Tales From The East Stand

There's our recap of the 4-0 win at Oriel Park, Jack Byrne's performance and Ireland call up, and an interview with former Sligo and Shamrock Rovers striker Danny North ahead of Friday's game.

We look at two great performances against AC Milan and Waterford in the past week and interview SRFC TV camera man Rafael Francischini.

It's the first ever Zoom edition of TFTES recorded from both Crumlin and Lucan. We talk a routine win in Cork before AC Milan fan Mauro Meroni helps preview the Italian Job.

We talk the 4 in a row over Bohs and interview Hoops fan Phelim Warren about the new audio described commentary service at games, his dad, derbies, Stephen Kenny as Ireland manager and more.

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 Wallace's vineyard at his native Wexford Youths. We talk old derby hoodoos ahead of Saturday's Bohs game after Greg helps review a crazy Europa League tie against Ilves Tampere, the heroics of Alan Mannus and Joey 'Frankenstein' O'Brien in an intense penalty shootout and the difference the small number of fans made on the night. Then we have reaction to the AC Milan draw and Monday's Cup win over Cork.

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.