Tales From The East Stand

Our Christmas Show special guest is Dunster, just days after his 50th birthday and seeing his brother elected to the Members Board, joining us in the Lair to look back at the Rapid Vienna and Borac games and plan our trip to Stamford Bridge on Thursday. We announce our three Rovers players/staff for the TFTES Live Show at the Civic on January 11th, there's a replay of a Leo O'Reilly interview abou...

We've got news on our return to the Civic Theatre on January 11th, Phelim Warren's report on the Rovers in the Community Project (from 49 mins), Goran Arbutina on everything you need to know about Thursday's opponents Borac Banja Luka (1 hour 33 mins), and two TFTES Hotlines ahead of Saturday's Member's Club AGM, with four of the six candidates up for election - Ciaran Kane, Colm Nolan, Sean Blake...

We've got a round up of the news the last couple of weeks and journalist Anna Konovalova has everything you need to know about Rapid Vienna ahead of Rovers' trip to the Austrian capital.

We talk Rovers getting 7 points in group stage football after the win over Welsh champions TNS, and Mark Langshaw, author of 'A League of Our Own: The Cymru Premier Story', tells us about the only book written about domestic football over there. Plus: the karma of Derry losing the FAI Cup final to Drogheda, with Dave Webster returning to the podcast for a chat about a fairytale end to his 17-year...

We reflect on the last day of the league season which saw the title go to Shelbourne, and we're joined by John Lumley from TNS ahead of Thursday's Conference League group stage game in Tallaght.

We're Zoomin' on Halloween to talk the wins in Belfast, with the Graham Burke Show, and Dundalk, which takes the title race down to the last day. Harry Moore hosts the quiz final between Gary O'Neill and Conan Noonan in front of the players and staff at Roadstone.

We're back with a stuffy Drogheda recap with a Dylan Watts thunderbolt, Sean Hoare vs Conan Noonan and Gary O'Neill vs Pico Lopes in the quiz semi-finals, and Larne marketing officer Chris Liddle helps us look ahead to Thursday's European trip to Belfast.

We have 300th episode reaction and three match reviews, against Pat's, APOEL and Shelbourne, with the Jack Byrne mic drop, pro wrasslin' and an unpredictable title race.

To celebrate 300 episodes of TFTES, we do things a little differently in part four of a long-running 1990s series with Justin Mason and Tommy Tormey, as we invite lots of guests up on stage at the Four Provinces. Brian McKenna has the honour of being substituted for Pat Byrne, general manager in that 1997/98 season, and they're followed by former teammates Tony Cousins, Derek Tracey and Tony O'Dow...

We talk that penalty in Derry and the wand in Tallaght, before the September edition of the TFTES Hotline with nine callers and ten topics. Plus there's news on our upcoming 300th episode, and an APOEL preview with the help of John Leonidou and 'This Is Mappa' podcast.

There's back-to-back wins over Sligo and Galway, Dundalk nearly going out of business, Aaron Greene vs Conan Noonan and Sean Hoare vs Johnny Kenny in the quiz quarter-finals and the return of 'In Memoriam', as we pay tribute to Maureen Connolly and Anthony McDonald once again and hear touching memories from eight new sons and daughters.

We talk the PAOK and Bohs defeats, there's reaction to the Conference Group Stage draw, Dr Glenn Doyle and Anna Maria Mullally on their Rovers in the Community Research Project, two quarter final quizzes with Gary O'Neill vs Aaron McEneff and Pico Lopes vs Rory Gaffney and another author feature, Trevor Keane on his books 'Gaffers: 50 Years of Irish Football Managers' and 'Dave Langan: Running Thr...

Emma Wheatley fills in for Gary this week with her thoughts on the Celje, PAOK and Galway games, the RTE debate, her board role, following the club since the 90s and more. Our last round of 16 quiz game is between Conan Noonan and Lee Steacy, with the quarter-final lineup finally revealed by Harry, and there's another edition of the Members Corner with Ger Fitzgerald.

Juz and Tommy are back for part 3 of our 90s series (1995-97). The first 47 minutes of the show has thoughts on the Celje win which secured group stage football, and an interview with Thessaloniki based journalist Petros Charizaklis ahead of the PAOK tie before we get into the Dublin Dons, Trainspotting, the end of Ray Treacy's reign and the beginning of the Tallaght project, Tony Cousins and the...

We have Celje first leg and Drogheda recaps, an interview with Kevin Burke on his book 'One Night in Dudelange', about UCD's 2015 Europa League adventure which featured Collie O'Neill, Gary O'Neill and Dylan Watts, before Macdara Ferris chats to Rovers striker Stephanie Zambra ahead of Saturday's All-Island Cup Final against Galway in Tallaght.

The TFTES Hotline makes its return, the upcoming Prague edition with 11 first-time callers. Sean Hoare and Darragh Burns' history knowledge is put to the test in the quiz, there's our Waterford review, and Jakob Batic, a Slovenian football journalist helps us look ahead to Celje away tonight in the Europa League.

Gary is back in the host chair and Karl returns from Prague with thoughts on the FAI Cup and two Champions League games with Sparta. Richie Towell and Dan Cleary tackle the quiz qualifiers.

Tony O'Dowd and Dutch Jerry are this week's guest co-hosts to talk an incredible Champions League night and look ahead to Friday's FAI Cup tie at Dalymount. Both former goalkeepers, Tony was Jerry's favourite player, so the lads recall classic derby games he played in during the early 00s. Markus Poom and Sean Hoare take the quiz, plus there's an interview with Czech football reporter Ondřej Zláma...

David King and Wooly fill in for Gary this week to take us through that scoreless draw in the Champions League first leg in Iceland. There's also two quizzes, Rory Gaffney vs Cian Barrett and Dylan Watts vs Johnny Kenny, and a new edition of the Members Corner with Gary Keane in Berlin ahead of Sunday's Euro 2024 final.

A year after his last appearance in the Lair, Con Murphy is back to once again turn the microphone on your hosts. But first, Josh Honohan faces Conan Noonan in the quiz, the three of us talk a bad night in Sligo and look ahead to next week's Champions League tie in Iceland, with Vikingur Reykjavik marketing manager Hoddi Agustsson. We have author Dave Harry on travelling to all 55 UEFA nations for...

Tommy Tormey and Justin Mason are back in the Four Provinces to take us through the 1993/94 title winning season under Ray Treacy, Rovers' only major trophy in the 22 years between Milltown and Tallaght, and 1994/95 with the fallout of the departures of Geoghegan, Byrne and Eccles.

There's a horrendous Richmond repeat, Gary O'Neill begins his defence of his Questions From The East Stand trophy against Graham Burke, and Hannah Dunne interviews Athlone Town women's manager Ciarán Kilduff on memorable European nights with Rovers and Dundalk, as the Champions League draw sends us to Iceland again. Meanwhile, we go from Cologne to Frankfurt as Alan O'Neill, Eoghan Rice (Noel Camp...

We round up the last fortnight of news with two postponed games and two great goals in Drogheda, pit Aaron McEneff against Darragh Nugent in the quiz and look ahead to next week's Champions League draw with the help of Ryan McDyer. It's 36 years to the day of the win over England in Stuttgart, so a trio of Rovers fans, Mick Kearns, Jim Conroy and Phelim Warren provide a first hand account of Irela...

An obscenely long show because of our ongoing German series, but with two weeks to digest it. This time we feature Bayern Munich, as Macdara Ferris reads his article on Rovers' Cup Winners' Cup tussle with Beckenbauer and co. in 1966, and John 'Dikie' Doyle, a club member of Bayern and a fan of the German national team since the 1970s, tells his story. All that plus Lee Grace and Trevor Clarke in...

We have Dundalk and Derry recaps (the latter is much longer), and Aaron Greene vs Neil Farrugia in the quiz, before the second week of 'Tales From Deutschland'. There's another edition of the Members Corner with Sam, who for the past seven years has lived in Hamburg, our featured team. Con Murphy tells the story of Hamburg and West German legend Uwe Seeler coming out of retirement to score two goa...