Irish sport, argued daily.
OTB Daily works like a busy Irish sports desk left on air. Golf nerves, GAA weekends, rugby arguments, football headlines, racing memories, and quiz chaos all jostle for space.
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OTB Daily is the kind of sports feed that behaves like a newsroom, a radio panel, and a long-running group chat at once. It is nominally parked near horse racing, but the recent run shows a much broader Irish sports daily. The Masters can lead the hour. So can a GAA championship weekend, a Munster post-mortem, a Liverpool wobble, a Champions League tangent, or a potential boxing night at Croke Park. The show moves quickly, and it trusts listeners to keep up. It is built from familiar blocks: Newsrounds, Morning Papers, Friday Papers, The Crappy Quiz, football talk, rugby talk, GAA interviews, and specialist drop-ins when a story needs one. Some stretches are pure fixture-board energy, with Premier League commentaries, women’s Six Nations build-up, Europa League notes, and League of Ireland talk stacked together. Others become more personal. An interview with Franz Sauerland opens out from Kerry football and Croke Park into Ghana, Germany, teaching, anti-bullying work, racial abuse, and how Irish society handles visibility now that social media pushes more of it into public view. The show is comfortable changing temperature like that. A half-joke about Vincent Kompany’s style can sit beside a real conversation about coaching reputation. A Munster memory can become a story about watching a final from Melbourne and feeling the weight of home from far away. The quiz segments bring a deliberately messy kind of relief, full of competitive trivia, mock authority, and the feeling that nobody has complete control of the round. The paper segments keep the agenda broad and current. The Newsround segments give the show its nightly pulse. OTB Daily is strongest for listeners who like sport as conversation: opinionated, Irish-centred, lightly chaotic, and always ready to argue the next angle.
Made for: For listeners who follow Irish sport across codes and want the day’s talking points with pace, humour, and argument. It especially suits GAA, rugby, football, golf, racing, boxing, and motorsport fans who like panel chemistry as much as results.
What sets it apart: Its range is the hook: one feed carries sports news energy, paper reviews, interviews, quiz segments, and code-hopping debate. The show feels less like a single-topic podcast than a full Irish sports day passing through the studio.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
OTB Daily combines informed debate, wide sporting range and lively disagreement without losing sight of the details that make each story matter.
OTB Daily treats sport as an ongoing conversation, moving between morning-paper discussion, match reaction, news updates, interviews and a deliberately unruly football quiz.
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A memory-led sports-room piece that leans on Munster, a vivid 2006 night, and the feeling of being there.
The review starts with Munster and Gordon D'Arcy and then stays close to memory, mood, and the way fans carry a night like this around with them.
A Kerry conversation that links school anti-bullying work to a renewed county push.
A brief nod to the On Gaeiltacht jersey opens the piece before it settles into anti-bullying work in schools. Be Canolta gives the discussion its shape, with full days of training, a clear effort to teach students what bullying means, and a view of racial abuse as part of the…
A lively morning sports room that turns Kompany into a proper argument.
Off the Ball Breakfast starts with a morning football chat and settles into a longer run at Vincent Kompany. The best part is the Kompany discussion, which keeps returning to style, scrutiny, and how much a manager's look and manner shape the way he is read.
A brisk sports bulletin linking Arsenal's Lisbon setback, McIlroy's Augusta defence and Leinster's availability picture.
Off The Ball Daily's newsround handles a packed Irish sports night as a live calendar, not a chase after one headline. Arsenal's heavy night in Lisbon is placed alongside Champions League quarterfinal action, while Limerick's six-point win over Cork in the hurling league final…
A brisk Friday sports breakfast where Dundalk's local pressure meets Arsenal nerves and a Mayo championship preview.
OTB Daily frames Friday morning as a busy sports breakfast, moving from newspaper headlines into a crowded weekend preview. Its best stretch sits in the contrast between Dundalk's close-knit football life, where butchers, cafes, podcasts and local papers all feel part of the…
A football quiz where club history, nicknames, and rule disputes all fight for space.
OTB Daily hands the football quiz to Mick, who starts by admitting Arthur wrote the questions and he has not read them. That loose handover gives the episode its shape: score checks, cheating complaints, and rule debates keep interrupting the football recall.
The Off The Ball Breakfast team previews a packed weekend of Irish sport, headlined by Rory McIlroy's Masters defence and Shane Lowry's strong start.
This episode of The Crappy Quiz features host Mick quizzing three contestants—Shane Hannan, David Wilson, and Cameron—on sports trivia.
Johnny Ward and John Duggan preview the 16-runner Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp, a mile and a half with a 3.05 Irish post-time on Sunday.
This episode covers sports news including the Masters golf tournament with Rory McIlroy's performance and Premier League football matches like Sunderland vs Tottenham and Chelsea vs Manchester City.
This episode features a humorous sports trivia quiz with participants competing in a lighthearted segment on the Off the Ball podcast.
This episode previews a busy weekend in Irish and international sports, covering topics like the Masters golf tournament, Gaelic football, women's rugby, and soccer events.
This episode features an interview with James Ellison and Holly Smith from Team HSO, an Irish professional motorcycle racing team, discussing their preparations for the upcoming BMW F900 series starting next month.
The show opens on Gordon Darcy's line that Munster need to stop pretending they are the team of the past.
This sports news episode previews upcoming events including Shane Lowry at the Masters, Katie Taylor's potential Croke Park fight, rugby analysis, and interviews with sports figures.
It starts with a jumper nod to the Gaeiltacht jersey in support and solidarity.
Liverpool’s Champions League team news has Mo Salah on the bench, Jeremie Frimpong in attack, and Arne Slot warning that PSG require “a 100 percent performance.” The discussion also covers Arsenal’s late win, England’s extra Champions League place, and how five Premier League clubs can now qualify next season.
Off the Ball Breakfast starts with its usual formal morning roll call, then slides into the papers and the day’s sports chat.
["OTB Daily's news round leads with Rory McIlroy's Masters defence at Augusta, where he tees off Thursday at 3.31 Irish time with Cameron Young and Mason Howell.", "Daniel Pitcher and Arthur O'Dea also cover Arsenal's trip to Sporting Lisbon, Mikel Arteta's call to \"feel the pain\" after the Carabao Cup and FA Cup exits, and the Real Madrid-Bayern Munich quarterfinal at the Bernabeu.", "The hosts turn to fan panic across Munster, Liverpool, Arsenal, and Cork, with Munster at 10, Arsenal at 10, and Cork framed by an 11-from-12 national-finals record since 2005.", "Later updates touch Harry Maguire's Manchester United contract to June 2027, Carla Ward's Ireland squad injuries, and James McClean's criticism of League of Ireland pitches."]
This episode discusses Ireland's draw with Macedonia, England's loss to Japan, and debates whether Seamus Coleman should retire from international football.
This episode pays tribute to the late broadcaster Michael Lyster, reflecting on his career as the face of Irish sports coverage and his personal qualities as a humble and skilled anchor.
This episode previews upcoming horse racing events including the Grand National, Doncaster, Meydan, and Curragh races while discussing the mood and challenges in the racing world.
This episode discusses upcoming football matches, including Czech Republic vs Ireland, with news about referee appointments, player lineups, and match-fixing scandals in Czech football.
This episode previews the Bank of Ireland Leinster Senior Girls Schools Cup final, discussing the teams, competition history, and growth of girls' rugby with Emily McKeown, the women's development officer at Leinster Rugby.