Ronan O’Gara (From The Vault)

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

Society & Culture, News, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture:personal Journals, Personal Journals, Politics

4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This week we delve into the Irishman Abroad Vault to bring you one of our most popular episodes from the series to date - the Ronan O'Gara episode. As Jarlath explains in this episode, personal circumstances got in the way of a new guest appearing on the show this week but this interview certainly does not disappoint. With Six Nations fever well and truly underway, this is the perfect time to re-release this conversation with Ronan. With the conversation surrounding Jonny Sexton and Joey Carberry heating up, hearing Ronan explain his own journey from hating Jonny Sexton to missing him deeply after his departure from Racing Metro is one that will no doubt give a new perspective on the current debate. Ronan tells the fascinating story of "that photo" of him apparently snubbing the Queen and how he denied himself the fairytale ending to his playing career. To hear every episode in full and to gain access to the entire back-catalogue of over 600 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	Hello there and welcome to this episode of an Irishman abroad, a special one from the vault with Ronan O'Gara.
0:08.0	And when people ask me, what is your favourite Irishman abroad episode?
0:11.6	In terms of sport, I always go back to this chat, a very special one, which we probably got more emails about this episode than we did any other up to that point.
0:23.3	I caught Ronan at a really unusual transition in his life and I guess the dust had settled on his career and he had a
0:30.1	greater perspective on things. I was massively grateful we could have gone for another three hours.
0:35.1	But today we're going to pull it out of the vault, particularly now that we see the Joey Carberry, Johnny Sexton situation with history repeating
0:43.7	itself in a way. It's pretty timely to hear this conversation with Ronan. The other reason
0:48.3	it's timely is my wife, Tina, who of course my co-host on Honey You're Ruining Our Kid, is in the vulnerable category and contracted COVID this week.
0:58.5	It flipped our world on its head and it was pretty scary, I'll be honest, for a bit.
1:04.5	Didn't look great and she wasn't responding super to the whole thing.
1:10.4	But thanks to a little bit of luck and an awful lot of antiviral medicine, things are pointed in the right direction.
1:18.1	We're not there yet, but we'll get there and there's life in her yet.
1:23.2	I'm in absolute awe of how she's dealt with it, how terrifying it must be, I can only imagine,
1:29.8	but Mikey and I have been trying to keep the ship afloat. But as a result, I had to pull a couple
1:35.1	of interviews this week and we will obviously make up for that. But one other way that I'm
1:41.3	going to make up for it is I'm happy to announce three brand new episodes that you can listen to now.
1:48.0	So if you've already listened to Ronan, go over and listen to a brand new mini series that I made for Irish Life called The My Life Podcast.
1:56.8	It is a series of wellness and mental health conversations with three very special guests.
2:03.1	Oshin McConville, who you'll know from this show in the past, Ashling B, and of course, Shane Lowry.
2:09.0	Now, it's an ongoing conversation.
2:10.6	So the three episodes link together.
2:12.9	And we really do dig into what mental health means to each of them and the challenges they've faced across
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