The 42FM

Dec 10 2024 35 ep. 34 mins 122
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Sports meets news, current affairs, society and pop culture as Gavin Cooney and Sinéad O'Carroll zoom out on the biggest story of the week to explore the wider context and issues at play.
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What is football’s rainbow laces problem?

Dec 10 2024 37 mins  
On this week’s show, Gavin and Sinéad explore the controversy around the Premier League’s Rainbow Laces campaign, a long-running visibility and inclusivity campaign in support of the LGBTQ+ community which two Premier League captains and the Manchester United team chose not to support fully last week.Is the campaign doing more harm than good? Why is the men’s football so hos

GE24: Hutch, SF as the FAI, and political player ratings

Dec 03 2024 48 mins  
Is Gerry Hutch an exponent of sportswashing? Are Sinn Fein the FAI of politics, to Fianna Fáil’s GAA? And why do all count centres look like Ireland circa 1992?Gav, a “humble sports correspondent”, puts these and other questions to Sinead, who had led The Journal’s coverage of GE24, and must therefore be in a good place to offer some general election player ratings for the

The fallout from the Conor McGregor case

Nov 26 2024 48 mins  
On Friday, a jury found that Conor McGregor sexually assaulted Nikita Hand in a Dublin hotel in 2018.Gavin and Sinéad discuss the case on today’s show, and some of the reasons why the jury may have come to their decision. They also discuss the likelihood of McGregor being granted an appeal, and salute the astonishing strength and bravery of Nikita Hand. They also chart McGregor�

Are Ireland mismanaging the post-Sexton era?

Nov 19 2024 44 mins  
Gavin and Sinead discuss what happens when a totemic leader reaches the end.Should they be kept close to the team, or even be given a bespoke role like Johnny Sexton? Or is a clean break as in the case of Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp or Bill Shankly preferable?Could Sexton be inhibiting the next wave of Irish out-halves, in the same manner that Alex Ferguson’s lingering presence at

Why Katie Taylor was the rightful winner against Amanda Serrano

Nov 16 2024 25 mins  
Was Katie Taylor the just winner of last night’s fight for the ages with Amanda Serrano?Was the majesty of Taylor-Serrano II diminished by its staging as part of a farcical event featuring Jake Paul and Mike Tyson?Was the fight so good as to deem such concerns irrelevant?Might Netflix now seek to stage Taylor-Serrano III as a headlining event, minus the novelty sideshow involving

Is Katie Taylor wrong to box on Tyson-Paul undercard?

Nov 12 2024 44 mins  
Why are Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano fighting on the undercard of the ‘freakshow’ that is Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul?Gavin Cooney and Sinead O’Carroll are joined from Dallas by Gavan Casey, and the trio discuss the rise of novelty ‘boxing’ events.They differ on whether Taylor is compromising her legacy by taking her place on such a card. Should the Bray fighter have t

Is Ireland rugby country?

Nov 05 2024 48 mins  
WITH IRELAND KICKING off their November rugby internationals against New Zealand on Friday night, Gav and Sinéad debate the extent to which Ireland can really be called Rugby Country. Is rugby really a national obsession?The popularity of the provinces and the Irish national team is beyond question, but how has that fanbase grown given so few people play the game? Given the fact t

Will Damien Duff change Irish football?

Oct 29 2024 45 mins  
AS THE LEAGUE of Ireland season draws towards its nerve-shredding final day, Gav and Sinead discuss the boom in popularity of domestic football.Why have crowds increased so significantly this decade? And can the rising numbers be leveraged into that most elusive and long-desired of things: a thriving football industry in Ireland.The pair talk about what needs to happen next to make

The General Election will show that we don’t care about sport

Oct 22 2024 39 mins  
There is an election on the horizon - even though the government won’t tell us when it will be.Whenever the official election campaign swings into action, though, it’s a near-certainty that no politician will be asked about sport. Today Gavin and Sinéad wonder why that is the case: can we really be said to care about sport in any real way if it is never raised as an election t

How much are GAA managers paid?

Oct 15 2024 38 mins  
GAA president Jarlath Burns last weekend floated the possibility that inter-county GAA managers could be put under regularised contracts, which brought back to the surface a persistent talking point in GAA: payments to managers.Despite the GAA’s amateur status, successive presidents and directors-general of the Association have acknowledged that managers are paid at club and inte