TFK favourite Des Chill will have Joe Keenan on at 6.30 on Des’ Islands Discs.
You can expect the usual Crossmaglen hilarity from Joe as he spins the yarns. The Cross lads are gas lads, mighty men for wild yarns and hi-jinx stuff. Just think Kevin McAleer’s deadpan style.
Listened to it there @anon67715551. It was surprisingly good. Joe is a very interesting bloke and Des drew him out well. I’d say this is the best format for Des.
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In other news Mark Cagney has taken over from Ivan Yates on the Last Word. A like for like swap. One arsehole replacing another.
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Has anyone told Matt Cooper this news? 
I can’t stand Cagney at all. I could tolerate Yates
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RTÉ Gold & RTÉ Radio 1 are by far and away the best radio stations in the 26 counties. They are helped by acknowledging music existed before the year 2000.
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Be great if it got him off The Sunday Game
Fuck sake. Yates despite being a cunt had a likeable rogue quality to him. Cagney has always come across as a smug bollocks.
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From Cark is he?
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I’m in agreement here. Realistically, Joe seems like a guy who’d fill a grand hour of radio, what with a diversion into the whole border issue, the pitch invasion, the club structures and the Armagh story. They’re some story, the Crossmaglen club. Outstanding clubhouse facilities, successful teams, interesting club members and the over-arching whiff of sulphur (it could be diesel).
A local warrior here married a Cross lassie about 15 years ago and the blast was in the clubhouse. A great day all round. The only pub in the village that I remember was Shortt’s.
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I hope one of his selections was Goodnight Saigon if only for the first 60 seconds.
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A Frank Sinatra standard followed by the Highway man by (you’ve guessed it) the Highwaymen. Joe is a bit like myself, un-complicated.
It was Dean Martin singing a Frank Sinatra standard. Joe had good taste in music. That Highwayman song is a classic.
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Which one?
The Highwayman by the Highwaymen? Or little old wine drinker me by Dean Martin?
the latter
I got tickets for the legends tour of croker last year the day before the AI final with Joe and Aaron Kernan and a pile of shady Crossmaglen men. Joe had the tour in the palm of his hand. A serious operator and wouldn’t suffer fools.
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Cagney reminds me of the lounge lizard types that used to hang around Leeson st in the mid to late 80s. They’d wearing some white slacks with a nice pair of wine slip on shoes.
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Does the Leeson Street scene still exist ???