Dion Fanning
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888 appearances
15 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Dion Fanning’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Doki United's greatest ever player Ireland's greatest ever player is Paul McGrath and we were just looking into the possibility that Paul might consider coming along and we got you know we were encouraged that he might do and then we got the confirmation last week that he was going to come down on Sunday and
Like, you know, it's not an exaggeration to say like, you know, grown men were crying, you know, while I was crying, but other grown men were crying too.
Like he was, his presence is just extraordinary and it's still extraordinary.
It's like that aura he has.
is there, and it's there.
It's just, like, you know, I spent a lot of time just, just with him, just walking around, and he didn't, there wasn't anything, like, he just did everything.
He just walked around meeting people, stuff for every picture signed, like, he was signing, like, he was signing shin, like, kids were taking out their shin pads and asking him to sign them, and, you know, he was doing that, like, there wasn't, you know, anything that he couldn't do for people, and he just wandered around and enjoyed it, and it was, um,
It was beautiful, like it was really beautiful.
And that sense you have, which he always, like McGrath had that as a player and it's still there, just that...
that people want to kind of be around him, that there was something about him that draws people to him.
And you could see it, like there was, you know, like, you know, people come up and say, I touched your shoulder in Dun Laoghaire Shopping Centre when I was 10, you know, and like, this kind of stuff, like, you know, remembering, like, because he has that presence.
But the kids as well, like, you know, and like you saw, we put some videos up on it, and you see it, like, the kids are just in awe.
Like, they all know who he is.
They understand, not just if you're from Doki Unita, but anyone around there, but they do understand who he is.
And, like, a lot of them have read that, you know, there's a Paul McGrath, one of those biographies out, and they've read that and they understand, like, his place in Irish football history.
And it's a funny thing I actually think about, you know, people talk about kids and, like, the way they live today and they're on their phones and they're on... But they actually, I think some of that stuff...
gives them, I know for my own son, it's probably because of YouTube, he spends so much time watching footballers on YouTube, including old footballers, that he knows so much about these.
So he'll have seen the YouTube kids algorithm, as Fethem, he's watched Roy Keane videos, and next thing he's watching Paul McGrath videos.
So they know about these players, and they know about...
their reputation, so they all knew him.
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