JOSH VAN DER FLIER & JOE McCARTHY: ‘Leo Cullen is Mr Leinster!’ | THE BANK OF IRELAND ROADSHOW SERIES
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With Bank of Ireland, a proud sponsor of Connock, Leinster, Munster and Ulster Rugby. Never stop competing. God, great to see you all here. Thanks so much for coming out to the brand new Leia Arena. How good does this place look? The perfect home for the back to back URC champions, I'd say. So tonight we've got a brilliant show for you. First of all, we've got Andy Dunn here beside me. What do you think of this new place, Andy? Pretty sleepy.
Yeah. I compare everything to twenty eight years ago and
extremely different. Uh we're gonna have two of Ireland's modern greats and Lenser's modern greats in Joe McCarthy and Josh Van der Fleer in just a moment. Uh we're also later on gonna have one of uh Ireland's greats of yesteryear, Malcolm O'Kelly with us on stage. And then later on we're gonna have two of your key coaches. Uh the main man himself entering his final year. Leo Cullen is gonna be with us. And Jack Nienaber as well will be up on stage with us. So that'll be in part two. Also before the break. We'll do about forty, forty five minutes here. And before we let you go for the break, one of you will be winning a pair of tickets to Leinster versus Munster in the Aviva Stadium this side of Halloween.
So uh that's a big prize. It'll also be a signed shirt, assigned rugby ball. You all got a raffle ticket on your way in. So keep uh a hold of that and we'll be coming back. to that before half time. Uh but without further ado, let's get our first two guests up on stage. Give a big Leia Arena welcome to Joe McCarthy and Josh Van der Fleer. Mm-hmm. Joe, good to see it. Josh, good to see it. Well lads, I think I'm gonna be asking the same question first up to everybody tonight. Look at this place. It's pretty nice, isn't it?
Yeah, it's pretty good. These seats are quite comfy 'cause usually on these like panels you get like a dodgy stool that's like falling over. They've uh nailed it so far.
Yeah, no, it's brilliant. Um we actually saw it for the I hadn't seen it until today. We had a meeting here earlier on. Um first time seeing the place. It's uh it's incredible. They've done a great job.
Yeah. What did the dressing rooms look like? So we were actually we were saying we were looking at the away dressing room and apparently they they were told to make them real small crap. Uh I think they made them too small initially, so you can kinda see a bit, they added on a bit in the end. But uh no they they look great. Um the new dress our our dressing room looks great anyways. I haven't been in yet, I'll have to but uh yeah, no it's nice.
Uh you're
out at a
preseason friendly this weekend, right?
Yeah, yeah, uh Zebra on Saturday. Um so I think it's I don't think it's the official first game here. It's like a bit of a dry run, I think, for um for us and for the uh the staff, all the organizers and everything to trying to see how everything runs and make sure everything's good for the first I think official game, which is Cardiff, which is round three.
Yeah, one month exactly to the day, so tenth of October will be the uh official competitive opening of this place.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–5:01
2
What makes the new LAYA Arena special for Leinster fans?
5:01–18:00
3
How did Josh van der Flier and Joe McCarthy describe their off‑season downtime?
18:00–38:53
4
Why is Leo Cullen considered a pivotal figure in Leinster’s success?
38:53–59:38
Speakers
2 identifiedMore from OTB Rugby
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