The Score is Northern Ireland's #1 show for Irish League discussion, hosted by Michael Clarke. Each week we'll bring you an hour of top Irish League news, views and debate with the help of key figures from within NI football.
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We are a group of storytellers, performers, and musicians. We tell Irish myths to a live audience with live music. Candlelit Tales was founded by brother-sister storytelling duo Aron and Sorcha Hegarty. Driven by a passion for Irish mythology, we started retelling the stories to a near-empty room upstairs in a Dublin pub one rainy evening in November. The next week, the room was a lot less empty, and we were joined by musician Ru O’Sé. By the fourth week, the room was full, and so was the ha ...
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Episode 253 - Gaelic Woodland Project Chat
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Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales podcast.And this special interview and chat between Sorcha the board of directors of the Gaelic Woodland Project. Founded by Eoghan Connaughton the project was first described to Aron as “a social experiment”, whose main objective was to create native woodlands and protect the existing woodlands on the Island of …
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Episode 252 - Collaborations - The Song Of Amergin With Jenny Ní Ruiséil
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Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales podcast.And another wonderful collaboration episode. In these sporadic episodes, we’re fortunate enough to collaborate with a few very special musicians. We’re a fan of their work and they also happen to be a fan of ours. We have always been grateful for any collaborations we have created, performed and worked on…
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Episode 251 - The High King - Reflections
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Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales podcast.In this episode, we look back on and discuss the High King series and some of our sources and inspiration for how we approached telling Cormac Mac Airt's story.We recorded this episode over Zoom, so if you listen to this on a podcast player, you can head to YouTube to watch the video version. Please note …
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Episode 250 - The High King - Learning & Legacy
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Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales podcast.This episode concludes our new series on the greatest High King in mythological, pseudo-historical memory: Cormac Mac Airt.In this story, Cormac journeys to the Otherworld to confront the entity that took his family away from him, and encounters strange sights and hard-won wisdom. Please note the content …
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Episode 249 - The High King - Promise & Plenty - Part 1
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Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales podcast.This episode continues our new series on the greatest High King in mythological, pseudo-historical memory: Cormac Mac Airt.This episode brings us to the beginning of the end for Cormac. As the king aged, and believed that his greatest adventures were behind him, Bealtaine brought with it an invitation for…
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Keith Bailie joins Michael for a recap of a dramatic end to the domestic campaign, we chat to Irish Cup winner Chris Curran who announced his retirement after Cliftonville's victory last weekend and Jordan Owens reflects on firing Crusaders into Europe with a stoppage time winner in the play-off final.…
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Episode 248 - The High King - Blood & Beetle
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Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales podcast.This episode continues our new series on the greatest High King in mythological, pseudo-historical memory: Cormac Mac Airt.This episode tells the second part of last week’s story ‘Fire and Fury’ where we were introduced to some of Cormac’s struggles as a High King who was not a fighting man. Insulted by t…
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Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales podcast.As this episode is released on the first of May, also called Bealtaine, we decided to take a break from our current series on Cormac Mac Airt, and talk you through some of what we’ve learned over the years of telling stories about this fire festival.We recorded a video to go along with this talk, and you …
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Our guests on this week's episode are all getting their hands on league-winners medals for the first time in their careers this weekend. From Larne we speak to Chris Gallagher, Brandon Diau joins us from Portadown and Limavady Utd are represented by Ruairi Boorman. Like most successful people, their stories involve hard work and difficult decisions…
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Episode 247 - The High King - Fire & Fury
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Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales podcast.This episode continues our new series on the greatest High King in mythological, pseudo-historical memory: Cormac Mac Airt.This episode tells the story of Cormac’s struggles. Now that he had gained the kingship, he found he had to hold it, and he had promised that he would hold it with wisdom and justice,…
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Larne's Andy Ryan and Institute's Shaun Leppard have both received Player of the Year nominations in their respective leagues, they join us to discuss their season's to date and remaining goals. Larne need would clinch the title with a draw on Monday, whilst 'Stute could leap as high as 2nd with a win on Saturday. We also hear from Michael O'Neill,…
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Episode 246 - The High King - Cormac & Eithne
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Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales podcast.This episode continues our new series on the greatest High King in mythological, pseudo-historical memory: Cormac Mac Airt.This episode tells the story of Cormac’s meeting with his beloved Eithne, and the tragic tale of what her feckless relatives did to her beloved foster father.Please note the content o…
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Our guests this week all took part in matches that grabbed the headlines and got tongues wagging last weekend. Stewart Nixon scored a late winner at Inver Park for Crusaders, which sent shockwaves through the title race, and he's hoping they will carry that momentum into their match tonight against Linfield. We chat to Steven McCullough who kept hi…
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Episode 245 - The High King - Wool & Woad
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Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales podcast.This episode continues our new series on the greatest High King in mythological, pseudo-historical memory: Cormac Mac Airt.In this episode, young Cormac begins to come into his power at Tara, using his greatest kingly gift of judgement to prove his worth.Please note the content of these stories may be tri…
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Sean Ward discusses his hopes to finish the season on a high with Glenavon as he nears retirement this summer, could they mount a late push for a European play-off spot? Elsewhere it's change at the top of the Championship, journalist Barry Flynn analyses the hopes of those pushing for promotion and we're joined by Bangor's Scott McArthur who is de…
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Episode 244 - The High King - Wolf & Horse
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Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales podcast.This episode continues our new series on the greatest High King in mythological, pseudo-historical memory: Cormac Mac Airt.We meet Cormac’s mother, Achtan the druid’s daughter, and discover the origins of the child who would one day be the High King of Ireland.Please note the content of these stories may …
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The Score - Irish Cup SF Special 2024
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The final four teams in the Irish Cup are the top four teams in the Premiership table as things stand. Joining us to preview Glentoran v Linfield and Cliftonville v Larne is Niall McGinn, Kyle McClean, Jonny Addis and Jaziel Orozco.
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Episode 243 - The High King - Art & Achtan
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Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales podcast.In this episode, we are kicking off a new series on the greatest High King in mythological, pseudo-historical memory: Cormac Mac Airt.We meet Cormac’s mother, Achtan the druid’s daughter, and discover the origins of the child who would one day be High King of Ireland.Please note the content of these stori…
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Glentoran's new caretaker manager Declan Devine joins Michael to discuss his goals between now and the end of the season. Plus we speak to Scott Irvine about Carrick Rangers' aspirations and journalist Mark McIntosh helps us preview Northern Ireland's upcoming friendly fixtures.
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Episode 242 - Collaborations - Intoxication Of The Ulstermen With Fancy Dan
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Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast.As Spring is in full swing, and Aron and Sorcha are off gallivanting across the Pond (see our website for show dates if you’re in the New York/Vermont area at the time this podcast goes out!) we present to you collaboration with one of our favourite humans.This is the story of the Intoxication of the Ulst…
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Oisín & St. Patrick - Re-Release (St. Patrick's Day Special)
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Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast.As Spring is in full swing, and Aron and Sorcha are still off gallivanting across the Pond and sharing stories with the Irish diaspora in Canada for the first time, we decided to post a special St. Patrick's Day episode today. It is a story that links in the old faith to the conversion of the new, and has…
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Michael is joined on this week's show by Coleraine's Stephen Lowry, Loughgall manager Dean Smith, Newry City's Fra McCaffrey plus we hear from Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill.
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Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast.As Spring is in full swing, and Aron and Sorcha are off gallivanting across the Pond (see our website for show dates if you’re in the New York/Vermont area at the time this podcast goes out!) we present to you a terrible love story that ends terribly for everyone involved. This is the story of a woman who…
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The Score - BetMcLean Cup Final Special
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Michael is joined by journalist Stuart McKinley to preview Sunday's League Cup final at Windsor Park and we also speak to players and managers from both clubs involved. Linfield are represented by boss David Healy, Daniel Finlayson and Chris Johns, whilst Lee Chapman, Gary Thompson and Niall Currie provide a Portadown perspective.…
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Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales podcast.In this series, we looked back at an old story, or set of stories, and told it in a new way, from a lot of different perspectives. We called this the Táin Mosaic, as the shattered fragments of this story can be put back together in a multiplicity of ways, and we decided to shine a light on some of the les…
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Michael speaks to players from 4 Championship clubs who are preparing to face Premiership opposition for a place in the semi-finals of the Irish Cup.Our guests this week are Aaron Hogg (Portadown), Darius Roohi (Ballyclare Comrades), Richard Gowdy (Newington) and Mikhail Kennedy (Institute).
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Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales podcast.This is the final episode of our Táin Mosaic series. In this series, we looked back at an old story, or set of stories, and told it in a new way, from a lot of different perspectives. We called this the Táin Mosaic, as the shattered fragments of this story can be put back together in a multiplicity of way…
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Glentoran striker David Fisher joins Michael to discuss life in Belfast, their upcoming match against league-leaders Larne and his Irish Cup aspirations, we find out the inside scoop on the Coleraine takeover from journalist Damian Mullan and Annagh United boss Ciaran McGurgan is plotting a strong conclusion to the Championship season as they targe…
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Cliftonville assistant manager Gerard Lyttle, Carrick Rangers midfielder Andy Mitchell and journalist Mark McIntosh join Michael to discuss what should be a thrilling conclusion to the Premiership season. With just 10 games to go, any slip up could prove costly and every side still has something to strive for.…
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Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales podcast.In this episode, we are going right back to before the beginning, where the seeds of this conflict were planted before any of the participants were even born. This is also, ultimately, a conflict between two individuals. If you've missed the earlier episodes, go back to catch up from the start. This is th…
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Journalist Keith Bailie chats us through Northern Ireland's Nations League draw, Ballymena United 'keeper Sean O'Neill speaks ahead of crucial bottom two clash away to Newry City and Jim O'Hanlon discusses a tough season for Warrenpoint Town, as they look to breathe life into their promotion bid when they face PIL leaders Limavady United.…
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Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales podcast.In this episode, we are taking the perspective of Conchubar Mac Nessa’s youngest son, Follman. Follman’s story is a particularly tragic one, as he has experienced huge loss in his young life, and does not survive the War. If you've missed the earlier episodes, go back to catch up from the start. This is p…
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