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Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Honor isn’t for everyone. She takes after her old man in that regord

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Honor isn’t for everyone. She takes after her old man in that regord

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Sat Nov 26 2022 - 13:33
Listen | 06:02
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: The neighbours have visions of the Vico Road turning into Morbella

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: The neighbours have visions of the Vico Road turning into Morbella

A visit to their rental in Terenure reveals how far the Stop the Build campaign is willing to go

Sat Nov 19 2022 - 05:00
Listen | 06:33
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Schoolbooks shmoolbooks ... I didn’t do a tap at school and look at me’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Schoolbooks shmoolbooks ... I didn’t do a tap at school and look at me’

I can pretty much feel the anger coming off the parents when I step into the room with a big superhero smile on my face

Sat Nov 12 2022 - 05:00
Listen | 06:04
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Newpork is famous for kids with pierced lips...They don’t even care about rugby’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Newpork is famous for kids with pierced lips...They don’t even care about rugby’

The Castlerock girls’ team has just lost their second match on the trot

Sat Nov 05 2022 - 05:00
Listen | 05:46
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: It’s Halloween week and we’re living in a house that’s, like, haunted – literally

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: It’s Halloween week and we’re living in a house that’s, like, haunted – literally

There’s something terrifying lurking in the kitchen in Terenure, so Sorcha calls in a medium

Sat Oct 29 2022 - 05:00
Listen | 06:08
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: I’ve been shocked by the change that has come over my daughter since we moved to Terenure

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: I’ve been shocked by the change that has come over my daughter since we moved to Terenure

Ross and Honor have been driven to desperate lengths to convince Sorcha to move back to Killiney

Sat Oct 22 2022 - 05:00
Listen | 05:57
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Already I feel like I’ve created a team in my image – in other words, winners

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Already I feel like I’ve created a team in my image – in other words, winners

The Castlerock College girls’ rugby team are about to play their first ever match against – believe it or not – Sion Hill

Sat Oct 15 2022 - 05:00
Listen | 05:51
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: I’m a big believer in overpraising my children. Never did me any horm

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: I’m a big believer in overpraising my children. Never did me any horm

The trauma of the move to Terenure has hit home - Honor and Ross need a plan to get out of Dublin 6w

Sat Oct 08 2022 - 05:47
Listen | 05:51
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Stort packing. We have permission to knock the house and build aportments’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Stort packing. We have permission to knock the house and build aportments’

Ross and Honor return from a trip to Dundrum Town Centre to find Sorcha frantically packing

Sat Oct 01 2022 - 05:00
Listen | 05:38
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Ronan is a Republican? He’s got the names of the 1915 crew tattooed on his orm

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Ronan is a Republican? He’s got the names of the 1915 crew tattooed on his orm

Sorcha’s friends come round to watch the queen’s funeral, but Honor has invited an unexpected guest

Sat Sept 24 2022 - 05:00
Listen | 05:41
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: The girls are staring at me in just, like, awe – they’re ready to learn from the master

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: The girls are staring at me in just, like, awe – they’re ready to learn from the master

It’s Ross’s first day as Director of Rugby at Castlerock College and his authority is being tested by a group of – yeah, no – 12- and 13-year-old girls

Sat Sept 17 2022 - 05:00
Listen | 06:02
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Just because I’m a serial liar doesn’t mean that I can’t be trusted’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Just because I’m a serial liar doesn’t mean that I can’t be trusted’

Ross’s best friend Christian is missing

Sat Sept 10 2022 - 05:00
Listen | 05:58
‘How much would it mean to the girls storting school here to have the legendary Ross O’Carroll-Kelly teaching them rugby?’

‘How much would it mean to the girls storting school here to have the legendary Ross O’Carroll-Kelly teaching them rugby?’

Ross and his old man are blocking the gates of Castlerock College in protest at the school’s decision to go co-ed, but the principal has a proposition

Sat Sept 03 2022 - 05:00
Listen | 06:59
‘I don’t like the dude’: Ross O’Carroll-Kelly interviews Paul Howard

‘I don’t like the dude’: Ross O’Carroll-Kelly interviews Paul Howard

Ross feels misrepresented by his biographer, so The Irish Times offered him the opportunity to do the interviewing for a change

Sat Aug 27 2022 - 05:00
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Sorcha Lalor, you were the best Dalkey Lobster Festival Queen we ever had’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Sorcha Lalor, you were the best Dalkey Lobster Festival Queen we ever had’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: It’s the weekend at the end of August when the people of Killiney and Dalkey get together and pretend they don’t eat lobster three times a week, all year round

Sat Aug 27 2022 - 05:00
Listen | 06:55
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: I’m by the pool, doing sit-ups with my top off, and Honor goes, ‘Oh, for fock’s sake! Not these two clowns!’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: I’m by the pool, doing sit-ups with my top off, and Honor goes, ‘Oh, for fock’s sake! Not these two clowns!’

Sorcha’s old pair arrive in Quinta do Lago with a request

Sat Aug 20 2022 - 05:00
Listen | 07:13
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Pissing in a swimming pool is a bit like farting at Mass. The trick is to squeeze it out quietly’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Pissing in a swimming pool is a bit like farting at Mass. The trick is to squeeze it out quietly’

It’s the day the planning permission decision is due, so the Killiney neighbours invite the O’Carroll-Kellys over for a borbecue

Sat Aug 13 2022 - 05:00
Listen | 06:36
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Honor, what are the girls in Mount Anville going to say when they find out you’re living in a housing estate?’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Honor, what are the girls in Mount Anville going to say when they find out you’re living in a housing estate?’

The O’Carroll-Kellys go to view a well-appointed property set in the hort of one of South Dublin’s most sagacious suburbs

Sat Aug 06 2022 - 05:00
Listen | 07:06
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly:  ‘I look fantastic for a man of 42, abs like speed bumps and pecs like bay windows’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘I look fantastic for a man of 42, abs like speed bumps and pecs like bay windows’

I’m in unbelievable shape, especially considering the rugby career that I, well, very nearly had

Sat Jul 30 2022 - 05:00
Listen | 07:08
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘No focking way. I’m not breaking into the dude’s office’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘No focking way. I’m not breaking into the dude’s office’

Dressed in a black boiler suit, with a – quite literally – balaclava in his hand is my son, Ronan

Sat Jul 23 2022 - 06:14
Listen | 06:46
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘I wonder sometimes are these kids definitely mine’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘I wonder sometimes are these kids definitely mine’

Ireland are playing the All Blacks but Sorcha has planned a family weekend to Center Parcs

Sat Jul 16 2022 - 05:56
Listen | 06:30
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Our daughter is completely devoid of human feeling’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Our daughter is completely devoid of human feeling’

Honor is confident of winning the Glenageary tennis final by playing dirty, but her opponent has a trick up her sleeve

Sat Jul 09 2022 - 06:00
Listen | 07:44
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Noah is graduating from creche. (Who the fock is Noah?)

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Noah is graduating from creche. (Who the fock is Noah?)

`What, he’s graduating? God, it only seems like five years ago that he was born’

Sat Jul 02 2022 - 06:00
Listen | 07:04
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Sometimes you have to break the Mount Anville code

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Sometimes you have to break the Mount Anville code

Honor serves to get the match under way and loses the first point. Then she double-faults on her next serve

Sat Jun 25 2022 - 06:00
Listen | 06:53
‘You didn’t think I was going to sit back and watch you allow girls into this school, did you?’

‘You didn’t think I was going to sit back and watch you allow girls into this school, did you?’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly’s father shows up at Castlerock College with a crane and wrecking ball

Sat Jun 18 2022 - 06:00
Listen | 07:27
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘I love Honor’s attitude. Not everyone does, but I’d be a major, major fan’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘I love Honor’s attitude. Not everyone does, but I’d be a major, major fan’

Honor is playing Corina Brien at Glenageary Lawn Tennis Club, and has done a deep dive of her social media to find her weakness

Sat Jun 11 2022 - 10:32
Listen | 07:20
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Sorcha is still serious about knocking the gaff and turning it into aportments

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Sorcha is still serious about knocking the gaff and turning it into aportments

‘I thought there’d be a bigger fuss about it on the Vico Road Residents’ Association WhatsApp. I mean, we ordered a skip, Ross’

Sat Jun 04 2022 - 10:28
Listen | 07:07
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Three triplets and only one can be a mascot for Leinster. Who will it be?

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Three triplets and only one can be a mascot for Leinster. Who will it be?

Three triplets and only one can be a mascot for the Leinster game. Who will it be?

Sat May 28 2022 - 06:00
Listen | 07:47
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘We want to build a block of aportments... affordable ones’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘We want to build a block of aportments... affordable ones’

Seeking revenge against the Vico Road Residents Association, Sorcha asks her orchitacht friend to help

Sat May 21 2022 - 06:00
Listen | 06:51
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘There are millions of people who would give their right orm to live in Killiney’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘There are millions of people who would give their right orm to live in Killiney’

The Vico Road Residents’ Association are up in arms over a council decision to allow new homes to be built

Sat May 14 2022 - 06:00
Listen | 07:03
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Women’s toilets? I mean, what’s next? A hockey pitch?’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Women’s toilets? I mean, what’s next? A hockey pitch?’

As Castlerock prepares to go co-ed, Ross and his dad pay a visit to the principal

Sat May 07 2022 - 06:00
Listen | 07:13
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘My antigen is still positive, but I’ve never felt better’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘My antigen is still positive, but I’ve never felt better’

Ross is isolating at home while Sorcha is on the family holiday from hell in Disney World

Sat Apr 30 2022 - 06:00
Listen | 06:53
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘I will never forgive your old pair for treating us to this trip’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘I will never forgive your old pair for treating us to this trip’

The O’Carroll-Kellys are off to Disney World in Florida with the in-laws

Sat Apr 23 2022 - 06:00
Listen | 06:48
‘You focking idiot, Ross! Chocolate is poisonous to dogs’

‘You focking idiot, Ross! Chocolate is poisonous to dogs’

The Rossmeister hid Easter eggs in the garden for his godson, but what about Buster?

Sat Apr 16 2022 - 06:00
Listen | 06:31
‘Fifteen rooms is a lot to put down.’ Ross O’Carroll-Kelly and family fill out their census form

‘Fifteen rooms is a lot to put down.’ Ross O’Carroll-Kelly and family fill out their census form

‘Most of them are empty and there’s, like, a homelessness crisis? I’m going to put six rooms’

Mon Apr 04 2022 - 15:59
Listen | 05:48
‘Girls learn differently to boys—and when I say differently, I mean slowly and not as well’

‘Girls learn differently to boys—and when I say differently, I mean slowly and not as well’

Charles O’Carroll-Kelly goes on Drivetime to talk about Castlerock College going co-ed

Sat Apr 02 2022 - 01:00
Listen | 07:38
‘A co-educational school has never won the Leinster Schools Senior Cup!’

‘A co-educational school has never won the Leinster Schools Senior Cup!’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: How can I convince the goys that Castlerock should never let in girls?

Sat Mar 26 2022 - 06:00
Listen | 06:27
‘When you say co-ed, do you mean there’s going to be, like, girls going to Castlerock?’

‘When you say co-ed, do you mean there’s going to be, like, girls going to Castlerock?’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Fionn’s changed since he landed the top job at our old alma mater

Sat Mar 19 2022 - 06:00
Listen | 06:23
‘Goys from Belvo, Gonzaga and Blackrock are mixing like there’s no difference between them’

‘Goys from Belvo, Gonzaga and Blackrock are mixing like there’s no difference between them’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: It feels like we’re all on the same side, a bunch of bald men off to Budapest

Sat Mar 12 2022 - 06:00
Listen | 06:31
‘You lifted the Leinster Schools Senior Cup – does that mean nothing to you now’

‘You lifted the Leinster Schools Senior Cup – does that mean nothing to you now’

Ross O’Carroll Kelly gets a tap on the shoulder at the bor in Dublin Airport

Sat Mar 05 2022 - 01:18
Listen | 06:01
Ross O’Carroll Kelly: Sorcha’s making coddle with a southside twist – venison sausages

Ross O’Carroll Kelly: Sorcha’s making coddle with a southside twist – venison sausages

She was accused of cultural appropriation when she shared the recipe on social media

Sat Feb 26 2022 - 06:00
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly:  'Just because we have money, we can't keep Killiney all to ourselves'

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: 'Just because we have money, we can't keep Killiney all to ourselves'

Sorcha’s renewed view of the housing crisis irks members of the residents’ association

Sat Feb 19 2022 - 06:00
Rezoning Dalkey for affordable housing? The natives are up in orms

Rezoning Dalkey for affordable housing? The natives are up in orms

Ross O’Carroll Kelly: Keeping social housing out is a Killiney hill they’re willing to die on

Sat Feb 12 2022 - 06:00
‘What the actual fock? I’m talking about the Six Nations and none of you are listening’

‘What the actual fock? I’m talking about the Six Nations and none of you are listening’

Ross O’Carroll Kelly: It’s the night before Sixmas – and Ross is feeling ignored

Sat Feb 05 2022 - 06:00
‘When I say it’s oaber, Rosser, Ine thalken about me and Hodor’s business. It’s boddixed’

‘When I say it’s oaber, Rosser, Ine thalken about me and Hodor’s business. It’s boddixed’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Ronan’s there, ‘I sted at the roulette table too long – stordee of me life’

Sat Jan 29 2022 - 06:00
‘If people see me at the match they’ll know I’ve been vaccinated and think me a hypocrite!’

‘If people see me at the match they’ll know I’ve been vaccinated and think me a hypocrite!’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Chorles may miss his first Six Nations match in almost 70 years

Sat Jan 22 2022 - 06:00
‘This is killing me, Sorcha. I feel about as useful as a focking Orts degree’

‘This is killing me, Sorcha. I feel about as useful as a focking Orts degree’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Knitting. I mean, it’s not exactly me, is it?’

Sat Jan 15 2022 - 06:00
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Andrea Shotton called me maskier than thou,’ Sorcha goes

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Andrea Shotton called me maskier than thou,’ Sorcha goes

We’re high-fiving over dodging Omicron. It shows you how far the bor has been lowered

Sat Jan 08 2022 - 06:00
‘Oh, please, God, no. I can’t become a father again at, like, 42’

‘Oh, please, God, no. I can’t become a father again at, like, 42’

Ross O’Carroll Kelly: Sorcha wants to talk to the doctor alone, it can only mean one thing

Sat Jan 01 2022 - 06:00
‘It’s such a good present I actually wanted to smash it to pieces – just purely out of spite’

‘It’s such a good present I actually wanted to smash it to pieces – just purely out of spite’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Ross makes Sorcha a doubly special Christmas gift

Fri Dec 24 2021 - 00:00
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