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This is an Irish independent podcast. Hello, everybody, and welcome to Bits and Bobs. It is Tuesday. I am Will Slattery, sitting in the hot seat. I've taken control of the wheel once again. I'm delighted to be joined by Ronan Mullan. Ronan, hello. Hello, Will. And Conor McKeown is with us as well. Conor, how are you? Good. I was going to say good to you. Oh, Jesus. It's a page one rewrite. Ten seconds in, I'm already being slighted.
We should take it as a compliment that your intro was so... So good and so natural and seamless.
Yeah, considering the heat outside, guys, I think I've made a good start. You know, I checked with Matt Aaron. It is officially not a heatwave. Do you know what constitutes a heatwave in Ireland, according to our beloved local weather people? Five consecutive days of 25 degrees or more. That seems like a high bar you have to climb to get to heatwave status.
What is it called? Nothing.
This is nothing. A couple of days of good weather. It's a good spell for drying. That's what they call it. It's the official term. Is wearing shorts in the office a perk afforded to the Sunday Independent Backpage Sports columnist? Because I feel like, I don't feel like you used to do this until you got this new title.
No, that's exactly what it is. I got a separate key for the posh toilets upstairs. Yeah. No, there's a cultural... I like the way things have gone in the office over the last couple of years. There's a kind of a cultural enlightenment where people can be bare-legged on the four days a year when it is appropriate.
I'm not sure how I feel about shorts in the office. I think it's kind of... Is it any of your business? Is it a little too casual? Well, it's the company's business. I've been working here 10 years. I feel like I can speak on behalf of the company in some instances.
That's for the job you want and all that. It is NBA playoffs time. Like it is notable that, you remember the bubble when they had to play the NBA playoffs? Oh yeah. In, what was it, Disneyland? Yeah. Orlando, wasn't it? Oh my God. Yeah. That was weird. It's like a fever dream. But basically they didn't want the coaches on the sidelines to feel like they had to wear suits, Pat Riley style. So they were like, we're going to relax this just for this year and you can wear your track suits and stuff. And then they just haven't, they haven't unrelaxed it. so now it just looks I don't know I do have a sort of stiff upper lip a bit like Wembley when Pep Guardiola turns up in a baggy sweatshirt and Callum McFarlane is wearing some sort of ill-fitting this was on full display on Saturday in the Champions Cup final in Bilbao where it was like I think it was like 29 degrees on Saturday
Ian Madigan, great pundit. He obviously joined myself and Rudd yesterday for a championship. But he was clearly dressed for kind of a Wembley-esque occasion. He was wearing like a blazer and it was like all the other pundits were wearing like T-shirts and shorts. It was like unbearably hot. And he obviously had a nice outfit that he just wanted to get on.
Proper decorum. I feel like the sartorial etiquette when it comes to punditry is a very quickly moving pace. Yeah. across like there was that time in the Sunday game when the lads were all coming in their three piece suits and their top hats and their white gloves and they were getting more ridiculous yeah they were getting sponsored Mas O'Shea I think upped the ante when he retired and he was getting these like very ostentatious suits and when they're sitting in that weird studio that like is up against a green screen and looks like a spaceship it's a very strange kind of a visual
My favorite classic of the genre, just as a final point on this, is Tony Pulis. When Stoke got to the FA Cup final, wore a suit for the preliminaries, you know, for shaking hands with the dignitaries and stuff. And then as soon as the match started, he ran away and put on his patented track suit for the match. That's how it's done. At least show some class.
I had the opposite mistake to Ian Madigan. I did television a couple of times many years ago and I wanted to wear this new blazer I got and I was so, so want to cram this shoehorned blazer into the TV production that it was like October in the RDS and I was absolutely baltic.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–15:27
2
What happened in the 'Battle of Killarney' involving Jim McGuinness and David Clifford?
15:27–16:20
3
How did the GAA disciplinary system respond to the incidents?
16:20–18:57
4
What are the implications of the decisions made regarding player bans?
18:57–1:03:41
Speakers
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