Indo Sport
Bits & Bobs | Mailbag ?? | World Cup flow state | Shane Lowry's big switch | GAA goalkeeping peril
26 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What updates are shared in the mailbag segment?
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This is an Irish independent podcast. Welcome everyone. Friday, bits and bobs. Hope you're enjoying-ish the heat. Enduring, I think, really is the way it's gone. Here in studio, Conor McKeown, back with us. Hey, Conor.
Hi, Joe.
Wearing shorts in the office. And our group sport editor, Ciarán Lennon, is wearing chinos. Chinos.
there you go Ciarán Aircon is a pie in the office sure is been a long time it has yeah yeah it's our fault not yours well I'm how long was the suspension I'm honoured to be here with the Messi and Ronaldo now of the of the Indosport team you just called me Ronaldo you gestured to him as Messi I'm just more my sort of status is more understated you know you're more preening and all of that sort of stuff well it's true I'm more Venner Valencia I think
Yeah.
Don't rule it out.
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Chapter 2: How does the World Cup impact team strategies?
So, loads to get through today. Emails, lots of emails. Read out a few of them. And then it's a busy weekend between quarterfinals. Mayo Cork, Kerry Tyrone on the Saturday. Loud the Monaghan Dublin Galway on the Sunday. And the draw made live on television afterwards. Semi-final draw. There'll be no Morning Ireland business. I think there's one confluence of results that would negate a draw.
There is, yeah. Hmm. World Cup, France-Norway this evening, Friday evening, and Cape Verde, Saudi Arabia, 1am if you're tempted. They could well go through with a draw, certainly with a win, and then on it goes. And suddenly it'll kind of finish up the group stages when we're all in bed.
Chapter 3: What changes are happening in GAA goalkeeping?
Argentina will play Jordan at 3am, and then suddenly round of 32 matches will be on your TV screens on Sunday evening, starting with Brazil-Japan, which is... tasty, lively start to knockout football. And then I'm quite sore, 2am, Tuesday morning, Netherlands against Morocco. Knockout game.
When you said Canada, out of Canada for good there, I thought it was like a Donald Trump sort of a foreign policy or...
Wimbledon starts Monday Yannick Sinner odds on Novak Djokovic second in the betting Sabalenka favourite in the women's so Wimbledon here on Monday Tour de France next weekend can't wait when the summer starts yeah bloody hell the summer has started I don't want to be talking about the heat but like you know is it hot yeah well wait till tomorrow I think we'll have 16 degrees and 50 kilometre an hour winds is that right yeah
Oh, it breaks. It does, yeah.
For the weekend. Thank God.
I can't stick my kitchen.
I thought you were going to say I can't stick my kids and I was about to agree. It's not easy.
I mean, it's tough with the kids. I mean, they're on fire.
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Chapter 4: What insights are shared about Shane Lowry's career switch?
They're ratty, yeah. They're just so sweaty looking, aren't they? Why are they so sweaty? Thank God, the amount of sun cream we're going through. They're sticky and sweaty. Like, they just look terrible. I've never seen my kids look so terrible. It's all changed how we're talking about it, though.
Yeah.
Do you remember it was, I just double checked before I came in, it was like 2021, RTE, you know, there was a heatwave and RTE had to come out and apologise, like the MD of RTE News came out and apologised because in 21, the news report on the heatwave was like... Everyone out for ice creams today. Beautiful scenes across the country.
You know, and to be fair, people are like, you know, saying, oh, yeah, no, it's great for the mood. Like, it's amazing. And there was this huge backlash.
Chapter 5: How are England's World Cup preparations evolving?
Like, you realize what this is. And now it's all... It's here, you know? The doomsday is starting, kind of, is the general feel most people have. It's a bit like snow when you're a kid. It's amazing. And then as an adult, you're like, this is snow.
Yeah, the car, the shoes. Whereas everyone else, this heat is not good. It's the intensity of it, though. I think today is only...
the fifth day of it over 25 degrees so it's only officially heat wave today but it's the as you said the evening temperatures the intensity it's hard to escape people are utterly obsessed with it too upstairs in the office here we have screens that tell us how the various stories are doing and anything with any kind of out of the ordinary weather event and it is flying off the shelves.
People can't get enough of their weather stories.
I know sometimes in a slightly superior way, we remark upon the US obsession with weather and like 24-7 weather channels.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of the upcoming Wimbledon?
We would be that soldier. If we didn't have the most moderate climate in the world, we'd be all over it. Ciarán, what's your job precisely, by the way, group sport editor?
My job, ooh, to keep the show on the road on a daily basis. If I do say so. Well, as in? What happens when you go on holiday? Yeah, well, to allow our messy over here and people like that to shine and just put it all on lists and make sure it goes in the places it's supposed to go. Do you ever tell him as group sport editor what to write about?
well someone like Conor generally is good on ideas so there's an element of fixture list we were just chatting about the Dublin Galway game on Sunday which Conor will be at as well so how we approach that but there's always ideas I tried again to go up to Belfast to cover the last ice hockey game I actually wanted to do that but I think it was just a year did it fall between there was a lot on there was a lot on yeah I think by the time we got around to town yeah he said no
I didn't say no I just said I can't but yeah no Conor's good at ideas so he generally is quite forward to coming up with them we won't discuss with our colleagues Jeepers
So, mentioned World Cup, mentioned GAA. Wimbledon starts on Monday, like I said. I was reading, to get into a few things, we won't dwell on this overly, but Andrew Castle, 62 years of age now, he has done 23 of 24 finals, his first Roger Federer's first title back in 03. You'll know the voice if you don't know the name.
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Chapter 7: How do the hosts view the current state of sports commentary?
The waiting is over. Andy Murray is the Wimbledon champion. And you simply cannot give more.
He is no more with the BBC. This is his last Wimbledon. They want to be down with the kids, I think. Sue Barker went this way. Andrew Castle, also a former professional tennis player. Brilliant broadcaster. I thought he was just a broadcaster who was so good. But he was doing interviews and he was saying, am I upset? Yeah. I was upset and I'll stay that way this year knowing it's my last.
All good things come to an end. But then he just had one story about like how cutthroat TV is.
Chapter 8: What final thoughts are shared about the weekend's sports events?
So I had forgotten this. He used to present GMTV, you know, those morning TV shows with Kate Garraway and Ben Shepard and all these people. So he said, look, it's the way it goes in TV. Just take GMTV.
presented that I thought I was doing a good job I arrived at Gatwick Airport for my family holiday the front page of the Daily Mirror had a picture of me and my three co-presenters with the headline you're toast unbelievable TV cruel business better off in a podcast studio yeah do you want some emails In defense of Mayo, said Ryan, I love the pod, don't miss a minute.
But it was mentioned twice this week on two different episodes that it was mostly Meath fans at the Mayo game. I could not believe it both times. It was at the game, it was 80% Mayo fans. Terrace not in view of the camera was nearly all Mayo fans. just want to correct their records.
I think the way we phrased it the other day might have been clumsy. I think the point we made was that the crowd itself was small. Yeah. I think what the emailer there has interpreted was that we... implied that the percentage of Mayo people within the crowd was small. That wasn't, I think, what we were saying.
I think we were saying in comparison to previous years, when Mayo have gone on their great sort of odysseys across the country and ended up in all Ireland finals through all sorts of securities routes, the crowds are miles down.
You said there were more Armagh fans than Kerry fans.
I also got a rap about that as well.
I saw that email, yeah.
No, I got two people come back to me I went back to the people I spoke to and I also realised that the people who had texted me were in the ground about 15 minutes beforehand and had said that this is overwhelmingly Armagh fans. But they were there early and that's why I was misinformed.
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