It’s been a few weeks in the pipeline, but the Observer podcast team have finally gotten around to recording their end-of-season spectacular…
And so ends my Wire experiment for this year. Sadly, despite my best efforts, I have failed to reach that elusive 500 mark and the prospect of arriving at Season 5 Episode 10 remains as …
We discuss FA Cup developments, Tottenham’s crazy week and the ongoing race for fourth, and the Heineken Cup quarter-finals – while the Fantasy Girls share their anticipation of a day at the rugby.
In his last column possibly ever, Paul Fennessy exposes the lurid workings of Sepp Blatter’s unseemly enterprise and condemns Alex Ferguson’s recent behaviour
Cheats permeate every walk of life. Yet football bears the dubious distinction of …
It’s been a hectic week, so it’s time for another 60+ minutes of funny, quirky, divisive and off-the-wall sports talk from the Observer team.
“We are of the other America or the America that has been left behind in the postindustrial age. We don’t live in L.A. or go to their parties; we don’t do what we do to …
Another week, another hour of top-notch sporting analysis and insight from the sports crew of Ireland’s award-winning student newspaper.
Paul Fennessy questions Lionel Messi’s degree of greatness and examines the prospects of Leinster’s future stars
After last week’s radio mega-marathon, the Observer sports team return with another hour of incisive sports news, views, opinion, analysis and fun.
“In order for television to become a grown-up medium and say grown-up things, you had to get rid of the advertising. There’s a premium – you’re going to have to pay admission, but we’re not …
“When we took a chainsaw to the first season, choosing to begin the second story arc with an entirely different theme and different characters, you followed us to the port and our elegy for America’s …
“It’s one thing to recognize capitalism for the powerful economic tool it is and to acknowledge that, for better or for worse, we’re stuck with it and, hey, thank God we have it. There’s not …
Sport isn’t a matter of life or death, it’s much more important than that, argues Paul Fennessy
This fortnight Paul Fennessy highlights the Irish sporting public’s lack of appreciation for Ronan O’Gara and evaluates Ryan Shawcross’ infamous tackle
Paul Fennessy speaks to Johnny Adger of And So I Watch You from Afar about the unassuming post-rock outfit’s recent Choice Music Prize nomination
In light of the many negative comments recently left on this newspaper’s website, Paul Fennessy asks whether people who comment on blogs can cause more harm than good
Paul Fennessy talks to the lead singer of Hadouken!, James Smith, about the pitfalls of rock stardom and the virtues of the Sugababes
Watching Roland Emmerich Movie was nothing less than an insane experience, writes Paul Fennessy
Roland Emmerich Movie was both the best and the worst Dramsoc play otwo has ever seen. It was the worst in the …

