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Bits & Bobs | Waiting for Ger Brennan | The World Cup weekend | Mickelson’s demise
15 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What delays did the podcast face due to Ger Brennan's situation?
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This is an Irish Independent Podcast. Welcome, everyone. Bits and Bobs on a Monday. Happy to say Conor McKeown has joined us. First time I've seen you in some time. Hello. Yeah, you remarked on that this morning. You obviously missed me for the couple of weeks, did you? I always miss you. Oh, that's good. And Will Slattery. I've seen plenty of you, Will. And I've seen plenty of Conor.
Indosportpodcast at independent.eu is where you can get your emails. Strange day. Strange day, everyone. We were primed to record this podcast at 11 a.m. Primed. And here we are starting at half past three. It feels like we've been waiting for a delayed flight. Because Dublin can't make their mind up where they want to play this bloody game.
Conor McKeown, I would say with supreme confidence, said 2 o'clock. I said 2 o'clock was the earliest. The word earliest wasn't yours. You swanned over. You like to swan. And you swanned over and said, two o'clock, lads. Hang on. You heard the part of that sentence that you wanted to hear. Mr. I've got a red phone to the GAHQ over here. It was two o'clock. And so we said, fine.
Did a podcast with Paul McGinley ahead of the US Open. That's in your feed. Two o'clock has come. Two o'clock has gone. He swans over. What's the story?
what's the story of you what's the story of you the first time he left he did say as he was walking away I'm going to make a few calls he let that float over his over his right shoulder I'm going to make a few I'm going to put in a few calls I'm going to ring Jer he said And here we are at half three. When I walked in this morning to record this, I was listening to Morning Ireland on my phone.
You can hear the balls being turned in the bowl.
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Chapter 2: How did the Gaelic football weekend unfold?
It felt so lively and alive. Now I feel, as you say, like I've been waiting for it. You know that episode of The Sopranos when Tony's been shot and he's in a coma? And his idea of purgatory is like selling pool supplies in some random hotel. That's how I feel. I've been stuck in this zone all day in my head space. I hope I have the energy requisite for a bit.
it's been such a tiring day it is like a you know stuck in air travel where why am I tired I've just been sitting around all day you do look quite sweaty do I yeah I feel like you do look like you've been like it's been a tough day it's a sheen no that's moisturiser I put on this morning I'm wearing a very vibrant red t-shirt I noticed I like it because my wife I was walking out the door I didn't have time to change and my wife said that t-shirt because I just bought it for holidays I didn't wear it on holidays it's very vibrant it's too red and she you just remind me of like not extra vision where do you work
I was thinking, is it Parasiti? It's not quite Tiger Woods on a Sunday. No, it's not. No, it is Parasiti, yeah. Or it could be Super Value or one of those. It's all that kind of stuff. So, look, GAA, so interesting nonetheless. I'm sure the Parnell versus Crow Park news will break as we record. And as you listen to this, you already know.
World Cup, we've had the demise of Phil Mickelson, New York Knicks, Lewis Hamilton, life and the old dog yet. And all or nothing, Manchester United is coming your way. A few emails, first of all, Rebecca Maher emailed in. Rebecca, hello.
As I write this, she said, I'm sitting on a beach in Costa Brava, Spain, with my fiancé, who is flying through a copy of Virginia Evans, The Correspondent, on your recommendation. I've spent the last 13 years trying and failing to get him interested in books I'm reading, and all it took was a 4 out of 5 from you, and he was straight on to the Kindle. A humbling development for me, but fair play.
She then said, side note, I've read Wellness, and I don't rate it, but he's told me he's going to read that as well, based on your review. Oh, wow. Just want to say we love the pod. You're a staple of our long drives. Dublin, Dungarvan, Donegal. One of the few voices we can agree on after several hours in the car together, Rebecca.
That means Rebecca's husband has been turned off Michael Connolly already and he hasn't even read it. Sad world we live in. I'll circle back. But there you go. I did say to Rebecca, if you want me to plant any other suggestions for her very suggestible fiancé, I'll do it, you know. And then here they all come crawling out of the woodwork. You make a few predictions. Hi, Joe.
You were talking up Kildare and gave Cork no chance. Maybe it's time to stick to the gulf on the rebels. And then, hi lads. Was just thinking there, who's more embarrassed? Conlon for his prediction Derry would beat me by five or the Derry defender James Conlon sent for bread, milk, eggs and sausages before slotting over the score of the weekend?
I only hope Joe's similarly confident prediction of a pass on his NCT was better placed. Best wishes. Keep up the good work. Ronan from the Royal County. Was this your flimsy excuse for missing the summer party? Well, I mean, I had an NCT retest. It was the last day I could take it without having to cough up for a full price one. And you passed? Yeah, with flying colours.
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Chapter 3: What are the highlights of the World Cup weekend?
hammer blow potentially. So when you have the structure, like I think we can already say this new structure for this year has been a resounding success. And to be fair, we flagged it as soon as I kind of, you know, spent a day trying to understand it. It's a weird structure in that once you understand it, it's so simple. Yeah, but it sounds complicated when you say it out loud.
A bunch of people on my WhatsApp were like, what's going on here? I don't understand the structure. We said, this really works. Like, just the right amount of jeopardy at every stage. They've struck gold. Yeah, I think you're right. Absolutely struck gold. Like, no one's going to say that Armagh, like, there was a lack of jeopardy yesterday because they had a backdoor.
Like, now they're playing Kerry and, you know, likewise with Donegal and Cork, like Jim McGuinness, you can say Dublin aren't the force they were, but, you know, playing Dublin away is a sticky fixture, I think, to some degree. Like, that was being waved away as, oh, like, is there really that much jeopardy? It felt like a lot of jeopardy yesterday.
Here is the moment where Armagh's season turned upside down. This is Colm Corrigan on LMFN.
Sam Elroy in towards the end of the square, goalkeeper goes up, back in, he does it over the back of the net, it's in, oh it's in, he's knocked it in, oh goal for Lowne, and oh my, unbelievable, the long ball, locked in, there is the winner, and Lowne have won the United Qualifier Final, Sam Elroy played the long one in, oh look at the scenes, look at the scenes here on the pitch.
I can't, I'm on the radio. It was incredible. What was mad yesterday was that for a big game, and this partly probably got to do with the fact that it's been staging in this game, which wouldn't hold games of that kind of stature too often. But I watched the Sunday game last night and they were talking about, there's no clock here. And there was a clock on the ground.
It was just tucked away in the corner. It was really small. And there was a match clock and there was a hooter, but it was really, really low. That doesn't seem like a good way of having a clock in the hooter. A tiny clock in a very low humming hooter. So how did Sam Mulroy know how to time a shot so perfectly? So I asked him afterwards, I said, did you know that there was a clock there?
Because not a lot of people did. He said, when I got the ball, it was in the 69th minute, or just before he got the ball, he asked Conor Lane, what's left? And he said, look in the corner. And he turned around and he saw the clock. So Sam Mulroy spent 69 minutes of that game not knowing. that there was a clock in the corner, and then he knew. That's a little too amateur for my liking.
Yeah, but the other thing that was really interesting, because there was some questions about this in the press box afterwards, was that the shot was on the hooter, but there was a question mark that because somebody touched it on the way in, in this case, Ethan Rafferty, that it would have been ruled out because it's an additional play that has happened after the hooter.
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