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This year marks ten years of AIB's sponsorship of the All Ireland Football Championship. To mark the occasion, OTB's GAA correspondent Tommy Rooney spoke to Galway's Rob Finnerty.

This year marks ten years of AIB's sponsorship of the All Ireland Football Championship. To mark the occasion, Armagh goalkeeper Ethan Rafferty sat down with OTB's Tommy Rooney to talk about their defence of the Sam Maguire.

Injured Louth captain Sam Mulroy has told Off The Ball he hopes to play some part in this year's All Ireland Championship. He sat down at this week's AIB All Ireland Football Championship launch with OTB's Tommy Rooney.

Newbridge hosted this week's launch of this year's Leinster Football Championship. And it was there that OTB's GAA correspondent Tommy Rooney caught up with Louth midfielder Tommy Durnin.

Newbridge hosted this week's launch of the Leinster Football Championship, and it was there that OTB's GAA correspondent Tommy Rooney spoke to Westmeath centre-back Ronan Wallace.

Former Kerry footballer Kieran Donaghy reacts to the sad news of Kerry legend Mick O'Dwyer's passing. Off The Ball Breakfast w/ Optimum Nutrition | #unlockmoreyou Catch The Off The Ball Breakfast show LIVE weekday mornings from 7:30am or just search for Off The Ball Breakfast and get the podcast on the Off The Ball app. SUBSCRIBE at OffTheBall.com/join Off The Ball Breakfast is live weekday mornin...

This is Thursday's OTB Breakfast Bite - your FREE bitesize taster of this morning's full Off The Ball Breakfast . On this morning's show, Kieran Donaghy reacted to that breaking news of the passing of legendary Kerry footballer and manager, Mick O'Dwyer. James Tracy helps preview this weekend's Investec Champions Cup action, which includes our LIVE game on Saturday - Leinster v Harlequins at Croke...

Mick O'Dwyer, a pillar of Irish sport over the past eight decades has died at the age of 88. As a tribute, we'd delved into the OTB archives to bring you some of our best 'Micko' material. 00:00:13 - Various Micko tributes from down the years on OTB 00:00:57 - a career-spanning interview from Newstalk Breakfast, conducted in August of 2011. 00:21:11 - Kieran Donaghy and Eoin Sheahan give their rea...

This is this morning's OTB Breakfast Bite - your FREE bitesize flavour of this morning's full Off The Ball Breakfast . On this morning's show, The Athletic's Mark Critchley broke down a thirteenth Premier League defeat for Manchester United. We spoke to Cork City boss Tim Clancy about their much sought-after starlet Cathal O'Sullivan. And ahead of their Leinster Championship first round clash with...

Wexford and Laois help get the 2025 Leinster Senior Football Championship underway on Saturday evening when they go head-to-head at Chadwicks Wexford Park. Ahead of that game, OTB's GAA correspondent Tommy Rooney caught up with Wexford captain Liam Coleman, and his Laois counterpart Brian Byrne.

A date with Dublin awaits the winner of this Sunday's Leinster Football Championship meeting of Longford and Wicklow at Glennon Bros. Pearse Park. OTB's GAA correspondent Tommy Rooney caught up with their respective captains Paddy Fox and Dean Healy.

The Leinster Football Championship was launched on Monday with dark clouds hovering over a pair of counties who will meet in round 1 on Sunday. OTB's GAA correspondent Tommy Rooney caught up with Carlow captain Mikey Bambrick to discuss the spiky parting of the ways between the panel and former manager Shane Curran.

Offaly will go into this year's Leinster Championship on a high following their Division 3 success in the Allianz Football League. They'll look on with interest this weekend as they'll face the winners of the Meath/Carlow clash. Faithful skipper Lee Pearson caught up with OTB's GAA correspondent Tommy Rooney.

This year's Leinster Football Championship was launched under the pall of coaching uncertainty within two counties. One of them is Meath, whose defender Sean Rafferty told Tommy Rooney they're in the dark over Joe McMahon's and Martin Corey's reasons for departing the Royals' set-up.

As the philosopher Kurt Cobain once wrote, 'no apologies'. All-Ireland winners James Skehill and Paul Murphy are back alongside Will O'Callaghan for this week's edition of The Hurling Pod. The lads look ahead to the sold-out Division One B and One A finals this Sunday, discuss the fall-out from the venue controversies for the lower division deciders, and discuss the rest of the news from the past...

This is Monday's OTB Breakfast Bite, your FREE bitesize taster of this morning's full Off The Ball Breakfast . On this morning's show, former Ireland internationals Alan Quinlan & Hannah O’Connor joined us to discuss Munster’s victory over Connacht and Ireland’s emphatic win over Italy in the Women's Six Nations. OTB’s GAA correspondent Tommy Rooney rounds up the weekend’s football finals in C...

Tommy, James and Paddy get stuck into a massive weekend of Football on and off the field - we’re talking the League winners and losers, and bringing you inside the managerial madness in Carlow and Meath… (00:30) - What a weekend (05:00) - Offaly brilliance and Kildare’s big problem. (21:00) - James on Mayo’s lack on quality, Paddy talks up Kerry (35:00) - Kevin McStay isn’t happy with David Cliffo...

Shane Hannon hosts this week's Saturday Panel, looking ahead to the National Football League finals this weekend, starting with the Division 2 Final between Monaghan and Roscommon, before the mammoth Division 1 final between Mayo and Kerry! He is joined by Conor Devanney and Dessie Mone. *The full version is available to members. Gaelic Football with AIB GAA | #TheToughest

This is Friday's OTB Breakfast Bite - your FREE bitesize taster of this morning's full Off The Ball Breakfast . On this morning's show, Ronan O'Gara helped us preview a huge interpro at MacHale Park in Castlebar, as well as an update on the progress of his own La Rochelle side. Alan Quinlan also dropped into studio and helped look ahead to Ireland's W6N clash with Italy in Parma. Mike Quirke set t...

This is Tuesday's OTB Breakfast Bite - your FREE bitesize taster of this morning's full Off The Ball Breakfast. On this morning's show, former Leinster and Ireland hooker James Tracy on a lacklustre week for the Irish provinces in URC action. OTB's Dara Smith-Naughton picks his top three performers from Ireland’s opening Women's Six Nations game vs France. Tommy Rooney gives his latest updates to...

This is Monday's OTB Breakfast Bite - your bitesize sampler of this morning's full Off The Ball Breakfast. On this morning's show, we looked back on Ireland's win over Bulgaria in the Nations League with Vinny Perth, and what it means for Evan Ferguson going forward. Alan Quinlan was in studio to review Ireland's defeat to France in the W6N, plus a mixed weekend for the provinces in the URC. And C...

Tommy, James and Paddy are looking back at an incredible day of action in the final round of the 2025 National Football League on the latest episode of The Football Pod  (00:30) - Final Round Football Madness (22:00) - Unlucky Tyrone, Dublin worries, Kerry signs (34:00) - Louth smarts, Meath frailties, Clare’s shooting, Teams forcing two-pointers (41:00) - Paddy’s return to the Football field...

All-Ireland winners Paul Murphy and James Skehill joined Will O'Callaghan to discuss the end of the regular section of the League. Cork impressed again in setting up a first League final against their rivals Tipperary since 1960, but so many questions remain around Galway ahead of the Championship. The lads also looked at the red card shown to Offaly's James Mahon, and discussed whether Limerick h...

This is Friday's OTB Breakfast Bite - your FREE bitesize taster of this morning's full Off The Ball Breakfast. On this morning's show, we got all the reaction to the Republic of Ireland's 2-1 win over Bulgaria with Nathan Murphy in Plovdiv, and Owen Heary + Barry Murphy in studio. We previewed the weekend's Allianz Football League action with Neil Ewing and Sean ‘Bawn’ O’Sullivan. And it's there w...

This is Wednesday's OTB Breakfast Bite - your FREE bitesize sample of this morning's full Off The Ball Breakfast. On this morning's show, former Leitrim captain Gary Reynolds joined Adrian to discuss his county's recent forfeiture of their league fixture with Fermanagh. James Tracy selects his Lions squad for this summer. And Nathan Murphy joins us from Plovdiv where the Republic of Ireland are pr...