Tales From The East Stand

Our first in-studio guest in almost half a year is Rovers midfielder Greg Bolger, who tells us about his season-ending injury, his attitude when starting on the bench and what he changed ahead of the 2019 campaign, which ended in FAI Cup glory and a fourth winners' medal at the Aviva. He picks his all-time five-a-side and recalls playing alongside a teenage Ronan Finn at UCD and trips to Mick Wall...

We talk another scoreless draw with Shelbourne and interview Ilves Tampere fan Topi Yrjölä ahead of Thursday's big Europa League tie.

We look at the St Pat's stalemate and interview League of Ireland legend Tony Sheridan ahead of the Rovers v Shelbourne game on Friday.

There's reaction to another big win in Derry and the European draw along with two interviews, former Rovers striker Sean Boyd and Women's Under 17's manager Sean Kelly.

After 147 days without a game we have both the live and stream perspective of Rovers' win over Finn Harps. There's interviews with 1998-99 Player of the Year Tony O'Dowd and Tallaght based Derry City fan 'Scoops' Graeme Taylor ahead of Sunday's trip up north.

There's an interview with 1980s super striker Alan Campbell as we look ahead to the restart of the LOI season against Finn Harps on Saturday.

We interview goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu about debuting for Shamrock Rovers and signing for Manchester City at the age of 16. Media officer Mark Lynch talks the league restart and club membership drive.

We interview Sinn Féin TD Chris Andrews and 1950s player Leo O'Reilly. Plus a special edition of the Member's Corner with Jörg Strehler from Germany.

We have part two of our Craig Sives interview. Lee Grace talks winning the 2018 POTY award, returning to training on Monday and sending a signed jersey to the Irish army in Lebanon, where another solider, Gavin Fitzsimons chats to us from.

Rovers Player of the Year award winners Tony Cousins (1996/97) and Craig Sives (2011) chat to us as well as 'Down The Pub Podcast' host Anthony Abbott, a Hoops fan in Canada.

We talk to another two former POTY winners in Mick Byrne (1987/88) and Rovers' academy director Shane Robinson (2001/02). Our survey results are finally revealed.

We continue our Player of the Year series with Gary Shaw (2017) and Alan Byrne (1994), either side of an interview with Rovers fan and Marathon Man Ger Twohig.

We're back to talk all the football news - what little of it there is these days - and begin our new Rovers Player of the Year series. Karl chats to the first winner in 1980, Robbie Gaffney, and there's an in-depth interview with another fan favourite, 2008 POTY Darragh Maguire, who is now an elevator technician in New Jersey.

We talk all about our journey to Sligo at the weekend, there's the Members Corner with two new members, David Kiernan and Conor Foley, plus an interview with Eir Sport commentatator and proud Hoop, Con Murphy.

We look at one of the great nights in Tallaght as Rovers beat Dundalk 3-2. There's the Member's Corner with Paul Donohoe and an interview with Bill Gleeson, Glenn Dunne and Paul Weafer at the 2020 Junior Hoops launch.

We look at the wins over Cork City and Waterford in the past week, there's an interview with YouTube whiz-kid Dean Grainger while Emma Wheatley presents a goalkeepers edition of Questions From The East Stand between Alan Mannus, Leon Pohls and a surprise entry to this year's quiz.

There's a review of a dramatic derby at drenched Dalymount, Member's Corner with Sean Fields and an interview with Cork City fan Niamh O'Mahony ahead of our first home game of the season on Friday.

We talk about the doomed President's Cup final, Saturday's derby and our new Patreon. There's Member's Corner with Peter Murphy and the first round of a new season of the quiz between Jack Byrne, Aaron Greene and Sean Callan.

We're joined by Irish Daily Mirror journalist Paul O'Hehir and former Hoops midfielder John Toal. Paul gives his team by team prediction for this year's league table and the latest on the Rovers B team situation. He talks remaining impartial for his job and Stephen Bradley's relationship with the media in recent years. From the hour mark we delve into John's career which include Paul's fond memori...

We kick off 2020 with Ringsend pals 'Mooner' David Kiernan and 'Staff' Ciaran Stafford and the return of '12 can' Karl Kearns and 'Beary Bear' Conor Foley, recording at CRU Tattoo in Temple Bar. While Gary and a few of the lads' limbs are being inked with Rovers crests and symbols, we round up the latest news at the club.

It's the TFTES Christmas Party, recorded at the Penny Black Pub! The last two Rovers captains to lift the FAI Cup, Ronan Finn and Pat Byrne, talk all about the Hoops winning the 25th Cup last month. The free Carling and Offbeat donuts provided by our sponsors to a large audience inspired a few fans to share their own stories from the final as well. This was a one off live experiment so unfortunate...

Gary and Karl try to capture the emotion of the FAI Cup final and the days that followed in glorious detail.

In the first of a two-part podcast on Shamrock Rovers' first FAI Cup in 32 years, some of the heroes from the final - Joey O'Brien, Pico Lopes and Gary O'Neill - join us in Johnny Blues Bar to share their thoughts on the Hoops' famous 25th Cup win at the Aviva Stadium. The lads also conduct the draw for Saturday's 5-a-side tournament at Roadstone.

Hoops legends Mick Leech and Paddy Mulligan drop by to talk the six in a row, playing and scoring in FAI Cup finals, the summer of '67 in Boston, making their debuts for Ireland together and what they hope Rovers will do in Sunday's final. Continuing into the 1970s, Paddy also discusses his time at Chelsea and Panathinaikos and coming within a thrown bun of becoming Ireland manager while Mick reca...

There's the UCD game and Cup final news, All-Time XI striker nominations from Peter Fitzpatrick and Paul Donohue and the 2019 quiz final between Pico Lopes and Joey O'Brien.