Indo Sport
Bits & Bobs | McGregor's comeback | McDowell's regret | Politicians at funerals
08 May 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is an Irish Independent Podcast.
Hello, everyone. Friday, bits and bobs. The sun is shining. It's May. And look who popped in. Dan McDonald. It's been a while. Daniel. Hi, Joe. John Green. It's also been a while. You're very welcome. Hello there. This weekend is not, from a sporting point of view, as crazy as recent ones. You know, the Snooker and the Masters and everything else.
Chapter 2: What are the highlights of Conor McGregor's UFC return?
So, GAA, there's Provincial Football Finals Sunday. There's Cork Waterford and the Hurling Saturday. In football, League of Ireland this evening. Then... Well, I suppose City Brentford on Saturday, very much into Arsenal, away to West Ham on Sunday. Celtic Rangers on Sunday. Celtic must win before trying to beat Hearts. So, I mean, the Scottish Premiership is also where it's at at the moment.
URC, Connacht against Munster on Saturday evening. We'll touch on it if we can later on. Clayton McMillan's press conference yesterday sounded like a guy who's getting the hell out of Munster, is how I read it, to be honest. Just seems to be falling down around them. And, you know, the golf's on as well. The truest at Quail Hollow, Rory McIlroy there with the PGA Championship on next week.
The majors coming thick and fast. So that's kind of the gist. I will start with some emails. How is everyone? General hellos.
What's going on?
I think this is a new combo as well, isn't it?
our first email our first email just this week DW had said enjoyed the return of Conan and Ronan last week more of the same please however I also enjoy the apparently ceaseless amount of available combinations you seem to be able to get into these studios are there any first time pairings still on the table big fan I think this is one this is one squad rotation at its best yeah
Yeah, you're my solskjaer and sharing him and I just want to throw you out there. See what you can do for me.
I like that being put in a similar sort of age bracket there.
Fun fact, myself and Solskjaer were born on the same day. The same day. In the same year. Wow.
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Chapter 3: How does a robotic lawnmower change lawn care?
Fabian wrote in, I need to address, Will, Ashburton Grove. How did you pull that out? I can barely remember my own air code under pressure. And you're dropping the pre-Emirates stadium name like it's common knowledge. I haven't stopped thinking about this. It rattled me. It's genuinely one of the most impressive and deeply niche bits of knowledge I've ever witnessed. Fabian.
I also thought it was chilling level of sporting knowledge. A few people thought Eddie O'Sullivan was good this week talking about Leo Cullen's press conference. Eddie was just talking about how he thinks Leo's career flashed before his eyes and he was almost in a state of shock and he'd been there himself and just the stuff about how people love to...
Put the boot into Leinster, almost just came out of him. Sean said, how good was Eddie yesterday? Unreal. Coach's insight, coaching life flashing before your eyes. Impact on family. Overcooked the pudding. Wah, peak Eddie, said Sean. Eddie was talking about, you know, Leo Cullen's son left the match at halftime. Did you see this? So he just couldn't take it because they were down to 13 men.
And he was like, I presume I can't, I just can't take it. And Eddie recalled phoning home as Ireland coach. Um, when things hadn't gone well at the world cup to talk to his 12 year old son and Eddie said he had taken to bed with a migraine. Just don't understand. You know, you're a, you're a son, your dad's the coach, you're into the sport.
You're probably going to school where everyone's talking about it. You don't understand the effect on the family. It was great.
You know, not. Not that it's consciously done, but the school ground can be a very cruel place. And, you know, if you've got a high-profile dad like that, I'm sure, you know, the jokes, which are probably meant as jokes most of the time, can really land. For sure.
For sure. One other email was about politics. So... Conor McKeown, have you seen him limping around? Conor McKeown? He did his ankle ligaments because there was, Bertie Ahern was out in a certain part of the house.
He's actually, yeah, he's actually telling the full story.
Full story on Sunday. I mean, I see Bertie walking around all of the time. I'm not even sure if he's even out watching the marathon. He's just campaigning in his spare time.
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Chapter 4: Why do politicians attend funerals?
The working man.
You have the royalty. I mean, you've got like, you know, that sort of voice of the common man, Rich Ritchie, like winning a Chatham, like the Gold Cup and the Grand National Double. It's not quite, you can't really sell those stories anymore, but it's just the feeling that the event is a bit more.
But weirdly, if people ever want to get into racing ownership, and I will do it again, I'm on an extended break at the moment, but the most economic way to do it is to get involved with a flat horse. And that you probably, you could actually get a cheap flat horse
that could be a flat handicapper that could probably bring you to some of the big festival days and some of the sort of... Even when we owned a horse, we got to the Curragh a couple of times. We had a winner at the Curragh, you know, which was an amazing experience. So, you know, it can't be done.
I just want to excuse Dan's ignorance. Bob Bollinger, 11. 11 years old. It's crucial. You have to give the ages of horses. If you don't... 12 on Monday. Yeah.
They all turned 12 on New Year's Day.
No, no, no. I have a good friend who has no interest in racing and he was a foot GA man coach all his life and I think he got involved in a couple of little syndicates in his late 60s and he absolutely adores it now and it's all flat and it's really affordable. Small little amounts of money that he's putting into it but one of them brought him all the way to Santa Anita two years ago.
Yeah, I mean, that's the dream.
I mean, that's the stinker of a race. But, you know, what you're saying is true. The other thing which I thought about horse racing just before you wrap it up was that part of the problem for horse racing is that... It's very insular in ways and how it views itself.
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