The Mike Quirke Podcast

Former international rugby player Bernard Jackman joins Mike this week. From playing in the amateur era, to being one of Ireland's first professional player, Bernard takes us through the lessons he learned along the way and how he is now putting them into practice as a coach himself. Donate to Temple Street Children's Hospital HERE!

Retired Dublin Senior footballer and current coach of the team Jason Sherlock joins Mike Quirke on this weeks podcast. Jayo reveals how playing multiple sports helped him develop as an athlete, coaching teenagers and ultimately joining Jim Gavin's all-conquering Dublin set-up. Donate to Temple Street Children's Hospital HERE!

In the first episode of his podcast, a fundraiser for Temple Street Children's Hospital (Donate here!), Mike Quirke is joined by American basketball coach Rus Bradburd. Having been an assistant coach at top-level colleges in the States, he later moved to Ireland to take up the role of head coach with the Tralee Tigers. He reflects on his time living here, how being a "terrible player" in high school got him into coaching and his current career as a writer.

Inter-county manager and life-long sports coach Mike Quirke is joined by a wide range of people from various high performance, coaching and management roles across the world of sport to pick their brains on all they've learned from working at the elite level.