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In the season finale of Under Construction with Chadwicks host Donncha O'Callaghan chats to Irish heavyweight boxer and Chadwicks brand ambassador Jack Marley as well as the first ever Irish boxer to win Olympic gold, Michael Carruth. The episode launches as Jack completes his final preparations to compete on boxing's biggest stage and fight at the Paris 2024 Olympics, which begins later this month.  Jack, who began boxing at Monkstown boxing club aged 8 and is now 21, qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics early, and has been preparing to fight at the games by completing three training sessions a day, five days a week at the Sport Ireland High Performance Unit for months.  Michael, who during the episode reflects on his own experiences competing at the Seoul 1988 Olympics and at the Barcelona 1992 Olympics, where he won gold aged 25, was described by Donncha as a ‘trend setter for boxing success in Ireland'. Michael's advice for Jack ahead of Paris is to ‘focus on nothing but the matches', and ‘believe that he can win', as every boxer needs to.

Carlow needs just a win or draw away to Cill Dara this weekend to win the league, it comes after they beat neighbours Kilkenny in last weekend's clash.Tullow play top of table Monkstown this weekend, they'll finish the league in fourth place, something Paddy Browne says they're very happy with it in their first season back up in division 1A. A top-four finish means Tullow can play in the AIL Cup next season.Kilkenny are at home to Longford this weekend.We chat about women's and youth's rugby this weekend and get the lads' predictions on Ireland's Six Nations game against England.

PJ talks to Laura Russell about how airlines handle Christmas and also about making history as Ireland's first female pilot in the Las Vegas World Advanced Aerobatic Championships Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hugon was born in Galway. His mother was Irish and his father Polish. He went to school in the Jesuits' St Ignatius College Galway, finishing up in Blackrock College for the final five years. Back then to Galway and UCG where he completed a BA in French and German followed by the H Dip. In UCG he captained the highly successful under 19 team which won the Connaught league and cup that year. The next five very enjoyable years were spent teaching and coaching in Clongowes. He then moved to Blackrock College where he taught for 39 years (coming to a total of 44 years teaching, 4 more than necessary for a full pension). When asked why he did the extra four years he said: "I'm not a Maths teacher, I lost count" He played Junior rugby with Wanderers in Dublin and when injury brought that to a end he took up windsurfing, sailing (with Glenans Sailing Club) followed by hillwalking and mountaineering. Having climbed the Matterhorn, Eiger and Mont Blanc (twice!) he founded a hillwalking club called "Glenwalk" which in its heyday had over 800 members. Hugon retired 4 years ago and currently lives in Monkstown with his wife Catherine. He spends his time cycling, hillwalking, teaching IT skills with "Age Action" to elderly learners and he also volunteers with the "Bike Hub" which is a social enterprise in Dún Laoghaire where he helps out repairing and delivering bikes to those unable to afford them. The rest of the time he spends going to CWC reunions and listening to Rossa's excellent podcasts!!

We review the weekend's action which saw Tullow lose out to Monkstown, Carlow to Cill Dara, however, Kilkenny got the better of Longford.Are Tullow fit enough the lads ask, is it something they need to work on?We look ahead to the weekend's action, Tullow v Suttonians, Carlow V Athy and Cill Dara v Kilkenny.We talk women's rugby and Kilkenny struggling after another loss, this time to Edenderry, while Tullow hammers Dublin University.Youth fixtures and results are discussed for the three clubs and more.

Your top ranking Irish Golf podcast is back with another episode this week with PGA Professional Cian McNamara who is celebrating 10 years at Monkstown Golf Club this year. A previous winner of the South of Ireland Championship in his amateur days, a golf scholarship stateside and onto developing one of Munster and Ireland's leading golf club memberships, Cian walks us through the hows, why's and why nots. For more visit www.paddytalksgolf.comThe PaddyTalks Golf Podcast is powered by ForeGolf Custom. For your tour level custom fitting experience visit www.foregolf.ie/booking today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Medical professionals are calling on the Minister for Health to regulate the lip filler industry. Currently, anyone can set up and offer the treatment, without being a qualified medic. Patricia Molloy, Nurse and founder of the Derma Clinic in Monkstown, spoke to Sean about the dangers of dermal fillers.

Medical professionals are calling on the Minister for Health to regulate the lip filler industry. Currently, anyone can set up and offer the treatment, without being a qualified medic. Patricia Molloy, Nurse and founder of the Derma Clinic in Monkstown, spoke to Sean about the dangers of dermal fillers.

On this episode of Squawk 7000, we talk with Laura Russell, a trailblazing pilot with Aer Lingus who will compete at the World Aerobatics Championships in Las Vegas this October.Hailing from Cork, Laura's impressive resume boasts a range of titles, including Airline Pilot, Upside-Down Pilot (her words), Physicist, Web Designer, and Powerlifter.In this energy-filled, thought-provoking episode, Laura shares with us her journey and how she has excelled in such varied fields.From the cockpit of a commercial aeroplane to studying the complexities of quantum physics, Laura's passion for learning and pushing herself to new limits is truly inspiring.As we chat with her from her home in Monkstown, we get a glimpse into her preparations for the upcoming championship and the challenges that lie ahead.Join us as we delve into the extraordinary life of Laura Russell, a shining example of determination and excellence in a constantly developing world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We've been talking to Garda Dean Gahan and Garda Steven Carton who were praised for their bravery after rescuing two people from a burning house in Monkstown.

This is The Knock On, KCLR, and Scoreline.ie's weekly rugby podcast.In this episode, Stephen Byrne is joined by Tom Crotty from Carlow Rugby Club, James Blanchfield from Kilkenny RFC, and Johnny Tobin from Tullow RFC.On the show... We look back at the weekend's Towns Cup action where there were wins for Carlow and Tullow and review the other games. We preview Monkstown v Kilkenny, Dundalk v Carlow, and Longford v Tullow in the Leinster League this weekend. We chat women's rugby with a win for Tullow and a loss for Kilkenny. We look back on the weekend's youths' action in the three clubs. The lads discuss the shortage of front-row players and how we need to encourage young players to take up the positions. We look back at the week's college rugby with S.E.T.U in action. Don't forget to visit scoreline.ie for more on rugby, and of course, if you're into your GAA, we have the clash act and lots more.

So – yeah, no – I'm in Cinnamon in Monkstown, getting all excited about Sixmas, which is only, like, two weeks away now. I'm writing out my storting 15 for the match against Wales into the famous Big Book when I notice a woman staring at me over the top of her Watermelon Shhuga. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Johnny Black is fondly remembered for his time at The Showgrounds despite only being at the club for a single season. The full-back was this week's guest on the Official Coleraine Podcast - sponsored by Radio Taxis - and spoke about his sole campaign on the Ballycastle Road, where he scored eight goals in 30 appearances. Johnny discussed some of those memorable goals, netting in the League Cup semi-final at Solitude and why his time at Coleraine was the most enjoyable of his career. The Monkstown man delved into his time at Linfield and Glentoran, moving to Australia and why he wanted to return to The Showgrounds. Hosted by Damian Mullan and Johnny McNabb, the trio also remark on the poor weather as games are postponed across the country this weekend. Please note there is bad language throughout the podcast.

This is The Knock On, KCLR, and Scoreline.ie's weekly rugby podcast.In this episode, Stephen Byrne is joined by Tom Crotty from Carlow Rugby Club, James Blanchfield from Kilkenny RFC, and Johnny Tobin from Tullow RFC.The lads discuss lots including…. Kilkenny lose out to Monkstown in the Leinster League, we look a what went wrong on the day and why we should be optimistic for the future. Carlow gets their first away win over Longford in over 10 years, Tom Crotty says there's room for improvement though. Tullow loses to Athy under the lights in bad weather. Ladies' rugby, we chat about Kilkenny and Tullow's games from the weekend and the Rhino's teams. We look back at Leinster's win over Munster, how Munster's new style is starting to show, younger players stepping up and how it's coming to the end of the road for one or two of them. Don't forget to visit scoreline.ie for more on rugby, and of course, if you're into your GAA, we have the clash act and lots more.

This is The Knock On, KCLR, and Scoreline.ie's weekly rugby podcast.In this episode, Stephen Byrne is joined by Tom Crotty from Carlow Rugby Club, James Blanchfield from Kilkenny RFC, and Johnny Tobin from Tullow RFC.The lads discuss lots including…. Tullow gets the bragging rights after beating Carlow in the Leinster League (Carpe Diem Cup). Kilkenny lose to Gorey in Division 1A, we review where it went wrong for the local side. We preview the weekend's action, Tullow away to Athy, Carlow away to Longford, and Kilkenny at home to Monkstown. We preview Leinster v Munster in the URC and have a look back over Leinster v Connacht and Munster v Bulls. And we analyse the Ireland squad for the November Internationals, the up-and-coming players, and the mounting injury list. Don't forget to visit scoreline.ie for more on rugby, and of course, if you're into your GAA, we have the clash act and lots more.

Double Booker Prize winner and creator of The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood speaks to Arena ahead of her appearance at the Clifden Arts Festival - Pianist Barry Douglas on the Music at Monkstown festival - Lie Low, a new play about sex, violence and PTSD as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival.

John Finucane chats about his involvement in the Music In Monkstown and even gives Marty a quick clarinet lesson!

We speak to Sam Connolly from Monkstown in Dublin who was invited on stage by The Killers at Malahide Castle this week.

Every music fan has dreamed of playing to a crowd of screaming fans with their favourite band but for one Irish music student this week, that dream became a reality. Twenty-year-old Sam Connolly from Monkstown in Dublin was brought on stage to play drums with The Killers at Malahide Castle on Tuesday and he told Ciara about his amazing experience.

Every music fan has dreamed of playing to a crowd of screaming fans with their favourite band but for one Irish music student this week, that dream became a reality. Twenty-year-old Sam Connolly from Monkstown in Dublin was brought on stage to play drums with The Killers at Malahide Castle on Tuesday and he told Ciara about his amazing experience.

This is The Knock On, KCLR, and Scoreline.ie's weekly rugby podcast.In this episode, Stephen Byrne is joined by Tom Crotty from Carlow Rugby Club and James Blanchfield from Kilkenny Rugby Club.The lads discuss lots including…. A return to local action, we preview Kilkenny v Monkstown, Tullow v Cill Dara and Wicklow v Carlow in the Leinster League. We preview Leinster v Montpellier in the Champions Cup and discuss Dan Leavy being injured again. We look back at Munster v Ulster and look ahead to their Champions Cup game this weekend. We chat about Munster's signings this week including RG Snyman. And the annual Ireland v England game which this year will be a tribute to Gary Halpin. And lots more......Don't forget to visit scoreline.ie for more on rugby, and of course, if you're into your GAA, we have the clash act, and lots more.

In this second episode of Elites - we learn the story of a small community, suffering bad times but banding together to build somewhere for their youth, something to keep them safe whilst harnessing their youthful exuberance. Monkstown boxing club are now one of the most successful in Dublin with 2 of their protégés - Jack Marley & Jake Rapple crowned Elite senior champions at the recent championships whilst Sean Mari won bronze at the world military games. The 3 lads tell us all about that and have a listen as coaches JP Kinsella & Eve  Carr tell us about some of the work that goes into building & growing a community club like theirs.Sponsored by:  

Blinky the borbor in Monkstown suggests a Jude Law or a Matt Damon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Eleanor has a wide-ranging conversation with museum director Tom O'Rahilly about the power of live oral storytelling, the state of storytelling in Europe, and where the idea for the National Leprechaun Museum came from. And they listen to a story! Deirdre tells a story of two lads in Cork who give some rich folks more than they bargained for, literally. Plus, some news from Eleanor. If you have any question you'd like us to answer, topics you'd like us to discuss, or stories you'd like us to tell, tweet us at @leprechaun_ie with #AskAStoryteller or find us on Instagram @leprechaunmuseum. If you'd like to support the podcast and the museum, our Ko-Fi and Shop is at ko-fi.com/leprechaunmuseum. Featuring Eleanor Walsh and Tom O'Rahilly. The Five PIgs of Monkstown is told by Deirdre Quinn. Recorded in the National Leprechaun Museum of Ireland.

Parish Priest and Bus Driver are killed in tragic accident in Monkstown, the bar owner who claims he is better off because of Covid, and delays getting a passport. Tune into the Neil Prendeville Show weekdays from 9am on Cork's RedFM

Parish Priest and Bus Driver are killed in tragic accident in Monkstown, the bar owner who claims he is better off because of Covid, and delays getting a passport. Tune into the Neil Prendeville Show weekdays from 9am on Cork's RedFM

Widespread shock and sadness at the tragic deaths of Fr Con Cronin and bus driver Mark Wills.....is your latest squeeze just really nice or are you being love bombed..& lots more See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr Paul O'Sullivan gives a GP'S view on the staffing problems at Bantry General Hospital.Fr Tim Hazelwood how some Bishops plan to flout the lockdown rules and go ahead with Communion and Confirmations.Some publicans have been getting abuse from customers around the use Covid certs. We talk to Michael O'Donovan from the Vintners Association.Cllr Marcia Dalton shares her memories of Fr Con Cronin who tragically died yesterday due to a traffic accident in Monkstown.Maura Walsh of IRD Duhallow tells us why so many young people are leaving the area.Wayne O'Donnell from Operation Transformation is getting married in Killarney; we catch up with him before he sets off.All your gardening questions are answered by Peter Dowdall See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

jQuery(document).ready(function(){ cab.clickify(); }); Original Podcast with clickable words https://tinyurl.com/ydk6ayuz Two killed in Cork road accident. Beirt maraithe i dtimpiste bhóthair i gCorcaigh. Two people were killed in a road accident in Cork today when a Bus Éireann vehicle went out of control. Maraíodh beirt i dtimpiste bhóthair i gCorcaigh inniu nuair a d'imigh feithicil de chuid Bhus Éireann as smacht. He hit pedestrians and parked cars. Bhuail sé coisí agus gluaisteáin a bhí páirceáilte. The incident took place in Monkstown in Cork Harbor at lunchtime. Tharla an eachtra i mBaile an Mhanaigh i gCuan Chorcaí ag am lóin. It was confirmed at the scene of the crash that two were missing: the bus driver and the pedestrian, a local man. Deimhníodh ar láthair na timpiste go raibh beirt caillte: tiománaí an bhus agus an coisí, gur fhear ón gceantar áitiúil é. The bus was heading towards Cork City at the time of the accident. Bhí an bus ag dul i dtreo Chathair Chorcaí nuair a tharla an timpiste. None of the passengers on board the bus were injured but are understood to be upset. Níor gortaíodh aon duine de na paisinéirí a bhí ar bord an bhus ach tuigtear go bhfuil siad trína chéile. Traffic is diverted in the area and the Gardaí are conducting a technical inspection at the scene of the accident. Tá an trácht ar mhalairt slí sa gceantar agus tá na Gardaí ag déanamh scrúdaithe teicniúla ar láthair na timpiste.

The unsolved murder of Charles Self episode photos are on our Instagram page, comment below to contribute your thoughts.Contact us if you have a little known Irish or British crime we should cover in future episodes. InstagramEmailLinkTree....LISTEN NOW ON:Spotify, Apple, Amazon and Google Podcasts..Me time:@pukka @neutrogena .Episode References:Wikipediahttps://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/murder-in-monkstown-the-brutal-killing-of-charles-self-1.3126696 .Sound Effects:Sound Bible: http://soundbible.com/

This episode sees us chatting with Damo Darker and Eatho Doyle! Both operating out of The Lab Gym in Monkstown, Damo is a Multiple Time Kickboxing Champion,  and Eatho has competed in a huge amount of Marathons, Triathlons and has a huge interest in a variety of different sports. This was a fascinating chat between all of us, talking about mindset when it comes to competition and hearing how the mindset impacts on performance for each one of us in our respective fields! Despite coming from different sporting backgrounds, the mentality and understanding of this aspect of sport were the same, and this became a really intriguing aspect to chat about, which is why it lasted over three hours! Great chat with the lads!For more information on The Lab check out:https://www.thelabgym.com/ 

In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with Ken O'Driscoll founder of Cherry Orchard Running Club. Ken had just completed a 192km race through the hills of Co. Kerry the week beforehand so we delved into this topic and how he completed the race which was fascinating. We also discuss sea swimming as we were both just out of a tough swim at Monkstown. 

Gary is an adult with autism, he really loves his bike. His previous bike was decked out with Garda kit and people would have known him around from that. All the guards in the city know him. He has been in the Special Olympics, golfing etc.. He would love to be able to drive but he cycles everywhere instead. He can cycle all the way from their home in Monkstown to Lota. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sheelagh Dempsey has the best live concerts and festivals including Music in Monkstown, the premier of Raymond Deane's Vagabones and the Spotlight Chamber Music Series in Triskel.

Sheelagh Dempsey has details of the Irish premiere of Ondine by Siobhán Cleary and ‘A Little Night Music’ tour with The Irish Chamber Orchestra to Ennis, Tralee and Monkstown. The Carducci Quartet perform Dennehy and Glass in Thurles, Cork and Dublin, plus suggestions for National Harp Day!

This week on StoryWeb: James Joyce’s short story “The Dead.” James Joyce’s “The Dead” is widely considered to be his best short story, called by the New York Times “just about the finest short story in the English language" and by T.S. Eliot as one of the greatest short stories ever written. The storyline is simple enough: a long-married Irish couple -- Gretta and Gabriel Conroy – attend a lavish dinner party thrown by his aunts in celebration of the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6). At the party, they each have a variety of conversations with assorted party guests, and Gabriel gives the evening’s post-dinner speech and leads the toast. As Gabriel and Gretta leave the party, the snow which had been lightly falling when they arrived at the beginning of the evening has become quite heavy. The closing scene finds Gretta asleep at their hotel while Gabriel stands at the window looking at the snow blanketing the city. Gabriel feels, in fact, that the snow is falling over the entirety of Ireland. Before falling asleep, Gretta had shared a memory about Michael Furey, the Irish activist lover of her youth. The reader is left to wonder whether Gabriel feels sorrow or acceptance over his wife’s confession that she still harbors feelings for her former lover. The ending, it would seem, is deliberately ambiguous. Indeed, the ending forces the reader to go back into the story looking for clues as to whether we’re supposed to read the ending as “happy” or “sad.” While “The Dead” is quite a famous story, less well known to the general public is its place as the culminating story in Joyce’s first book, a collection of short stories titled Dubliners. The collection was rejected 17 times over a 10-year period, with some of those rejections being based on what publishers and printers considered to be objectionable material. Finally published in 1914, this collection of 15 stories was Joyce’s first attempt to bring his native city to life. Of course, he would go on to write again and again about the Irish capital, most famously in his 1922 novel, Ulysses, which recounts one day in the life of Leopold Bloom as he makes his way through the streets of Dublin. But Dubliners was Joyce’s initial portrait of a city he both loved and hated. Each story in the collection features a different resident of Dublin, and each tells a different tale of the suffocating, dreary lives lived in this city. The characters presented here suffer from spiritual paralysis, squelched freedom, and ##. Joyce himself admitted that the stories capture some of the unhappiest moments of life. If you’re looking for uplifting literature, Dubliners is not the book for you. When read against the backdrop of these stories, “The Dead” – which is the finale of sorts to Dubliners – takes on an extra richness, an extra dimension. When read in this context, the story’s ambiguous ending becomes both easier and harder to read. Has Gabriel had an epiphany about the ways in which the dead live on in the memories of the living? Or has he succumbed – as the other characters in the Dubliners stories do – to a kind of paralysis, a numbing inability to be fully alive? Is the snow a beautiful phenomenon that brings all of Ireland together? Or is it a symbol of coldness, of death, a killing frost? As one source says, “In every corner of the country, snow touches both the dead and the living, uniting them in frozen paralysis. However, Gabriel’s thoughts in the final lines of Dubliners suggest that the living might in fact be able to free themselves and live unfettered by deadening routines and the past. Even in January, snow is unusual in Ireland and cannot last forever.” To consider the ending yourself, you’ll want to read this powerful story, which you can do for free at Project Gutenberg (and in fact, you can read the entire Dubliners collection here as well). If you prefer a hard copy, there’s an inexpensive Dover Thrift Edition. You might also want to watch John Huston’s 1987 film adaptation of “The Dead.” It starred his daughter Angelica Huston as Gretta Conroy and Donal McCann as her husband, Gabriel. Want to dig deeper? A helpful glossary of terms is available, and a digitized copy of the first edition of Dubliners can be found at Internet Archive. Richard Ellman’s biography of Joyce remains the standard, though its revised edition was published more than 30 years ago. Cornell’s James Joyce Collection is outstanding. You might also want to visit The James Joyce Centre – either online or in person in Dublin! Visit thestoryweb.com/joyce for links to all these resources and to watch the film’s ending. But first, take a listen as I read the opening pages of “The Dead.”   Lily, the caretaker’s daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest. It was well for her she had not to attend to the ladies also. But Miss Kate and Miss Julia had thought of that and had converted the bathroom upstairs into a ladies’ dressing-room. Miss Kate and Miss Julia were there, gossiping and laughing and fussing, walking after each other to the head of the stairs, peering down over the banisters and calling down to Lily to ask her who had come. It was always a great affair, the Misses Morkan’s annual dance. Everybody who knew them came to it, members of the family, old friends of the family, the members of Julia’s choir, any of Kate’s pupils that were grown up enough, and even some of Mary Jane’s pupils too. Never once had it fallen flat. For years and years it had gone off in splendid style as long as anyone could remember; ever since Kate and Julia, after the death of their brother Pat, had left the house in Stoney Batter and taken Mary Jane, their only niece, to live with them in the dark gaunt house on Usher’s Island, the upper part of which they had rented from Mr Fulham, the corn-factor on the ground floor. That was a good thirty years ago if it was a day. Mary Jane, who was then a little girl in short clothes, was now the main prop of the household, for she had the organ in Haddington Road. She had been through the Academy and gave a pupils’ concert every year in the upper room of the Antient Concert Rooms. Many of her pupils belonged to the better-class families on the Kingstown and Dalkey line. Old as they were, her aunts also did their share. Julia, though she was quite grey, was still the leading soprano in Adam and Eve’s, and Kate, being too feeble to go about much, gave music lessons to beginners on the old square piano in the back room. Lily, the caretaker’s daughter, did housemaid’s work for them. Though their life was modest they believed in eating well; the best of everything: diamond-bone sirloins, three-shilling tea and the best bottled stout. But Lily seldom made a mistake in the orders so that she got on well with her three mistresses. They were fussy, that was all. But the only thing they would not stand was back answers. Of course they had good reason to be fussy on such a night. And then it was long after ten o’clock and yet there was no sign of Gabriel and his wife. Besides they were dreadfully afraid that Freddy Malins might turn up screwed. They would not wish for worlds that any of Mary Jane’s pupils should see him under the influence; and when he was like that it was sometimes very hard to manage him. Freddy Malins always came late but they wondered what could be keeping Gabriel: and that was what brought them every two minutes to the banisters to ask Lily had Gabriel or Freddy come. “O, Mr Conroy,” said Lily to Gabriel when she opened the door for him, “Miss Kate and Miss Julia thought you were never coming. Good-night, Mrs Conroy.” “I’ll engage they did,” said Gabriel, “but they forget that my wife here takes three mortal hours to dress herself.” He stood on the mat, scraping the snow from his goloshes, while Lily led his wife to the foot of the stairs and called out: “Miss Kate, here’s Mrs Conroy.” Kate and Julia came toddling down the dark stairs at once. Both of them kissed Gabriel’s wife, said she must be perished alive and asked was Gabriel with her. “Here I am as right as the mail, Aunt Kate! Go on up. I’ll follow,” called out Gabriel from the dark. He continued scraping his feet vigorously while the three women went upstairs, laughing, to the ladies’ dressing-room. A light fringe of snow lay like a cape on the shoulders of his overcoat and like toecaps on the toes of his goloshes; and, as the buttons of his overcoat slipped with a squeaking noise through the snow-stiffened frieze, a cold, fragrant air from out-of-doors escaped from crevices and folds. “Is it snowing again, Mr Conroy?” asked Lily. She had preceded him into the pantry to help him off with his overcoat. Gabriel smiled at the three syllables she had given his surname and glanced at her. She was a slim, growing girl, pale in complexion and with hay-coloured hair. The gas in the pantry made her look still paler. Gabriel had known her when she was a child and used to sit on the lowest step nursing a rag doll. “Yes, Lily,” he answered, “and I think we’re in for a night of it.” He looked up at the pantry ceiling, which was shaking with the stamping and shuffling of feet on the floor above, listened for a moment to the piano and then glanced at the girl, who was folding his overcoat carefully at the end of a shelf. “Tell me, Lily,” he said in a friendly tone, “do you still go to school?” “O no, sir,” she answered. “I’m done schooling this year and more.” “O, then,” said Gabriel gaily, “I suppose we’ll be going to your wedding one of these fine days with your young man, eh?” The girl glanced back at him over her shoulder and said with great bitterness: “The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.” Gabriel coloured as if he felt he had made a mistake and, without looking at her, kicked off his goloshes and flicked actively with his muffler at his patent-leather shoes. He was a stout tallish young man. The high colour of his cheeks pushed upwards even to his forehead where it scattered itself in a few formless patches of pale red; and on his hairless face there scintillated restlessly the polished lenses and the bright gilt rims of the glasses which screened his delicate and restless eyes. His glossy black hair was parted in the middle and brushed in a long curve behind his ears where it curled slightly beneath the groove left by his hat. When he had flicked lustre into his shoes he stood up and pulled his waistcoat down more tightly on his plump body. Then he took a coin rapidly from his pocket. “O Lily,” he said, thrusting it into her hands, “it’s Christmas-time, isn’t it? Just ... here’s a little....” He walked rapidly towards the door. “O no, sir!” cried the girl, following him. “Really, sir, I wouldn’t take it.” “Christmas-time! Christmas-time!” said Gabriel, almost trotting to the stairs and waving his hand to her in deprecation. The girl, seeing that he had gained the stairs, called out after him: “Well, thank you, sir.” He waited outside the drawing-room door until the waltz should finish, listening to the skirts that swept against it and to the shuffling of feet. He was still discomposed by the girl’s bitter and sudden retort. It had cast a gloom over him which he tried to dispel by arranging his cuffs and the bows of his tie. He then took from his waistcoat pocket a little paper and glanced at the headings he had made for his speech. He was undecided about the lines from Robert Browning for he feared they would be above the heads of his hearers. Some quotation that they would recognise from Shakespeare or from the Melodies would be better. The indelicate clacking of the men’s heels and the shuffling of their soles reminded him that their grade of culture differed from his. He would only make himself ridiculous by quoting poetry to them which they could not understand. They would think that he was airing his superior education. He would fail with them just as he had failed with the girl in the pantry. He had taken up a wrong tone. His whole speech was a mistake from first to last, an utter failure. Just then his aunts and his wife came out of the ladies’ dressing-room. His aunts were two small plainly dressed old women. Aunt Julia was an inch or so the taller. Her hair, drawn low over the tops of her ears, was grey; and grey also, with darker shadows, was her large flaccid face. Though she was stout in build and stood erect her slow eyes and parted lips gave her the appearance of a woman who did not know where she was or where she was going. Aunt Kate was more vivacious. Her face, healthier than her sister’s, was all puckers and creases, like a shrivelled red apple, and her hair, braided in the same old-fashioned way, had not lost its ripe nut colour. They both kissed Gabriel frankly. He was their favourite nephew, the son of their dead elder sister, Ellen, who had married T. J. Conroy of the Port and Docks. “Gretta tells me you’re not going to take a cab back to Monkstown tonight, Gabriel,” said Aunt Kate. “No,” said Gabriel, turning to his wife, “we had quite enough of that last year, hadn’t we? Don’t you remember, Aunt Kate, what a cold Gretta got out of it? Cab windows rattling all the way, and the east wind blowing in after we passed Merrion. Very jolly it was. Gretta caught a dreadful cold.” Aunt Kate frowned severely and nodded her head at every word. “Quite right, Gabriel, quite right,” she said. “You can’t be too careful.” “But as for Gretta there,” said Gabriel, “she’d walk home in the snow if she were let.” Mrs Conroy laughed. “Don’t mind him, Aunt Kate,” she said. “He’s really an awful bother, what with green shades for Tom’s eyes at night and making him do the dumb-bells, and forcing Eva to eat the stirabout. The poor child! And she simply hates the sight of it!... O, but you’ll never guess what he makes me wear now!” She broke out into a peal of laughter and glanced at her husband, whose admiring and happy eyes had been wandering from her dress to her face and hair. The two aunts laughed heartily too, for Gabriel’s solicitude was a standing joke with them. “Goloshes!” said Mrs Conroy. “That’s the latest. Whenever it’s wet underfoot I must put on my goloshes. Tonight even he wanted me to put them on, but I wouldn’t. The next thing he’ll buy me will be a diving suit.” Gabriel laughed nervously and patted his tie reassuringly while Aunt Kate nearly doubled herself, so heartily did she enjoy the joke. The smile soon faded from Aunt Julia’s face and her mirthless eyes were directed towards her nephew’s face. After a pause she asked: “And what are goloshes, Gabriel?” “Goloshes, Julia!” exclaimed her sister “Goodness me, don’t you know what goloshes are? You wear them over your ... over your boots, Gretta, isn’t it?” “Yes,” said Mrs Conroy. “Guttapercha things. We both have a pair now. Gabriel says everyone wears them on the continent.” “O, on the continent,” murmured Aunt Julia, nodding her head slowly. Gabriel knitted his brows and said, as if he were slightly angered: “It’s nothing very wonderful but Gretta thinks it very funny because she says the word reminds her of Christy Minstrels.” “But tell me, Gabriel,” said Aunt Kate, with brisk tact. “Of course, you’ve seen about the room. Gretta was saying....” “O, the room is all right,” replied Gabriel. “I’ve taken one in the Gresham.” “To be sure,” said Aunt Kate, “by far the best thing to do. And the children, Gretta, you’re not anxious about them?” “O, for one night,” said Mrs Conroy. “Besides, Bessie will look after them.”

On this week's podcast Roísín meets Mary Coughlan, a singer who "emotes, purges, atones, reminisces, eulogises and laments". Mary tells Roísín about her urge to go and help the refugees on Europe's borders, her own sometimes painful life story, taking part in something called a "F**k it Retreat" and recording a new album. "Truth is very powerful... there's a great freedom in being truthful about everything". Mary's new album "Scars on the Calendar" is available now. Upcoming shows: October 2nd: Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh 8.00pm Octboer 9th: Purty Ktichen, Monkstown, Dublin 8.00pm

This week it's a mammoth fixture list with both the Leinster League back in action and a catch up game in the Electric Ireland Senior Cup. Glenanne pulled off a massive surprise result beating Pegasus in the competition on penalty strokes. In the Leinster League, the first big shock of the season with Railway Union falling at the challenge of Hermes. Loreto also dropping points to the students of UCD puts the Belfield girls in pole position almost half way through the season. It also firmly shows that Hermes early season promise is justified. In the men's league, the top three sides in the league all recorded victories with Three Rock Rovers, Monkstown and Pembroke all taking maximum points from the weekend's action. Railway also took advantage of the defeat of UCD to close the gap on that all important fourth place in the league for IHL qualification.

Stephen Findlater of HookHockey.com joins Dublin City FM's Breifne Earley to discuss the action in the first round of the Irish Senior Cup over the weekend where big victories were the order of the day as both holders Monkstown and Railway Union progressed to the draw for the second round of the national blue riband competition.