I lived in England North and south as well for a couple of years and I can confirm that I would agree fully with your analysis. When I was working for a company in London they refused to accept that a northern ireland bank account I had was a UK account. I had to go on the bank of England website which listed all of the banks under their jurisdiction and email it to them to prove that it was. That's how much that person knew about Ireland.

@MsMissy Apologies, I meant English not British

@MsMissy My point was the English see Ireland as being like Wales. They assume it is very similar, guess what it is very similar. Hence why would they fly there.

His podcasts for Joe are excellent. Check out the Joe Brolly one ! Dion did / does a lot of work for Newstalk OTB football coverage

@@gavintuesday4959 Thanks for the tip Gavin looking forward to listening to Joe Brolly.

They were well past their sell by date. New pundits were needed to stop the conversation being predictable, like it was in the final 3+ years

100% pal, always feel most welcome in Liverpool, great city, great people

Well said fooking luv that city.

Liverpool was considered Ireland’s second city by the Irish for obvious historical and cultural reasons. The Irish emigrated in droves to the city and surrounds . There’s a genuine bond for many, hence the huge support for both Liverpool FC AND Everton (yes, not so much now, but it was there in the 1980s)

The best people in Britain, a really friendly welcome guaranteed. Red or Blue 💚☘️💚☘️💚☘️

Thanks for the kind words Conor

i thought you meant love or hate Dion Fanning. He epitomizes the smug scoffing i'm an outsider but is actually an insider that reigns supreme in the Irish media.

@@madforit2 fanning ? Far from it despite his accent and his background . Eamo ? Lol, he’s street. Hmm. Smug wouldn’t be something one could describe him. His podcast The Stand is great

hes a coke fiend

Stop doing drugs son

Rte are fake news

They also told him to take it easy on Pep. It's bullshit, because the MAN U fan boys at Montrose let him rip the piss out of Rafa in 2005,2006,. 2007 etc. Suddenly, that changed. Man U fan boys.

He didn't go easy on big jack so why should he go easy on Martin?...Martin can handle it anyway ffs

rue de bac nah at least he has morals

Used to like him but with comments like “why should the UDA or UVF go away with the threat of reunification looming” was really repulsive. Came across as a bit of a dick

Im irish and I agree, it must be annoying for the scots and welsh to hear people say "england" when people really are talking about the UK or the "brits" as a state.Must be pretty demeaning to them. I hear multiple people here in ireland talk about england when they are actually referring to the UK.(most continental europeans also do this) This is pretty ironic seen as we tend to get super sensitive (and rightly so) offended to the core when ignorant people call us british by accident. I despise this kind of ignorance so I always try to use the terms British,UK,England,Scotland,Wales when its correct to do so. Dont even get me started with americans they really havnt got the slightest clue😂

@@jonathanboland7962 Im English and I dont like when people refer to English domination of Ireland...

Fair comment David.

@Jake Chong 🤦‍♂️

The Irish people need to understand the English people and the British government are two separate things...Liverpool Manchester Birmingham Sheffield Leeds London those cities are full of people with Irish blood...many Irish came to live and work here and we got on no problem..all English workingclass are a mongral people we are no blue bloods and the Irish people need to understand that

Difference is FG pretend not to be and are good at pretending they aren’t, Thatcher was straight out. I know what I’d rather hear

We have so many quirks in common. Excessive tea drinking, excessive binge drinking, queuing etiquette, not liking to complain about poor service, bad teeth, rooting for an underdog so you won't be disappointed if they lose. Haha.

@MsMissy get over yourself. Coming across as an idiot. You can't speak for everybody.

@MsMissy Well tbh I'm very happy it's not like that in mainland UK. No animosity, everyone lives peacefully side by side. Wonder why it's like that over there?

@MsMissyMost of my friends are English, and after 35 yrs of friendship, I know them very very well, same as they do me. So I don't necessarily agree with that statement atall.Segregation is very alive in NI, schools etc, also indoctrination of children on both sides .

@MsMissy What are you replying to

Wright wasn’t bad. Remember , he left punditry for a while because of his views .

Bauplunk 💯

Dunphy is a phoney.

Glad you enjoyed it Patrick!

The Provos are too busy working for Mi5.

There’s absolutely NOTHING incorrect in his assessment on the fact that a United Ireland is Mike’s away and that most Southerns would NOT vote for a UI at this time , no chance once they realise the economic , culture and security problems . Deal with it , he’s right . He echoes precisely what most Southerner’s think

@@gavintuesday4959 Eamon had a bad track record on prediction and he's been in court for it also, we'll have to agree to disagree I think southerners will vote for a united Ireland even given the cost and we've done things like that before the financial crisis, covid etc we're not afraid of financial sacrifice as much as you think.

Eamon is right a boarder poll would do great damage to North and South

Peter Breen how’s that worked out for ya. Gtfoh

In fairness to Giles, I'd rather he would say that he didn't know about a player than some of the donkeys pretending that they are familiar with a player. Some of the guys on Sky are terrible on this point outright making up things as they go along.

​@msmissy6888get a brain and learn history.

@Damian No, just Ireland.

Get over it, the English ruling classes treated the English no better.

@@GTJ65 what?

@@TheGodAlmighty Yes it was and what has that got to do with Murder Rape and theft of other peoples?

@@TheGodAlmighty from your initial post you implied that the English brought law order and civilization to the Irish. They did not.

Great! Can't wait for you guys to join us as a republic!

If the Irish and the English have the same culture, why are the Irish so pro-Palestine and the British so pro-Israel?

Tomherbs bollox...Listen to him and open your eyes.

Name one

I agree...Cristiano Ronaldo, Roy Keane, Mick McCarthy....a complete fucking flip flop

is there something wrong with changing your opinion?

And how’s that working out for you, gammonhead?

Liverpool 4-0 Barcelona There's the proof.

Ok 👌 manc tell me in where’s better in the prem.

Unionists quick to ignore democracy when it doesn't suit them, the setting up of the illegal uvf in 1914 for example🙄🙄

@MsMissy Not sure I find it weird. Many Irish jump for joy anytime anything goes wrong in Britain. It’s just old & boring. Meh.

Thanks for the feedback @wolftone6

JOE.ie should be 2 hours. Dunphy is a genius. Very under appreciated. Great interview.

Why... Dip shit

mikki3562 I seem to recall Eamon once writing in the Sunday Independent that if there was ever a United Ireland, he’d join the UVF. Perhaps this was a throwaway remark that was of its time, but it struck me as odd given his left wing views on a lot of topics. Shame he shilled for O’Reilly and co.

@@TheLastAngryMan01 Yes you're right, there is a contradiction between those left-wing allusions spoken and the vicious right-wing support of British imperialism. But Eamon is not unique in that respect He adopted revisionism which was a school of thought inserted into the political landscape to counter republicanism in the 1980s. In many cases British intelligence agencies financed and sponsored the various revisionist projects. In particular revisionism was consolidated into the universities, again to counter the spread of nationalism and republicanism. And as Irish left-wing groups tended to be mostly appendages of British ones, they conveniently tailored their left-wing politics to suit a British and Unionist perspective. This is also evident with the left-wing groups represented in the Dail, all of them supported Brexit and campaigned for it in the north. Even beyond the Irish context, the Irish left-wing groups, like their British fellow travelers, maintained a pro-British, pro-Nato political line in Libya and Syria, and they still do. In the end however, it really isn't surprising that British intelligence would have a preference for left-wing elements as a vehicle in Ireland for their work of influencing the political stratosphere in favour of Britain. I believe the situation may be changing though, and the strategy is wearing thin. People like Eamon and the so-called liberal elite, individuals like Fintan O'Toole, are running against the historical truth and are being found out for what they really are: supporters of British colonialism, supporters of Orange death-squads, and apologists for imperialist genocide and oppression. I know Eamon would deny this, but actually it is patently clear when you put aside the likable things he says regarding working people and so on. You can bet too, he was in cahoots with others of that ilk, a certain B. Geldof et al. but he wouldn't ever disclose these things.

mikki3562 Quite a few on the payroll on reckon, Eoghan Harris, Conor Cruise O’Brien, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Mary Kenny, pretty much all of INM.

And how could I forget the Colonel himself, Kevin Myers. All conspicuously silent on the British state’s collusion with loyalist death squads, of course. Very vociferous on republican atrocities though.

@@TheLastAngryMan01 You're dead right! There was always far more MI5 actors in Dublin than there ever was in Belfast. Essentially anyone in journalism could have their career chances enhanced with the possibility of progressing to one of the big British outlets, including the BBC and Sky News, by becoming an asset in the MI5 domain. Of course it's not done in a formal way, it's done informally and through social and business means. It's no accident that all of the big names in RTE are vociferous opponents of republicanism, pretty much along the same psychotic lines of O'Brien and Harris. I believe it's a simple fact, that if you are Irish and you want to work in the British media you must first pass through an MI5 vetting system, and you retain these contacts along the way. Recently, veteran journalist and broadcaster Olivia O'Leary quite out of the blue while giving her anecdotal talk during the news programme, Drivetime, on RTE Radio 1, called on the Irish government to accede to the British and Unionist position on the backstop. It was meant to be a nice anecdotal chat, but it was completely central to the political situation vis-a-vis the deadlocked situation between the Irish and British governments. This would be surprising and even appear to be out of step, or even out of order for a journalist to attempt to speak against the government and the entire Irish political establishment at such a sensitive time, that is unless you didn't know that the same journalist had spent many years working for the BBC before returning home, and in all likelihood maintaining friendships with her old chums in the BBC. I think if anyone doubts what you and I are talking about, they should have a look at Bruce Arnold's recent diatribe against Ireland in the British Daily Telegraph. I don't know if he and Eamon are friends but I would hazard a guess that they would have met at some time or other at one of the soirees hosted by MI5 though under a different name of course.

Shane Gallagher ur comment clearly hasn’t aged well.

It's ok for a man to cry.

Dunphy crys more often than gazza for christ sake attention seeking outdated pundit gotta stay in the limelight at all costs,sad eamonn bring on the tears dunphy .