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Christy O'Connor

Christy O'Connor

Clare GAA goalkeeper, national hurling journalist, and author based in Ennis

Jul 23, 2026

28:31
How much does that make a difference? 'Cause there is a lot of familiar connections out there between uncles and nephews and, and dads and sons and moms and d- you know.
28:38
Ah, yeah, sure.
28:38
I mean, look at, we were growing up, I suppose my, our first hurling memories to 1980.
28:42
We were living in Galway, Tommy, at the time.
28:43
[laughs] And, uh, you know, with a younger brother, John, as well, who was probably the best as my father said, and he picked up a bad injury.
28:48
And [laughs] then, and maybe that's, his career might have been different.
28:52
But, uh, we were the three Connolly brothers, you know, emulating I suppose what Joe and Michael and John did for, for Galway.
31:43
Mm.
7:07
It takes a bit of work.
7:09
Yeah, you definitely have to have a human in the loop and you don't want to replace the trust building portion of business.
7:17
And I think, matter of fact, voice AI is huge right now.
7:21
It's something that everybody is adopting.
7:23
But again, there's a lot of resistance because the actual consumer will tell the business, I don't want to talk to a bot.
7:29
And you'll have the recordings or you'll have the transcripts with people yelling certain words like representative.
7:36
That's the old style.

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31:45
And you can tell it's just not real.
7:41
So when you did minor were you doing minor like did you start out outfield and then go into goal or how that's what I was kind of earlier on when I said to you about when you were a kid in the garden and Jamesy was hitting the ball Were you, you know, always in goal or were you an outfield player and then you start, then you moved into goal or how does that work? Did you dream of being a goalie?
8:02
No, it's funny, like, you know, like, I think my goalkeeping kind of would have started where myself and James, we were younger, we were big into soccer, like, it might sound crazy now, but we were, like, we used to read comic books, ride the rovers, kind of like, and there was this story, the safest hands in soccer.
8:18
And I used to kind of think, oh, I'd like to be like that fella.
8:22
So, like, James used to be out the back taking shots and he'd be diving around the garden.
8:26
And I think that's probably where the goalkeeping started.
8:31
I suppose interest definitely developed in me.
8:34
So...

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44:03
So when you did that book, did it... change any of your ideas about about a goalie

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