The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast

Japan’s Naomi Osaka won her first Grand Slam tennis title at the weekend, giving a brilliant display to take the US Open title, but her achievement has almost gone under the radar. All attention has been taken by the extraordinary on-court showdown between Serena Williams and umpire Carlos Ramos, which has kickstarted a massive debate in the sport covering sexism, racism, pernickety umpires and entitled superstars. Journalist Amy O’Connor joins us in the studio to examine the various angles.Irish soccer is in the doldrums again, with lots of wailing, gnashing of teeth and questions being asked of the management. Emmet Malone joins us on the line from Poland ahead of the friendly on Tuesday to try to convince us that things aren’t that bad. Or at least that if they are that bad, ditching our manager might not be the way to solve the problem.And we look back at Cork’s win over Kilkenny in the All-Ireland Camogie final, where a tight game between the two best teams in the sport somehow managed to be dreary and boring. Does the sport need some rule changes, or has the game just been caught up in the GAA’s infamous “paralysis by analysis”?All that in your Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent. TimesGAA: 0.10Tennis: 5.45Soccer: 25.30

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It's the morning after the latest brick in the Dublin skyscraper has been laid and talk of an eternal empire is unavoidable. The four-in-a-row is here, will it end at five, six, seven or what?We have a special guest in studio to talk us through the final - Monaghan's Conor McManus is here, along with Irish Times GAA correspondent Seán Moran. Conor's insight into what it's like to be caught in the teeth of the Dublin machine is worth far more than ours, so we basically let him at it. Elsewhere yesterday, the first Old Firm of the Stevie G v Brendan Rodgers era kicked off - and kept kicking, as these games tend to. Michael Walker is on the line to talk about Gerrard's first months in an impossible job and whether or not Livingstone away is going to be enough for Rodgers in the long term.All that, plus the dawn of Seeemon Zaybo, in your Monday Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.GAA: 3.40Old Firm: 25.30

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It's All-Ireland football final weekend and the mood is curiously downbeat. Is it a foregone conclusion? Are the Dubs a shoo-in for four-in-a-row? Have Tyrone very much going for them other than a sneaky feeling Mickey Harte will come up with something?Darragh Ó Sé and Seán Moran join us to pick through a final that everyone seems to have made their mind up on already.Summer's gone. Kaput. Past tense. How do we know? We know because Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to chat about the new rugby season. How do Leinster top the perfect season? How do Ulster survive the departure of a full back-line? How will Andy Friend lift Connacht? Who has made better signings than Munster? (Spoiler Alert: Nobody).There's also a mad finish to the All-Ireland under-21 hurling final, an even madder finish to the Kerry hurling final and almost no mention of the Pope.All this in your Monday Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

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Limerick, you're a... champion? Feels weird to even say it but it's true. After all the decades of broken-hearted journeys home from Croke Park, after finding every possible way on every possible day not to do it, Limerick finally ended their 45-year famine.Pay Nugent is back in situ as we break down what was ultimately a poor All-Ireland final saved by a madcap ending and an incredible story. Why were Galway so flat? How did Mike Casey do so well on Johnny Glynn? Will Limerick dominate for years now or will they even get out of Munster in 2019?Sean Moran and Keith Duggan join us to break down the final game in the greatest hurling championship.Manchester City have had the Year-In-A-Life treatment from Amazon Prime. 'All Or Nothing' was released last Friday and Pat watched it all so you don't have to. Or maybe you'll want to after you hear his verdict on it.All this on your Monday morning Added Time with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

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After 10 years of more downs than ups, of more slings and arrows than outrageous fortune, of people presuming the good times were gone and were never coming back... Tiger Woods nearly won a major again on Sunday night. Oh, and Tyrone are back in an All-Ireland final with Mickey Harte at the helm. Keith Duggan joins us to break down the weekend's All-Ireland football semi-finals as Tyrone took care of Monaghan and Dublin laid waste to Galway. And we try to settle the question that hangs over the football championship - are Dublin actually enjoyable to watch? Ian O'Riordan has one job to do before vacating his boutique Berlin bolthole and coming home from the European Athletics Championships and that's fill us on a mixed week for Irish athletics. Outside of Thomas Barr and Ciara Mageean, he reckons there wasn't a whole lot to shout about. And since we're now a gymnastics powerhouse, we felt it was only right to get Cliona Foley on the line to tell us all about Rhys McClenaghan, the pommel horse prince of Newtownards. All in your Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey.Timings:00:25 Malachy and Gavin on Tiger's form03:55 Keith Duggan on the weekend's GAA20:07 From Berlin, Ian O'Riordan reports from the European Championships32:40 Cliona Foley tells us about Ireland's gold medal winning gymnast Rhys McClenaghan.

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Nothing like a wholesome, happy sporting triumph to bring on a good dose of political cynicism. Sports minister Shane Ross couldn't even allow the Ireland women's hockey team make it through their homecoming parade without elbowing his way into the spotlight. Johnny Watterson is in studio to round off the good news story of the sporting summer with reality's cold, dead hand. As the GAA summer heads for the shore, Seán Moran joins us to talk about the Galway hurlers' stickability, the Galway footballers' mental collapse and Monaghan's ultra-professionalism. Checking in from Berlin, Ian O'Riordan breaks down the European Athletics Championships, with Thomas Barr and Ciara Mageean the big Irish hopes for the week. All in your Tuesday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey.Timings:02:48 Seán Moran on the weekend's GAA18:30 Johnny Watterson on Ireland's hockey heroines31:50 From Berlin, Ian O'Riordan on Irish hopes this week at the European Athletics Championship

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Monday morning, coming down. This is what a hurling hangover feels like. After a weekend of unbelievable action at Croke Park, we're pale and drawn and washed out by it all. But if the hurlers can go again, we can too. Not all heroes wear helmets. Sean Moran is in studio to put some order on it all for us.The mighty Natalya Coyle has had an amazing summer in the modern pentathlon, winning her first ever silver medal at a World Cup and leading the Irish team to a podium finish in the European Championships. She's in for a visit to tell us about her rise through the ranks, balancing her training and how Ireland accidentally won a silver medal in Hungary.And the Ireland women's hockey team will play a World Cup quarter-final on Thursday, having topped their pool as the surprise packages of the tournament in London. Johnny Watterson was there last week and joins us to break down how this has happened and what hockey needs to do to capitalise on their moment in the spotlight.All in your Monday morning Added Time with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey.Find what you're looking for:2.45 Hurling with Sean Moran24.00 Pentathlete Natalya Coyle 35.00 Hockey with Johnny Watterson

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Now that's what Sundays in the summer are for. From Clones to Carnoustie, it was hard to know where to look at times, such was the sheer gut-gouging drama of it all. The Super-8s came alive, the British Open delivered yet another stellar final round and all you had to do was find a way to keep on top of it all.That's where we come in.Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey were in St Tiarnach's Park to see Monaghan dominate Kerry for 72 out of the 75 minutes and still not come out on top. Sean Moran checks in to break it all down, as well as the Dublin v Tyrone game in Omagh he was at on Saturday night.Philip Reid calls in from Carnoustie where he reported on a final round that saw seven different players lead the British open at one stage or another. Ruairí Croke manned the liveblog on Sunday afternoon and he joins us in studio where we talk Molinari, Rory, Tiger (!), Spieth and the countless other storylines from a mad day's golf on the east coast of Scotland.All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey.

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Like the day after the day after a wedding, the World Cup hangover has taken hold and left us with nothing but hollow, fear-filled regret. Or maybe that's just us at the Added Time podcast - everyone will have their own way of coping.To fill the void, even just momentarily, Emmet Malone joins us from Istanbul airport to break down a final that was in keeping with the rest of the tournament, given that loads of weird stuff happened and France just kept on keeping on to see it out.Ian O'Riordan checks in after another scintillating weekend for Irish athletics and tries to answer the riddle of quite how we became a world-dominating powerhouse all of a sudden (Hint: we probably poxed it a bit).If the first weekend of the Super-8s hasn't exactly set the world ablaze, it has at least set up what could be a barn-burning second weekend. Keith Duggan spent the full weekend in Croke Park and joins us to break down where Kerry in particular go from here.On top of that, there's an earth-shaking hurling quarter-final between Kilkenny and Limerick to break down as Brian Cody's men depart the championship in another blaze of glory.All in your Added Time podcast with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

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The World Cup is down to the last four, and the tension is rising. Emmet Malone joins us on the line from Russia to explain why he’s feeling a little out of step with the press pack – not only has he been underwhelmed by Belgium so far, he also simply can’t bring himself to wish England well. And yes, he knows he probably should be a bit more mature and just rise above it all, but …Ireland enjoyed an extraordinary weekend of success at the European Under-18 Athletics Championships in Hungary, Ian O’Riordan talks us through a brilliant weekend, explains where the gold rush came from and tells us how excited we should be (spoiler: we should be pretty excited).Galway laid down a marker in the Leinster hurling final on Sunday, delivering a hugely impressive performance against Kilkenny. Sean Moran looks at how the Tribesmen seem to have returned to the heights they reached last year, and why that is very bad news for any other teams with designs on Liam MacCarthy.All in your Added Time podcast with Pat Nugent and Mary Hannigan.World Cup with Emmet Malone - 4.25Mary Hannigan - 19.45Athletics with Ian O'Riordan - 25.30Leinster Hurling Final with Sean Moran - 35.40

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