figure stuff out and how people qualify in different fields you know you could meet someone working in a bank their journey and and um you know loads of different walks of life so for me um
Yeah, doing this job and presenting this stuff is incredible.
I find it as a privileged position.
You're not always going to please people, but it goes back to sport, Clare.
Sport has given me so much and so much opportunity.
Well, you have to have a bit of distance, I suppose.
That was part and parcel of probably learning that situation over the years when, you know, I finished in 2011 and that was, I was very close to lots of the Irish players and other provincial players and friends playing with them and against them over the years.
I went to the World Cup in 2011 to commentate for ITV and I ended up going into the Irish team hotel to chat to everyone and hang out with them.
I went in and had lunch with them and Declan Kidney was the coach.
He was very close to him.
I was welcomed up to a point, but I think one or two of the players, Brian O'Driscoll at the time, tapped me in the shoulder and said, you do know you're not in the squad anymore.
And that was a little reminder that
Was that hard to hear?
No, no, it wasn't.
But, you know, even with Munster, I remember I went back and I did the following, the first season out, I did a, I was interviewing and doing a report for Sky News.
I was doing some stuff for Sky at the time and doing commentaries for them and
And I went and watched training and there's always a limited time that you let the media in and I kind of stayed longer and I did get to tap on the shoulder as well to say you're media now and stuff.
So you learn that over the years.
And yeah, look, you you you there's always a distance that you have to keep.
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