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Chapter 1: How much sport is too much sport this weekend?
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This is an Irish Independent Podcast. Hey, everyone. It's Friday. It's June. World Cup's on. Sun is shining. Conor Doherty's here. Conor, hello. Hello, Joe.
Chapter 2: What are the highlights of the GAA football championship?
And John Green. Been a while, John. Joe. Indosportpodcast at independent.es, where you can get us. It's kind of... We've been saying it really through April, May, June, but we really mean it this time. There is too much sport on this weekend. It's all kind of...
reaching a crescendo so GAA football championship round three which doesn't sound as sexy as it is you know round three no one had that circled in the calendar it is sexier than preliminary quarter finals remember that mumbo jumbo last year they were trying I give you that but round three as we know is obviously bumper Kerry Armand Mayo Mead Then Dublin, Donegal, Monaghan against Westmeath.
World Cup, quite a lot of good games.
Chapter 3: What key matches are happening in the World Cup?
Tonight's good and then we'll see how the weekend transpires. US Open over in New York. McElroy with a very reasonable start. Leinster Bulls tonight, barely gets a mention. And Hurling, a little bit forgotten, I would say, at the moment. The football overshadowing things just now. Clare Dublin and Cork Offaly, it's quarterfinal weekend in the Hurling.
Doesn't feel like, you know, quarterfinal weekend. And then League of Ireland, also very forgotten. Even Dan McDonald's forgotten the League of Ireland.
Chapter 4: How does the US Open golf fit into the sports schedule?
I can't believe Hurling just came above League of Ireland in your list.
Rovers, five points clear, we should say. Pats with the game in hand. It's so hard. I mean, how do you compete for the eyeballs? Frank Roach had a piece on the back page of the paper today. If you just take GAA grounds this weekend, 200,000 people will walk through the various turnstiles.
That's lovely to imagine, isn't it?
Now, he includes 40,000 rugby fans this evening at Crowe Park. It's a bit of a cheat from Frank.
Chapter 5: What is the current state of hurling championships?
GAA grounds. That's cheeky. GAA grounds, the man said. But still, 200,000 people will be out and about over this weekend, which is nice.
And what's your problem? You just can't stay on top of it? Is that what it is? Your diamond shoes are too tight? Too much sport.
Get it off my TV.
Chapter 6: Why is the League of Ireland being overlooked?
Well, Pat Spillane was saying as much. He's talking about this GAA season. It's turned into speed dating. Too many games squeezed into a short space of time. 12 football matches squashed into 28 hours last weekend. That's all he's saying, you know. And this weekend, we obviously have the four biggies. Only one of which is on TV. Another mistake, says Pat.
And then he points out the Taliesin Cup, which I didn't even mention.
Chapter 7: How do the players feel about the condensed championship format?
He says, remember all the hype about the Taliesin Cup, that the semifinals would be given two standalone games in Crow Park? Well, that didn't last long. And you would have been one of those. Oh, the Taliesin Cup. Oh, you would have been. Crow Park standalone. You would have been one of those.
I do remember making light of Congress at the time where one of the arguments put forward was that I've got a text message here, somebody in Congress, from Declan McBennett to say that we're going to show the games. And they are RTU holding up their side of the bargain. Well, one of them's an RTU news...
Chapter 8: What insights does the discussion offer on the diaspora and international football?
But how everything has shifted now as well, like there's her in quarterfinals, there's round three, like round three, capital R, number three, like that's on this weekend, like that wasn't the landscape a few years ago, but now that's completely changed and Intelligent Cup, because of that, is being squashed in this weekend as well, like that, I do feel like that should be given...
a bit more prominence. It's the semi-finals. How? Because the idea of them being on TV is not so somebody in Offaly and Wicklow can watch them. It was to bring it to everybody else's attention.
No, the idea of them being on television was a sales pitch to get the competition structure and idea over the line for the counties that didn't want
you know counties that were comfortable for a tiered structure championships in Hurley did not want a tiered structure in football you know it was the Sam Maguire or nothing which of course was crazy and putting the show in the semi-finals on TV was part of the sales pitch to get it over the line
And now you've taken the money and you're doing whatever you want now that the deal's already done.
You've gotten... It's a hard sell, Conor. The Tarleton Cup this weekend.
I know it shouldn't, but I mean it shouldn't be condensed. I don't have any solutions for you. But it shouldn't be squashed into this weekend. We should just at least preserve the Tarleton Cup semi-final and final.
Yeah.
I'm not asking for much here.
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