A Bohemian Sporting Life

We chat to Cillian currently playing his football in Poland for Wisla Plock, about his globetrotting career. From growing up as a wanabee basketballer to his early days at Celtic and his travels to Bulgaria, Cyprus & New Zealand.

We talk to former Man City goalkeeper Joe Corrigan about becoming a club legend, winning in Europe with City. The end of the NASL, learning from Bert Trautmann and Harry Gregg and coaching at Liverpool and Celtic and his less well known GAA career in Roscommon!

I chat with Bohemians finance director John O'Connor about club, league and global football finances, what goes into preparing a budget and keeping a League of Ireland club afloat, the importance of Europe, the dark days at Dalymount and much more.

We chat with former Ireland player and manager Eoin Hand about his time in the League of Ireland, at Swindon and Portsmouth as well as his time coaching in South Africa and Saudi Arabia.

We chat with former Ireland international Terry Conroy about growing up in Cabra, trips to America with both Home Farm and the Cleveland Stokers, chosing Glentoran over Shamrock Rovers. His spell in Hong Kong and scoring in the League Cup final for Stoke City.

We speak with John Conway about his career with Bohemians and Fulham and becoming the first Irish player to play in Switzerland.

We talk with former Spurs centre back Paul Miller about playing in Norway, , where the nickname "Maxi" came from, enjoying success with Spurs and life after football. *Be advised that there is some swearing in this episode

In the second in our "Road less travelled" series, we chat to Fran O'Brien - from a famous Dublin footballing family Fran started his career with Bohemians  before moving to play in the NASL for Philadelphia Fury, Montreal Manic & the Vancouver Whitecaps.  

In the first of an occasional series Gerry Farrell and Fergus Dowd chat to Gerry Armstrong about his time in Spain with Real Mallorca, playing against Maradona, his time growing up in Belfast, his spells at Spurs and Watford, parties with Elton John and of course THAT goal in Valencia in 1982. For more https://abohemiansportinglife.wordpress.com/  

In conversation with former Bohs winger Kaleem Simon about his time at the club, playing football in England during the pandemic and his recent international call-up for Montserrat.

Ryan Clarke returns to the programme (@RyanCIarke) with his documentary about the work of the Bohemian Foundation with the inmates of Mountjoy prison. This episode also features contributions from Tommy Hynes and former Bohs players Oscar Brennan and Scott Allardice.

Fergus Dowd of the Patrick O'Connell memorial fund is guest host these week and he discusses the connections which like the struggle for workers rights faced by Patrick in his early career with similar struggles faced by workers today. Also a guest on the podcast is actor and writer Tom Watt who talks about his football documentaries for BT Sport and his role with Arsenal and working with the loca...

I speak to Aodhán O'Ríordáin and Gary Cooke about how a TD and an actor ended up running a football walking tour in North Dublin during a pandemic. For more info on the tour email  footballwalkingtour@gmail.com or follow on Twitter at @FootballTourDub 

Charting Bohs European adventures through the 90s to the turn of the Millennium and featuring fan and player recollections of games against Aberdeen, Kaiserslautern, Dinamo Minsk and Ferencvaros. *Be advised there is some bad language used in this episode*

Welcome back to season 2 of a Bohemian Sporting Life where we discuss Bohs European adventures from the 90s all the way up to the Aberdeen and Kaiserslautern games. Joining the pod are former players Dave Tilson, Tony O'Connor and Dave Henderson as well as supporters and board members to share their memories of Minsk, Budapest, Bucharest and Bordeaux. *There is some occasional bad language in this...

In conversation with Brian Trench recreating a walking tour that he led in 2015 of the graves of Bohemians players & administrators. Lists of the graves featured with grid references where available: Joseph Wickham, 1890-1968, A04313, ZC, 69, South New Chapel Dr Lewis J Farrell, 1875-1938, IC29 South (unmarked) Hamilton J. Bell, Sr., EA 52.5 South (unmarked) Major-General Emmet Dalton, 1898-1978,...

Joined again by Brendan and Fred we discuss our favourite matches, stadiums and fan experiences, which feature matches across three Continents. Warning: some infrequent strong language.

The Bohemian Foundation is the charitable and community arm of the club. In this episdode I speak to Bohs director and Foundation President Tommy Hynes, first team player Promise Omochere, Paul Gannon, Dr. Ian Marder and Ryan Clarke about the good work undertaken by the Foundation.

In conversation with PRO Declan Farrell, Head of youth development Pat Cleary and Board member Conor Emerson about the work being done in the Bohemian FC youth system.

This episode focuses on the events surrounding the death of Samuel O'Brien after an altercation during the football match in the Phoenix Park in 1924. The subsequent inquest and court case are examined as well as what happened to Samuel's family in the years after his death. There are some descriptions of violence in the episode.

Chatting to journalist Ryan Clarke (follow him on @RyanCIarke ) about the history of Dalymount Park, home of Bohemian Football Club, and for many years the Irish national team.

In conversation with Mark Keane, Bilko Kacar and Ian Fallon about the Bohemian Futsal team, the differences from 11-a-side football, the origins of the team and the future of the sport in Ireland. For more email futsal@bohemians.ie or follow @SCBohemian on Twitter or bohemianfutsal on Instagram.

Jimmy Dunne died tragically young aged just 44 but he managed to pack a lot into such a short life. A record breaking footballer at international level and in his club career he was one of the most profilic goalscorers in British football. He also coached both Bohemians and Shamrock Rovers. Being a naturally quiet, laconic man couldn't hide his passionate side, he was interned as a teenager, faced...

The story of the life and career of Paddy Ratcliffe - who starred for Bohs during the two spells with the club. He also was a RAF gunner who survived being shot, crash landing and a Nazi POW camp. Ratcliffe also had a successful career for Plymouth Argyle before relocating to the United States. More on Ratcliffe here https://abohemiansportinglife.wordpress.com/2018/08/29/the-tail-gunner-at-full-ba...

Brian Trench presents his new research on some of the key figures in the foundation of Bohemian Football Club including the Bell brothers, Dudley Hussey and others. We talk about who they were, their lasting influence, where Bohs came from, how the club was very nearly called "Rovers" & also explode a few myths about the early days of the club as well.