Two GAA legends had the host awestruck on Saturday night time’s Tommy Tiernan Present, because the comic admitted to being a giant fan of the brothers.
Former Galway hurlers Ollie and Joe Canning spoke about their childhood and their reminiscences of their most memorable All-Eire video games.
They spoke in regards to the actuality of devoting your early maturity to the GAA and the way they felt they have been catching up on their friends from faculty when it got here to careers and household in a while.
“Generally you may get caught up within the GAA and undoubtedly your sole focus is hurling or soccer or camogie or girls soccer, no matter you are taking part in,” Ollie defined.
“There’s a tendency, undoubtedly again in my day, that you may be centered on that. After which once you end up in your 30s, I did discover that among the guys, my friends that have been in faculty with me, had pushed on of their careers as a result of they have been centered extra on their careers.”
Joe agreed, saying gamers usually should be “egocentric” to succeed.
“All the pieces else wants to face again if you wish to obtain the last word and win one thing. Relationships, household events, work, profession — they take a backseat for some time. Since you’re solely centered on ‘I want to do that to be one of the best model of myself on the sporting discipline’.”
Jason Byrne on the Tommy Tiernan Present
Comic Jason Byrne joined Tiernan to speak about his profession in comedy and he shared some anecdotes from his father’s profession within the Guinness manufacturing unit.
Byrne mentioned he overcame some well being points in his childhood and early maturity, together with surgical procedure for an eye fixed drawback after he fell from a kitchen counter as a child and the expertise of his lung collapsing when he was 21.
“That is all simply unlucky. I fell off a counter, my lung collapsed once I was 21 as a result of I used to be tall and skinny, so no parachuting or scuba diving story, my lung simply went down.”
Byrne shared a reminiscence of his late father from his profession with Guinness in Dublin. His father was a cooper whose job was made redundant when steel barrels have been launched. Nonetheless, he remained with the corporate and at one stage was one among six staff monitoring one button per shift.
“In 1989, the gasoline plant blew up,” he mentioned, explaining just one particular person from the group was truly working that day whereas the opposite 5 went to the pub.
“My dad and his mates sauntered out of the pub. There have been no telephones then, they didn’t have a clue what occurred. My dad was a messer, he walked as much as [the first responders] and goes, ‘what occurred right here?’ Your man goes, ‘get again, there’s gasoline and we expect 5 males are buried within the rubble’.”
Of the one coworker left within the manufacturing unit on the time of the explosion, Byrne mentioned his father was about to inform the emergency providers to seek for Mick Murphy when one thing caught his eye.
“He seemed to his proper and Mick Murphy walked up the street with a newspaper underneath his arm. He was having a shit within the different finish of the brewery and my da reckoned that’s why it blew up — no person was watching the button. However right here’s one of the best Irish bit: solely in Eire, the six of them obtained compensation.”
Liz Gillis on the Tommy Tiernan Present
Lastly, historian Liz Gillis spoke in regards to the Civil Battle and trendy attitudes to it at this time.
Gillis mentioned the Irish Civil Battle was all the time “the elephant within the room” however famous that lately there was a maturity creating round its dialogue, including “practically each group may have a narrative linked to the Civil Battle.” She mentioned the position of girls at the moment was “superb”.
“There are such a lot of superb girls that I’ve found, strange women signed as much as this. The stuff they did was unbelievable, [such as] setting honey traps for the British troopers within the Battle of Independence.”
Gillis mentioned she believes there’s a solution to maturely commemorate the Civil Battle throughout its centenary this decade and provides: “I’ve discovered, within the 20 years that I am researching this, {that a} maturity has come alongside, folks have realised it isn’t our warfare, that was their warfare. We have to discuss it to attempt to heal as a rustic. By doing that, perhaps we are able to even have the nation that they envisaged and that they fought for.”
