Total Football: Aisling O'Reilly meets Celtic stars Liam Scales and Adam Idah, Arklow Town, kicking kings and much more
Aisling O'Reilly is a massive Celtic fan, and that's why she was buzzing to make the trip to the Glasgow club's Lennoxtown Training Complex for Total Football to meet two bhoys in green - Liam Scales and Adam Idah.
This Saturday, at 10am on RTÉ2, you can watch the full interview as Aisling hits the lads with some quickfire questions, and we get to know more about Glasgow Celtic and Ireland pair. She finds out who is most likely to be late (there are fines!) and who is most likely to scream during a horror movie...
Also on the show, we go back to Arklow Town FC, Liam Scales' first club, to put their skills to the test. They join us in studio with alongside more great guests like Celtic superfan Paudie O'Callaghan. We go from one superfan to another - let's follow Shels fanatic Kayleigh to a League of Ireland match.
There's a kicking challenge with a difference thanks to Tadhg and Darragh Leader. The brothers are making NFL dreams come true! No matter the sport, practice makes perfect, that's why Heather and Cameron are back with Total Skills. And speaking of skills, a record-breaking freetstyler is in to show off - Charlie Shakesperae was born to perform!
And, we are out on the grass with Vanessa and Nadine who try out some crazy football games - from foot gold to football darts and bubble ball. Tune in to see who will win!!
Tune in to Total Football, hosted by Aisling O'Reilly and Rasdi Nsimba, Saturdays at 10am on RTÉ2 and stream any time on RTÉ Player.
Liam Scales made the jump from UCD, to Shamrock Rovers and on to Celtic, but we go back to the start with our Club of the Week - Arklow Town FC.
Press play up top to see how we got on at their home pitch!
They come in to studio for some craic and a special kicking competition. Maybe one of them will catch the eye of the Leader brothers, Tadhg and Darragh, who are always scouting for talent for the NFL.
Aisling LOVED her trip to Glasgow and we meet another Hoops fanatic - Paudie O'Callaghan. The Limerick lad travels to see the team all the time!
There's more Total Skills with FAI Coaches Heather and Cameron. This time out they show us how to turn and get away from someone with the ball - that's always handy! Watch the show and get out to play as much as you can!!
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Irish Times
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- Irish Times
Kerry blitz Armagh and again prove masters at confounding expectation
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Micheál Burns came in later and he too added to the forcefield of energy. David Clifford came alive with an exhibition of kicking for four second-half points, one a two-pointer. It was like a boxing fight where the apparently technically superior fighter suddenly loses rhythm and starts to get hit from every angle. Armagh just couldn't get back into the fight. READ MORE Their middle third disintegrated. Joe O'Connor, one of Kerry's players of the year, was specifically lined out in his most productive position on the wing before the start but as his manager mentioned, the switch back to centrefield after a subdued first half was like everything the team did after half-time, blessed with success. Tiernan Kelly of Armagh reacts to a missed goal chance. Photograph: James Lawlor/Inpho Part of the dynamic for the overwhelming change of fortune was the devastation of Armagh's kickout, which fell to a match total of 50 per cent after a reasonable first half, while Kerry were touching 70 per cent. They were the bullets and the team were firing them remorselessly. After David Clifford dropped one short in the 42nd minute, they hit 0-17 with no wides to bury the champions. Who knows how or why momentum shifts in matches but the clinical detail of this match was that after Rian O'Neill had kicked a point to put Armagh five ahead, 1-16 to 0-14 in the 40th minute, Kerry set about a demolition job. Fourteen unanswered points went over the bar to turn the contest on its head. Back in 2009 when a comparatively unfancied Kerry arrived in Croke Park for the quarter-finals to play an unusually fancied Dublin, it took seconds for Mike McCarthy to make a rapier thrust through the middle and set up Colm Cooper for a goal. From then on, Dublin disintegrated. This wasn't as clearcut as that precedent. Armagh led at half-time despite not playing brilliantly and when they began to extend the lead after the break, heads nodded wisely and muttered conversations more or less concluded that the champions now had a grip on the match that would be difficult to prise loose. Rory Grugan of Armagh fires home the only goal of the game. Photograph: James Lawlor/Inpho That first half was an entertaining back-and-forth affair but it was clear that Kerry had come to play. Jack O'Connor said afterwards that with the pressure of favouritism on Armagh, his team were able to play with some freedom and they certainly did that. Seán O'Shea was a deserved Man of the Match with an afternoon's total of 12, including three two-pointers. When Armagh clicked for the goal in the 29th minute – a turnover on Dylan Casey by Tiernan Kelly – Rory Grugan raced in for a finish to regain the initiative for the Ulster side, who now led 1-8 to 0-9. O'Shea launched a fierce riposte within a minute, kicking a point and a two-pointer to wipe out the goal. Dylan Geaney added a point and Armagh were on the back foot again. They rallied well with a two-point free from Ethan Rafferty and a carefully crafted score after the hooter had sounded to give them the lead. Kerry's Seán O'Shea delivered a man of the match performance against Armagh. Photograph: James Lawlor/Inpho There was no doubting Kerry's stomach for the fight, however, and if O'Shea's 0-8 was the most tangible manifestation, there were other signs. 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Irish Independent
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- Irish Independent
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- RTÉ News
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