You probably all know the story by now, but come along with us as we go through the rise, the fall, and the further fall of one of Ireland's greatest ever sport stars.

For the 2nd part of the Special, which will be out on Thursday, head over and sing up to ⁠Headstuff+⁠ for 5 Euro + VAT per month, and you'll get well over 100 episodes of ad-free bonus content!

Come see us live in ⁠Dublin on November 25th⁠(and if you're reading this later just google Shite Talk History Live, we'll always be somewhere soon!) We'll be playing the Workmans Club alongside guest Peter McGann!

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After 14 years Michael and Sabina are leaving Áras an Uachtaráin so here's a brief (as in under 6 hours) episode about the life and times of Micky D.

This BMX photo is from Michael Donnelly if you want to check him out, and you can see all the other photos / videos mentioned in this episode over on our IG / TikTok.

We've also got a live show coming up in Dublin on the 25th of November as part of the Johnathan Swift festival, and we have the amazing Peter McGann as our guest for that so Get Your Tickets Here

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Here's a preview of an old episode from 2019 that we've re-edited with some audio software to make it sound less like it was recorded in a cave. You can listen to the rest of it, along with all the other bonus stuff, over

Also, we're down in Kilkenny tomorrow night, 01st of November, as part of the Home of Halloween Festival telling some haunted Irish tales, come by and say hello!

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It's Samhain once again so this week we had a chat with the amazing Katie Boyle about some lesser known Irish spirits and fairies.

Katie's bringing her solo show to the Ambassador on November 08th, you can get tickets here

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The country is heading to the polls this Friday to decide the 10th President of Ireland so we wanted to do a run down of the 2025 race so far;

Conor McGregor, small pharma, 20k on Hermès bags, 3k of stolen rent, Syria, and Fox Hunting, by god this election has it all.

We'll have another episode out on HeadStuff+ this Thursday covering the final week of the Áras race which you can listen to here, alongside all our other bonus stuff and ad free content.

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Part 2 of Saipan and the Roy Keane vs Mick McCarthy fiasco.

Little bit of house keeping, from next week onwards we'll be releasing on Tuesday instead of Monday!

Also....

We've got a few line shows and stuff coming up you can find out about here - ⁠LIVE SHOWS

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Hello, this week we're doing an episode on the early Irish-Palestine relations.

The past two years have been a particularly bleak time in the history of the region but we wanted to take a look at some of the early connections and similarities between Ireland and Mandatory Palestine from the 1920s on and maybe show why so many Irish people strongly identify with the people of Palestinian.

We've also got an ad for Samaritans early in the episode and you can find out more about volunteering for them at https://www.listening.ie/

We've got a few line shows and stuff coming up you can find out about here - LIVE SHOWS

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This week we're taking a look back at Saipan and the Roy Keane vs Mick McCarthy debacle, and the only way to do that is by going back six years beforehand to figure out what the hell was going on that led to one of the greatest tragedies Irish sport has ever witnessed.

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Hello! With Ireland breaking our hearts in the qualifiers at the minute, and a Saipan movie on its way, we're back talking about football this week.

We'll have a full Saipan episode out soon, but while we were recording that it got us thinking about the man who started it all, John Delaney.

Here's a clip from an episode we did on Don John back in 2020, and you can hear the rest of the reedited version over on ⁠⁠⁠Headstuff+⁠⁠⁠.

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Hello! Here's a short teaser for the final episode in our De Valera series.

Over on Head Stuff+ we did more of a deep dive into his birth (and his dad), the so called "Dev's Vice Act" (which led to a good Dundalk man getting fined for shifting), Dev's relationship with the physicist Erwin Schrödinger, and his ultimate legacy with the Mother & Baby homes, Haughey, and Bertie.

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