The Offload
Munster coaching controversy, Home Alone, URC returns, W6N & more | The Offload EP80
17 Apr 2026
Chapter 1: What are the highlights of the upcoming rugby matches?
Hello, welcome along to the Offload podcast. Donegha, you're home alone.
Yes, I am, Tommy. That's why I'm so grateful to have all the provinces going well this weekend. Lots of rugby to watch and we'll be reviewing and previewing the weekends ahead for all the provinces, plus the big one, Tommy. The girls in green, the green wave is hitting Galway. Ireland versus Italy, taking them on in the Dexcom. Should be a great game.
We're going to discuss it. Will do.
Chapter 2: What is the significance of Katie Taylor's potential fight in Croke Park?
And of course, Munster back in the headlines again. We'll discuss that in a little bit more detail and also a few other stories that have caught our eye. So make sure to keep tuned to the offload. Oh, Doneca, Six Nations is back and there's a real buzz around the girls in green.
You're not wrong, Tommy boy. Yes, momentum is building as we get behind the team this year.
It's set to be a huge few weeks. Big games, big moments, an incredible sport right across the country.
And Vodafone is right at the heart of it, backing the team and rallying the fans through the team of us.
There's matches in Galway, Belfast and of course that historic first standalone game at the Aviva. The green wave is growing.
Yeah, so get behind our girls in green with Vodafone and the team of us. Come on Ireland!
Well, he's home alone. The house is a tip behind him. I hope Jenny's not cluing into this.
I hope Jenny isn't cluing into this. And if she is, Jenny, come home. We all miss you fierce. Jenny's away.
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Chapter 3: How is the Munster coaching controversy affecting the team?
She's with her sisters in Nice. The three of them got together. They live in kind of different parts. So they came together to meet in Nice and catch up. And she's getting kind of three days there to kind of just get a bit of a break, which she... Totally deserves. But I promise you, Tommy, man, I am under the pump. I am. I'm a shell of myself. I really am.
You're giving a bad reflection of us men here. Step up, man. This is your time to shine. Believe me. She's going to come home and you're going to say, you should go away more often, Jen.
Yeah, exactly. This is easy. And I swear, I want that with all my heart. I want to be able to put... But I just can't logistically watch it all drop down, if you know what I mean. I can't keep that many balls in the air.
Chapter 4: What are the expectations for the Ireland women's team against Italy?
Jake went off this morning and got a phone call about an hour ago that he'd forgotten his lunch. You know what I mean? The same lunch that I was talking into because it was on the worktop. And then I realized, ah, sugar, that was his lunch. And Jenny had tipped off the kids to make their own lunches. It was like, you know, he's not going to be all over that, so make sure. Stuff like that.
How she left your list. Yeah. Like a schedule.
A schedule like you wouldn't believe. I should go out and get a fear there and just kind of go through it. And look, I put my hands up. I know that is not on. You know what I mean? That I should be able. But the itinerary has stuff like drop Jake to ring Mahan. You'll think you have time to get a coffee there. You don't. You need to go to Nemo and collect Anna and bring Robin to Athletics.
Chapter 5: What challenges are Munster facing in the URC this season?
then you'll have time to get a coffee and it's around the corner there.
Right, this brings up, now this is, did you read, there was an article in the paper and I heard them discussing it over the weekend, Brianna Parkins, and I don't know the exact, so I'm paraphrasing here, but she said that men don't see the dirt, like that men tidy, women clean, right? And it's very true. Great line. Real life. That, you know, men don't see dirt.
They just know that the women will come up and clean it up out. And I think if in some respects that's true, but there's obviously a lot of fellas out there who do the cleaning, whatever else. But like you're mentioning there a bit that I see as one of my jobs and that's to do a lot of the picking and dropping and stuff. Like, do you not?
Is that like where we could be opening up a can of worms here? Where is your roles in this?
Yeah, I know. But the way our schedule's gone, so we have four kids and to be fair, they're in an awful lot of activities. So you actually do... And I'm not trying to ring a bell of excuses, but I'm relying now at the moment of the goodwill of kind of friends and people that are in different things. And I actually like that.
That's the big community stuff when people bail you out and get you out of a bit of hassle. My problem is... Genuinely, you take for granted the selfless acts of others. I have taken for granted how Jenny puts everyone else first and then herself.
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Chapter 6: How does the URC competition impact team strategies?
You know what I mean? I don't mean to sound too cringy. But last night, right, or Jake got up this morning and he wanted to wear shorts to school. They're allowed nowhere shorts. And then his knees were dirty. And I was there like, you didn't have a shower after soccer. And he was there, you didn't tell me have a shower after soccer.
And we ended up having this ridiculous conversation of, do I have to tell you to do that? And he's looking at me kind of going, you're telling me to do it now, like, you know what I mean? And they're like, ah, yeah.
Okay. Well, listen, is she home so you can watch a bit of rugby? Actually, you're never going to be able to watch any rugby anymore.
Forget about everything. I'm on the survival trail. I'm ringing my mom and bringing her down for dinner and just asking her advice.
No, you can't do that. That's, that's, that's, listen, you got to go through this on your own. You got to show your capable. I do, I do.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the coaching changes at Munster?
And look, I'm not trying to make it about me. I promise you, I'm not trying to make it about me. I'm trying to highlight the fact of selfless people that go beyond themselves and underappreciation on my part more so than anything else. I take it for granted.
Do you know what?
What goes around comes around. Those people who will help you out now, you'll be able to return the favour, you know, in a couple of weeks' time, later down the line, no? You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? Done again. Come on, man. You're a generous giving man. You're always there to help people out. If you're listening and you know he's not, please do get in touch. Offload. Offload podcast.
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Or more importantly, if your kids are in the same activities as mine and you see them at the side of a pitch for over 20 minutes, will you make sure to drop them home or something, please?
Now, one of my things as well, like in terms of kit and stuff, like I made a career out of playing rugby, turning up in the wrong kit, old shorts, wrong socks, odd socks. I just kind of see that as like, aren't I here? Aren't I dressed?
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Chapter 8: What reflections do the hosts have on the evolution of rugby culture?
Those small details which we keep hearing from all the... management speak and Joe Schmitz of this world to tell us, you know, it's take care of the small details, the big details, look at themselves. I wasn't really into that. I was like, listen, I look forward to the big match. And if I turn up for training and the right stuff, the happy days.
So I try to pass that on to the kids to kind of like, don't get bogged down in like, you know, in the small stuff that people get really upset about, like relax. But Lucy doesn't see that. Yeah. Oh, do you mean at all? Like, you know, I'd send Jamie in in shorts, but probably like the wrong shade of grey shorts. Yeah. So to me, I'm like, they're shorts. They're grey. Like, they're grand.
No, they're not. They're not. So... And this goes back to the whole women, like men tidy, women clean. Like I think men clean, just women clean more. Like they see more. Like Lucy sees stuff that I just don't see.
And I often say that to Jenny. Like I don't know what's frustrating you. But if she, and we realized this as we were getting married, Jenny realized if you give me, if she gave me a job, I'd do it. But I couldn't work out, you know what I mean, that that job needed to be done. You know, that way. She was there like, will you ring the band? I was there, yeah, no problem at all.
And she was there like, probably two weeks before it, thinking, when is he going to ring the band? Just leave me no idea.
I love this.
I can't multitask, man. I can't.
I swear. I listened to this on Newstalk the other day and we're not doing ourselves any favour.
No, we're not. Not like any of the messages that came in. We know there is proper people out there and I don't mean to make it a gender thing in any way. It's not. You just know there's super people that put others first and that's what we've got in our house with Jenny. Yeah.
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