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Celtic Ligers

Celtic Ligerswww.spreaker.com
an irish politics (and culture) podcast with comedy. hosted by James Moran and Gareth Lyons.
full episodes and bonus content at www.patreon.com/celticligers
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Episodes

#093 that's (a) crazy man. have you ever done LGBT? (FREE)

The Ligers start off talking about the new Naked Gun movie. Then the rest is just Graham Linehan's appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience. Gar has taken extensive notes and James just has to sit there and like it. OH and we talk about Al Porter's appearance on some generic Irishism name podcast (c'mere and I tell ya? would ya stop? can I just ask?.... I can't remember... let me google... U Havin' Us On!) to continue his rehabilitation tour making jokes about Jeffrey Epstein! A sex offender prote...

Aug 16, 20251 hr 2 min

#092 Then Maybe You Shouldn't Be Occupying HEEERE! feat. Jesse Hawken

The Ligers sit down with writer and podcaster Jesse Hawken to talk about Martin Campbell's 2017 movie "The Foreigner" where Jackie Chan takes on the IRA and Pierce Brosnan plays NOT Gerry Adams. They talk Bronson's Bronson way about him, IRA blockbusters and the confused politics of a Chinese financed movie based on a book from 1992. Check out Jesse's podcast Junk Filter about film, TV, pop culture things and politics. A 10/10 Liger recommend: https://pod.link/1535693601...

Aug 08, 20251 hr 32 min

#091 About A Gerry (FREE)

The Ligers talk about Gerry Adams interview with Novara Media's Ash Sarkar. Eoin Hayes being readmitted to the Social Democrats. Small business owners where? You guessed it! Only their bloody knees! Bill Maher! "Who?" say the Irish well we'll explain and then you'll laauuugh Then in the second half on www.patreon.com/celticligers they read some listener correspondence, talk about Danny Healy Rae being shoved by our noble boys in blue, Starmer threatening to recognise Palestine as a state... AND....

Aug 01, 20251 hr 4 min

#090 Ian Hisloppy seconds (FREE)

The Ligers talk about comedian Alan Porter's comeback! Alan Shatter addressing a public accounts committee to be reliably awful! (Alan) James O'Brien being a complete dope. Jeremy Corbyn's nameless party! Needing a passport for porno! Ian Hislop being horrified at UK gov cracking down on Palestine solidarity but Corbyn still anti-semite! SECOND HALF ON www.patreon.com/celticligers Palestine GAA is out to get Micheál Martin according to the man himself! Catherine Connolly's write up in cynical Ir...

Jul 27, 20251 hr 5 min

#089 Irish "American" Guys feat. Bryan Quinby (FREE)

The Ligers sit down with Murder Bryan Quinby from Guys: A Podcast about Guys. (https://pod.link/1671039476) Gar tries to pitch him on Irish "American" Guys. They also talk about NuMetal and the Barrack Obama Plaza. Then in the second half over on www.patreon.com/celticligers it's just Gar and James talking about Irish stuff like: Irish media being a right wing cesspit trying to undermine support for Gaza because it might affect their money. The Mirror do a pretty reprhensible interview with Ashl...

Jul 20, 202553 min

#088 racist firestarter (FREE)

The Ligers talk some more about Jeremy Corbyn's new party he doesn't really want to do, then about Grok being antisemetic and then they read the annual column written for Free State centrists about why the July 12th racist bonfires might actually be good if you think about it completely differently. Over on patreon.com/celticligers there's more talk about Meta training its AI by getting people to pretend to be pedos, then they read yet another article from the Irish Examiner where a landlord whi...

Jul 11, 20251 hr

#087 these days if you say you're Palestine Action (FREE)

The Ligers talk about British shit for a bit: Zarah Sultana and Corbyn founding a new left wing party, the return of Spitting Image with the same terrible writers who ruined it the first time and the most British thing of all an (alleged) pedophile accusing people of anti-semitism. It's Alan Dershowitz being interviewed on Newstalk! Then in the second half over on www.patreon.com/celticligers The Ligers talk about Bob Vylan (more Brit shit!), Micheál Martin and Simon Harris being awful and final...

Jul 07, 20251 hr 1 min

#086 i got a bone temple for ya right here pal

The Ligers review the new zombie movie (or should we say infected movie ;) ) 28 YEARS LATER by Danny Boyle and our good pal Alex Garland! Then there's half an hour of politics at the end about Zohran Mamdani becoming the democratic candidate for New York city mayor and his interview with Stephen Colbert, then about war in Iran, and then James gives a potted review of Gavan Reilly's new book called "The Hallowed Halls of Leinster house" or some shite. there wasn't a natural break so here's the fu...

Jun 28, 20252 hr 2 min

#085 that blue hair ain't right (FREE)

The Ligers have a proper rambler which coalesces into one overall point. The cause of all societal ills? You guessed it. The blue hairs, folks. And no. i'm not talking about Marge Simpson! Although they do talk about King of the Hill (another Fox animated show). Then they talk about Mick Clifford wanting to take the flag back (briefly), a new article from Spicebag (come on the show) which is not NOT about taking the flag back and then cap it off reading from Pat Leahy pissing his pants over Red ...

Jun 19, 20251 hr 1 min

#084 Rent Pressure Bone Zone (FREE)

The Ligers talk about the latest split in The Irish Left as Red Network leaves People Before Profit, then they talk about the debate in tactics on combatting the Far Right and Gar talks about attending counter demos to the anti-migrant march in Cork last weekend. In the second half on www.patreon.com/celticligers The Ligers talk about the Guards doing an oopsie by giving the Carlow lone shooter a gun (uh oh!), THEN a breakdown of the government's latest housing bonanza for the actors causing the...

Jun 13, 20251 hr 2 min

#083 virgin (FREE)

The Ligers talk about the shooting in Carlow then about racist John McGuirk talking guff on Virgin Media's Tonight Show then about the rogue Irish government just doing its own thing on Data Centres, Housing, Irish Water, Triple Lock etc. Then in the second half over on www.patreon.com/celticligers They talk about the watered down Occupied Territories Bill, Gerry Adams winning his court case and to cap it off, second week in a row, Mick Clifford spews some mad shite in his column which must be d...

Jun 06, 202556 min

#082 pure heavy episode (FREE)

The Ligers talk about Garron Noone again (sorry!), Mo Chara from Kneecap getting charges and then just peter out getting depressed about Gaza. Then in the second half over on www.patreon.com/celticligers ....things pick up talking about a Fine Gael TD Keira Keogh saying it's not all bad for children's healthcare in Ireland because a football club in Manulla got a scooter! then they read the headlines from the opinions section of the Irish Times (always a treat) before getting depressed again rea...

May 29, 202556 min

#081 Dark Leo Rising (FREE)

The Ligers talk about premium alternative comedy night Test Tube Babies ( https://www.instagram.com/ttbshow) then a pro Transgender demonstration Gar went to in Belfast....THEN....the meat.... Leo Varadakar on Uncharted with Ray Goggins. A Bear Grylls knock off TV series which consists of Varadkar being miserable in the South African wilderness. Then in the second half on www.patreon.com/celticligers they talk about how awful Alan Shitter is along with all of the ambivalent commentariat, then ab...

May 21, 20251 hr 34 min

#080 the god damn right (FREE)

The Ligers talk about AI, fan fiction, the american pope, Ruth Coppinger refusing to answer questions from the racist site Gript, Graham Linehan talking about queer spaces, then finally it's like a youtube sesh with the boiz as they watch some really awful AI generated comedy sketches which James didn't make. FULL EPISODE ON www.patreon.com/celticligers

May 16, 20251 hr 19 min

#079 MORE FLAG! (FREE)

The Ligers talk about a Spicebag post about the left needing to reclaim the trickler and then Jim O'Callaghan's draconian immigration laws. FULL EPISODE ON www.patreon.com/celticligers Then they talk about a racist salon owner on Dorset street closing shop. then Fintan O'Toole writes another incredible piece of shite in the Irish times about Kneecap!

May 09, 20251 hr 1 min

#078 Only Popes and Racists (FREE)

The Ligers talk about the dead pope and then make up some popes. Then, our new Housing Tsar! God save the Tsar! A bit about Kneecap being investigated by the counter terrorism police (there's also a PATREON ONLY post script where The Ligers talk about Kneecap's recent statement condemning Hamas) Also, last weekend's far right racist anti-migrant marches in Dublin. Bleak! Full episode on www.patreon.com/celticligers

May 01, 20251 hr 1 min

#077 Warfare (2025) Review (FREE)

The Ligers review Warfare (2025) the new Alex Garland movie about the Iraq war made with Ray Mendoza based on MEMORIES of an incident while he was a US Navy SEAL. Then over on patreon.com/celticligers Then they talk about James visiting Conor McGregor's pub to get a peek of Tucker Carlson, then about the Drury street small business owners on.... where else?... their knees! They also read bits of a Belfast Telegraph interview with Micheál Martin of Fianna Fáil the Republican Party saying he was a...

Apr 23, 20251 hr 14 min

#076 taRIFFS (FREE)

The Ligers talk about tariffs and read Simon Harris's diary about tariffs (as printed in The Business Post with no shame whatsoever!)

Apr 10, 20251 hr 2 min

#075 April's Fool 2 (FREE)

The Ligers talk about Michael Lowry, the Dáil speaking row, Pat Leahy's second article about how opposition speaking time being taken is actually fine, Mothers Against Genocide assaulted by the Guards, Trump's Tarriffs and David McWilliams imagines a science fiction future for Ireland after reading Matt Yglesias' latest pile of shite. Full episode on www.patreon.com/celticligers

Apr 03, 20251 hr 2 min

#074 Wouldst thou like to live deliciously? (FREE)

The Ligers are Marxist in the front and Capitalist in the back this week, relegating the Garron Noone content for loyal Patreon patrons only. www.patreon.com/celticligers They go to a Marxism festival and talk about the various talks they went to which include: Lough Neagh, Ukraine, the 1972 National Rent Strike, Gaza, Eco-Socialism (w/ Paris Marx of Tech Won't Save Us Podcast!) and Data Centres! Then they talk about the chicken roll man having the dreaded "genuine concerns" about immigration!...

Mar 25, 20251 hr 20 min

#073 it's a great day for the irish! (FREE)

St.Patrick's Day episode! The Ligers talk about all of the worst Irish people making us look like clowns in Washington DC to impress a genocidal rapist. The undignified Mícheal Martin, the crazy Burkes and the racist rapist Conor McGregor! Begora! Full episode on www.patreon.com/celticligers where you can hear a breakdown of the responses to St.Patrick's Day by our horrible media and the awful sycophants on Irish Reddit. then to finish us out we hear the ten concessions the Republicans will have...

Mar 18, 20251 hr 6 min

#072 i'm actually laughing! (and old and bald and red) (FREE)

The Ligers enjoy one positive thing which is a bloated columnist being told they're a dipshit to their face (Fergus Finlay in this instance) before getting depressed about the march toward arming up and conflict and blood and death. They talk about Thomas Gould being arrested for what?? For simple fucking fraud?! Free my man! Innocent even if he isn't! Then they do the millennial patter normally reserved for the start but at the end of the hour. Its about a sandwich Gar had in London. In the sec...

Mar 14, 20251 hr 1 min

#071 a skeleton likes war (FREE)

The Ligers just have a big old laugh in the current hysteria to go to war and there's not an effing thing you can do about it (the laugh they're having and the war which you will be conscripted for). Zelensky getting a bollocking in the oval office. Micheál Martin a wiry mess on The Late Late Show with Patrick Kielty and what that bodes for his St.Patrick's trip GOD WILLING. Micheal Collins Independent Frog having the only legit answer to dumbo war hawks attacking the triple lock?? Um... that wa...

Mar 08, 20251 hr 3 min

#070 eat your bone (FREE)

At the top.... we get a breakdown of the German elections by the amazing Ciaran from Corner Spati Podcast. Check them out here: https://pod.link/1454202971 THEN. The Ligers talk about work destroying your brain (boo work!), the dear Pope Francis hanging on for dear life and the government deciding you should live in a shed... less actually! stick your head in the wooden oven and do us a favour will you!!! IN THE SECOND HALF on www.patreon.com/celticligers The Ligers talk: The TV Show Please Buy ...

Feb 27, 20251 hr 3 min

#069 but i love the Triple SHAMROCK! (FREE)

The Ligers start by talking about Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco's comic about Palestine (bad!), then the worst people in Ireland want Micheál Martin to give a bowl of shamrocks to Trump who they definitely hate. And...Neutrality!! The thing everyone (ie. some columnists) wants to destroy! In the second half over on www.patreon.com/celticligers Jim O'Callaghan being an awful piece of work, Micheál Martin being a smug prick as Gaeilge, the government's bold new proposal of solving the housing crisi...

Feb 21, 20251 hr 6 min

#068 our brave men and women in gov (FREE)

The Ligers Millennial patter gets the better of them and the bulk of the first hour is made up of talking about how much they hate work, Gar's trip to Belfast, that drunk Fine Gael guy crawling on all fours which could almost be politics. THEN Michael Healy Rae (government TD) being very brave joining a government he hates because we just need to feckin get on with things, by god! In the second Half over on www.patreon.com/celticligers The continued war on neutrality. they almost talk about come...

Feb 15, 20251 hr 12 min

#067 Call Me Pat Leahy Adeen! (FREE)

The Ligers talk AI Deepseek before James burns a rainforest getting its ideas for Simpsons episodes. They read some more confused opinions as the obedient Irish commentariat try to figure out ways to blame Sinn Féin for Government TDs taking Opposition speaking time. In the second half over on www.patreon.com/celticligers The Ligers watch a clip of Micheál Martin showing contempt (imagine!) to a woman in Rosscommon affected by Storm Éowyn, Leo Varadkar weighs in on Super Junior ministers and The...

Feb 02, 20251 hr 3 min

#066 why are you yelling?? (FREE)

The Ligers talk about the music of The Two Johnnies (and their far right sympathies), the grim Plan for Government which seems to be flying under the radar and Trump's inauguration where Elon Musk... just... one of the most embarrassing freaks ruining our lives in a crowded field. THEN in the second half on www.patreon.com/celticligers Vote for Taoiseach disrupted by failure to rule out opposition speaking time being allocated to government TDs (why is this a contentious position?!), the media's...

Jan 25, 20251 hr 9 min

#065 more of the same but worse (FREE)

The Ligers read a surprising intervention from Simon Harris on Prime Time! You literally will not believe it! The Two Johnnies part of corrupt MSM but also Far Right agitators? What?? A belated remembering of Michael Fry's interview with former housing minister Darragh O'Brien. THEN in the second half on www.patreon.com/celticligers There's some talk about the Gaza genocide ceasefire but they're too suspicious to get excited. Then of course, The new government! Doesn't it make us sick folks? Don...

Jan 19, 20251 hr 6 min

#064 *to tune of I'll Fly With You* (FREE)

The Ligers wrestle with Gar's computer which betrays him (suggestions on a postcard), they give their review for Nosferatu and then (message in if you've had enough but) they talk about a new Val Martin clip where he makes an offer to partner up with Elon Musk. (I mean come on!) Then in the second half on www.patreon.com/celticligers Tech guys go more mask off than usual making their cheerleaders all flustered. The lads finally get to talking about Finn McRedmond, another fellow Irish millennial...

Jan 12, 20251 hr 1 min
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