The Southern Star Sport Podcast

The Star Sport Podcast is brought to you in association with our friends at Access Credit Union . Access Credit Union - Where your bank really does matter. Choose the Credit Union, Choose Local, Choose Community. It’s a soccer special on this week’s show and first we’ll be joined by one of the many West Cork League graduates making their names in the League of Ireland at the minute. Denzil Fernand...

The Star Sport Podcast is back for 2022 and we're kicking things off with a bang! Jack Gower is a world-class Alpine skier who has his sights firmly set on securing a ticket to February's Winter Olympics in Beijing as part of Team Ireland. How on earth have The Southern Star found a West Cork link to the 2022 Winter Olympics we hear you ask? Well as it turns out, it's not just rowing that Skibbere...

It’s the final Star Sport Podcast of the year and as always we have a brilliant show lined up for you. To kick things off we’re counting down the top 10 biggest West Cork sporting moments of the year and what a year it was.  From West Cork’s emergence as a rugby powerhouse to our rowing dominance in Tokyo, 2021 has been a year to remember from a West Cork sporting perspective. Another of the bigge...

We have a brilliant show lined up for you today with two cracking big name guests.  Up first we’re joined by the Ballineen Bullet Phil Healy to reflect on what was an outstanding year on the track. At the Tokyo Olympics, Healy became the first Irish woman to ever compete in three different events at the same Games and she was part of the Irish 4x400m relay team that smashed the national record and...

The European Cross Country Championships take place in Dublin this Sunday and one of West Cork’s top athletes is set to feature. Glengarriff’s Darragh McElhinney, who heads to Sunday’s championships off the back of an impressive silver medal at the recent national seniors, will take his chance in the u23 8,000m event and on today’s show wechat to Darragh about Sunday’s race, his recent successes a...

Last Sunday at Páirc Uí Chaoimh we witnessed one of the most absorbing and intense county finals in recent memory but unfortunately, Clonakilty weren’t able to bring the cup back West despite a valiant effort against St Finbarr’s. On today’s podcast we’re going to chat to Clonakilty captain Eoghan Deasy about Sunday’s game and about his side’s brilliant season and run to the final. It was nip, it...

It’s a county final preview special on the podcast this week as we look ahead to the clash of Clonakilty and St Finbarr's in the Premier Senior football final this Sunday at 3pm in Pairc Ui Chaoimh. Clon, who are back in the final for the first time since winning in 2009 take on the fancied Barrs who were champions as recently as 2018 and Kieran has a theory as to why it seems as though the stars...

What a weekend of championship action we have just had the privilege of enjoying. On today’s podcast we’re going to look back on a weekend that included famous wins for the Clonakilty footballers and the Castlehaven ladies alongside devastating losses for the Castlehaven men as well as both the Dohenys men’s and ladies' footballers. There was also a day to forget for Ilen Rovers who were relegated...

Last Thursday week, in front of a massive crowd in Dunmanway, Tadhg MacCarthaigh won their first Carbery Junior A football title in 9 years when they beat St Mary’s 2-10 to 1-08. Because of the schedule being the way it is, the Caheragh-men were back in action just four days later when they were beaten by Ballinhassig in the county championship, bringing an end to a rollercoaster of a week. On tod...

It’s semi-final weekend in the county Premier Senior football championship and with huge West Cork interest in both semi-finals, they're be the focus of this week’s show. On Sunday, as part of a double header at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Clonakilty will take on Douglas at 1pm before last year’s beaten finalists Castlehaven take on the fancied Barrs at 3pm. We're joined by Star columnist and ex Cork footba...

After a short break we’re back just in time for the business end of the club championships and much more besides and we’re kicking off this new season of the podcast with two cracking interviews. First up we hear from the newest member of the European Challenge Tour. Kinsale’s John Murphy has been making headlines across the golfing world of late for his exploits in recent weeks, which included a...

On today’s show we’re focusing on the Premier Senior Football Championship as the group stage of the competition reaches its conclusion. There’s a full round of fixtures this weekend with a number of big name West Cork clubs in desperate need of victory and we here from Carbery Rangers stalwart John Hayes as they prepare to face Castlehaven in a must win game in Leap at 2pm on Sunday. We also chat...

On today’s show we’ll be chatting to a man who has made West Cork soccer’s most coveted trophy his own in recent years. Johnny ‘Beamish Cup’ Kelly has got his hands on that most sought after of trophies on no fewer than FOUR occasions, including a remarkable three-in-a-row. Kelly is currently the Dunmanway Town captain and he even scored the winning goal two minutes from time when his side beat Cl...

To mark our 150th show, we’ve gone big with our lineup today and up first we’ll be hearing from Shane Ronayne, who is giving his first interview since being named the new Cork ladies senior football manager on a three year term. The Mitchelstown man, who stepped down as Waterford senior men's manager on Friday, previously guided the Tipperary ladies to All-Ireland intermediate titles in 2017 and 2...

We’ve a packed show again for you this week with the county championships in full swing across all codes at the minute. Up first we're chatting to one of the busiest men in Cork GAA. Cathrach Keane will take to the field for the Newcestown footballers at 2pm this Saturday as they take on West Cork rivals Carbery Rangers in a must-win Premier Senior Football game.  Then at 5.15 he’ll swap the jerse...

With the county championships in full swing and the games coming thick and fast we’re joined on today’s podcast by Cork and Clonakilty’s Sean White. Clon got their championship campaign off to a winning start with an impressive win over Ilen Rovers last Saturday week and we ask Sean for his hopes for the rest of the season and for his thoughts on Ronan McCarthy’s departure as Cork manager. Jack an...

It’s All Ireland camogie final week and on today’s show we'll be joined by ex-Cork star Sarah O'Donovan to preview Sunday’s showpiece as Paudie Murray’s Cork side get ready to take on Galway at Croke Park. Cork beat Kilkenny at the semi-final stage and on Sunday they’ll go in search of their first title since 2018. But we’re kicking things off with the big news from yesterday and that was Ronan Mc...

As soon as one championship season ends, another begins.  On Sunday at Páirc Ui Chaoimh, Nemo Rangers came out on top in the 2020 PSFC with a win over Castlehaven but there’s little time to digest it as the action from the 2021 championship is coming thick and fast this weekend. On today’s podcast we’re focusing on the Senior A grade and previewing the clash of Bandon and O’Donovan Rossa in Ballin...

It’s a busy one on this week’s show as we look ahead to Sunday’s delayed 2020 Premier Senior Football Championship final between Castlehaven and Nemo Rangers at Pairc Ui Chaoimh Castlehaven booked their final spot last October, nearly 10 months ago, so this may have been the longest run into a county final in history and on today’s podcast we’re going to hear from Castlehaven's Cathal Maguire who...

It’s a busy one on this week’s show as we look ahead to Cork’s first appearance in an All Ireland hurling final since 2013. On Sunday at Croke Park, Kieran Kingston’s side will look to dethrone reigning champions Limerick - following on from the Rebels’ impressive extra time win over Kilkenny at the semi-final stage. On today's show we're joined by Michael Foley of the Sunday Times to preview the...

At the 2016 Olympics in Rio it was Gary and Paul O’Donovan who changed the game for Irish rowing, picking up the sports first ever Olympic medal. This time round in Tokyo, the game changers have been the Irish heavyweight four, who returned home with Ireland’s first ever women’s Olympic rowing medal. The old adage, that you can’t win an Olympic rowing medal without someone from Skibbereen in the b...

What a fortnight it’s been for the West Cork athletes at the Tokyo Olympics! We had said throughout the build-up that the seven athletes heading over from the region had the talent to make an impact but I don’t think in our wildest dreams we could have predicted just how big an impact they’d have. On today’s podcast we’ll hear from the rowers after they were welcomed back to a special event in Ski...

It's the morning after the night before and we've decamped to Skibbereen Rowing Club to soak up the atmosphere after Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy pcked up rowing gold overnight at the Tokyo Olympics. We chat to club captain Sean O'Brien about Fintan and Paul's success, Emily Hegarty's historic bronze medal and Aoife Casey's brilliant performance at the games. We also have live music from Jam...

What a week it’s been so far for the West Cork contingent in Tokyo and there’s plenty more to come! On today’s show we’ll reflect on the opening performances of the Skibbereen rowers and we’re also looking ahead to Phil Healy’s Olympic debut. The Ballineen Bullet will make her first of three appearances on the track on Friday and we’re be joined by her sister Joan to preview all her races. -- We'r...

On this week’s podcast we’re dealing with the fallout from Killarney on Sunday and the record-breaking loss suffered by the Cork footballers at the hands of Kerry at Fitzgerald Stadium. We’ll be joined by ex-Cork footballers Micheál ‘Haulie’ O’Sullivan and Diarmuid Duggan to try to make sense of everything that went awry for Ronan McCarthy’s men in the Munster final. Later in the week we’ll have t...