Across the Four Lakes Podcast

Irish international rugby players, Dannah O'Brien and Katie Corrigan talk about the win over Wales at the weekend where they scored 16 points between them. It was a second try in consecutive games  for the teenager while the out-half, who is in her second Six Nations campaign,  kicked 11 points. 
Both players played their underage rugby with Tullow RFC and are now attached to the Old Belvedere club in Dublin.

Carlow footballer, Niamh Forde, looks back on an historic weekend  where the second smallest county won a national football league division 4 title by beating Limerick in the final in Birr. 
Promotion had been achieved so this was the icing on the cake. More challenges lie ahead now and they are hoping to do well in the Leinster junior championship where Carlow will be in a group with Longford, Louth and Kilkenny. 
After that, the dream is to play in Croke Park on All-Ireland final day but a lot more has to be done if this is to hap...

Carlow golf club member, Eamonn Delaney, has been a member of the Dolmen Golf  Society  for many years now. The society is one of the oldest in the region. Now in his eighties, Eamonn looks back on the early days of the society and what it meant to him and its members.
A former single handicap golfer, he was in Carnoustie when Padraig Harrington won his first British Open. A proud Tipperary man who loves his hurling, he likes nothing better than when the Premier County put one over on The Cats.  

Leo McGough's analysis of the weekend where Carlow won a first under 20 hurling championship game since 2019 which was followed by a poor performance and a defeat the next day in the National Hurling League 2A final against Laois.
Photograph: Pat Ahern Photography

On Saturday, Carlow play Limerick in the NFL Division 4 final. Captain, Ruth Bermingham looks forward to a trip to Birr and reflects on the drama surrounding their semi-final win over Fermanagh. 
"Such a proud moment," she said but in her own words it was the longest ten minutes of her life when she was sin-binned in the second half.  It all ended well and she is enjoying the build-up to one of the biggest matches of her footballing career. 
Photo: Pat Ahern Photography

Paul Coady was on the Carlow teams which contested the NHL 2A finals in 2017 and 2018. The county won Christy Ring and Joe McDonagh Cups in the same years and the Mount Leinster Rangers man played in all four games. 
He says he tries to park hurling while he is abroad but admits he doesn't do it very successfully. Passionate about the game, he does his own training  and looks forward to coming back to Carlow later in the year where he will resume his career. 
He says Carlow have had great managers in recent years and  Tom Mull...

Carlow footballer, Edel Hayden, looks back on her side's dramatic win over Fermanagh as they clinched promotion to Division 3 of the National Football League for next season. 
Outsiders at the start of the campaign, Carlow now meet, Limerick,  another unfancied side, in the Division 4 league final in Birr on April 6th.
 

He once played with County Carlow FC and Maurice Logue reveals he could very well have gone to manage  his former club before the Wexford man was persuaded to go to Tullow.  Now,  having led The Slaneysiders to two Towns Cup successes and promotion to Leinster League Division 1A he has to plot the downfall of the club he won two Leinster Senior Cup medals with. 
Here he talks about his time in Tullow and the great relationships he has formed with people such as Sean O'Brien and Joe Waters. 
"The game is about opportunities. If you get y...

On Sunday, Carlow travelled to Cill Dara RFC knowing that a win would clinch promotion to Division 1A.  They were shocked early on when the home side scored a try. Unfazed, they regrouped and in the end won 36-22 to achieve their goal. 
Captain, Dan Crotty, looks back on the weekend, the league season and reflects on the family atmosphere in the club which helped  create the momentum to drive on the way they did. 

A hand on the heart interview with Padraig Amond who played underage soccer with Shamrock Rovers at the age of ten. He looks back on heady days where he scored against Tottenham Hotspur in an FA Cup game while the following year with Newport County, he netted the winning  penalty against Leicester City in a third round cup tie . 
Those were wonderful times but there were lows too where he details the reasons which took him away from Hartlepool United. 
He has always made scoring goals look easy so it was no surprise when Waterford FC heard he...