Ross O'carroll-kelly @ The Irish Times
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 52:18:57
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Synopsis
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.
Episodes
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‘I want it gone, Ross. I want you to get it lasered off’
07/06/2024 Duration: 06minSo – yeah, no – I’m mowing the back gorden with my top off again, portly to showcase the work I’ve been doing in the gym since the stort of January, and portly to see how long it takes for it to become an item of discussion on the Dalkey Open Forum Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Honor and Liesel are both smiling and it’s like driving towards a cor with its lights on full beam. I end up having to turn away
31/05/2024 Duration: 06minThe school concert hall is absolutely rammers this afternoon. We’re talking, like, 1,000 students and parents crammed between the walls to hear the result of the election for Mount Anville Head Girl for 2024-2025 and I haven’t seen Honor looking so pleased with herself since the time she swapped her old dear’s hair conditioning mask for Veet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘Goys – it’s time that I got the tattoo’
24/05/2024 Duration: 06minIt’s Friday afternoon in London, the day before the European Champions Cup final. We’ve spent the last three hours talking about our favourite memories from our years following Leinster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘Ross, someone has put up a poster of Honor on Foster Avenue.’ Apporently kompromat is the solution?
17/05/2024 Duration: 06minSo I’m driving along Vico Road – one of the bits of the road where two cors can barely pass – when I notice a black SUV coming towards me at speed... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘What if she wins, Ross? I’ve already heard some of the other moms refer to her as the Trump candidate’
10/05/2024 Duration: 06min“Oh my God,” Sorcha goes, “what is she doing?” Yeah, no, she’s talking about Honor, who’s smiling so hord that it looks like someone has jammed a coat hanger in her mouth sideways. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Can’t a father and son go for a pint without there being some, I don’t know, anterior motive?
03/05/2024 Duration: 06minSo it’s, like, Friday night and I’m having the usual pints with the goys in The Bridge. Dave Kearney asks how we’re getting on with a big smirk on his face. We’re all, like, crowded around my phone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Honor is only running for Mount Anville head girl to downgrade her old dear’s greatest life achievement
27/04/2024 Duration: 06minThe old man steps into the kitchen with a Montecristo the size of a rolled-up yoga mat burning between his fat fingers. Sorcha storts coughing – her passive-aggressive way of telling him that we don’t allow smoking in this house – but he just ignores her, like he did when she tried to introduce a similar rule about shoes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘There’s a video of me doing the rounds on this famous Tick Tocks dot com’
22/04/2024 Duration: 06minHow quickly the years go by. That’s what I’m thinking as I’m taking the right turn at Donnybrook Bus Depot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘You should be ashamed of yourselves! We’re old enough to be your parents and we’ve taken you to three sets!’
12/04/2024 Duration: 06minI had my nightmare again last night, the one where I have a one-night stand with Taylor Swift and then I ghost the girl and she ends up writing 15 or 16 songs about me and they’re on the radio constantly. And – yeah, no – I woke up screaming. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘If you play that match, Ross, our marriage is over’
08/04/2024 Duration: 06minSorcha is upset. I totally get that? But I haven’t seen her over-react like this since I ate a tin of macadamias from the hotel mini-bor on a weekend city break in Ljubljana. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘You are not having a hort attack! I’m not allowing it!’
29/03/2024 Duration: 06minRéaltín smiles. Which might well be a first for her. Yeah, no, we’re in Baldoyle of all places, playing Thor Frimann and Lisa Murray – the reigning champions – in the semi-finals of the mixed doubles at the Leinster Padel Championships. It’s, like, one set apiece and we’re winning 5-4 in the third. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘I didn’t play football for Rathnew. I didn’t play football for anyone. I resent the allegation’
22/03/2024 Duration: 05minI tell Honor that I’m proud of her.I’m there, “Obviously, I don’t mean that literally?” because all she’s actually done is spend her Paddy’s Day picking litter up off the beach in Curracloe as port of her community service. “I’m proud of the way you’re, like, owning what you did?” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Three European Cups, three Six Nations, one Grand Slam – but never winning a Leinster Schools Senior Cup clearly still rankles Heaslip
15/03/2024 Duration: 05minI’m the first to arrive. I order a pint of the obvious and I do a quick circuit of the place. There’s no one here yet, even though I said eight o’clock and it’s quarter-past already. Fr Fehily wouldn’t have put up with that. What was it he used to say? Better three hours too early than a minute too late? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘Don’t tell me I don’t know Ross O’Carroll-Kelly. You bullied me for most of secondary school’
08/03/2024 Duration: 05minI suppose it was bound to happen sooner or later.“Ross?” the dude goes, pulling a face at me across the net. “Ross O’Carroll-Kelly?” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘I haven’t cheated on you in, like, 10 years, though – well, let’s just say a long time’
01/03/2024 Duration: 05minSorcha asks me straight out if I’m having an affair.I’m like, “Why would you even think that?” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Honor rubs at the graffiti with a dainty, circular motion, like she’s applying foundation to the face of an elderly loved one
23/02/2024 Duration: 06minI haven’t seen Honor look this angry since the time she spear-tackled a woman who tried to cheat her out of first place in the sack race at the Castle Pork Dalkey Open Sports Day.She’s like, “What ... the ... fock?” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sorcha goes, ‘I don’t need a 26-old copy of Cosmopolitan to tell me that I married the wrong man’
16/02/2024 Duration: 06minSorcha says she’s sorry and I’m there, “Hey, it’s cool,” even though I’ve no idea what she’s even apologising for?She goes, “Oh my God, I was such an idiot.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Our daughter came out of the womb with two middle fingers raised to the world. That’s not down to us
10/02/2024 Duration: 06min“If some wooden comes at you with a shank,” Ronan goes, “grab them be the wrist and twist it, then hit them at the base of the nose with the heel of yisser hand, driving upwards. Upwards – that’s it."irishtimes.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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'I’ve got my top off, and Réaltín’s looking at me like my old man turning his nose up at cheap steak'
02/02/2024 Duration: 05minSo I’m shaking hands with Hugh and Marie Atcheson after our latest victory in the Leinster Padel Championships and the famous Réaltín – as in, like, my mixed doublesportner? – is just, like, glowering at me. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘Honor O’Carroll-Kelly is not the victim. She is a highly intelligent young woman from a privileged background’
26/01/2024 Duration: 07minHonor pretends to sneeze, but instead of ‘achoo!’ she goes ‘fock you!’ to the prosecution barrister Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.