Tales From The East Stand
A Shamrock Rovers fans podcast hosted by Gary Parsons & Karl Reilly, covering all things Rovers related, including news, interviews and stats.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 122 minutes
- Episodes
- 341
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
TFTES 341
It's our 2006 season special, with then-manager Pat Scully making a guest appearance in the Four Provinces in front of a live audience. Pat remembers assembling a young team from scratch to take Rove…
02:17:12 |
Mon 01 Sep 2025
TFTES 340
Our fourth author in a row is Brian MacConville with his children's book 'Hoopbee and the Hoops' and his experience in the Azores to see a famous Rovers result in Europe. We remember the great Tommy …
01:52:34 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
TFTES 339
We talk getting through to the next round of Europe and the Cup. Miguel L. Pereira, with his book 'Bring Me That Horizon: A Journey to the Soul of Portuguese Football', and Larne marketing officer Ch…
02:35:41 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
TFTES 338
No Rovers goals to talk about in Kosovo or Galway but you'll get a live report from Gerry Matthews in Pristina, and hear from Barry McCarthy (O'Neill family, Templeogue United donations) and Seamus L…
02:01:01 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
TFTES 337
This week's special guest host is a club legend, four-in-a-row and FAI Cup winning captain Ronan Finn, who is in his second season at UCD to pursue a Master's Degree in Sports Management. Finner help…
02:14:38 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
TFTES 336
A bonus episode with Con Murphy reading a piece on Kosovan football during the Yugoslav war, James Moor talking about his book 'Grobar', in which he spent the 2011/12 season following FK Partizan hom…
01:43:46 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
TFTES 335
This week's guest co-hosts are the Staffords, Ciarán and his dad Ben to talk a club record away win in Gibraltar, which we all barstooled at the Irishtown House, favourite European memories together,…
03:21:34 |
Tue 29 Jul 2025
TFTES 334
Gary P's last show for a few weeks is a packed one, with the Wexford tonking in the Cup to talk about, and three interviews. Dan Griffin from Gibraltar has all you need to know on Thursday's European…
02:29:09 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
TFTES 333
We have two Honohans and two authors for our FAI Cup preview show, with journalist Sean Ryan and former referee Liam Gavin talking their books, 'The Official Book of the FAI Cup', and 'My Little Wood…
02:12:14 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
TFTES 332
We talk the Cork, Bohs, Waterford and Sligo games in recent weeks and there's a new TFTES Hotline where 10 callers tackle our questions on exams, hat-tricks, Europe, derbies and merch.
02:10:55 |
Thu 10 Jul 2025
TFTES 331
It's the 4th of July, so instead of three match reports we have three American themed interviews. Former Rovers midfielder Jamie Duffy, born in Texas, raised in Tallaght and living in Hollywood, talk…
02:11:00 |
Fri 04 Jul 2025
TFTES 330
There's six points on the road against Shelbourne and Drogheda to talk about, with the help of journalist Barry Landy to cover Drogheda's European expulsion. Plus: Duffer's meltdown, the demise of So…
01:32:18 |
Thu 19 Jun 2025
TFTES 329
Two shows this week. Here we've got some reaction to the European draw, and a double author feature ahead of Dalymount Park - although neither man has been to a derby in decades. Paul Howard recalls …
02:04:07 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
TFTES 328
It's part two of our 2000s series. Brian McKenna and John Byrne, who was part of the takeover of the club by the fans and media officer for five years, talk 2004 and 2005, with stadium skullduggery, …
02:20:01 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
TFTES 327
Barry Murphy fills in for Gar this week where the only goal in Tallaght he got to commentate on was the Walking Football. Baz gives his mid-season report and talks all sorts of topics such as signing…
02:00:12 |
Thu 05 Jun 2025
TFTES 326
We have Aaron McEneff's late winner in Derry and Irish managers winning league titles across the continent to talk about. No, not Robbie Keane - our author series continues with Sue O'Connell and 'Th…
01:23:38 |
Mon 26 May 2025
TFTES 325
We've got IKEA, haircuts, tonks and three wins out of three to talk about (first hour) before the conclusion of our Goodbye Goodison series with Robert Goggins, Robbie Gaffney, and Rovers and Everton…
03:09:16 |
Fri 23 May 2025
TFTES 324
No match reports in this one as we've got the Juz-Line, Christine Allen's women's team update and a double author feature, starting with Cian Manning's "I Love Me County: Waterford Sporting Stories",…
02:01:41 |
Thu 15 May 2025
TFTES 323
We're back to winning ways against Sligo, with Greener's 100th LEAGUE goal and a new TFTES Hotline. Paul Hayes, Nathan Johnston, Eric Brennan, Tony Grant, Damian Brennan, Greg Donaghy, Darren Gillen,…
02:14:50 |
Wed 07 May 2025
TFTES 322
We talk the 2-2's, the Pope and Gar's phone battery dying along with everything else happening at the club.
01:06:07 |
Wed 30 Apr 2025
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