Tales From The East Stand

We talk the Hoops' Easter Rising with big wins over Bohs and Waterford last weekend, breaking the 10k mark at Tallaght and Robbie Gaffney's antics in Knocktopher. You'll also hear from Gary O'Neill (quiz draw), Dan Fulham (SRFC Ticketing App) and Hannah Dunne (on Inchicore icon Anne O'Brien) ahead of Friday's game with St Pat's.

Our 1990s series gets underway with the first three seasons at the RDS. We relive the John McNamara era and the move back to the south side at Ballsbridge, huge crowds, horse injections, FAI Cup final heartbreak, the top six/bottom six and Rob Jones' debut with Justin Mason and Tommy Tormey, recorded at the Four Provinces.

We've got the big Galway review, with the inevitable win and craic, and 'Members Corner with the MacConvilles', as Eamonn and his dad Brian stop by the Lair to talk all things Rovers...and resurrect Conor's Corner while they're at it.

Ahead of Rovers' first trip to Galway in five years, there's interviews with Dublin-based Galwegian Julian Canny, and their captain Conor McCormack, a former Hoops midfielder, along with a Galway and German themed TFTES Hotline as 11 people, including SRFC TV commentators Con Murphy and Barry Murphy, call in to answer all our questions in under seven minutes somehow.

We talk the 2-2 draw with Derry on Monday night, Hannah Dunne interviews Rovers women's goalkeeper Amanda Budden and goalkeeping coach Karl Coleman, with their new season kicking off tomorrow, and there's a double author feature - David Proudlove concludes our Milltown series with his highly regarded book "When The Circus Leaves Town", about football clubs leaving their traditional homes, and, as we head to the Showgrounds on Saturday, the other one is Paul Little's "In the Shadow of Benbulben: Dixie Dean at Sligo Rovers", when the star centre-forward came to town at the start of the Second World War.

We talk Tolka Park, last Friday and 37 years ago as it's part 2 of our 1980's special with Jason Maloney and Jim Conroy on KRAM, the boycotts and everything in between for those three years.

We have a story of two wing-backs against Dundalk last week, and, as we look ahead to Tolka Park, dubbed "The Stadium of the Future" in 1987, there's a quick look at the KRAM campaign by Con Murphy and an interview with former Rovers player and manager Dermot Keely, about the four-in-a-row team and the leaving of Rovers' old home at Milltown, which was fraught with controversy. The last 1 hour 50 minutes of the show is Dermot and our reaction.

A bumper show for the new season and we have pure darts at the President's Cup final, Aaron Greene amongst the nine callers into a season predictions and 'love' themed TFTES Hotline, plus an interview with Newry-based documentary producer Ally McKenzie, who made 'Twice In A Lifetime', a short film on Rovers' four-in-a-row.

We've got #DartsGate and President's Cup coverage, and interviews with two former Hoops players. Sam Bone talks Maidstone's FAI Cup upset over Ipswich Town, and with Super Bowl LVII this Sunday, we hear Neil O'Donoghue's remarkable story: From Shamrock Rovers to the NFL.

We have a bit of chat about our theatre show behind the scenes, Pico and Thursday's quiz, before Rovers assistant manager Glenn Cronin drops by for a lengthy interview about his time at the club.

We ring in the new year with a theatre themed TFTES Hotline ahead of Saturday's live show, asking way too many questions of Bill Gleeson, John Coady, Colm Nolan, Denis Donohue, Donal Dunne, Fiachra Ó Brolacháin, Glenn & Hannah Dunne, Ryan McDyer, Karen Connolly and David King.

It's the TFTES Christmas show and last episode of the year as our guests Jason Maloney and Jim Conroy pick their most memorable games from the original four-in-a-row, in the first part of a 1980s special recorded at the Four Provinces.

We're back with some Christmas cheer and three interviews - two more authors in Ben Jackson and John O'Shea, who wrote 'The Africa Cup of Nations: The History of an Underappreciated Tournament' and 'Republic of Ireland Women: A Biography in 9 Lives' respectively, before Rovers fan Nico Crowley tells us about his life after winning the Tallaght Person of the Year award. We also reveal which guest players will be joining us on stage at our live podcast in the Civic Theatre. Get yizzer tickets.

We have a month's worth of news to catch up on, ranging from transfers and awards to the Prof's love life. There's details on our first ever live podcast on stage at the Civic Theatre in Tallaght on January 13th and the much anticipated quiz final between Gary O'Neill and Jack Byrne, hosted by Harry Moore in Malahide. Paul Weafer pops by to talk Focus Ireland's 12 Days of Christmas Voucher Appeal and our author series continues with 'League of Ireland: An illustrated History 1980-1990' by Bartley Ramsay and Peter O'Toole, a fanzine about 80s kits.

Champions. 4-in-a-row. History. We've got recaps from the St Pat's and Cork games and all the celebrations, before our interview with Estonian midfielder Markus Poom on his first season in Tallaght.

Not one, not two but three quizzes this week as an exhibition match between Rovers women's players Lauren Kelly and Scarlett Herron is followed by the Questions From The East Stand semi-finals: Gary O'Neill vs Aaron Greene and Simon Power vs Jack Byrne. We review the 5-0 win over bogey club Drogheda as the Hoops are just one win away from the title at Richmond Park on Friday.

We've got a round up of all the news this past week with Toblerone Truffles and a record breaking Pico Lopes, before Collie O'Neill and Glenn Dunne share their thoughts on a big FAI Cup semi-final for the women's team in Tallaght this Saturday. Plus: Lee Grace vs Jack Byrne and Graham Burke vs Simon Power in the quiz quarter-finals.

'Tiftees two sixty' offers no clarity on next year's budget but it does have a review of a big win over Shelbourne last Friday, more info on Steve Bruce's murder novels, a birra culture in the Sunday Times and the Civic Theatre in Tallaght and two quarter-final quizzes - Gary O'Neill vs Dylan Watts and Aaron Greene vs Markus Poom.

We try to make sense of a scoreless draw at UCD last Friday and there's nine brand new callers into an overseas fans edition of the TFTES Hotline, living all over the world - Scotland (Craig Sives), Germany, Finland, USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia and Vietnam.

There's a bus that just about made it to Derry last week, a quiz between Johnny Kenny and Dylan Watts, our author series with Irish historian John Dorney and another instalment of In Memoriam: My Dad, including UCD manager Andy Myler as Rovers head to campus on Friday.