Gordon D'Arcy

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1,219 appearances 11 recordings 5 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2d ago

Gordon D'Arcy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast · Where do Ireland go from here? · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

They just send me stuff on Instagram.

Slide into my DMs.

That's how bored I am.

I'm a 46-year-old midlife crisis father.

Of course I read them.

Who doesn't read them?

I don't have Instagram.

Oh, you're sort of getting carrier pigeons.

You're going to get the same level of love I get from South Africans every time I kind of say something that's hiding in things like their attitude to doping controls and stuff like that.

Mine's intentional.

Yours is probably just stating the obvious.

Do they not see the irony of what they're saying that you're blinkered and you're going, well, actually, yes, I do need to be blinkered because if you get swept up in context, you miss the actual point, which was

It is a cookie cutter, nice in a box, very easy straight red card.

The cynic in me goes, what has been told to the referees in the lead up to this?

Because in reality, the Nations Championship, when I say it doesn't matter, as in, they're trying to create another championship.

As in, they're trying to make this into a competition from a standing start.

So...

In some ways, they have succeeded in that because Ireland kept fighting for a losing bonus point and potentially a four-try bonus point.

So in that way, I was doing commentary with ITV and I was there going, actually, this has made this last round of matches actually quite interesting.

So everybody kept fighting.

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