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Bits & Bobs | Epic snooker, the forgotten GAA county & Conor's half-marathon injury
05 May 2026
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Chapter 1: What did Joe, Will, and Conor discuss after the bank holiday?
This is an Irish independent podcast. Now welcome bits and bobs coming at you after our bank holiday extravaganza. We have in studio Will Slattery back from his holidays. William. Hi Joe. Good to be back.
You look rejuvenated. I'm refreshed. I'm ready to resume my duties and contribute in a thoughtful manner.
Will spent his time off watching sport just to get away from it all. Conor McKeown is here. He's limping heavily, people. I'm telling you that for nothing. He's limping heavily. He ran the half marathon over the weekend. And it's not just your assumed aches and pains. Oh, no. Conor McKeown is genuinely injured. He has done his ankle ligaments. 2K into a half marathon.
No, it was nearly four, I think. Well, I mean, let's not split hairs here.
There was a considerable distance to keep running. So you went over on a curb and properly did your ankle.
It was quite undignified.
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Chapter 2: How did Conor's half-marathon experience affect him?
There was a bit of rubbernecking going on and there was people, there was loads of people there just in Drumconja.
rubbernecking you no sorry Bertie Hearn was standing by the side of the road and there was but there was a lot of people Bertie Hearn's the reason you did your angle yeah Bertie was there yeah he was kind of wishing all the well wishes but it was a part he came out to wave everyone but it was a part of the route where there was loads of people for the first time and you have an app
where people can track you so they like people came in to see you so I think loads of people came in to see so people were kind of like jackknifing across the road to like you know see family fist pump their family and all the rest and it was just it was a bit too condensed at that stage and Bertie I danced up onto the up onto the car with all the elegance of a
inebriated hippopotamus and went over my ankle. It was a bit undignified now. And did you hit the deck? Yeah, I had to sit down for a small spell as well. People then were rubbernecking you. They were just like, Jesus Christ, how unfit is your man? I mustn't have trained. Was anyone like, you're Colin McKeown. No, thankfully. I think everybody tends to be in their own little world.
But I'd have to say, right, it was a disaster from that point of view. Like I did finish it and the ankle kind of either...
loosened up or went numb i'm not quite sure but uh it's a great experience like people go out of their way to like help you along um there's people out cheering you on there's some very funny signs anybody's ever done a half marathon or a marathon will know they give you a great little kick and there's people out like doing their own kind of
like homemade water stations and all to kind of, to get you there. So even though in some ways it was a bit of a disaster, it still got a, got a, like a bit of a gush of satisfaction of getting over the finish line.
Good man, finishing. So it wasn't tough to finish. So 4K in, you had what left?
17. 17. On a busted ankle. Yeah, and it was just at the start of a, it's a cool route, but you go sort of flatly uphill for the very start of it.
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Chapter 3: What insights were shared about the GAA matchday experience?
18-17, 17-16 versus Mark Allen. I'm sure it'll be mentioned about how that game ended. Even going back to the second round, 13-11 against Mark Selby, a notorious player for those long safety battles. To come out on top on a tight match there, he had the ultimate snooker test to get over the line. And... Yeah, was playing his shots until the very, very last minute.
Like, no kind of consideration given to the moment of needing to rein back in a small bit.
Because there was one... It was Stephen Hendry and Dennis Taylor on commentary. And once, if not twice, but definitely once, it might have been on that yellow you mentioned, Hendry said... well, if he misses this, he probably loses the world final. That's what's riding on this pot. And there was one to the middle. That was the middle one as well, yeah.
I think it's because the shot required such little pace that if you missed it, it's going to be hanging over the pocket and likely sitting in the jaws to be knocked in and Murphy's going to clear. And he still went for it, you know, the benefit of youth as much as anything. But... It was also a thrilling final because they were both making mistakes. It was an exhibition style.
There's a break on here. I could run out to the kettle and I'll be back to, you know, get the end of the century. There was a miss lurking or a bad positional shot lurking almost at every turn. Like a lot of to-ing and fro-ing within those final frames. I presume pressure is the reason. But like that makes it just so thrilling.
Yeah, I think the most interesting thing to take away from this world championship is the degree to which the crowd did get behind. Like, not the player that we expected in the world final.
And I think it's because, like, you know, this is a big thing in sports and it was a thing that happened in women's golf in particular when you have, like, there's 11 Chinese players in this year's world championship and Wu Yi doesn't speak English. And so it can be hard to kind of put your personality across when you're off the table.
But snooker is one of these sports where like the vast majority of why you like players is because of what they do on the table. That's when their personality comes across in terms of the kind of shots they take on and everything else. And it's really interesting because I remember one of the chapters of Shane Ryan's book, Slaying the Tiger, was about Hideki Matsuyama.
And he was talking about Y.E. Yang, the Korean who won the 2009 PGA. And he says it kind of poses a problem for like what is essentially a very American centric audience when you have this personality who doesn't kind of communicate with what is the biggest part of the audience. And I was watching out for that in this year's world championship as well.
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Chapter 4: How did the guys feel about the matchday experience in GAA?
But it is remarkable. I think this is one of the more memorable moments
world snooker championships of the last sort of decade or so and for it to finish with a Chinese winner at the end of it maybe just shows that we're all kind of going to morph with the changing face of you know elite snooker yeah my dad always told me that there was a house near where he grew up the night of that 18 million watching Taylor Davis final and the patriarch of the family died
Now, it wasn't a sudden death, but, you know, it was kind of, it was coming. It was of an age. And I think they were so engrossed in the snooker, they thought, well, sure. Look, he's passed peacefully. We'll get the doctor after the snooker's finished.
That's the right decision. That's what he would have wanted. I mean, in the slattery household, I mean, look. Even if it was sudden, we're watching the snooker. Even if he could be saved.
I mean, listen. There's an episode of Bits and Bobs.
So, yeah. Second youngest player to win after Stephen Hendry. And like he was 10-7. Murphy came from 10-7 down to go 12-10 up. You know, he did have that wobbly, oh my God, I've lost...
five frames on the bounce but rallied well and look I mean we hate to use the expression small margins in this podcast because it's grotesque and infuriating but I mean if Mark Allen if Mark Allen in the semi-final against Wu Yuzi could have potted a routine very routine black then we would be having a very different conversation it would have been Allen versus Murphy but
It's what makes a great snooker, I think, when there is a miss in there and pressure. It's a bad one. Can we reflect on that moment? I watched it live on Saturday night. See, I did. So I've only watched it in the context of here's the Mark Allen miss. I'm the same. Yeah. So I don't have that like, what did you say? It was like someone shot a gun.
went off so the noise yeah it was like someone had been shot like it was that kind of reaction yeah it was an unbelievable moment because the last few frames he was 16-14 up Mark Allen and he kind of had opportunities to close it out in every frame and then you actually missed a very routine pink to let him in and Mark Elling, it's a great pink.
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Chapter 5: What happened in the dramatic Scottish title race?
It is better, yeah.
No, it's a placeholder. That actually sounds good. It's such a bad name that they're like... Come on. Bids in. The fans won't care.
What was the name of Arsenal Stadium before they sold the naming rights? The Emirates. Bear in mind. Was it not sold from day one? So there was a name on the... Ashburton Grove?
Ashburton Grove. Well done. I knew there was some bizarre name.
That is frightening.
That is a bit frightening.
That is frightening. What was it?
Ashburton Grove.
I've never heard that phrase in my life.
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Chapter 6: How did Man City perform in their latest match?
Somewhere in the back, I just went to the old filing cabinet, dusted it off. I literally have nothing.
I have literally nothing. I still can't remember. Ashburton Grove. I wouldn't remember it in a minute.
Ashburton Grove.
That's a terrible name as well. That's phenomenal. Still better than Hill Dickinson.
I tell you what though, I'd take Hill Dickinson over at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Abomination. Spurs Stadium. Do they not call it Tottenham Hotspur Stadium?
No, but that's the... They're called Tottenham Hotspur as well, but people don't call them that. No one calls it Spurs Stadium. Everyone calls it Spurs Stadium.
Do they? Yeah. No, they don't. I don't know that people do. When you go to television, it's like, and now we go over to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
You need the real people, like not the commentary team, but like... Oh, yeah.
I think real people are just calling it Spurs' Stadium. No, when the Champions Cup final was there, people were calling it Spurs Stadium for sure. I think they were on the Spurs Stadium because they hated the name so much and didn't know it was called the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. No, I don't think so. I'll move on. We don't have time. We don't have time. We've no time.
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