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You are welcome along to Tuesday's Afterball.

It's Mick McCarthy here with you until 10 o'clock this evening.

It's Champions League quarterfinal, and I ran Madrid by a Munich, probably the Tasty

tie the night, but it's also a massive night for Arsenal in Lisbon.

There are possible trophy hall for the season has been halved in their last two games,

key Tracy.

We'll be with us in studio for the football show after 9 o'clock to see if they can bounce

back.

Also, Manchester United, we're in Dublin today, so we're going to hear from Brian Bumu and

Ahmad Diallo after 9 o'clock this evening as well.

The first real blows of the hurling season were landed by Limerick on Sunday, a sixth point

win over Cork in the league final, which sets them up nicely for the monster championships,

which starts in just two weeks time.

James Yucana and Sarah O'Donovan will be with us after 8 o'clock this evening.

And Andy Don will be in studio later this hour after Lensermayda True to the championship

quarterfinal with a minor scarer two against Edinburgh and the Aviva on Sunday.

Monster meanwhile are probably in full crisis mode at this stage after going 31-0 down to

the chiefs before half time in their challenge cup quarterfinal.

Oh, it's 7, 9, 180, 180 is the number to get in touch with us throughout the course

of night.

Daniel Pitcher is here with us for tonight's news round.

How are you?

Evening.

How are we?

Arthur O'Donovan also with us.

How are we doing?

No, I'm flying.

Flying.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then it's yourself.

Okay.

Sporting teams in red, panic levels.

Let's rate them.

Mm-hmm.

Monster.

So, fan panic now, this is.

That's 10-B.

Let's presume the professionals aren't panicking, but the lunatic

fans who have no such obligations.

Yeah.

So, 10 is complete panic.

Born, you're not taking it seriously, you know.

10.

Monster are definitely a 10.

Their fans have lost their reason, I think, on social media.

They're calling for all sorts of people to step down off the board.

Yeah.

I mean, and look, you can't blame them to a certain degree.

Then there's people pointing to the Monster Supporters Club.

And then there's all sorts of fingers and hands being waved left right in center when

it comes to, when it comes to Monster.

I'm going to say nine, because there is still, there is still a good possibility of them

getting into the top eight in the URC, and then I think it comes inaccessible.

Let's see what they do next season.

What to, to not even get through the Europa League of Rugby is pretty jamming and concerning.

It was the way it happened as well, got 31-0 down a half time, and look, I mean, they

didn't even play like all that terribly.

It's just that they were cut wide open, and as me and Andy will talk about later, did

they miss four tackles for the trotters before half time or wasn't six tackles?

That's up to interpretation of what constitution to attempt to tackle, I suppose.

So Monster at a high one, current Champions of England Arthur, Liverpool FC, fan panicked.

Fan panicked.

I temper it.

I'd say seven.

Seven.

Only because they have to their mind, a collective mind, it seems a solution.

Okay.

I think ten, nine, ten has to be like, what solution, saccharisla?

Yeah, bring up the Anzo.

Bring it up.

Yeah, I think that's a fair point.

They have, they have, and they haven't a desired destination.

This season gone.

Yeah, I still think they'll get top five.

Yeah.

And that'll be enough.

Then Champions League, that's fine.

That's salvage, but that's a perfectly fine season.

It's not what you wanted, but it's like not too much last.

Yeah.

They're not going to win the Champions League.

Yeah.

And I thought maybe a while ago, there was a chance, it's like, oh, you can pull it together.

The games in Europe are different and so on.

Yeah.

They're so, they're so much.

That felt like a head-gone moment on Saturday, that's hard to come back from.

Okay.

So low enough then for Liverpool, come back to you.

Arsenal, who two weeks ago were going for the core Drupal, lost the League of Final

in, you know, lame enough fashion.

And then go out in the quarterfinals of the FA Cup to a championship team, and that's

their last two games.

I know they go to sport in Lisbon tonight, or sport in Club de Portugal.

It's certainly not ideal for them, and I suppose some of the images and some of the newspapers

as well today of how the Arsenal players had been training at an open session quite recently

would be a little bit concerning to the fans.

Arsenal Football Fan TV is very much back with people calling for all sorts of people

to go.

I'm going to answer this one.

It's tense.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Because Arsenal fans are all, ever bits, they're in bits, they haven't won the league in

twenty-two years or in bits, they don't know what to do.

They're just seeing Harbingers do them all around the place, but then we'll also fight

you if you suggest that they're in any way struggling.

So they're just.

I just think I've been mentally destroyed.

But if you gave them the position that they're in, nine points clear.

Yeah, but that's not how it works to play in stealing the Champions League at this point

of the season as well.

They'd have snapped your hand off for it.

They're famous, which I think it's certainly with the route they have true.

Yeah.

Well, I don't know.

Would one of the routes not be Barcelona?

Barcelona in the semi-final like I think that would be, if that is the case, I wouldn't

put them past the semi-final.

I don't know.

I still think they're in great shape, but I do think they're panicking.

The fans, not necessarily the players, although I just don't understand how they, I know

they put out a slightly weak team and they have a lot of injuries that Michael Aheader

was very keen to point out her real injuries, but at the same time, you have to go and

beat San Hampton, like, you know, anyway.

Those the FA Cup matter if you win the Champions League or the Premier League absolutely not,

of course, do you want to keep it going?

Yes, I wish to.

I think so.

I absolutely think so.

Okay, and then that leaves us with one more team in red, ranking the crisis for fans of

the Rebels.

They lost another final.

I think that's 11 out of their last 12 national finals, a cork of last.

Wow.

That's a great start.

Yeah.

I have that thought a little bit more of a certain on, but it's definitely in double figures

and it's definitely on.

No way.

I'll check that out.

Yeah.

And I mean, it's five neutral.

Yeah.

Now my five is like, I'm concerned, yeah, but I'm not, I'm not like, you know, running

around in circles.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I'll tell you, I'll put it to this.

I'll reverse it this way.

Aheader's not a team heading into the most of the championship.

It's not at least five with their fans, just the general general just with, so maybe

if they're a modicum higher than that, but I still think there'll be, it's say it depends

how long you let yourself look for a head, which again, we were talking about ourselves

not the players and staff and stuff.

If you're looking ahead, it's like, oh, geez, right, that's, they weren't great on

Sunday.

No.

And they can kind of, I always am, I was a bit suspicious.

You can kind of wrap that up whatever way and kind of put it down to whatever and it

was this last year that he was important this year, it's not important, whatever, and

you can kind of tell whatever in our out of suits, and that's not just them.

I still can't see what the plus side is in being fairly well beaten in relative, yeah,

for nothing.

I don't see what the upside is.

I'm concerned, I'd be concerned for a core point of view at the sort of relative neutral

assumption.

And maybe it doesn't come from pundits or from like really strong fans, but from people

who just like, like hurling, there's almost an assumption that cork are there, they're

the best team.

They just have a jury.

They're the young crown champions.

They're good, right?

Jersey's been saying it for five years, but now I think there's more than that train has

arrived.

There's a lot of people who just think that like, cork are the young crown champions,

they've lost the last two finals, they'll get over the line.

They're building something.

Whereas I don't know if cork are necessarily any better this year than they were last

year.

But I don't think they've been tragic either.

No, not tragic.

Oh, no, not at all.

Even on Sunday, they weren't.

That's the high standard.

We're going to talk to James Yincere in the second half of the time.

And it's all going to be about what cork did wrong or what Limerick did right.

As if Limerick hammered him out of the gate and it wasn't the case at all, you know.

So that's what I'm saying.

I still think like cork are contenders.

Just this idea that they are just waiting to get to beat them, the only thing that can

beat them is themselves.

Yeah.

I just don't buy it.

There is good as them.

I think Tipper is good as them.

I kind of think Claire is good as them, but that might be a bias.

And then we don't know what's going to come out of Lenser.

So just this sense that they're just waiting to win it once they get out of their own way,

I think it would be worrying me as a cork fan.

Yeah.

I think it's impossible to tempt fate.

And you wouldn't.

You couldn't.

I really think it's difficult to say anything on much certainty.

I wonder.

I wonder if to your point.

However.

I wonder if the moment for that has passed and that's not to write them off, because as

you said, things can happen.

And nobody would have had TIP last year, but they can come and win in all Ireland.

They have an all Ireland, winning capabilities.

Yes.

Did they have their peak already?

I wonder if some of that initial burst and now it's maybe having to try something different.

I mean, we see the benefits that have been reaped in a few years.

But I just the two times, like again, the two times they've played Limerick this year,

they've been beaten semi-convincingly both times.

And you could they'll tie it up whatever, not as strong as team, not whatever else.

It's okay, but like, why not?

What's the benefit of anyway?

I just something that I've heard and mentioned nowhere, like literally nowhere.

Go ahead.

Patrick Organs want to corks best ever players.

Yeah.

He always passes best.

And obviously he's retired and you have to lose these players at some point.

But the idea that it means nothing to them won.

He's a, except for in the Ireland final straight after half time, he's usually a hundred

and a hundred free taker, which you can't just automatically replace.

He has a jump.

What would you say he's gone from playing the championship last year?

I don't know.

You'd have to tell me.

Three, fifteen.

Four.

It's nothing like.

No.

Do you know, like in a, in a, in a short enough season, like Organs for his leadership and

his aura is free taking and his general being one of the best forwards of all time is

a massive loss.

They're not stronger without him.

That's great.

No way.

That's a great summation of it.

Yeah.

You're not stronger without him.

But who knows?

Like it, but it is I am funnily enough the way Sunday went is even all the more exciting

out for that first, particularly not to write off the clear water for them, but particularly

carctoberry.

Yeah.

That's Sunday.

That is really a game of games now.

Okay.

Bad week for teams in red.

Yeah.

Barry.

But both drew one all the water.

That wasn't great either.

Yeah.

Water for certain to pick up points.

Yeah.

We drew on Friday as well.

Now we've got it.

So we couldn't beat the team bottom of the table.

Shells lost the rovers.

Shells lost the rovers.

Yeah.

Derry.

Well, can you, can you say that there there should be when it's red versus red, you got

it.

Oh.

Oh.

Crisis.

Crisis for teams in red.

Okay.

Daniel.

A man in green.

Is that what we're going to start with?

Yeah.

Absolutely.

Rory McElroy, the master of Augusta.

He begins his title defense on Thursday with Cameron Jung and the US amateur.

Champion Mason Howell for company.

And if you're trying to sort out your Thursday afternoon, they'll tee off from just 331 Irish

time.

Irish interest also will center and Shane Larry.

He'll get underway as 243 alongside Dustin Johnson and Jason Day, Tom McKibben, who'll

be playing with the Americans and you know that can Brian Campbell.

He'll get underway at a quarter past four elsewhere.

John Ram will play with Lou Vigayberg and Chris Gotterup at eight minutes past six in

the evening.

While the one, no, world number one, Scotty Sheffer is out at 644 with Robert McIntyre

and Gary Woodland.

So they're the big ones that will be teeing it up on the opening day.

Now in the past couple of minutes, McElroy has been talking about what he feels will be

the toughest part of defending his title.

Probably the 90 other players that are in the field, you know, it's the, you know,

arguably the, maybe not the largest field in golf, but it's the strongest and, yeah,

you've, you know, there's so many grip players and there's so many players with so much

experience on this golf course.

You know, it's not quite like some of the other major championships.

It seems like you get the, you know, a lot of the CM guys contending year in and year

hard.

So, um, but yeah, that's the, that's the challenge.

You know, I, um, I feel comfortable on the golf course, feel comfortable with my game.

It's been a good three weeks at home, you know, getting ready and, um, you know, physically

and mentally and just trying to prepare for everything that this, this week is going

to, um, sort of throughout me and, um, you know, I know that I can do it now.

So.

So John Ram as well was speaking, um, early around this afternoon.

He expects to play for team Europe at the Ryder Cup at a dare manner, um, which quite

surprised me.

David had emerged after he rejected a deal from the DP World Tour, which was offered to

live golfers earlier this year, um, meanwhile, back in March, the 31 year old former Masters

champion withdrew and appeal against sanctions and fines, which were imposed on him now, speaking

ahead of his first round.

But it goes to on Thursday.

The Spaniard may also pinpoint playing at this year's Irish Open at Doom beg.

Like, like I said, the last few interviews, I'm, we keep talking with the DP World Tour

and trying to figure out a solution that works best.

Uh, I didn't think that going to the legal route and going to court was good for anybody.

So, uh, I have faith in us in the DP World Tour, we're going to find a good solution for,

for both of us.

Still golfing, you will play at a dare manner.

Yeah.

The Irish Open has been very good to me, and I would love to make a return when Worth

has been fantastic every single year, Spanish Open, right, uh, maybe even in the downhill.

We have similar events like the French Open and the Omega.

So, uh, those are events I would love to, to have a chance to play.

There you go.

John Ram.

We've probably taught up my sort of stuff.

I've given these Europe's second most important Ryder Cup player, but, uh, yeah, that

will be, uh, a bonus to the Ryder Cup, but, um, saw Rory there just before we came on

air, sitting through this press conference in his green jacket, but it's back in the

glistening.

It's never going to leave again.

That's it.

Uh, he's, he's had his year, um, I have to say, just seeing it, seeing them actually dare

has made me kind of, I wasn't in this sort of build up two weeks of the master's, one

week to the master.

Yeah.

But now they're dared to under press conferences.

We have T times, et cetera.

I am posing for this.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

I, I watched the, I watched the Rory McElroy documentary.

I'm probably the other night and it was spectacular and actually in points was actually quite emotional

and especially when, um, when his parents were speaking about his, his, um, you know, how

many times he's fallen away and, um, I think even when he, you know, towards the end of

his round last year, started to make a bit of a scoff of us, you know, his dad talking

about having to go out and get his wife a drink and, you know, all of this sort of stuff.

So, yeah, it's fairly, um, it's fairly interesting.

I haven't seen this.

It's a good duck.

It's really good.

Yeah.

I didn't think it would be as good as it was.

A lot of access.

Yeah.

A lot of access.

Yeah.

And his parents, no, I wouldn't say too much.

No.

And, and his parents and Macaroi actually spoke about this in his press conference today.

They were originally against the idea of speaking on it, um, but I'm actually quite glad they

did because, you know, Rory's dad was talking about, you know, all of the times when, you

know, he disappeared to Hollywood golf club and, you know, he'd go there early enough in

the morning and he'd have to go around the boogie at like half nine at night and try and

figure out where all Macaroi is, is on at that particular time.

Um, I think it's, it's, it's, it's really, really interesting, like I, myself, remember

as a kid, going to watch my cousin play amateur golf, um, uh, when he was playing on the Irish

boys team with Macaroi and like Shane Larry and stuff like that.

And, you know, you were witnessing something incredible and everybody going around going

on.

Geez.

That kid has something.

Yeah.

There's no sports people that you hear about since they're, for a long time, um, and Rory

was one of them.

Yeah.

Wayne Rooney.

Joe Cannon.

David Clifford.

Yeah.

Exactly.

And you're wondering is when, when's the next generational player going to emerge?

Yeah.

I don't know.

Well, hopefully, over a few years of Rory, yes.

Anyway, I'm, I'm, I'm not much that documentary.

I decided recently to rewatch the last dance, yes, I just feel like I keep, I keep coming

across when you're looking for something that affects them, like, I haven't watched this

in six years.

I was watching the one.

I was watching it week to week when it came out.

It was the only thing we had in our lives.

It was like, and I watched it weekly, and I was like, I feel like I just need the binge watch

this thing.

Emily, you know, watch it again.

No, I haven't.

No, no, no.

Least four times.

Really?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I'm Jewish.

Okay.

I watched that.

And then I watched it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Jampe Ziegfelight.

Yes.

The Arsenal manager, Michaela Teta, has told his team to feel the pain of their recent defeats

to spur them on in the Champions League after losing the Caribbean Cup Final against

the league.

Yeah.

Sorry.

After losing the Caribbean Cup Final against Manchester City, our Teta side were knocked

out of the FA Cup by Seth Hampton as well over the weekend.

In the quarterfinals tonight, they take on sporting Lisbon in the first leg of their

last eight tie in Europe.

Meanwhile, the other game will see a mouthwatering tie play out at the Bernabéu.

As Real Madrid plays host to Bayern Munich, both of those matches kicking off at 8 o'clock.

Now, ahead of the game, for Arsenal, Bosnian Keller Teta says his players badly want to

make up for their slip-ups in the Caribbean FA Cup.

I think when you have the opportunity that we have, that has to be taken through excitement,

through preparing yourself in the best possible way, to focus on the present, on the things

that we have to do.

And especially in our identity, very, very clear what he's taking us all the way to

where we are.

And that's where we have to focus.

It's not philosophical.

There are parts, and identity is created by behaviours, with words in the world, or with

things that I want to achieve.

And we have so many facts in the areas that, in our opinion, make us the team and the club

that we are.

Texan here from Patrick.

Arsenal season is usually defined by what happens in March and April, and so far it's been

a disaster.

If they don't win tonight, it's time to lump on city.

That's that we've done tonight, first leg.

Just the first leg.

There you go.

Why don't you do loose tree games in a row, and treat it from competitions?

That's not going to go as well.

Yeah, I won't be lumping on though.

John and Dublin says that you see that Rory said he didn't want any Irish food in

this master's meal, as he wanted to enjoy the food.

He's not mashed.

The man has clearly never tried coddle.

I have to say John, Rory's right.

Like what is Irish food?

Like in coddle and stew and all that.

Shannonevos eat that.

No.

Not regularly.

Anyway, you wouldn't be putting it on.

It's not our cuisine in that we don't have an actual cuisine or a coddle or something.

I won't hold that against Rory.

You've got Irish mash on the menu.

I think, hasn't he?

I don't know.

I didn't see that.

It has an accompaniment to put something.

Little big game tonight.

Just a big plate of mash.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Well, so obviously those two games get underway fairly, fairly shortly now at this point.

Manchester United, Harry McGuire says playing for Manchester United is the ultimate honour

after extending his stay at Old Trafford.

The England defender signed a new contract keeping him with the club until June of

2027 with the option of a further deal.

Now the manager Michael Carrick says he's delighted.

The McGuire is staying.

Harry's obviously at that stage where he is getting a little bit further down the line

in terms of career.

But it doesn't diminish the importance of what he can be in the example and the understanding

and a little bit of just knowing what it feels like to be here.

And the winger, Amit Allo, who was both there all speaking in Dublin today, as you pointed

out at the top of the hour, he says that Michael Carrick is the right man to lead the club

long term.

The former captain, as we've all know, took over in January, United had planned a wider

search after sacking Ruben Amoram, but Amit says he's enjoying working under Carrick.

He's been very great, he's been doing so much much for the team, he has a lot of experience

and he knows the club, he has the DNA, so we think he's the right man, but we are really

happy for what he's doing right now.

You know, I care not for the comeback after the preseason and have a way, doesn't it?

Only four days without a game, which is absolutely insane.

Will you be gone?

Will you be gone to the lead's game with hope back?

The other 82,000 Maura.

The leads don't go down or win the epic hopes in the meantime.

Probably not, yeah.

The other Maura, yeah.

That's a call, by the way, from a previous game, if anybody thinks I am calling you a

Maura.

No, it's funny, couldn't even cross my mind.

No.

No, yeah, I do.

Well, yeah, it will sell out.

That's what I don't understand.

You were living and dying by like the, you know, the G.E.A., the football and the hurling

and all this.

The club back never sells out.

It was except for the final.

And then it's like, you know, nobody seems that interested.

And 82,000 tickets of his own.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was right, by the way, Ben's done a little bit of searching.

Cork in National Final since 2005.

They've played 12 last 11 and the only win was last year's league final and a tip.

Someone else called her an immigrant league is irrelevant.

No past hop-it-to-county player counts the number of league battles they have.

Many more teams have won the All-Arland without winning the league than doing the double,

the real season starts in two weeks.

Actually, very much agree with that in terms of hurling if you're one, if you're a limber

of a cork in this current limberic iteration, if you're a tip, whoever, I think it does

matter if you've not won much.

I think it could be seen as a good step and something.

The big thing after Claire's win was that they'd won the league and that set them on the

thing.

That's all tied back to the really set.

They got relegated last year without the group, so I'd really like if it's relevant.

A limberic last most of the games in the league last year and then went out in the quarter

finals.

It's not irrelevant.

But if it's irrelevant, regardless, why are you still not trying to win it?

Why does it relevance?

Why does that mean when I lose the games or don't care, don't think, whatever else you're

gearing up with?

I don't see what the compelling argument is for what we couldn't possibly show our best

all year.

Yeah.

Hold something back the first half of the year and then hopefully we can show our best

in the second part of the year.

But if we don't show our best in the second part of the year, we're not going to look

back at the first part of the year anyway.

You mean that's a nice show up.

I was the greener.

I do think you should try and win what you're in and I would have that argument for teams

that, you know, put no second teams in FA cups and I would have it in.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

Well, especially teams that I've done else to play with, you know, Irish cuisine is

super max or jumbo breakfast rolls, as I'll imagine that.

Imagine that.

Nice to know.

That's out of the mind.

Is that an arrow?

No.

OK.

Well,

an award.

Yes, Ireland manager, Carl award is being forced to plan with us.

Ava Brennan for back-to-back World Cup qualifiers against Poland.

She spoke so highly of her quite recently here with off the ball.

The Bohemians teenager will be out for a number of weeks with an ankle injury.

She'd only just been called up for the first time.

Also a blow for Carl award is the fact that Lily Ag and Jesse Stapleton will also miss

out through injury.

Three of Reynolds from Shamrock Rovers along with Shelburne midfielder Avae and Clancy.

And Sonnerd and Jamie Finn have been called into the squad as replacements.

It's an away game and good ants next Tuesday before the return at the Aviva Stadium on

Saturday week.

The girls in green badly need to start picking up the results following two defeats in

their opening games.

Yeah, we're both of those games live on off the ball.

And James McLean has been on social media.

He's been critically online.

I'd say he's hit out at what he's called awful standard of pitches in the League of

Ireland saying facilities in the domestic game are so far behind.

It's insane.

The dairy city.

Winger has been as was speaking rather after Monday night scored a straight yet last

night.

There's quarter straw with sliger rovers of the show grant.

As a side slow start to the season continued McLean says the great investment in services,

facilities and academies is needed to strengthen the league overall and he believes improving

standards at club level will ultimately benefit the Republic of Ireland national team.

Plans are in place to redevelop Sligo's pitch while dairy city is also upgrading their

own playing surface as part of a wider improvements McLean came off the bench against Sligo yesterday

in the score to straw and didn't play at all in the defeat to go away and I did last Friday.

And anybody who follows them will know that he's been quite vocal.

He has been vocal.

We're basically out of time.

He just quickly gave us the lense or injury concerns for the weekend.

Yeah.

So tie you for a long and Jimmy O'Brien available for the game against sale sharks in the Champions

Cup quarter finals.

Both came through the win over Edinburgh with no issues.

There are further assessments on injuries or will be needed to Andrew Porter James Ryan

and Gary Ringrose this week before decisions are made on their availability.

OK.

Thank you Daniel.

Thank you.

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