Sinopsis
Described by George Hook as the greatest Irish player never to make it and described by everyone else who knows him as a shallow, self-obsessed idiot.
Episodios
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'She’s hord work, my new padel portner. But the girl fascinates me. She’s like a female me'
15/01/2024 Duración: 06minRéaltín and I have an intuitive understanding that only great lovers, or an out-half and his inside-centre, could fully understand Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘Ross, this was my sliding doors moment. And I made the wrong choice’
05/01/2024 Duración: 06minSorcha has made an alarming discovery during her annual New Year’s Day clear-out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘The Leopardstown Races, eh, Ross? A great way to blow off the old cobwebs after Christmas!’
29/12/2023 Duración: 06minLeopardstown on Stephen Zuzz Day is a tradition for the O’Carroll-Kelly men Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Honor is like, ‘There’s no chocolate Kimberleys left,’ and that’s when I end up suddenly losing my sh*t
22/12/2023 Duración: 06minIt’s three days before the big day and Cornelscourt is like the Battle of the Bastards scene from Game of Thrones Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘Oh my God, is this really all the books that we own as a family? I’m so ashamed’
15/12/2023 Duración: 07minSorcha wants to make our own Christmas tree out of books this year. I think she’s been at the eggnog Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘You need to look up the difference between mincemeat and minced meat. Merry focking Christmas’
08/12/2023 Duración: 07minWe’re off to give my godson Ross Junior his Christmas present, but his old dear will already be in a fouler at the thought of me coming. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘I’ve never even cleaned up my own children’s vomit, I’m not mopping up after some randomer’
01/12/2023 Duración: 06minWe’re doing the usual volunteering at the annual Christmas fete and this year we’ve been put on toilet-cleaning duties as a punishment Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘Sneaking around behind my wife’s back is something I’m very, very good at, in fairness to me’
24/11/2023 Duración: 05min“If we do this,” she goes, “my husband can’t find out about it. Under any circumstances?” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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I wake up on Sunday morning thinking, am I having one of my famous erotic dreams?
17/11/2023 Duración: 06minOr is Sorcha standing at the end of the bed, wearing the Tory Burch tennis whites she bought last summer to watch Wimbledon?She’s like, “Are you ready?”“Ready?” I go. “In terms of?”Read Ross O'Carroll-Kelly at irishtimes.com/podcasts/ross-ocarroll-kelly/. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sorcha is like me before every Ireland squad announcement – in other words, focking delusional
10/11/2023 Duración: 06minIt’s the Killiney and Dalkey Combined Christmas Fete meeting, and we’re about as welcome as a snot-nosed kid in a bridal shop Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘When I close my eyes at night, I can still see that bird’s horrible, leering face’
03/11/2023 Duración: 06min“Sur! Prise!” we all go.But the old man – standing at the bottom of the stairs in Shanahan’s on the Green – barely raises a smile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘Sorcha, I honestly don’t think we can just saunter in here like nothing has happened’
27/10/2023 Duración: 06minI’m there, “I have a bad feeling about this.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘Ross, this is all your fault, you sniggering halfwit - that daughter of yours has been going wrong since the day she was born’
27/10/2023 Duración: 06minIt’s a sad day. Everyone agrees. Not as sad – hand on hort – as Ireland losing to the All Blacks last weekend. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘Ross, didn’t you get a present of an All Blacks jersey once and use it to wash the cor?’
13/10/2023 Duración: 06minSo we’re in Corcoran’s on the famous Boulevord de Clichy – we’re talking me, Christian, JP, Oisinn and Fionn – and I’m telling the goys why I think we’ll beat the All Blacks on Saturday and why I think it won’t even be close? But they only want one question answered. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘What does being Johnny Sexton’s hype man involve exactly, Dad?’
06/10/2023 Duración: 06minI’m there, “I’d be in Paris now if things had been different,” and when I say different, I mean if my daughter hadn’t been chorged with 277 counts of criminal damage. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘I’ve never seen Sorcha so upset - and given my record as a husband, that’s a genuine achievement’
29/09/2023 Duración: 06minI’ve never seen Sorcha so upset? And given my record as a husband, that’s a genuine achievement. She’s literally shaking with rage and whatever else is bubbling inside her, which is the reason I’m staying on the other side of the kitchen island. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘Dad, you need to ask yourself what do you want to be – a rugby fan or a good father?’
22/09/2023 Duración: 06minI love a crowd. Yeah, no, that’s as true of me now as it was back in my days as the best number 10 in the history of Irish schools rugby and the goy that every girl wanted to be with. I love the feeling of people staring at me with their gobs open in just, like, wonder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Some things are more important than family. Rugby happens to be one of them
19/09/2023 Duración: 06minSo I wake up in the hotel in Nantes to find a letter on my bedside table, which turns out to be from – yeah, no – my old man? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘There’s no caps for your so-called matches against Mexico and, I don’t know, Guava Larva. I made the entire thing up’
08/09/2023 Duración: 06minThe old man is as excited as I’ve seen him since the members of Elm Pork Golf Club voted to name the lateral water hazard on the 12th hole “the Chorles River”. It’s, like, Friday night – the night before Ireland play Romania in the opening match of the Rugby World Cup – and I’m sitting in The Connemora in Bordeaux, listening to him phone pretty much everyone he’s ever known in his entire life to tell them his so-called news. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘It turns out that every single vehicle in the Mount Anville cor pork has had its tyres done. Except one’
01/09/2023 Duración: 06minSorcha is tense. Yeah, no, for her, the first day back after the school holidays is like the first day of the Six Nations for me. In other words, a matter of life and death. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.