John O'Sullivan

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1,312 appearances 8 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 11 Sep

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

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The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast · The AFL comes for Irish rugby · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

So I think his background as a footballer would have stood to him.

I don't know where you would get a rugby player with all those footballing skills.

Obviously, there would be players because they're...

There are players that play a lot of Gaelic football growing up as well.

So rugby and Gaelic football have a crossover.

Gaelic football and Aussie rules have a crossover.

Do rugby and Aussie rules have a crossover?

Less, you would think, than the other two, if you like combinations.

Catch, kick, catch, kick, basically.

And I think those are our skills and the inclination in those terms to like if you look at Aussie rules, it's running and bouncing a ball.

If you look at Gaelic football, it's running and soloing, it's catching and kicking, it's speed, it's movement.

If you look at rugby, it's a slightly different dynamic.

Obviously, you don't bounce the ball once you catch it, because otherwise it'd be a knock-on.

So there's more sympathetic skills, or skills that overlap maybe is the better word, I think, with Gaelic football and Aussie rules.

Well, they have scouts here.

So they would have scouts and they would be watching a lot of...

Gaelic football matches basically and they would have a scouting network and you know there'd be a word on the grapevine that this kid is really good at this or you know their strike rate suggests that the network that they have and their scouts lead them to a lot of very very good players I mean that would be the other side of it they're well informed

Yeah, I remember a young Mead guy called Conor Nash.

And the irony of this or the coincidence involved in this is that Conor and Noah are cousins.

So Conor Nash was scouted when he was 16, six foot six from Mead, played for Simmonstown Gales, I think it was.

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