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TwoMacs Podcast

Ronan McSherry & Martin McGuinness

53 episodes

14 hours ago

Plunkett McCallan - Oz and the magic of the O'Neill Cup. Towering goalkeeper 'Big Oz' from Carrickmore reflects on two decades of championship football. On the week of the Tyrone senior club final, 'Oz' (nicknamed after Oz in the hit 1980's TV comedy series Auf Wiedersehan, Pet) reflects on a career that saw him win six O'Neill Cup medals. It is a record held by over a dozen players, however no-one has played in as many finals, as over 20 years he played in 14 in all, with those six wins, s...

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Plunkett McCallan - Oz and the magic of the O'Neill Cup. Towering goalkeeper 'Big Oz' from Carrickmore reflects on two decades of championship football. On the week of the Tyrone senior club final, 'Oz' (nicknamed after Oz in the hit 1980's TV comedy series Auf Wiedersehan, Pet) reflects on a career that saw him win six O'Neill Cup medals. It is a record held by over a dozen players, however no-one has played in as many finals, as over 20 years he played in 14 in all, with those six wins, s...

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TwoMacs Podcast

TwoMacs Podcast Ep 53 Plunkett 'Oz' McCallan

Plunkett McCallan - Oz and the magic of the O'Neill Cup. Towering goalkeeper 'Big Oz' from Carrickmore reflects on two decades of championship football. On the week of the Tyrone senior club final, 'Oz' (nicknamed after Oz in the hit 1980's TV comedy series Auf Wiedersehan, Pet) reflects on a career that saw him win six O'Neill Cup medals. It is a record held by over a dozen players, however no-one has played in as many finals, as over 20 years he played in 14 in all, with those six wins, s...

1 week ago

1 hour 12 minutes

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TwoMacs Podcast Ep 52 Aisling Hagan

Aisling Hagan (Corr) - Class is permanent. For over 25 years camogie star Aisling Hagan, formerly Corr, has graced the fields with her sublime skills. Previously Tyrone Young Player and Senior Player of the Year, she has won awards for club, college, county, province and representing Ireland, as well as a winning summer in Chicago. Aisling recalls the inspiration from her father Tommy, a boxing Olympian, and her mother Margaret a distinguished camóg who introduced her to the sliotar an...

4 weeks ago

56 minutes

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TwoMacs Podcast Ep 51 Patsy Grant

Patsy Grant - changed times. He may not have a television or be glued to social media but Patsy Grant is well tuned into the ways of a constantly changing world. His father Paddy fixed clocks and Father Time catches up with us all. An artisan, Patsy has a great talent for stone sculpturing, painting and writing. He recalls simpler times when Coalisland had a railway station and enjoying a wonderful journey by train with his mother to Cookstown. He has fond memories ...

1 month ago

59 minutes

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TwoMacs Podcast Ep 50 Vinny O'Donnell

Vinny O'Donnell - The making of the acclaimed 1986 'Up Tyrone' cassette. When Kevin McCabe struck a penalty to the net to take Tyrone to their first All Ireland final in 1986, the county rejoiced while musicians Vinny O'Donnell and Joe McCurry quickly penned a song, 'Come on Tyrone', that has become the theme tune of All Ireland appearances. Literally overnight, they also put together a cassette packed with Tyrone themed songs, that was snapped up by supporters locally and overseas.&nb...

2 months ago

1 hour 4 minutes

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TwoMacs Podcast Ep 49 Nick Griggs

Nick Griggs - a running sensation Since hitting the running tracks just seven years ago, Nick Griggs' performances have been nothing short of sensational. At 16, he had the athletics' world sit up and take notice when he won the European Under 20 crown at 3,000 metres. Since then the 20-year-old Newmills lad has broken a host of middle distance records, has the best time ever for a park-run and is the third youngest male to run a sub-four minute mile. He has created huge loc...

2 months ago

49 minutes

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TwoMacs Podcast Ep 48 Hurling as Poetry

Hurling As Poetry In days gone by, a wise old poetry-loving Kiltegan priest told Martin Mac that hurling is the poetry of Gaelic sport. He spoke of the sheer grace and beauty of the game when it is played well, it's hallowed history that dates back to antiquity and of the legendary players, Ring, Doyle, Nicky English, Joe Canning.. featured in hurling's ever growing Hall of Fame. Now Martin knows little about hurling but is a confessed reader of poetry. After a chat with Ronan, wh...

3 months ago

1 hour 16 minutes

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TwoMacs Podcast Ep47 Niall Hanna

Niall Hanna: Portrait of an Artist Martin Mac returns to talk to Niall Hanna, the singer/songwriter from Derrytresk, a friend in more ways than one; since renowned singer Geordie Hanna was both Martin's uncle and Niall's grandfather. Niall tells how he grew up listening to recordings of his grandfather's songs and learning to play trad music. But in his teenage years he discovered Pink Floyd and the electric guitar. Later he joined an indie band and composed some songs whose titles he n...

4 months ago

1 hour 20 minutes

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TwoMacs Podcast Ep46 Feargal McCrory

Feargal McCrory - From Brackaville to Brooklyn following a dream. Fearless Feargal McCrory has made huge physical and emotional sacrifices in his quest to win a World boxing title. That mission continued after last year's title challenge defeat, when the fight was stopped, leaving him hugely frustrated as he felt he had the answers to carry on. Feargal recalls the sounds and the smell and the huge blue punch bag, when his father Anthony, a decent boxer, took him to the boxing club when ...

4 months ago

1 hour 5 minutes

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TwoMacs Podcast Leo Quinn Ep 45

Leo Quinn - Family, Football and Fun! Leo Quinn enjoys the craic!.. Team Leader for Mid Ulster Youth Service, he is a life-long Coalisland Fianna member brought up in the traditions of the club. His father Tommy was long-term club secretary and team bus driver and older brother Martin managed the minors to championship victory. Leo also recalls his own great minor win and happy childhood memories about the town, including a glory night of snooker and trips to the cinema on the Lineside...

5 months ago

1 hour 17 minutes

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TwoMacs Podcast Kenny Archer Part 2 Ep44

Kenny Archer (Part 2) - Celebrating champions in Croke Park, Istanbul and Dungannon Square. A Liverpool fanatic, Kenny recalls the night of a life-time in Istanbul, the Tyrone reporters in the press box in Croke Park when the Sam Maguire Cup was won and pays tribute to Dungannon Swifts on their marvellous Irish Cup win. He also gives an insight into the selection process of the GAA football All Stars which causes much annual debate. Kenny's father passed away in 2020 and he shares a col...

5 months ago

49 minutes

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TwoMacs Podcast Kenny Archer Ep 43

Kenny Archer (Part 1) - Deputy Sports Editor of the Irish News & Liverpool fanatic. When Kenny and Ronan two writers, newspaper columnists, sport lovers and Merseyside rivals got talking, it was inevitable the conversation would go on for a while.. . In the first part of TheMacs podcast, Kenny recalls the stars of his youth who fired his imagination: Campbell/Ward, Ovett/Coe, McEnroe/Connors, Hagler/Hearns and of course his beloved Liverpool 1978 European Cup winners.. Dalglish, Souness,...

5 months ago

52 minutes

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TwoMacs Podcast Bugsy McMahon Ep42

Bugsy McMahon - all his world's a stage. Currently enjoying a sell-out run with The Snapper, actor, director and all-round stage devotee Bugsy McMahon enjoys a chat with Ronan Mac and TwoMacs producer Oliver, also a theatre veteran. Bugsy (why Bugsy?!) recalls a childhood inspired by his late mother Eithne RIP, a fabulous musician, and father Aidan a great Tyrone midfielder and hugely popular school teacher. From Donaghmore, his introduction to the stage was at the Bardic Theatre....

6 months ago

1 hour 20 minutes

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TwoMacs Podcast Pearse Kelly Ep41

Pearse Kelly - When Coalisland was snooker loopy Dennis Taylor's epic World Snooker title win is all of 40 years ago this week. We celebrate a time when snooker in Coalisland was vibrant with players of all abilities and ages on the green baizes. Snooker aficionado Pearse Kelly recalls men like Jim Joe, his son Joe, Vincent Gervin and Louis Conlon who ran Gervin's Hall a bastion of snooker and billiards in the North. Lads turned back the clock to nick more time, got a swish...

6 months ago

1 hour 18 minutes

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TwoMacs Podcast Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Ep 40 Part2

Bernadette McAliskey (Devlin) Part 2 Still campaigning for justice and equality for all. Bernadette continues her journey as she advocates for justice and equality, not least for the bombarded population of Palestine, and all those downtrodden by capitalist greed and the rise of fascism. She recalls 'The Greatest' Muhammad Ali requesting to meet her and attending 'The Fight of the Century', Ali versus Frazier in 1971 at Madison Square Gardens, during an incredible era for heavyweight ...

7 months ago

1 hour 12 minutes

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TwoMacs Podcast Bernadette Devlin McAliskey EP 39 PART 1

Bernadette McAliskey (Devlin) Part 1 - The early years and making her mark. Born in Molesworth Street in Cookstown, by the age of 21, Bernadette was the MP for Mid Ulster and on the front line of the march for Civil Rights in the North of Ireland. Just nine when her father John died, she recalls her parents love and a note they sent annually to school to protect their children from corporal punishment. She also speaks of the strength and fortitute of her mother Lizzie, who&...

7 months ago

1 hour 7 minutes

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TwoMacs Podcast Ep38 Sean Quinn & Sean McCabe Part 2

Sean McCabe & Sean Quinn - Part II The second half of our Podcast with the Two Seans (McCabe & Quinn), Clonoe and Brackaville stalwarts. They recall how clubs often sought Joe McCabe's advice when facing difficulty with the rule makers while Sean McCabe also pays tribute to his wife Dolores, who had a fantastic football and camogie career. Credo award recipient Sean Quinn talks about decades attending Tyrone County Board meetings and the great administrators down the years...

7 months ago

1 hour 4 minutes

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TwoMacs Podcast Ep37 Sean Quinn & Sean McCabe Part 1

Part 1 - The Two Sean's. GAA stalwarts Sean McCabe from Clonoe and Sean Quinn of Brackaville join us for a wide-ranging discussion filled with hurling and football stories and memories, local and All Ireland. On the weekend Naomh Colum Cille held their dinner dance and presentations, Sean Quinn reflects on a great night with a poignant tribute to their player Caolan Devlin RIP, marking his first anniversary. They trace the history of Naomh Colum Cille as Sean McCabe remembers lining out in th...

7 months ago

51 minutes

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TwoMacs Podcast Malachy Falls Ep 36

Malachy Falls - Reeling in the Memories. Malachy remembers way back to being lifted by his mother to look across Lough Neagh at the blitz on Belfast during World War II. Born in Aughamullan, Falls' family bar, post office and grocery shop was a hub of activity. His father died when Malachy was just five and he recalls being taught by his sisters in primary school, being carried to Coalisland on the bar of a bicycle, dangerous swimming in the Lough, the disbanded Washingbay Shamrocks GAA club,...

8 months ago

1 hour 13 minutes

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TwoMacs Podcast Ep 35 Tommy Corr

Tommy Corr - boxing history maker and football star. Tommy Corr from Clonoe excelled in the boxing ring, in 1982 becoming the first fighter to win a medal for Ireland at the World Amateur Championships. In a stellar football career, he played in a raft of county finals with his beloved O'Rahilly club. The former Olympian, who was a household name in Ireland, shares memories of his introduction to boxing under the tutelage of Frank Gervin, the fabulous young local boxers, through ...

8 months ago

1 hour 6 minutes

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TwoMacs Podcast Ep34 Johnny Cummings

Johnny Cummings - Go, Johnny, Go! The inspiring Johnny Cummings from Coalisland recalls his journey to the Paralympic Games in Beijing, until health reasons ended his swimming career, the onset of dark days and coming back into the light with the love and support of his family, friends and the local community. There was no room for self-pity as his parents engendered in Johnny a steely determination, while he joined in all the childhood games with a group of boys went on to be a golden genera...

8 months ago

54 minutes