Episode 17: The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship - "Where We All Belong"

From the muddy fields of Meath to Croke Park's sacred sod, this episode dives into one of the most fiercely loved and proudly Irish sports: Gaelic football. We explore what makes the game so unique - its rules, its roots, and the deep ties it holds to community and identity.

We trace the story back through time: to the birth of the GAA and its fight to preserve native games; to a tragic Sunday in 1920 when a football match became an unforgivable massacre, and another Bloody Sunday played out in blood, grief and inevitable whitewash. Not Ireland’s first such Sunday, and sadly not it's last.

And finally, on lighter grounds, we look at the lon ...