Second Captains Part II

Nonsense. Ireland were on top with 15v15, France had their best spell when 14v15, then showed nothing when it became 14v14 after a dubious try in the second half and we had four errors all day. It was as complete a victory as you are likely to ever see in top level rugby. The biggest margin of victory in France before Friday was seven points in 1948.

This was as big a statement as the Irish rugby team has ever made, nevermind the context of coming directly on the heels of a World Cup disappointment, essentially at the scene of the crime.

Random question - does anyone on here subscribe to the world service through the app Castbox? and if so, have you had issues with the latest episodes updating? this is an ongoing problem, even though I know todays football pod was released just after 2pm the episode still hasn't appeared in my feed. There doesn't appear to be a straight forward way to refresh the app or the feed. I just have to wait an unknown amount of time for the episode to appear.

Thanks. It took 7 hours to update on Castbox today ...not usually that long but routinely 3-4 hours.

There could be atrocities being committed there by both sides for another 80 years; there is absolutely no end to that conflict in sight as one side is unable to accept they have being losing for 80 years. so if we are going to set a precedence that we will not play Israel whenever Israel do this then we’ll be boycotting and suffering the consequences for many many years to come.

When the team you are about to play are posing pre-game with the soldiers actively commiting these atrocities then I think all bets are off.

Absolutely scummy behaviour from the Israel team but wouldn't expect anything less.

Out of interest do many on here do the book club?

The CEO of Basketball Ireland spoke really well about the situation they have been put in on Game On. They would face a €150k fine and 5 years out of international competition if they boycotted the game and he said he wasn't going to kill the sport in this country when the gesture of boycotting will not achieve anything

FIBA and all other sporting organisations are at fault, not the poor countries who get drawn against Israel.

Personally I feel Israel should be made a pariah economically and culturally like Russia but that's clearly not going to happen

The politics podcast sounds like a pretty grim listen - not classic Friday fare. Think I’ll give it a miss unless it comes recommended

Except Ken got it wrong, it wasn't the conception of Jesus...

Murph is off is rocker on Derry. They’re going to do well to even get back to an AISF and it’s very clear Mickey is doing the thing he always did in the league with Tyrone and going extremely hard early. Derry to me are a team that have already peaked making the last two semi-finals when you look at the age profile of key players alone.

Invariably every other major team catches up to Mickey come the championship and, like Tyrone in the past, Derry’s lack of athleticism in key positions will be exposed on faster and drier pitches come the summer.

Yeah I haven't listened to yesterday's yet

Haven't listened to it yet jones, but can't argue with that, supposedly within the last few days we have announced a clampdown on that sort of double-dipping thing. Why'd it take so long for obvious abuses to be dealt with? It gives the genuine cases a harder time for things which aren't their fault.

That’s what your man said. Is that true though? Coz it sounds highly highly dubious to me. I just can’t see a country of Sweden’s human rights record just sending valid asylum seekers back to the country they are being persecuted by. There must be more to that story.

The Dunphy audio bed on the 1-1 draw with England is a thing of beauty

But the guest on today’s show did spin that story of why the Kurd was in Ireland did he not?

something smells about the version of the story given on the pod