Shite Talk: An Irish History Podcast
Oct 6, 2026 · 1 hr · 16 segments
Hello! We're back next season 15 of Shite Talk / season 1 of GUBU: An Irish History Podcast! This week Kevin told Jason all about the only time (to date) and Irish President resigned. If you want to…
Kevin LarneyHost
Jason BrennanHost
But anyway, it's the story of the only time so far a president of Ireland has resigned.

We talked about this in many episodes, but his, uh, well, he's born Cathal O'Daly.

Uh, that's his, that's his Anglo name, his dead name, and he changed it at some point to the Irish version, Cathal Ó Dálaigh.

... now, I tried to base it off of a, there's a TG4 documentary covering the events we're going to do in this podcast, and they pronounce it a lot of different ways depending on whether they think he's right or wrong, [laughs] I think.

That could be it as well, yeah, 'cause it depends on which version of Irish you're using.

But anyway, it's the story of the only time so far a president of Ireland has resigned.

We talked about this in many episodes, but his, uh, well, he's born Cathal O'Daly.

Uh, that's his, that's his Anglo name, his dead name, and he changed it at some point to the Irish version, Cathal Ó Dálaigh.

... now, I tried to base it off of a, there's a TG4 documentary covering the events we're going to do in this podcast, and they pronounce it a lot of different ways depending on whether they think he's right or wrong, [laughs] I think.

That could be it as well, yeah, 'cause it depends on which version of Irish you're using.
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