Second Captains @ The Irish Times

Eoin, Ken and Ciaran discuss Martin O'Neill's 35-man squad, an awkward phone call between Carlo Ancelotti and Mario Götze, and the final apotheosis of Allardyce.Dion Fanning reflects on what the post-Euros future might be for Ireland's management duo. And Jacob Steinberg joins us to talk about a transformative season for West Ham United. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Clare are League champions for the first time since 1978, thanks to the last-minute heroics of 2013 Hurler of the Year Tony Kelly. Malachy Clerkin and Eoin Kelly think this could be a good result for both teams ahead of this year's championship.Connacht are following the Glasgow blueprint, but how long can both teams sustain their Moneyball-esque balancing act? The BBC's Tom English joins us. Plus there's Eoin McDevitt's poetry, GAA pundits giving it both barrels, and the importance of banging your own drum. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Eoin, Ken and Ciaran discuss the Leicester title party, Vardy's nose rubbing, Kompany's misery, the difficulties of being on Pep Guardiola's medical staff, and Jurgen Klopp's Basel-invite u-turn.Jonathan Wilson thinks Sunderland are on the up after the win over Chelsea that promises Premier League redemption. And John Brewin joins us to analyse the Mancunian scramble for fourth place. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The reverberations of Leicester City's Premier League win have reached the Bay Area - we talk to US Murph about the greatest shocks in US sport, Ted Cruz's downfall, movie moments, and the corn fields of Iowa.We have the Return of the Mack, Ken's boxing nickname, and the Barack Obama comedy show. And Andy Lee comes into studio to help us look ahead to Saul Canelo Alvarez and Amir Khan. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Eoin, Ken and Ciaran talk about nerd nonsense Versus mindless gut instinct, two Champions League semi-finals of contrasting quality, Sturrdige The Martian, and the golden afterglow of Leicester's title win.Raphael Honigstein joins us to discuss whether Pep has failed at Bayern. And Sid Lowe looks forward to another all-Spanish Champions League knife fight. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ken caught up with Kevin Keegan to discuss Leicester's triumph, drugs in football, and the time Kevin mocked a young Eoin McDevitt.We also discuss likeable football men, 50 mile runs, Fergie's self praise and Richard Keys' sixth sense. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We rate Leicester's PL win alongside the all-time shocks in sport, Ken explains his Black Swan theory and we talk to the real life Jason Bourne....of BBC Radio Leicester.Davy Fitz wasn't his usual phlegmatic self in the league final, even with Donal Og alongside him. Eoin Kelly and Malachy Clerkin analyse the Clare Waterford trilogy.Plus there's Nesbitt watch, and Gerry Thornley on an angry Johnny Sexton, and how bad PR can create good rugby. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Eoin and Ken reflect on Leicester's title win. Amazing as it now seems, all of this was foretold. Richard III, pizza, dilly-ding dilly-dong. Jonathan Wilson and Gabriele Marcotti try to explain the inexplicable. Plus there's eye gouges, our friendly phone chats with Ranieri, Bayern V Mad Dogs and Ardiles hurtin'. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tommy Walsh arrived home from Australia in late 2014 with the prospect of a long and fruitful Gaelic football career ahead of him. But today he’s walked away from the Kerry panel, and we talk to his club-man and former Kerry All-Ireland winner Micheal Quirke. Stephen Ferris and Shane Horgan talk to us about the Ulster-Leinster game, and the current shambles with Munster, and there’s also the Hurling League final, Martin Castrogiovanni and invasive Aussie Rules tv pundits. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Eoin has got another one of his crackpot theories. He thinks Leicester are the best team in the Premier League. He and Ken talk about that, and the impossibly tight trousers middle-aged football managers are forcing themselves into in an effort to appear young.Jonathan Wilson talks to us about Atletico's defeat of Bayern in the Champions League semis, and barrister James Mehigan, who represented 77 of the Hillsborough families in the recent inquest, joins us to analyse the meaning of the verdict. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dublin won their fourth League title in a row, at a canter against Kerry in front of almost 80,000 people in Croke Park yesterday - Oisin McConville and Karol Mannion paint a gloomy picture for the rest of the country as we look ahead to the summer. Who is Rassie Erasmus, the man set to become Munster's first Director of Rugby, and what does his arrival mean for the province's home-grown coaching ticket? Craig Ray joins us from South Africa. Plus - is there a credibility gap developing between Conor McGregor's twitter feed and, eh, reality? And there's on-field head coach Stephen Cluxton, bank manager music and wishing ill on the living. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Eoin, Ken and Ciaran talk about Leicester's sweep at the PFA awards and Mamadou Sakho's little fat-burner problem.Tony Barrett joins us to talk about Liverpool's likely handling of the Sakho situationAnd John Brewin was at Wembley for both FA Cup semi-finals as Manchester United and Crystal Palace booked their places for the rematch of the classic final of 1990 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Eoin, Ken and Ciaran talk about Leicester's run-in and Roy Hodgson's runaway sentences. Dion Fanning joins us in studio to talk about the Merseyside Derby. And Terry Daley reports from Rome on a glory night for Francesco Totti. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ken has just about managed to get over his shock and dismay, and give us his considered opinion on Conor McGregor's 'retirement'. We talk about the fascinating differences of opinion in recent weeks between Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic on the issue of doping in tennis. Plus we have US Murph on Kobe Bryant's retirement, and there's Acadian driftwood, Ivy League colleges and circadian rhythms. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The hurling world has been waiting for a really big Clare-Kilkenny match-up for three years, and when it finally came, Clare emerged convincing winners. Malachy Clerkin and Eoin Kelly give us their verdicts. Gerry Thornley was in the Sportsground to see Munster being out-gunned in every facet by Connacht on Saturday night. And there's teenage Murph's worst nightmare, Acadian driftwood, and Galway people's aversion to walking. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Leicester City bandwagon lurched a little yesterday but a controversial last-minute penalty against West Ham ensured that they stay on track for their miracle league win. We discuss the continuing growth of soccer in the US with Roger Bennett of the Men in Blazers podcast in New York, and there's birch trees, birdsong... and Tom Selleck. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's the last show of our week in New York, and we sent our ace reporter (and past-and-future-middleweight champ) Andy Lee to talk to Patrick Hyland, who fights Gary Russell Jnr for the WBC featherweight title tomorrow night in Connecticut. Plus there's our anti-Trump rally bloodlust, an update on ken's sunburn woes and Eoin's earnest attempts to impress Henry Shefflin with his running prowess... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's a very special show from the rooftop terrace of Brass Monkey in New York as we talk to Henry Shefflin about the Sunday Game, Kilkenny's chances of a three in a row, and playing Junior B football. Andy Lee and John Duddy talk about the fight that never happened between them, the buzz of working with Robert De Niro and home town decisions. Plus there's sporting failure, points and pints, and Ken's gooooaaallls. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We made our way to the rooftop of the Brass Monkey bar in Manhattan where we were joined by ace comedian Des Bishop, American soccer supremo Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated and a crowd of mostly legal Irish emigrants.We discuss Des' Italia 90 experience, Ronaldo's majestic hat trick, the disappearance of Barcelona's magic dust and Ken's sunburn. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Eoin, Ken and Ciaran are absorbing New York City. They talk about Trump's likely conquest of his home state and what inspired McDevitt the cub reporter.Legendary New York Times sports columnist George Vecsey talks to us about his eight World Cups and why Italian Americans originally chose baseball over soccer. And Kevin Grogan joins us in the Brass Monkey to talk to us about his career, Fergie, and his path to his current role as technical director of a club here in the US. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.