Added Time: The Irish Times Sports Podcast

With the coronavirus throwing everything into flux, this morning we’re in the surreal situation of having a perfectly-poised Six Nations table that looks likely to be a good seven months away from any conclusion. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to tease out what it all means and where we go from here. Documentarian Ross Whitaker is also in with us to talk about his documentary The Boys In Green which tells the story of Ireland in the Jack Charlton years and what it felt like to finally make a mark on the world stage. It goes out on RTE tonight. All this in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

Rules come and rules go but Congress is always with us. Fresh from an invigorating weekend at Croke Park, Sean Moran joins us in studio for a look at how the new backpass rule came to be and brings the lowdown on the next GAA president. Who do you support? How and why did that come to be? How important is shirt colour? Emmet Malone has carried out the most comprehensive survey on football fans ever in Ireland and he’s on the line to tell us all about it. All this plus your first and best Cheltenham tip on your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent. GAA Congress 5.00 Foiotball Fan Survey 23.30

Stop all the clocks. Turn off the Tweet machine. Rugby is goosed, ruined and everything in between. England have beaten us to a bloody pulp and nothing remains but entrails and outrage. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to pick over the carcass of Twickenham. It's gonna get grim, baby. It's gonna get grim. Keith Duggan was in Tuam yesterday to see the flourishing of Galway as contenders. They put the hurt on Tyrone to the tune of 19 points, the biggest defeat of Mickey Harte's time in charge. Can they go all the way? What's the difference between them and the league's other form side, Monaghan? All this - plus an impassioned plea in favour of the black card from a Hurling Man - in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent. Hurling: 0.30 Rugby: 9.00 Football: 33.00

Twickenham week in the Six nations and all of a sudden, a Triple Crown is at stake. Who are England now, exactly? Are they the team that beat New Zealand in the World Cup semi-final or are they about to lose their third test match in four games? Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey tease it all out in studio. Former international referee Owen Doyle got a huge reaction to his column in the Irish Times last week on supporter behaviour at schools rugby matches. He joins us in studio to talk about the latest worrying trends, Garda intervention and what can be done. While we have him, we drill down into some of the refereeing in the Six Nations so far and look ahead to what faces Jaco Peyper at Twickenham on Saturday. Throw in a trip to Wexford to see a mad, mad day's hurling and that's your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey.

With two wins from two gathered into the hold, the Andy Farrell train is rolling merrily along. Gavin Cummiskey and Gerry Thornley are in studio to break down Saturday's win over Wales and we hail Captain Johnny Sexton, for that is how we should address him now. Tyrone and Kerry's league game was moved to Edendork and Ian O'Riordan managed to find his way there against all odds. The game was interesting for two individuals in particular - David Clifford and Cathal McShane - for very different reasons. We talk yellow cards, targeting players and jobs for the boys. All this and a nation apologises to the Welsh women's rugby team for our crap showers. Free as the air you breathe in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

The Six Nations is here and it is well in itself, French kissed to life on Sunday in Paris with the home side's win over England. Ireland's campaign got off to a steady start on Saturday, eventually overcoming a physical Scotland side but picking up some body blows along the way. Gavin Cummiskey and Gerry Thornley are in studio to break it all down and to look ahead to Wales's visit to Dublin next Saturday. The FAI have received a bail-out that we're not supposed to call a bail-out, to the tune of somewhere north of €30m. With its immediate future apparently secured, the game can breathe a sigh of relief and set about putting its house in order over the coming months. Emmet Malone has the details and he joins us on the line.. Add in some SuperBowl chat - Hail to the Chiefs! - and that's your Monday morning Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

The Ireland squad are in Portugal so it must be (checks notes)... the start of the Six Nations? Okay. Andy Farrell's new broom has swept the team announcement - not to mention the Irish press pack - to foreign climes for a longer run-in than everyone is used to. Before hopping on a plane, Gerry Thornley joins Gavin Cummiskey in studio for our bumper Six Nations Preview. Spoiler alert: one of them tips France for the title. Speaking of uncommonly early starts, the GAA national Leagues got underway over the weekend, with Kerry and Dublin tangling in Croke Park on Saturday night. Seán Moran is on the line to gauge what's at stake over the coming weeks, especially with Tier Two championship places on the line down the divisions. And we reflect on what it is exactly that makes Cork such a desperate league team. Gav talks to us about the death of Kobe Bryant too, all in your Monday Added Time with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

The most compelling soap opera in rugby goes on and on. Fresh from the announcement that they are to be relegated to the English Championship, Saracens have drawn Leinster in the quarter-finals of the Champions Cup in April. Gavin Cummiskey is in studio to walk us through the latest twists and turns in a story that has plenty of room to run in it yet. The big drama from the Liverpool v United match on Sunday took place off the pitch, with Roy Keane and Jamie Carragher eyeballing each other in the Sky studio over the hot topic of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's future. Michael Walker joins us on the line to weigh up where United go from here and whether patience will or won't be a virtue in this scenario. Throw in a dispatch from the club finals and that's your Added Time this Monday, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

And we're back! The first Added Time podcast of 2020 is here and it's in your face. Or your ears, at least. Gavin Cummiskey is in studio to pick the bones out of the Champions Cup weekend. Leinster are sailing, Munster are failing, Ulster are somewhere in between. What does it all mean for the rest of the tournament? And with the Six Nations just under three weeks away, how are Andy Farrell's options shaping up? We have Ian O'Riordan in the house as well - and he's brought is runners with him. His €250 Nike VaporFly runners, to be exact. Inasmuch as a pair of running shoes can be controversial, these babies are - Ian explains why, how and what happens next. Throw in the story of mighty Magheracloone, the club with the sinkhole in their pitch who are about to play in an All-Ireland final, and you have you Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Eamon Donoghue.

For the final Added Time podcast of 2019, Mary Hannigan and Emma Duffy of The42 join us in studio to review the year in women's sport. With The Irish Times Sportswoman of the Year awards coming up this Friday, we all put up our top five women's sport moments of the year and worm our way through the selections until we reach the top. From Katie Taylor to Ciara Mageean to Rachael Blackmore to the hockey team, it has been a momentous year for women's sport. The women's World Cup, the Dubs, Sanita Puspure - it's all in here, the boundaries of sport being pushed further and further out with each passing month. All in your final Added Time of the year, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

The grim reality of the FAI's catastrophic accounts was revealed last week to be even worse than everyone imagined. What sort of future can it have now? How will it get out from under its debt to become a going concern? Emmet Malone joins us in studio to try to make sense of the worst week in the history of the association. Gavin Cummiskey is in with us too, picking over a Champions Cup weekend that had wins for Leinster, Munster and Ulster. We also, despite our best efforts, get into some more World Cup fall-out - Gav was one of the journalists who sat down with Rory Best last week and his insights into the particular circumstances of that interview are well worth hearing. Finally, film-maker Kevin Brannigan pays us a visit to tell us about his documentary In League With Gaddafi which goes out on RTE One tonight. The story of a group of Irish soccer players brought by Brian Kerr to play a match in Libya in 1989 is a hell of a caper, including Charlie Haughey, guns, beef and even a little bit of football. All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

Was 2019 a vintage year for sports books? Mal and Pat are joined by old friend and Irish Examiner sports columnist Kieran Shannon to pick their favourite titles of the past 12 months.

Rugby with Garry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey at 7.15 Paul Fitzpatrick on Cavan footballer Charlie Gallagher at 31.30 Munster gonna Munster. The ghosts of winter Saturday Nights Past came calling as Thomond Park rocked to another nail-biting Champions Cup encounter, this time against Racing 92. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to break down the rugby weekend that was, with a fair amount of excitement at the already clear impact of Stephen Larkham. We also delve into Joe Schmidt's book, released last week to a very mixed reception. Charlie Gallagher was the iconic Cavan footballer of the 1960s but somewhere along the way he got lost to the ages. Paul Fitzpatrick has written a beautiful biography of one of the greatest Ulster players in history, a celebrity in his own time who came to a sad end in later years. Paul joins us to tell a story not many people know or will have heard of. All this - plus Brendan Maher and the charms of winter hurling - in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

Football with Emmet Malone 6.52 Rugby with Gavin Cummiskey and Gerry Thornley 23.40 Crunch time in Dublin 4. Ireland v Denmark VI - This Time It's... well, it's likely to be quite similar to the five that have gone before. Denmark won't be shaking in their boots, Ireland won't be exactly cowering either at the thought. Winner goes to the Euros, loser goes to the play-offs. Emmet Malone is on the line to give us Mick McCarthy's likely team and rate our prospects for the evening. The Champions Cup is back, back, back and Irish teams put together a clean sweep on the opening weekend. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to hail Connacht's mighty victory over Montpellier, the stand-out result of the weekend. Was anger over the World Cup driving the Irish players? Can it last? All this in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

Rugby barely had time to catch 40 winks before the Champions Cup has come rapping on the door and rousting it for another season. With defending champions Saracens the talk of the towns and all four Irish provinces ready to go, the stage is set for a fascinating competition, whatever happens. Gavin Cummiskey is in studio to break down the Saracens scandal and talk us through the pools. It's massive seven days for the Ireland soccer teams, both men's a women's. The men have a friendly against New Zealand ahead of next Monday's crunch tie in the Aviva against Denmark, while Vera Pauw's women's side play Greece tomorrow lunchtime in Athens, having started the campaign with two wins from two. Emmet Malone has the lowdown on a crucial international week. All this plus the regrettable dickishness of Pep Guardiola in today's Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

Some weeks, the whole thing is like trying to fit a quart into a pint pot. The amount of sport that fizzed around the place over the weekend is almost too much - but we've done our best in your Monday Added Time. Forgive us our misses. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey run the rule over the World Cup final in our last rugby pod for, oh, a fortnight or so. South Africa are world champions but it's a complicated story to cheer for. Meanwhile, England look to have played their final in the semi-final - the lads assess the mental mistakes that led to their downfall. Mary Hannigan is in studio to break down a famous weekend for Irish hockey as the women’s team qualify for the Olympics for the first time. It's the end of a long road and Mary has been on it with them for over two decades of reporting on the Irish team. On a grey morning in Dublin, it's the brightest spot around. All this plus Katie Taylor's latest world title in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

It’s here, at last. The World Cup final is upon us as England take on South Africa in Yokohama. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey have one more pod in them, breaking down the match-ups and the ready-ups. Also, in a turn up for the books, why they both want England to win. All in your final Thursday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin.

England saved the signature performance of the Eddie Jones era until it couldn't have mattered more. In stuffing New Zealand in Yokohama on Saturday, they sailed into the World Cup final in grand style. There they will meet South Africa, whose win over Wales on Sunday had none of the fireworks, albeit the same reward. With Gavin Cummiskey in studio and Gerry Thornley on the line from Tokyo, we pick the bones out of semi-finals weekend. Arsenal's reputation as the Premier League club eternally closest to a nuclear meltdown was further burnished over the weekend as club captain Granit Xhaka had a public falling out with the home fans as he was being substituted at The Emirates. Amy Lawrence of The Athletic has the inside story of how the club got to this point and how much of it is the fault of Unai Emery. All this plus some jaw-dropping Tiger Woods factoids on your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent. Tiger Woods: 0.30 Rugby: 6.15 Arsenal: 26.50

The World Cup fall-out continues apace. After Isa Nacewa's cutting assessment of Joe Schmidt's final year, it feels like there is a lot of water to flow under the bridge before we can put the tin lid on Japan 2019. Also, there is the small matter of the semi-finals to dig through. Gavin Cummiskey is back from his travels, disappointingly with one arm as long as the other and a distinct lack of presents for the troops. We plough on, all the same, with him in studio and Gerry Thornley on the line to break down the timing of Nacewa's intervention and the extent to which he was talking for the current squad members with whom he is close. All in your Thursday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent

Let the autopsy begin. Ireland are out of the World Cup at the quarter-final stage - again. Ireland have been hammered when it matters most - again. Why does this keep happening? How could we have imagined anything else? Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are on the line from Japan to pick over the bones of it all. Sports book season is upon us. Adrian Russell has written The Double, the story of Cork winning the football and hurling All-Irelands in 1990. It's one of the great GAA tales, driven by two classic managerial firebrands in Billy Morgan and Canon Michael O'Brien. Adrian dropped into studio this morning to tell us all about it. Throw in a lament for the new Gaelic football rules voted in by Special Congress over the weekend and you have Episode 100 of Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

Ireland will make history when they beat New Zealand in the Rugby World Cup quarter-final on Saturday. That’s the view from Tokyo as Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are reasonably bullish that Joe Schmidt’s team can make the final four of a World Cup for the first time. The two-time defending champions and number one side in the world start as 12-point favourites but as Schmidt opts for a dozen players from the starting team that beat New Zealand at the Aviva stadium last year, there is a belief that this Ireland squad have the tools and belief to cause an upset. In doing so they will eke out another few weeks for captain Rory Best, forwards’ coach Greg Feek and Schmidt, all of whom step down after the tournament. The boys also explain why they think Japan’s fairytale has another chapter or two in it, which would make grim reading for the Springboks. All of this and more in the Added Time podcast with John O’Sullivan and Mary Hanningan.

It’s moving week for our rugby and soccer teams – by the end of it there’s a good chance we’ll have either have moved on or moved out. Gavin Cummiskey and Gerry Thornley check in from Japan, where the Rugby World Cup has been lit up by the hosts. How did nobody see Japan coming? Where do Ireland stand ahead of the quarter-final against New Zealand? Will the fact that this could be Joe Schmidt’s last week in the job have any effect? Emmet Malone is in Geneva as Mick McCarthy’s Ireland team prepares for the crucial Euro 2020 qualifier against Switzerland on Tuesday night. Here, too, there are questions. Will Aaron Connolly start? Why were Ireland so dreadful against Georgia? And are the nervy Swiss actually there for the taking? All this on your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and John O’Sullivan.

Find your hatches, batten them down. The Rugby World Cup is descending into farce and there doesn't seem to be a thing anyone can do about it. Typhoon gonna typhoon and the Scots and Italians gonna go home sore, it seems. Proper rugby brain John O'Sullivan is in studio to co-present as we check in with our men in Japan. Gavin Cummiskey and Gerry Thornley bring us a weather report first and foremost but also the latest updates from the Ireland team hotel ahead of the game with Samoa on Saturday. All in your bonus Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and John O'Sullivan

Fake news is alive and well and it's taking over the Rugby World Cup. Despite reports that the sky is falling in over in Japan, Gavin Cummiskey is here to reassure one and all that Ireland are not going to be typhooned out of the competition this weekend. Contingency plans are in place and the road to a glorious quarter-final exit is secure for now. Meanwhile, back this side of the globe, we have a new football superstar. Emmet Malone joins us from Abbotstown where Aaron Connolly has just been called into the Ireland squad for the Georgia/Switzerland double-header after his man of the match performance for Brighton against Spurs on Saturday. All this plus the glory of Ciara Macgeean on your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent. Times: 05:37 Rugby 23:21 Football

The morning after the borefest before. Ireland have dealt with Russia like a library clerk enforcing a minor fine - nothing too brutal, just a quietly bloodless transaction. And through it all, we have no real idea of where Joe Schmidt's side stand. Gavin Cummiskey and Keith Duggan are on the line from Japan. They bring us a mood of pessimistic limbo, with nobody quite sure if we're still one of the best teams in the world or if we'd be as well packing our bags and heading home early. On the upside - Bundee Aki, Robbie Henshaw and Chris Farrell are organising a weekend of shore leave so maybe everything will turn out okay. All this and Mrs Pat Nugent's latest World Cup haiku on your Friday morning Added Time with Malachy Clerkin.

A pall falls over a stilled nation, the last of the early autumn warmth gone from the air. Ireland have lost to Japan in the Rugby World Cup and all hope has gone. Let's get through this one as best we can, yeah? Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey call in from Kobe to pick through the entrails of the latest World Cup disaster. Was it the tactics? Was it the lack of Johnny Sextons? Where do we go from here? On a slightly cheerier note, John Delaney is finally an ex-FAI employee. Emmet Malone is in studio to walk us through the terms of the divorce and to lay out exactly why Delaney's pay-off is in the region of half a million euro. Just to complete the trifecta, Ian O'Riordan has been watching his beloved World Athletics Championships in despair as the plainly unfit for purpose host city of Doha continues to claim victims. All this plus a timely World Cup haiku in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

Happy Jack Carty Day, everybody. The Connacht number 10, who was arguably Ireland's fifth-choice outhalf 18 months ago, will start against hosts Japan on Saturday morning. Now that's a meteroic rise. Gavin Cummiskey was at the team announcement this morning so we got him on the line to fill us in on all the news. On top of which, we learned a lot about haunted hotels, how World Rugby have screwed over Fiji and how far you have to go to get arrested in Japan. All this in your extra-special Thursday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

Matchday One has come and gone and all is for the best in this best of all worlds. Ireland have tanked Scotland and the bandwagon is starting to pick up speed. Bring it on, we say. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey join us on the line from Japan after an opening weekend that couldn't have gone a lot better from an Irish point of view. We pick a few nits and try to damp the fires a little - long way to go and all that - but on the whole, the livin' is easy this fine Monday. Of course, the World Cup hasn't been without needle. Mary Hannigan is in studio to break down the breakdown everyone's talking about - Are you Team Jamie or Team Eddie? Also, how many extras are ITV paying for their in-studio re-enactments? Inquiring minds need to know. All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent. Rugby Opening Weekend Review 4.15 TV Review with Mary Hannigan 26.35

It's here! At last, it's here! If not the Rugby World Cup quite yet, at least your super special Added Time preview show. Our men in Yokohama are primed and ready and, unique among the travelling Irish press pack, they haven't written a word about Sumo all week. Purists, they are. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey walk us through Ireland's opener against Scotland on Sunday. With the rain coming in sideways, will it just be a glorified Six Nations encounter? If it becomes a risk-averse game, does that suit Ireland? How will Iain Henderson get on calling the Ireland line-out? There are big old fish frying elsewhere in the tournament too. The tie of the weekend is undoubtedly South Africa v New Zealand. Potentially the most impactful game is likely France v Argentina. Lots to see, plenty to get out of bed for. All in your bonus Thursday edition of the Added Time podcast, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent. Times: 00:30 Super-Duper Saturday 03:37 Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey on Ireland v Scotland 16:24 New Zealand v South Africa 22:32 France v Argentina

Five-in-a-row, three-in-a-row, same but different. It's all about the Dubs this mizzly Monday morning as they gathered up the men's and women's All-Irelands over the weekend, making their own bits of history align the way. Sean Moran and Keith Duggan join us to talk about Saturday night's replay in Croke Park and all that flowed from it. Dublin's most impressive final victory came after one of the best first halves of football anyone can remember. And though the futures of Jim Gavin and Stephen Cluxton may be up in the air, there's no sense that Dublin's job is finished. Joanne O'Riordan is on the line to talk about the rain-ruined women's final, which Dublin came through in the end to beat Galway. They have changed in front of our very eyes over the years, from the team that threw away All-Ireland after All-Ireland at the start of the decade to comfortably the best team around now. Turns out it's almost certainly down to Joanne trolling Sinead Goldrick in 2014. And chiming in from downtown Tokyo, Gavin Cummiskey is on the line with news of Robbie Henshaw and Joey Carberry. More thrillingly, he brings tales of his unease in the face of basic Japanese good manners. All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent. Women's Football Final 0.00 Men's Football Final 10.30 Rugby 35.00

The prep is done, the players are ready, all that's left is to gather up the passports and go. Ireland beat Wales in their last World Cup warm-up game on Saturday and head to Japan ready to rock. Gavin Cummiskey is in studio to assess where everybody stands, from Rory Best to Garry Ringrose to Jack Carty and beyond. Ireland's soccer fortunes got a boost last night in Tbilisi with Georgia holding Denmark to a draw. Ahead of Tuesday's friendly against Bulgaria in the Aviva, Emmet Malone calls in from the Irish camp in Abbotstown. We talk camogie too and the whole weird world of GAA celebration songs. All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

History will have to wait. Dublin's drive for five came got halted at the last yesterday, with Kerry pushing them to a replay in the All-Ireland final. Sean Moran and Eamon Donoghue are in studio to break down a game that was as flawed as it was compelling. The Ireland squad for the World Cup has been submitted to World Rugby and predictably enough, has leaked out into the world despite the IRFU's best efforts. Gavin Cummiskey joins us with all the ins and outs. Throw in the great Irish rowers being great yet again and that's your Monday Added time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

It's not dark yet, but it's getting there. You know Ireland's rugby World Cup preparations are going badly when the rugby writers are quoting Dylan in their intros. Gavin Cummiskey and Gerry Thornley are in studio to pick over the entrails of Saturday's hiding in Twickenham and singularly fail to talk us down off the ledge. Dublin will meet Galway in the women's football All-Ireland final in three weeks after they came out on top in yesterday’s semi-final double-header in Croke Park. Joanne O'Riordan is on the line to break down a grinding Dublin win and a knife-edge cracker for Galway over Mayo. And we couldn't let the day pass without acknowledging the insanity at Headingly yesterday. Patrick Madden talks us through the glory of Ben Stokes and his winning of the third Ashes Test. All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent. Cricket 1.00 Rugby 8.49 Women's Football Semi-Final 31.15

Strike up Slievenamon. Book that AirBnB in the Golden Vale. Pop the bottle of cider. It's a Tipperary world and the rest of us just live in it today. All-Ireland champions for the third time this decade, Tipp take centre stage in today's all-hurling edition of the Added Time podcast. Keith Duggan and Sean Moran joins us to break down a final that ultimately left a lot of people cold. Not Tipp people, of course. Other people. Had the game already turned in Tipp's favour before Richie Hogan's red card? Why weren't Kilkenny able to reorganise the way other teams have done when down to 14 men? What more can we ask of referees than what James Owens did? All this and more in your Monday Added time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

The Dublin threshing machine rolls on, reducing all before it to dust. Happily, we have much to discuss this Monday morning, with an All-Ireland final on the horizon, however much of a done deal we imagine it to be three weeks out. Keith Duggan and Eamon Donoghue are with us to break down the weekend in Croke Park. Indecently early though it is, there's rugby to talk about. Gavin Cummiskey is in studio to sing a sad song over Joey Carbery's ankle and lay out the detail of the three either/or calls Joe Schmidt would need to make if the plane to Japan was taking off in the morning. There's also a couple of fun tales from the early pre-season around the NFL, with the contrasting stories of Antonio Brown and Damon Sheehy-Guiseppi. All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent. Times: 00:05 - Intro on the NFL 06:40 - GAA with Keith and Eamon 32:45 - Rugby with Gavin Cummiskey

With the honourable exception of Mayo v Donegal, the conclusion of the Super 8s turned out to be much ado about nothing. Thankfully, the upshot is that we have been left with a cracking weekend of All-Ireland SFC semi-finals to look forward to, with Mayo v Dublin on Saturday evening and Tyrone v Kerry on Sunday. Keith Duggan and Eamon O’Donoghue join us to chat through the games and non-events of the weekend just gone, and to preview the fireworks that (hopefully) await us. We also have some insider knowledge on what lies ahead for the footballers of Wexford as Paul Galvin takes the helm. The English Premier League returns on Friday night and for many people that means one thing – Fantasy Football is back. Why cheer for just one team managed by Pep or Klopp when you can assemble your own team of over-paid professionals, and give far too much thought to who takes corners for Wolves? Joe Lepper of www.FantasyFootballScout.co.uk joins us on the line to examine why the game is such a phenomenon and, more importantly, to give us some vital tips and tricks for the season ahead. All this in your Tuesday’s Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent. Times: Gaelic football: 7:00 Fantasy football: 30:45

Hurling! Hurling! Hurling! Another Tipperary v Kilkenny final then, to end the decade. Boring? Anything but. After a weekend of eye-watering tension in Croke Park, Jackie Tyrrell joins us to gorge on a pair of stone-cold All-Ireland semi-final classics. How does Cody keep doing it? Why couldn't Limerick live with Kilkenny? What made Wexford tighten up with the line in sight? Where have Tipp found a bench from all of a sudden? Another momentous occasion took place at Lord's last week when Ireland played their first ever test match against England. Not alone that, they skittled England out before lunch on the first day before going on to play out a stunning, if weird, game that ultimately ended in defeat. Ger Siggins was there for the Irish Times and he's in studio to try and make sense of it all. All this in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent. Hurling: 5.45 Cricket: 27.45

The sun is out, the sky is high and Shane Lowry is the Champion Golfer of the Year. How's your Monday going? Could it be any better? Philip Reid was in Portrush for every stroke of Lowry's momentous week and from a service station somewhere in the north, he joins us to walk us through it all. Sean Moran and Eamon Donoghue in situ as well to break down the weekend that was in the Super 8s. Are Donegal and Kerry the only teams who might hold a candle in the Dublin wind? How many days have Mayo left in them? How steep is the learning curve for Meath and Cork? All dealt with in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

Too. Much. Sport. That's what your Sunday was. Way too much. From Killarney to Lord's to Wimbledon to Croke Park to Ballybofey, there was just no end of it. So here we are, putting it all in a nice neat package for you on the Added Time podcast. Sean Moran is in studio to talk about the GAA weekend that was. Kilkenny put an old-style beatdown on Cork, Tipp ended the Laois fairytale, Kerry blitzed Mayo and Diarmuid Connolly is back in the Dublin fold. Much to discuss. All of it is just a preulde to the biggest sporting event ever to be held on the island when the British open comes to Portrush this weekend. Philip Reid is on-site already and watched Tiger Woods play yesterday afternoon. He's on the line to preview the year's fourth major. All in your Monday morning Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Eamon Donoghue.

Nothing like a good old-fashioned earth-moving shock to light up a summer weekend. Laois are through to the All-Ireland quarter-final after yesterday's seismic win over Dublin and even the most heart-broken Dubs must have a little room in their hearts for it all. Today's Added Time kicks off in celebration of Eddie Brennan's charges before hurtling headlong into an extended preview of the football Super-8s, Seán Moran and Eamon Donoghue are in studio to run the rule over the eight remaining counties in the football championship. Meanwhile, the Irish Open was a resounding success in Lahinch last week, with Spaniard John Rahm taking it for the second time in three years. Philip Reid was our man on the ground and he joins us to break it down and also to look ahead to next weekl's British Open in Portrush. All in your Monday morning Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Eamon Donoghue. Laoise 0.10 Super 8s 6.30 Irish Open 34.30

The BBC’s Sarah Mulkerrins has been in France this past month covering the Women’s World Cup. Settled in Lyon for Tuesday's semi-final between USA and England, the Galway native guides us through the ground-breaking tournament from Megan Rapinoe backing up her White House comments, with goals, to the misguided moral compass of Phil Neville. We are blessed by the presence of Sonia O'Sullivan in The Irish Times building to discuss the latest twist in the Caster Semenya story. Need a GAA fix? Ian O'Riordan (and Sonia) run the rule over the hurling finals in Leinster and Munster as Wexford and Limerick temporarily topple the mighty towers of Kilkenny and Tipperary. Davy Fitz's gets his overdue credit as a master tactician. Also, Aidan O'Shea's kick-pass gift for Armagh, along with all the football qualifier news, gets a good airing on the Added Time podcast, presented for one week only by the dynamic duo of Gavin Cummiskey and Mary Hannigan. 4.30 Sarah Mulkerrins on the Women's World Cup 20.25 GAA 37.25 Caster Semenya

Donegal anointing as everyone's second team continues apace, the last, best hope for humanity in the quest to stop Dublin. Keith Duggan was at the Ulster final yesterday and joins us to report on another impressive display. Eamon Donoghue has the rundown on Saturday night's Munster final as well as we studiously ignore the usual water-boarding in Croke Park. James Sugrue was just another promising Irish golfer this day last week but now his life has flipped upside down on account of his winning the British Amateur Championship in Portmarnock. Philip Reid calls into Added Time towers to tell us about how he beat massive odds to qualify for the Masters, the US Open and the British Open all in one fell swoop. All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey Donegal v Cavan 3.30 Kerry v Cork 11.45 Golf 19.15

Let the bonfires burn. Roscommon are Connacht champions again and this time they went through Mayo and Galway to get there. Keith Duggan was in Salthill for the latest chapter in Anthony Cunningham's increasingly impressive coaching career and he joins us to talk about it - and also to pick over Galway's demise. In hurling, Sean Moran took in the ever-so slightly phoney war in Thurles yesterday between Limerick and Tipperary. Did it matter? Will it matter? And what of Saturday night in Parnell Park and Wexford Park? Exactly how difficult is it for pundits to know the permutations ahead of time? All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Eamon Donoghue. Times: Golf: 00:14 Hurling: 03:33 Football: 23:54

GAA all the way on today's Added Time podcast. Limerick have got their groove back and their demolition of Clare in the Gaelic Grounds on Sunday has them ticking over beautifully ahead of next weekend's trip to Thurles. But the beauty of the hurling championship is that Clare still have a route through to the knock-out stages and if they can gather themselves ahead of Cork's visit to Ennis, their year isn't dead. Ian O’Riordan was in Limerick and he joins us in studio. The Ulster Football Championship continues to be the World Cup, the Grand National and the Ashes all rolled into one. Cavan and Donegal will meet in the final after another weekend of top-class action. Keith Duggan was in Breffni Park for Donegal's win over Tyrone on Saturday night and we give him the floor to wax on and wax off about Michael Murphy and the rest of his countymen. Throw in some aggressive non-lamenting for the Leinster Football Championship and a look ahead to Ireland v Gibraltar and that's your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummiskey.

So much for the summer. There's no sun, the rain is down for the day, the hurling's gone boring. Thank God for the Ulster Championship, which served up another barnburner on Sunday between Armagh and Cavan. Keith Duggan was there and he's on the line to tell us about it and to look ahead to Tyrone v Donegal this Saturday. On Friday night, the feelgood factor around the Ireland soccer team will face its sternest test yet, with Mick McCarthy's side heading to Denmark for their latest Euro qualifier. Emmet Malone joins us from Abbottstown as we ponder the surprisingly golden late chapter in Glenn Whelan's career. All this plus watching the Champions League final in LA with Chris O'Dowd, coming atcha in your Tuesday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Eamon Donoghue.

Saturday brought the curtain down on the rugby season, ending with the heart-warming sight of Sean O'Brien lifting the Pro-14 trophy after Leinster beat Glasgow in Celtic Park. Sunday brought the news that O'Brien is going for hip surgery and will miss the World Cup, ending his international career. Gerry Thornley is in studio to pay tribute to the man he ranks as the best captain Ireland never had. Wexford and Galway played out a stop-start, weather-beaten draw in Salthill over the weekend, leaving the Leinster Hurling Championship on a knife-edge. What is up with Galway? Where are Wexford? And can we get a roof on Pearse Stadium please? Keith Duggan was there and he as all the answers. We'll also dig deep into Roscommon's win over Mayo in Castlebar, all in your Monday Added Time with Malachy Clerkin and Eamon Donoghue.

The last knockings of the rugby season are upon us and Leinster are through to another Pro 14 final after their facile victory over Munster on Saturday. Gavin Cummiskey is in studio to dig through the unravelling of Munster's season and to look at where they go from here. The Ulster Championship has kicked into gear over the weekend and is delivering already. Paul Fitzpatrick of the Anglo-Celt newspaper joins us on the line to talk about Cavan's first win over Monaghan in 18 years on Saturday night. And in hurling, the All-Ireland champions Limerick are on the back foot already after Cork went to the Gaelic Grounds on Sunday and mugged them good and proper. Sean Moran was there for us. All this and the most boring golf major ever in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

In the end, Leinster's fifth Heineken Champions Cup final finished in their first defeat, squeezed till their pips squeaked by a Saracens side that is clearly the best in Europe. Gavin Cummiskey is in studio to tell us where it all went wrong and to sing songs of praise to an unstoppable Billy Vunipola. The Munster Hurling Championship is up and running and already there have been more home defeats than in the whole of last year's competition. Sean Moran was in Páirc Uí Chaoimh to see Tipperary find their mojo again and he joins us on the line. Plus we have plenty of Waterford v Clare and we wail our lament for poor sacked Chris Hughton. All in your Monday Added time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

Put the good china away, hide all the fancy photo frames, maybe put a bit of plastic over the furniture. Leinster and Saracens are meeting in the Heineken Champions Cup final and it's going to be rowdy. Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio to break down the biggest club game of the year between the no-argument two best teams in Europe. It's Sexton v Farrell, it's Itoje v Ryan, it's Conan v big bad Billy Vunipola. Seconds out, and all that. All in your extra bonus Added Time with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

DA! DA! DA! DA-DADA-DAAA! Play the music, play the games. The summer is with us and that means The Sunday Game. An Irish institution, it's 40 years old this season and there's a new presenter in the chair. Joanne Cantwell and programmer editor Rory O'Neill are in studio to bring us behind the scenes of the country's biggest GAA show. What happens when there's a big upset like Carlow beating Kildare and you've only sent one camera and no commentator? Why do people in every county think they're biased against them? And will they be attaching electrodes to Joe Brolly anytime soon? All this on your bank holiday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.

The strictly wheat-from-chaff part of the rugby season is upon us, with the quarter-finals of the Pro-14 the next sort-out to be decided. Gavin Cummiskey is in studio to walk us through Munster v Treviso and Ulster v Connacht next weekend. While it's not too often we get too het up about distance running on the pod, when we go in, we really go in. In that vein, nothing could have pleased us more than the hilarious - if potentially serious - spat between 'Sir' Mo Farah and Haile Gebrselassie in the build up to the London marathon. Ian O'Riordan breaks it all down, along with Eliud Kipchoge's latest incredible marathon feat. We also have the brilliant story of the Irish Aussie Sinead Diver and Marcelo Bielsa saves the world - again. All in your Monday Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent.