John O’Sullivan

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1,338 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 21 Jul

John O’Sullivan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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It was June the 11th, 2016, when the Ireland under-20s became the first male national side to beat New Zealand.

That took place at the Manchester City Academy Stadium.

And it was a team that included, amongst others, Jacob Stockdale, Hugo Keenan, James Ryan, Andrew Porter, Max Deegan.

Will Connors was part of the group.

You would have had Jimmy O'Brien.

Conor O'Brien could go through the whole team here, but...

I won't, I'll save you that.

We were chatting as well about, was it Hollywood superstar now from Galway, Peter Claffey.

So he, you'll correct me on what he's starring in, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms or A Knight of something.

Yeah, just to put it in context.

So Peter Claffey played that year, 2016, Peter Claffey played for that group of players, if you like the Irish under 20s, and he was good.

He picked up a head knock in the Six Nations, which ruled him out of the latter end of the Six Nations and kept him out of the World Cup.

So he was one of a number of players who were, who didn't travel to Manchester was where the World Cup was staged that year.

So yeah,

I spoke to Nigel Carlin, who is head coach now at Glasgow, obviously is a TAC coach and was head coach of the Irish 20s, that Irish 20s team.

So we were catching up and we were chatting and he mentioned Peter Claffey and said what a great character he was.

Very funny, very good mimic, a bit of a messer, but in a good way.

We had a chat about him.

So that's part of the feature.

And I also spoke to Bill Johnston.

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