RTÉ Soccer Podcast: Euro 2025 preview, Saints 'overhaul' needed, Keith Andrews, and Ireland feel the heat
Former Republic of Ireland team-mates Rachel Graham and Méabh De Búrca join Raf Diallo to preview Euro 2025, reflect on the Republic of Ireland's friendly defeats in the USA and discuss Ruesha Littlejohn's Shamrock Rovers exit, while Graham Gartland and Barry Murphy review the LOI weekend and talk Keith Andrews getting the Brentford job.
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03:30 Rachel and Méabh react to Ireland's back-to-back 4-0 friendly defeats in the USA amid difficult conditions.
12:00 Méabh, who is in host nation Switzerland for the opening game, and Rachel preview UEFA Women's Euro 2025, group by group, before picking out the players to watch and predictions for the likely winners.
34:50 Méabh and Rachel talk Athlone Town's Champions League qualifier draw, Ruesha Littlejohn and Katie Keane's Shamrock Rovers exits and an FAI Cup weekend when Rachel and her Shelbourne team-mates edged past Méabh's native Galway United in the first round.
42:55 Barry and Graham review Friday's SSE Airtricity Men's Premier Division action as well as touching on transfer news as Moses Dyer departs Galway United and Bohemians being linked with Douglas James Taylor.
01:26.30 Graham and Barry discuss former Ireland midfielder and assistant coach Keith Andrews' appointment as manager of Premier League side Brentford.
01:32.00 Barry and Graham talk Ireland defender Andrew Omobamidele sealing a permanent move to Strasbourg and long-time Boys in Green Seamus Coleman extending his Everton association into a 17th year.
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