The Stand With Eamon Dunphy

Just listening now. I saw the title said it was about Golfgate and assumed he'd have Aoife Moore or Paul Hosford on, as it was their story that broke this. Mick Clifford instead, but that's okay - he's usually good. But it's obvious that their pals were involved here (they namechecked specifically Sean O'Rourke and Donie Cassidy on a number of occasions) and it's weird how they try to differentiate between the carry on of Golfgate and Boris (similarish times, similar issues of the "one rule for us, one rule for them" view).

Listening to the Golfgate episode now, one of Eamon's worst. Sniggering when he said the PDs "imploded" and no "Shinner" present. Wait for the next episode with Chris Johns and he will lay into Boris for his misgivings.

I think he needs to mix it up a bit. Give the Tomas Ryan / Brexit / Biden endless repetition a rest or at least add something new in there to freshen it up...

I remember when he started this, it was mainly a series of 1-1 interviews with well known sports people, politicians etc, and I thought a lot of those were very good. He rarely does that now. Granted a lot of them were people he had on speed dial (Giles, Brady, Souness, etc), but I think he’s at his best when doing those extended 1-1 conversations.

Dunphy seems to think it’s viable Russia attacks Poland nevermind ukraine. A bit fanciful

Paul Moynagh is great. Very balanced and informative.

Great podcast with Eamon McCann on his memory of Bloody Sunday and in particular the background to it, it's effect on nationalism in the North and the UK cover up/whitewash.

I'd disagree with McCann and indeed Billy Hutchinson (Dunphy's loyalist commentator) on a lot but I fine the two of them brilliant contributors

Come on you are Eamons booker...

We need to get used to omicron TWO to THREE times a year

He is a dose

I thought he had gone away... I don't know if anyone cares anymore Tomas.

"Omnicron isn't much less severe than Delta. If you look at the unvaccinated population about 7% need hospitalisation with Omnicron it's 2.5%."

So a factor of almost 3 Tom??

I listen to it as a bizarre form of comedy at this stage

It is **** HILARIOUS

Kind of like modern day Jerry Springer but none of them are in on the joke

What's up with the sound mixing recently? In the middle of an interview there is suddenly dead air for a few seconds before the interview suddenly kicks on again. I am often reaching for the phone to check if it has paused somehow only for the audio to kick bag in.

Sure last week they were talking about the Heineken Cup games being superspreader events as if it was April 2020.

Assuming Eamon has control over who the guests are I can't see Ryan going away anytime soon.

Dunphy has been quite good with the frequency of podcasts this week, interesting guests too.

I'm glad for him he has new sponsors, but by God are his sponsor reads long...

I think the podcast has gone stale recently, the same guests saying the same things.

I don’t listen to him these days but has it not always been this way? Eamon only has his friends on. When has there ever been any kind of debate or argument on his podcast apart from a very rare and infamous John Waters fiasco?

Every guest is someone who either Eamon is friends with or who he has prescreened and he’s happy to let them disseminate an opinion without any challenge.

I think it would benefit from occasionally having two guests on so the other could offer a different perspective. Like he allows Tomas Ryan for example pretty much free reign to put across his own particular ideology. With zero challenge. I know that's how Eamo likes to do it. To allow guests to spout off almost unchallenged. But it gets a bit tedious after a while.