Bits & Bobs | Croke Park's United sell-out, Ireland's newest world champion, LOI war of words, airport conspiracies
episodePreviously titled “Bits & Bobs | United's Croke Park sell-out, Ireland's newest world champion, LOI war of words, airport conspiracies” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 12, 2026
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What is the opening banter and introduction to Bits & Bobs?
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This is an Irish Independent Podcast. Now, welcome everyone. It's Bits and Bobs on a Monday. Monday. Conor Darty is here. Conor, hello. Hello, Joe. And Will Slattery in the building. William. Hi, Joe. Indosport Podcast at independent.ie. We won't dwell on emails too much. We talked last week a little bit about... Sorry, I'm Australian. You all right? That's fine, yeah. Yeah, okay. Last week about John's email. TJ Gary felt covering all of the LGFA matches, he felt was a barrier to trying to get the young girls he coaches into watching the sport. You know, they don't know Irish. He feels that's kind of important. And we had an interesting discussion about it. There were a slew of emails which effectively boiled down to, there's this thing called a radio.
So you can sync it up.
Yeah.
That's too much work. It's not. I don't know. The syncing... It's very easy these days. I mean, because you can pause your TV now, it's pretty easy. So... Yeah. That was the gist of the response. If it bothers you that much, just pause, sync, pause.
And we're not going to relitigate it, but maybe as a Gaelic or I could just give you a quick take. My thought on it is that TGK was brought in because there wasn't that service for Irish language speakers. So it feels like a shame that the solution would then be to anglify that Irish language station when it was brought in for a specific problem. No, this is a real problem. I sympathize with his take on it, but I don't think the solution is to make it more English.
Yeah, it's a tricky one because we said, as we talked to it on Friday, It's that rare instance of two pursuits, the Irish language and LGFA, which are trying to garner more eyeballs and interest. So, you know, each on their own, you say, well, that's a great thing. More exposure to both is good, but then... John's point was, oh, actually, in this instance, they're kind of competing a bit against each other or one's competing against the other. So it was hard to feel too good about saying, just put on the English commentary. I grant you. I grant you.
You got a lot of emails, though.
Yeah. Yeah. What was your sense of the mails?
I knew we got one interesting one from like an Irish speaking teacher. And he wasn't kind of happy with it. I suppose the kind of idea of minimizing the Irish language, but yeah, it is hard because, you know, I don't think it should be controversial that like a national final is available in both languages. That should be, I think, an uncontroversial opinion, but it did seem to get pushed back on.
And I think in fairness between these all, like he's touched on this, that it's not really up to TGK to offer that service either.
How do the hosts discuss the Irish‑language broadcast controversy?
Like it's, It's definitely not their problem. Again, they're there to provide Irish language. I think I said to you, Joe, we're often thinking about it through the prism of people who speak English, obviously, because there's more people like that. But there are Irish speakers who for the most part of the year are like, where's my Irish language option, which rarely is available for them. But maybe they could do more where they could be... highlighting keywords every time you say kit dog or something that's bringing up what that means that's obviously a lot of work then for for people to graphics yeah that's a good idea yeah you know air for real means wide like stick that up as it's said and then people start learning so people actually learn in irish then while it's also engaging with what they're saying and maybe listening out for it a bit more too that's a great suggestion can i ask conan a question yeah life is a gale gore
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the opening banter and introduction to Bits & Bobs?
0:00–3:11
2
How do the hosts discuss the Irish‑language broadcast controversy?
3:11–21:01
3
What airport‑conspiracy theories do they explore while traveling?
21:01–47:38
4
Why is the United‑Leeds friendly at Croke Park expected to break attendance records?
47:38–1:07:50
Speakers
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