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Linda has given part of her life to the development of camogie in Leinster, Ireland but particularly in her native Carlow. When Carlow and Myshall won their respective  junior premier and intermediate all-Ireland titles at Croke Park in 2016 and 2017, she may not have been on the pitch but her work in promoting and developing the game in Carlow had a huge part in those unforgettable days. 
Here she reflects on many aspects of the development of the game in Carlow and looks forward to a time when all strands of GAA comes together as one big family. 

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Benny Kavanagh has had a glorious and long career with club and county. He was part of the Éire Og four-in-a-row team of 2017-20 but Rathvilly deprived them in their drive for five. Now, the Wicklow border side has knocked out the YIs in the quarter-finals this year. Two weeks on, Benny admits this still hurts as he looks back on what went wrong.
He also shoots the breeze on a range of other issues and confesses some of the rules such as the mark and the black card still perplex him. 

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On Saturday 20th August, Tullow rugby player, Dannah O'Brien made her debut in the two match test series  against Japan in Tokyo. She scored 18 points that day as Ireland came away with a famous win. The out-half went on to win a second cap the following week. 
Here, the 19 year old reflects on what has been an amazing experience for her but she is taking nothing for granted as she sets goals for herself. Dannah  is going into first year  in DCU and has already made her debut for Old Belvedere in the All-Ireland League. 

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Moling Morrissey, Cyril Hughes, Tommy Dwyer, Paddy Quirke and Paul Broderick are all household GAA names in Carlow. 
In the Barrowside edition of Game of My  Life, John Kelly collects the stories of 30 Carlow greats and in a fascinating book allows them to share their  memories of their experiences  in the Carlow jersey. 
There are also memories of times off the pitch as one former Carlow footballer relates. 
"Who were the other bunch, only Roy Evans and Kenny Dalglish and a host of other Liverpool people who were also out there for a few days. Well, they all joined in with the drinking and the singing and they had a great night as well."
I spoke to John at the book launch last Thursday. 

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Separate interviews with former Old Leighlin manager, Barry Hayes, and Eamonn Byrne who looks back on 29 years since Bennekerry-Tinryland was founded. Both clubs have built up an intense but friendly rivalry over the last seven years and predicting a winner is not easy. 

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With the third round of the football championships just over a week away, I sat down with St Patricks manager, Mick Kehoe, to discuss what is going to be a tense and exciting week for his club and the rest of the teams in the county. 
The Tinryland man, who was recently appointed  manager of the Carlow minor footballers,  is articulate, easy to talk to and he was happy to discuss some of the issues which affect the local and national GAA scene. 
Among other things, he points out the way forward for clubs who have underachieved and says the might of the likes of  Éire Og and Rathvilly can be taken on and defeated.  He says the culture of verbal abuse of referees must stop and cannot be tolerated any longer. 

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Robbie Foley won his last senior hurling championship with Naomh Eoin  in 2005. If someone had told him then that the Myshall club would not win another title in the following 17 years, Robbie would surely have thought they were fantasising. 
Yet the balance of power changed and Robbie looks at this while reflecting on his Christy Ring Cup successes while he explains why he supported Mount Leinster Rangers when they played Oulart-the-Ballagh in the Leinster senior club final.
He is adamant that the balance of power will change eventually and he looks forward to when that happens. 
Robbie is also the nephew of the great Tom Foley who trained Cheltenham winner, Danoli, and has a keen interest in horses himself. 

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Having captained the Carlow senior hurling team to a Christy Ring Cup victory and then going on and managing the Carlow camogie team to a junior premier title, Mark Brennan is no stranger to big days in Croke Park. 
More recently,  as a coach to the Meath ladies senior football team, he has been part of one of the great GAA success stories of all time. In this interview he shares the memories of these heady times,  outlines his philosophy as a coach and how the Meath players took ownership of their own situation and went on to win back-to-back All-Ireland senior titles. 

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Turlough O'Brien grew up in a GAA environment and strangely enough this is where his love for cycling came from as he delivered letters to county board members which his late father, Jim,  had written. 
His love intensified for two wheel travelling .  Turlough has travelled around Europe on the bike and has been accompanied on many of his adventures by Mary, his wife. As each of this three children left primary school, Turlough brought them cycling on the continent for holidays they will never forget. 
He recalls arriving  to a town in Spain without a place to stay to find a festival in full swing and all hostels and hotels fully booked. With one of his children, it was back on their bikes and on to the next town.  There was no room at the inn there either but they coped.
He also paid a surprise visit to his sister in New York where he landed on the doorstep wet to the skin having flown over from Dublin where he bought a bike after he had got off the plane. 
There is a little bit of football chat too but this podcast is all about human interests and cycling. 

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In 1976, Pat Walker left Carlow to play for Gillingham in England. When he went on tour to Majorca with his club, he met his wife, Annette, who hails from Sweden. 
It was a significant  introduction and Pat eventually ended up  in the Scandinavian country while he also played in Norway. 
When he retired he went into management in both these countries enjoying considerable success.
He is still involved in soccer management but not on the same scale. He believes passionately that if Irish soccer is to get the best out of itself, the moves have to come from within and he expresses this during our interview.