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Each week Breifne Earley talks to a different sports star from across the Irish sporting world. Including Olympians, Paralympians, World Champions, International athletes and the hottest sporting prospects for the future. Each week we put our guest to the Spotlight Sweat our own Sports Quiz to see which star knows the most about Irish Sport. Each guest also gets to demonstrate their musical taste by selecting the closing song of the show. Sporting Spotlight is broadcast weekly on Dublin City ...
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This week's guest on the show is one of Ireland's top marathon runners. Clonliffe Harrier's Gary O'Hanlon chats to Breifne Earley about disliking athletics until he started to win races at fourteen. The car accident that nearly ended his running career at seventeen and his return to competitive action almost fifteen years later, egged on my his Amp…
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This week to celebrate the Dublin Marathon, Breifne chats to Rob Costello, a veteran of 20 marathons, about how he got into running in his mid twenties. He talks about playing social football through college and deciding to join a group from work in a marathon in Barcelona, how a 100km race is 'only two and a half marathons' and suffering in 42 deg…
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This week Stephanie Roche is in the Sporting Spotlight talking about her sporting career with Peamount United, Dundalk City, Raheny United, Stella Maris, and learning her craft with Valeview Shankill, Cabinteely and Tony Pouchs Wicklow Academy. Starting from playing with the lads on her estate she developed into a Senior International and playing i…
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This week Breifne Earley has Ireland's premier female adventure racer Avril Copeland in the spotlight. She talks about her initial sporting career as a senior international hockey player focused on reaching the Olympics, before pursuing a love of country music and finding herself rubbing shoulders with her favourite artist Garth Brooks living in Na…
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Episode 27 - Cliodhna O'Connor - Ladies Gaelic Football
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This week's guest is Dublin & Naomh Mearnog Ladies Gaelic Football netminder Cliodhna O'Connor. Having won an All Ireland and two all star awards with Dublin over a ten year career between the posts for the Jackies. She chats to Breifne Earley about getting her break at senior level after injuries and emigration gave her an opportunity and she's ne…
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This evening Breifne chat's to Irish Cricketer Kevin O'Brien who faces his turn in the Sporting Spotlight. He chats about growing up in a cricket crazy family and how he progressed from a kid playing with his brothers for his local club Railway Union to hitting the fastest one day world cup century in the victory over England in 2011. He talks abou…
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This evening's show features the top goal scorer in the entire Airtricity League this season, David O'Sullivan of Longford Town. We talks to Breifne Earley about playing schoolboy football in Wicklow and getting his first bite of the League of Ireland cherry with Bray Wanderers and Sporting Fingal only to fall foul to injuries. The rise, fall and r…
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This evening's show will feature London 2012 Olympics Walker Laura Reynolds. The Leitrim athlete who qualified for the Olympics and went on to secure a top twenty finish. She talks to Breifne about growing up in Leitrim, getting into athletics in primary school, community games before getting selected to represent Ireland at youth level. She discus…
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This evening's show will feature London 2012 Paralympic Swimming Champion Darragh McDonald. The Wexford teenager who burst on the scene at the Beijing Paralympic Games winning a silver medal before trading up for gold in the S6 400m Freestyle four years later. Darragh will be talking about his early success at just thirteen years of age in Beijing,…
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This evening's show will feature Chloe Magee Ireland's top female badminton player who competed at both the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic Games. She outlines how her parent's influence got her into the sport at a young age, and moving to Sweden to coach badminton after her leaving certificate was the catalyst in directing her towards the Bei…
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This evening's show features marathon runner Mark Kenneally who competed at the London 2012 Olympic Games. He talks about his love of athletics, how he'd love to be a sprinter, moving out of cross country onto the roads, dealing with injuries and how he ended up qualifying for London ahead of expectations. Mark also talks about hitting the wall in …
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This week's guest on the show is Stephen Martin MBE, an Olympic gold medallist in Seoul in 1988 with British Hockey, and current CEO of the Olympic Council of Ireland chats to Breifne Earley about his sporting career. From playing many sports through his school days winning national titles in hockey and golf and progressing to play hockey at intern…
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This week Breifne is joined by Irish Olympic Eventer Camilla Speirs who is discussing her Olympic success and disappointment, growing up on horseback, finding an Olympic level horse. How being in the presence of royalty doesn't phase her and it's all about the eventing disciplines of Dressage, Cross Country and Showjumping.…
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This week Breifne is joined by Irish Davis Cup star James Cluskey who chats about his tennis career, studying in the states and the major influences on his sporting life. He chats about his life on tour on ATP Challenger and Futures events, and his ambition to play in grand slams and pushy parents!
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Ireland's fastest woman, Ailis McSweeney, joins Breifne to chat about growing up in Cork, joining Leevale during her school years and dealing with the disappointment of injury setbacks. She discusses meeting her husband, All Ireland winning Dublin Captain Bryan Cullen, and how having two athletes in the family can only help both in their applicatio…
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Gerry Duffy is put in the Sporting Spotlight to look at his sporting life and times. From a starting point of being five stone over weight, he started to run and eventually started to partake in triathlons and marathons. He progressed to a point where he decided to complete a 32 Marathon Challenge in all 32 Irish counties across 32 consecutive days…
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Gerry Duffy is put in the Sporting Spotlight to look at his sporting life and times. From a starting point of being five stone over weight, he started to run and eventually started to partake in triathlons and marathons. He progressed to a point where he decided to complete a 32 Marathon Challenge in all 32 Irish counties across 32 consecutive days…
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This week’s guest in the Sporting Spotlight is one of Ireland’s top basketball players Susan Moran, a stalwart of Irish teams over the year, she chats to Breifne about her career, starting to play basketball in school in Tullamore, moving to Philadelphia to play with St. Josephs in the NCAA Championship. She discusses her time playing in the Women’…
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