Celtic Ligers
Celtic Ligers
an irish politics (and culture) podcast with comedy. hosted by James Moran and Gareth Lyons. full episodes and bonus content at www.patreon.com/celticligers
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Episodes
#085 that blue hair ain't right (FREE) 19.06.2025 1:01:06
The Ligers have a proper rambler which coalesces into one overall point. The cause of all societal ills? You guessed it. The blue hairs, folks. And no. i'm not talking about Marge Simpson! Although they do talk about King of the Hill (another Fox animated show). Then they talk about Mick Clifford wanting to take the flag back (briefly), a new article from Spicebag (come on the show) which is not...
#084 Rent Pressure Bone Zone (FREE) 13.06.2025 1:01:59
The Ligers talk about the latest split in The Irish Left as Red Network leaves People Before Profit, then they talk about the debate in tactics on combatting the Far Right and Gar talks about attending counter demos to the anti-migrant march in Cork last weekend. In the second half on www.patreon.com/celticligers The Ligers talk about the Guards doing an oopsie by giving the Carlow lone shooter a...
#083 virgin (FREE) 06.06.2025 56:16
The Ligers talk about the shooting in Carlow then about racist John McGuirk talking guff on Virgin Media's Tonight Show then about the rogue Irish government just doing its own thing on Data Centres, Housing, Irish Water, Triple Lock etc. Then in the second half over on www.patreon.com/celticligers They talk about the watered down Occupied Territories Bill, Gerry Adams winning his court case an...
#082 pure heavy episode (FREE) 29.05.2025 55:33
The Ligers talk about Garron Noone again (sorry!), Mo Chara from Kneecap getting charges and then just peter out getting depressed about Gaza. Then in the second half over on www.patreon.com/celticligers ....things pick up talking about a Fine Gael TD Keira Keogh saying it's not all bad for children's healthcare in Ireland because a football club in Manulla got a scooter! then they read the headli...
#081 Dark Leo Rising (FREE) 21.05.2025 1:33:48
The Ligers talk about premium alternative comedy night Test Tube Babies ( https://www.instagram.com/ttbshow) then a pro Transgender demonstration Gar went to in Belfast....THEN....the meat.... Leo Varadakar on Uncharted with Ray Goggins. A Bear Grylls knock off TV series which consists of Varadkar being miserable in the South African wilderness. Then in the second half on www.patreon.com/celticlig...
#080 the god damn right (FREE) 16.05.2025 1:19:13
The Ligers talk about AI, fan fiction, the american pope, Ruth Coppinger refusing to answer questions from the racist site Gript, Graham Linehan talking about queer spaces, then finally it's like a youtube sesh with the boiz as they watch some really awful AI generated comedy sketches which James didn't make. FULL EPISODE ON www.patreon.com/celticligers
#079 MORE FLAG! (FREE) 09.05.2025 1:01:28
The Ligers talk about a Spicebag post about the left needing to reclaim the trickler and then Jim O'Callaghan's draconian immigration laws. FULL EPISODE ON www.patreon.com/celticligers Then they talk about a racist salon owner on Dorset street closing shop. then Fintan O'Toole writes another incredible piece of shite in the Irish times about Kneecap!
#078 Only Popes and Racists (FREE) 01.05.2025 1:00:33
The Ligers talk about the dead pope and then make up some popes. Then, our new Housing Tsar! God save the Tsar! A bit about Kneecap being investigated by the counter terrorism police (there's also a PATREON ONLY post script where The Ligers talk about Kneecap's recent statement condemning Hamas) Also, last weekend's far right racist anti-migrant marches in Dublin. Bleak! Full episode on www.patreo...
#077 Warfare (2025) Review (FREE) 23.04.2025 1:14:19
The Ligers review Warfare (2025) the new Alex Garland movie about the Iraq war made with Ray Mendoza based on MEMORIES of an incident while he was a US Navy SEAL. Then over on patreon.com/celticligers Then they talk about James visiting Conor McGregor's pub to get a peek of Tucker Carlson, then about the Drury street small business owners on.... where else?... their knees! They also read bits of...
#076 taRIFFS (FREE) 10.04.2025 1:01:58
The Ligers talk about tariffs and read Simon Harris's diary about tariffs (as printed in The Business Post with no shame whatsoever!)
#075 April's Fool 2 (FREE) 03.04.2025 1:01:37
The Ligers talk about Michael Lowry, the Dáil speaking row, Pat Leahy's second article about how opposition speaking time being taken is actually fine, Mothers Against Genocide assaulted by the Guards, Trump's Tarriffs and David McWilliams imagines a science fiction future for Ireland after reading Matt Yglesias' latest pile of shite. Full episode on www.patreon.com/celticligers
#074 Wouldst thou like to live deliciously? (FREE) 25.03.2025 1:20:22
The Ligers are Marxist in the front and Capitalist in the back this week, relegating the Garron Noone content for loyal Patreon patrons only. www.patreon.com/celticligers They go to a Marxism festival and talk about the various talks they went to which include: Lough Neagh, Ukraine, the 1972 National Rent Strike, Gaza, Eco-Socialism (w/ Paris Marx of Tech Won't Save Us Podcast!) and Data Centres! ...
#073 it's a great day for the irish! (FREE) 18.03.2025 1:05:42
St. Patrick's Day episode! The Ligers talk about all of the worst Irish people making us look like clowns in Washington DC to impress a genocidal rapist. The undignified Mícheal Martin, the crazy Burkes and the racist rapist Conor McGregor! Begora! Full episode on www.patreon.com/celticligers where you can hear a breakdown of the responses to St. Patrick's Day by our horrible media and the awful s...
#072 i'm actually laughing! (and old and bald and red) (FREE) 14.03.2025 1:01:19
The Ligers enjoy one positive thing which is a bloated columnist being told they're a dipshit to their face (Fergus Finlay in this instance) before getting depressed about the march toward arming up and conflict and blood and death. They talk about Thomas Gould being arrested for what?? For simple fucking fraud?! Free my man! Innocent even if he isn't! Then they do the millennial patter normally...
#071 a skeleton likes war (FREE) 08.03.2025 1:02:49
The Ligers just have a big old laugh in the current hysteria to go to war and there's not an effing thing you can do about it (the laugh they're having and the war which you will be conscripted for). Zelensky getting a bollocking in the oval office. Micheál Martin a wiry mess on The Late Late Show with Patrick Kielty and what that bodes for his St. Patrick's trip GOD WILLING. Micheal Collins Indep...
#070 eat your bone (FREE) 27.02.2025 1:02:59
At the top.... we get a breakdown of the German elections by the amazing Ciaran from Corner Spati Podcast. Check them out here: https://pod.link/1454202971 THEN. The Ligers talk about work destroying your brain (boo work!), the dear Pope Francis hanging on for dear life and the government deciding you should live in a shed... less actually! stick your head in the wooden oven and do us a favour wil...
#069 but i love the Triple SHAMROCK! (FREE) 21.02.2025 1:05:35
The Ligers start by talking about Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco's comic about Palestine (bad!), then the worst people in Ireland want Micheál Martin to give a bowl of shamrocks to Trump who they definitely hate. And...Neutrality!! The thing everyone (ie. some columnists) wants to destroy! In the second half over on www.patreon.com/celticligers Jim O'Callaghan being an awful piece of work, Micheál M...
#068 our brave men and women in gov (FREE) 15.02.2025 1:11:45
The Ligers Millennial patter gets the better of them and the bulk of the first hour is made up of talking about how much they hate work, Gar's trip to Belfast, that drunk Fine Gael guy crawling on all fours which could almost be politics. THEN Michael Healy Rae (government TD) being very brave joining a government he hates because we just need to feckin get on with things, by god! In the second H...
#067 Call Me Pat Leahy Adeen! (FREE) 02.02.2025 1:03:16
The Ligers talk AI Deepseek before James burns a rainforest getting its ideas for Simpsons episodes. They read some more confused opinions as the obedient Irish commentariat try to figure out ways to blame Sinn Féin for Government TDs taking Opposition speaking time. In the second half over on www.patreon.com/celticligers The Ligers watch a clip of Micheál Martin showing contempt (imagine!) to a...
#066 why are you yelling?? (FREE) 25.01.2025 1:09:08
The Ligers talk about the music of The Two Johnnies (and their far right sympathies), the grim Plan for Government which seems to be flying under the radar and Trump's inauguration where Elon Musk... just... one of the most embarrassing freaks ruining our lives in a crowded field. THEN in the second half on www.patreon.com/celticligers Vote for Taoiseach disrupted by failure to rule out opposition...
#065 more of the same but worse (FREE) 19.01.2025 1:05:39
The Ligers read a surprising intervention from Simon Harris on Prime Time! You literally will not believe it! The Two Johnnies part of corrupt MSM but also Far Right agitators? What?? A belated remembering of Michael Fry's interview with former housing minister Darragh O'Brien. THEN in the second half on www.patreon.com/celticligers There's some talk about the Gaza genocide ceasefire but they're t...
#064 *to tune of I'll Fly With You* (FREE) 12.01.2025 1:01:11
The Ligers wrestle with Gar's computer which betrays him (suggestions on a postcard), they give their review for Nosferatu and then (message in if you've had enough but) they talk about a new Val Martin clip where he makes an offer to partner up with Elon Musk. (I mean come on!) Then in the second half on www.patreon.com/celticligers Tech guys go more mask off than usual making their cheerleaders...
#063 New Year's Eve 2025 LIVE (Stream) 01.01.2025 2:32:54
The Ligers do a LIVE (stream) episode for New Year's Eve 2025. This is the salvaged audio from a vid made unwatchable technical glitch. A fitting end for a terrible year! featuring guest videos from some incredible contributors. The Ligers bring in the new year talking about the year gone by. Wonka Experience! Megalopolis! Comedy Unleashed! and hey some politics in there too but it's too late and...
#062 what's the story with the middle east, Zaynab? feat. Zaynab Lotfi 22.12.2024 2:10:00
Gar and Zaynab talk about stuff that's going on in the middle east. they start with a timeline of events leading from the Arab Spring (Zaynab shares her experiences of that in Egypt) to the Syrian Civil War and what's happening currently. they talk about Assad (bad man) being another in a long line of boogeymen for the west and how the western media has been reacting. Their feelings on what's goin...
#061 T'was The Ligers Before Christmas 21.12.2024 22:34
Disaster strikes at Christmas time! The Ligers lose James' side of the conversation for the latest episode! But maybe... just maybe.... a little Christmas magic might save the day... Gar and a very special guest talk about ex Soc Dem Eoin Hayes and his shares with Palintir, Luigi Mangione's manifesto and the horrible racism being endured by asylum seekers in an Athlone IPAS centre. Another episod...
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