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This week's guest is Simon Hughes.Simon covers Merseyside football for The Athletic, and is the author of several books about Liverpool including a trilogy of players’ stories from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. He has also written a social hist
This week’s guest is Irish writer Colin Barrett. We discuss football, why Man City fail in the Champions League and why Pep Guardiola needs to learn that the great creators learn how to embrace a loss of control.Colin also talks about writing,
A bonus episode of sorts this week: Gavan Casey of The42 spent last week in New York, covering Katie Taylor's barnburner with Amanda Serrano. It was one of the great nights in Irish sport and one of the biggest in the history of women's profess
We’ve reached our 100th episode and so we are joined by one of Ireland’s greatest writers, Colm Tóibín.Colm talks about the one sport he loves: tennis, recalls his recent meeting with Roger Federer and tells us why he actually likes Novak Djok
This week’s guest is Guardian football and cricket writer Rob Smyth.Rob explains why he believes Irish sports coverage is generally better than English coverage, and how instant social media feedback has changed journalism, writing and punditr
Our latest guest is James Montague. James covers football, politics and society for the New York Times, CNN and the BBC World Service. His books include Thirty One Nil: On The Road With Football's Outsiders, a World Cup Odyssey and The Billion
This week’s guest is journalist, activist, and politician Eamonn McCann. We talk about Eamonn’s love for Derry City, what the football club means to the city, and why GAA hasn’t taken root in the city to the same extent. We also discuss about
This week’s guest is Sunday Independent golf writer, Dermot Gilleece. Dermot has been working as a journalist for more than 60 years, and has written several books including _Touching Greatness: Memorable Encounters with Golfing Legends. _He i
This week’s guest is Canadian author and journalist Chris Jones.Chris has served as writer-at-large for Esquire magazine, for whom he has won two National Magazine Awards and saw one piece adapted for the 2018 Netflix series, Away.He is also
This week’s guest is Richard Williams. Richard is formerly the Chief Sports Writer of the Guardian, having also worked with the Independent on Sunday and the Times.He is also a very successful music journalist, editing _Melody Maker _in the 19
To round out 2021, Gavan Casey and Emma Duffy of The42 join us to look back at some of the year’s best sportswriting. Here are their picks. Gavan “Roy Keane: ‘I’m way down the pecking order in my own home. Even the dog tells me what to do’”
This week's guest is editor and writer John Brewin. In addition to covering sport, John has also been writing about HBO's TV hit Succession: we discuss of how a glitzy world filled with terrible-but-with-no-less-watchable people was presaged b
This week's episode is a look back on some of the highlights of our most recent run of episodes. Listen as George Hamilton reveals his 1980s pseudonym; John Feinstein discusses Rory McIlroy's legacy and his harsh treatment by American televisi
This week’s guest is legendary Irish football commentator, George Hamilton.George has written his memoirs, The Nation Holds Its Breath, and we discuss his early life growing up in Belfast and chart his path to RTE, via stints alongside a recog
This week’s guest is one of Ireland’s greatest writers: Donal Ryan. In 2016, Sebastien Barry described Donal as “the king of the new wave of Irish writers”, and after persevering through almost 50 rejections of his opening novel, has since been
This week’s guest on Behind the Lines is one of Ireland’s most exciting writers, Eimear Ryan.Eimear is writer-in-residence at UCC, and writes brilliantly on sport every week for the Irish Examiner. Her first novel, Holding Her Breath, was pub
With a rare opportunity to reflect on an actual competitive win for Ireland, Gavin Cooney and David Sneyd join Paul Dollery to assess the 3-0 victory over Azerbaijan.
This week’s guest is American journalist and author, Dave Zirin.Dave has always written about the intersection of American sport and politics, and his latest book follows that lineage: The Kaepernick Effect. We discuss what exactly The Kaeper
This week’s guest is Sunday Independent rugby correspondent, Brendan Fanning. Brendan has ghostwritten the brilliant new autobiography of Willie Anderson, Crossing the Line, and we talk about some of the stories in the book, including the harr
Standby as we invade your 'Behind the Lines' feed for one last time. The Football Family crew of Paul, Gav and Dave look back on a happy (?) night at Lansdowne Road as Stephen Kenny's Ireland closed out this International window with a draw ag
With your host (still) preoccupied with international football, Behind The Lines continues this week on the Ireland beat. Gavin joined Paul Dollery and David Sneyd to look ahead to Tuesdays World Cup qualification encounter at home to Serbia.
With your host preoccupied with international football, Behind The Lines takes a break this week.But Gavin joined Paul Dollery and David Sneyd to look ahead to this week's World Cup qualification encounter away to Portugal on a special episode
This week’s guest is John Feinstein.John is a columnist with the Washington Post and a prolific author: his 45th book, R_aise a Fist, Take a Knee_, is published on 16 November later this year.John discusses his start in journalism at the Post
This week’s guest is Irish writer Séamas O’Reilly, who has recently published his bestselling memoir, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? Séamas is one of 11 children, and his mother died when he was five. He talks about the process of writing about and r
This week’s guest is historian and author John Foot, who has written the acclaimed _Calcio: A History of Italian Football. _For obvious post-Euro 2020 reasons we take a deep dive into Italian football, as John explains his thesis that “it is a
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