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World Cup 2026 Takes Off, Banos Hermanos, Trump's One Way Street, Predicting The Winner
We’re less than an hour away from the big kick-off at World Cup 2026, Ken is at the Azteca and we are having a blast on the World Service this week. Y...
Ep 3570: Israel Game Set For Neutral Venue, Ireland's World Cup Dream - 08/06/26
Ireland are preparing for one of the biggest nights in the history of women’s football in this country… but yet again, off-field issues threaten to ov...
Ep 3569: Limerick Delight, Galway For The Double, Katie Balboa, Farrell Forever - 08/06/26
The Munster and Leinster hurling finals didn’t eliminate anyone from this year’s All-Ireland championships, but judging by the on-pitch celebrations,...
World Cup Week, KenCall, Neymar's Cankles, Why Norway?
We're just one week out from the World Cup and we're starting to feel it.
First stop for Ken is Mexico City early next week, but before he went...
Ep 3564: PSG Triumphant, Don Revie's Arsenal, Slot Departs, Cultural Repository Players
Arsenal went to Budapest surfing a tidal wave of hope and joy, and finished losing on penalties after one shot on target in more than two hours of pla...
World Cup Wonder, The McGuinness Melee, The Value Of Assists
Welcome to fight week on the Second Captains world service! There was a Donnybrook in Dalyer, the McGuinness melee in Kerry and Keano and Bruno fighti...
Ep 3559: Leinster Get Dismantled, Move Fast And Win Things, Jim McGuinness Throws His Weight Around - 25/05/26
The other four Champions Cup finals Leinster lost were all close, winnable and heartbreaking for fans; this defeat to Bordeaux however was over after...
Ep 3558: Good-Bye To All That
A day of goodbyes - Pep Guardiola, Bernardo Silva, John Stones, Mohamed Salah, Andy Robertson, Seamus Coleman, West Ham United.
Ken gives his Pr...
Arsenal Celebrate, The Choker Fallacy, SpyFall
Welcome to winners week on the Second Captains world service! Arsenal are Premier League champions again after 22 long years, and Villa ended a 30 yea...
Ep 3553: Westmeath Dismantle Dubs, Armagh Take Ulster, Working Class Golf Hero - 18/05/26
After last Sunday's heroics Roscommon may have thought they had the 2026 Cinderella Team mantle all to themselves, but yesterday in Croke Park Westmea...
Ep 3552: Ken The Tim, Alonso Calling, The Four Mysteries, Ireland In Shadow, Salah Uprising, Yeats Fisherman - 18/05/26
Most of the world wanted Hearts to win on Saturday but this little corner of it was an exception.
Eoin swoons at the romance of his close perso...
Cheat Week, Madrid Meltdown, Why Not Alonso?
Welcome to cheat week on the Second Captains world service! It all started with the Arsenal West Ham VAR fallout and got progressively murkier as the...
Ep 3548: The Rossies Take Connacht, Murph As Condom, 'Egomaniacs' Returns - 11/05/26
The newest member of our championship punditry team, Dara Ó Cinnéide - already getting rave reviews - was at Dr Hyde Park to see Roscommon pip Murph's...
Ep 3547: Arsenal So Close, Starlizard FC, Anger Farmers, Southampton Spy Ring, Madrid Psychodrama
Arsenal are nearly there. As the manager flailed wildly with random substitutions, David Raya and Martin Ødegaard stood up to make sure that when the...
Arsenal Double Or Quits, Guehi's Blunder, Seve Special, Mbappe On His Holidays
Welcome to our World Service taster show. This week was dominated by Arsenal Football Club, who could now win it all, or nothing, but either way shoul...
Ep 3452: Leinster Wobble And Win, Leo's Lecture, Porter Power, Happy Ulster, Randle Reverse - 04/05/26
As Leinster eased into an 18 point lead with 12 minutes remaining in their Champions Cup semi final, everyone in the stadium could finally put that No...
What Makes Football Great?
Welcome to our World Service taster show. This week was all about PSG Bayern and what makes for a great game of football. We interviewed Harvey Vale a...
Ep 3537: Wall & Canning On A Wild Hurling Weekend, Marathon Goes Sub-Two, Ulster's Lambing Championship - 27/04/26
It’s the Jamie and Joe Show today, as Messrs Wall and Canning are together for the first time this summer to react to Cork’s thrilling 2-point win ove...
Ep 3536: Ifs, Buts, and LBJ's Nuts - 27/04/26
What if Robert Sanchez hadn't been able to buy Chelsea some breathing space with a possibly-imaginary injury? What if the ref last week had sent off...
Why Arsenal, Chelsea Age Rosenior, Spain Show The Way - 23/04/26
Welcome to our World Service taster show. This week we covered Rosenior's Waterloo, Cucurella’s mouthy barber, why the haters hate on Arsenal, Spain's...
Ep 3531: Superpundit Joe Canning Joins The Pod, Championship Hurling Is Back, What About Westmeath - 20/04/26
The hurling championship has begun and we have a brand new pundit for the summer, as Galway's greatest-ever hurler Joe Canning joins us. He had a fron...
Ep 3530: It's Happening Again...? - 20/04/26
It's done. Or is it? Is it done? It was hard to know how to feel at the end of that, as Arsenal played one of their best games in many weeks but still...
Science Slot, Arteta On Fire, Orban Lit, McClean Media, Dub Doubt - 16/04/26
Welcome to our World Service taster show. This week we went deep on Liverpool's problems on and off the pitch, and in the medical room; we rejoiced in...
Ep 3525: McIlroy The Master All Over Again - 13/04/26
Why, asked Rory McIlroy these past few days, have one Masters title when you can have two? And why win smoothly when you can terrorise your home count...
Ep 3524: Arsenal in the Underworld - 13/04/26
We're into what looks like the defining week of the Premier League season, as nine months of Mikel Arteta's careful order, structure and planning may...
McIlroy's Masters?, Liverpool Choose Bravery In Paris, A New Politics Pod - 09/04/26
Champions League quarter-finals, The Masters teeing off with Rory McIlroy looking to do an exceedingly rare two-in-a-row, a Ken Early politics podcast...
Ep 3519: City Burn Liverpool, Chelsea Hammer Enzo - 06/04/26
The Champions League quarter-finals is usually one of the most exciting weeks of the football calendar and an entertaining bunch of FA Cup quarter-fin...
Prague Comedown, Italian Football Surrenders, Tiger Tanks, Writing Rory
Welcome to our World Service taster show and this week it's all about the Prague come-down and the build-up to the Masters.
As we watched on wit...
Ep 3514: We Can't Go On, We Must Go On, ScapeGoat Hunt, The Keys Of Navarone
Passing through the latter stages of grief today. Eoin, on the hunt for victims, puts Ken in the dock, accusing him of blaming the Ireland fans for ou...
Ep 3513: Donegal In Different League, Michael Murphy's Red Mist, Kick Out Central, The Wicklow Way - 30/03/26
The pain of Thursday night will last a long time in all our hearts, so let's hold hands and podcast together.
Oisin McConville joins us to discu...
The World Cup Dream is Dead, Prague Week Ends
The World Cup Dream is Dead, Prague Week Ends
It’s goodbye to Prague, farewell Denmark, so long Azteca Stadium. Over and out from Czechia. We re...
Ep 3506: Prague Week Beginneth, In The Studio With Kenneth, Man City Cup Winneth - 23/03/26
Prague Week starts with Kenny Cunningham joining us in studio to talk about how he wants to see Ireland approach the World Cup playoff on Tuesday nigh...
Ep 3505: National Football League Drama, Michael Lyster Memories - 23/03/26
Kerry and Donegal are in the Division 1 final, Cork and Meath have won promotion, Armagh and Galway survive, Dublin are relegated, and even that fails...
Prague Week, Heimir Seeks Calm, Retro Mo, Pep's Legacy
Welcome to our World Service taster show and this week it's all about the build-up to the World Cup Playoff against Czechia. We will be in Prague next...
Ep 3500: Ireland's Crown, Rugby Fun, Murph's Sixth Nation Sense - 16/03/26
Thomas Ramos' kick in the 83rd minute of the last game decided the championship, broke Irish hearts, and was one of hundreds of epic moments that made...
Ep 3499: Chelsea Respect The Ball, Pep's Annus Mirabilis, Max Power, Anfield Slot Changed, Save Us Didzy
Is the future like a black highway at night? What does it really mean to 'respect the ball'? And is there anything in the game with such universal app...
Spurs Spiral, ROG's Advice, Panenka Kick, The Trip To Prague
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Ep 3494: Old School Old Firm, Hell Ball, Brother Turns Against Brother - 09/03/26
Rangers and Celtic timed their run well, staging a chaotic Scottish Cup quarter-final heightened by some old-school “disgraceful scenes” on an FA Cup...
Ep 3493: Swashbuckling Scots Set Sail For Dublin, Making History In Rome, Perms-a-Plenty, Plans For Prague - 09/03/26
Scotland defeated France 50 points to 40 on Saturday in one of the greatest northern hemisphere performances of the professional era, and are now in t...
Bonus Episode: Phantom Publics and the Reality of the Edogbo Racist Abuse
We have a special bonus World Service podcast for you all today. The show you’re about to hear caused quite a stir amongst our members over the past w...