Aidan O'Shea: A Journey In Football

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week, three-time All Star and Mayo Captain Aidan O'Shea joins Jarlath for a fascinating conversation about his life and career. In this rare chat, Aidan speaks frankly about handling the media, nerves and battling with keeping the right mindset as well as the relationship between players and referees. Aidan also speaks about the frustration of the Dubs, the secrets of various GAA clubs which can be "borderline hostile at times", how the game of Gaelic Football has changed in recent years, rules he would consider changing, his time in America and professionalism. This is just a taster. To hear this episode in full and to gain access to the entire back-catalogue of over 400 Irishman Abroad episodes that are not available on iTunes for just the price of a pint every month visit www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad Our charity partner is jigsawonline.ie. In these tricky times, Jigsaw provides a range of resources, advice and care for your people to help them strengthen their mental health and the skills needed to navigate life. Please visit their website and consider making a donation. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow @jarlath on Twitter, visit www.jigser.com or email the show directly on [email protected]. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Irishman Abroad podcast is clearly and accurately provided.

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0:00.0	This is the abridged version of the Aidan O'Shea interview for an Irishman abroad to hear the full uncut version,
0:07.5	including his thoughts on changing the game, changing the rules of the game,
0:11.2	refs and latent bias.
0:12.9	Head over to patreon.com forward slash Irishman abroad and sign up.
0:18.6	You'll also gain access to hundreds of other episodes of our show
0:22.6	and two extra weekly episodes in full. That's the small talk. Now let's go down to business.
0:29.7	Now, your program, what's de big idea? Well, they're going to know the Irish much better.
0:36.2	We've now got to know how largely their mind works.
0:39.3	I moved over here and immediately I had to up my game.
0:43.3	I could not have done the job I did for quite a number of years in Ireland.
0:47.3	I had to go in there in my living in England.
0:49.3	I think a lot of it's in my hair. I think there's a lot of Ireland in here.
0:52.3	I had an artist up for you. 20 years after an Irishman couldn't get a fucking job,
0:57.0	we had the presidency.
0:59.0	It was some heightened awareness of how hard my tribe had had it in London.
1:03.0	No blacks, no Irish, no dogs.
1:05.0	Never has a nation so small inspired so much in another.
1:09.0	So you could say there's always been a little green behind the red, white and blue.
1:13.5	Our family is very Irish, you know.
1:15.7	Now, ladies and gentlemen, we have a very special announcement to make at this stage.
1:19.8	Would you welcome, please, the wonderful Charlie Three Go!
1:25.9	Well, for those of you that don't know, Aidan O'Shea is a three-time All-Star and captain of the Mayo senior football team.
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