Sep 24, 2026 · 26 min · 12 segments
In episode two of Detours, Craig Doyle takes a drive with entrepreneur and 'accidental activist' Conor Buckley. The founder of clothing brand Human Collective, Buckley has been inspired by his mother…
Conor BuckleyGuest
Craig DoyleHost
So like your first one of your first kisses your first time you play football match like first experience of racism was up there and I remember playing a football team and this guy like for the whole match was just calling me the n-word and I remember just thinking Jesus like he just like he just wouldn't stop and it's funny my dad doesn't remember you know we dads don't really remember much about childhoods either way moments do and I remember saying to my dad recently do you remember playing that game against X team? Do you remember your man just kept calling me the N word? I thought he'd really play it down.
Because I know sometimes you're like, am I embellishing this? Yeah, it was broken for you.
Why didn't you do anything in a way? And he was like, what could you do back then? And he was really honest about it.
Up and down the country, we'd play in all Ireland Cup matches down the country.
on his own, you know, and he was one of these parents that didn't just do every second week, did every week.
And he wasn't sporty at all, so he didn't come from, he was from Cork, he didn't come from a sporty background, but he was there as a quiet supporter, which I think is really special for any child to have that support.
Now I'd love to think, Craig, that a referee would stop the game and say, number seven, you can't say that to number eight.
There was a little kid on the sideline who wasn't playing because we were like under tens and he was maybe five or six.
And he stood over me when I was bowing out of play and just started shouting, N word, N word.
And I was just looking at this kid who was like five or six thinking, how does he even know this? Did you know what it
Yeah, because I'd heard it before and I said it to my parents and I think they tried to just maybe brush over it a little bit, which is unusual for them.
But I remember the feeling, and it still comes over me now, that when you hear that word, it literally strips you to your marrow fibres.
I don't know if you can understand how damaging that word is unless you're black.
So like your first one of your first kisses your first time you play football match like first experience of racism was up there and I remember playing a football team and this guy like for the whole match was just calling me the n-word and I remember just thinking Jesus like he just like he just wouldn't stop and it's funny my dad doesn't remember you know we dads don't really remember much about childhoods either way moments do and I remember saying to my dad recently do you remember playing that game against X team? Do you remember your man just kept calling me the N word? I thought he'd really play it down.
Because I know sometimes you're like, am I embellishing this? Yeah, it was broken for you.
Why didn't you do anything in a way? And he was like, what could you do back then? And he was really honest about it.
Up and down the country, we'd play in all Ireland Cup matches down the country.
on his own, you know, and he was one of these parents that didn't just do every second week, did every week.
And he wasn't sporty at all, so he didn't come from, he was from Cork, he didn't come from a sporty background, but he was there as a quiet supporter, which I think is really special for any child to have that support.
Now I'd love to think, Craig, that a referee would stop the game and say, number seven, you can't say that to number eight.
There was a little kid on the sideline who wasn't playing because we were like under tens and he was maybe five or six.
And he stood over me when I was bowing out of play and just started shouting, N word, N word.
And I was just looking at this kid who was like five or six thinking, how does he even know this? Did you know what it
Yeah, because I'd heard it before and I said it to my parents and I think they tried to just maybe brush over it a little bit, which is unusual for them.
But I remember the feeling, and it still comes over me now, that when you hear that word, it literally strips you to your marrow fibres.
I don't know if you can understand how damaging that word is unless you're black.
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