Trying Times

Ep.16 Malinda Perera.Join us today as Malinda Perera talks to us about his life in Rugby. Malinda is a Sri-Lankan stand-up comic based in Dublin who has performed all across Europe. He released his debut show " Not a Drug Dealer" in 2020 before releasing it in 2023 online at malindaperera.com , and is currently touring his newest show "Marinated Lamb" this year. Malinda is the resident Host of N2O comedy that has performances in Vienna and Dublin and has recently begun the process of making his own podcast "Off-Stage Tales" where he provides a behind the scenes look at touring through Europe.We talk about Rugby in Sri Lanka, missing the Haka and the lonely endeavour of Stand-Up Comedy.Special thanks to Patrick Ryan for the mixing (available at @ryanpa99 on instagram)Thank you to Eoin Brosnahan for the theme music. Please like and share this pod with your friends/lovers/enemies and acquaintances. You can follow the pod on all social media @tryingtimesrugby and keep up to date with the hosts gigs and other activities by following @nmaicomedy and @goodenoughgang on Instagram/Twitter/TikTok/Threads etc

In this Episode of Trying Times we interview the Super Sinead Walsh. Sinead is a comedian and podcaster who has been performing across Ireland, the UK and Canada and probably more! We talk to Sinead about their love of sport, their most recent gig supporting Ashley Gavin at Liberty Hall and how a North Dub ends up a Munster fan. You can follow Sinead at @sineadwalshcomedy on Instagram and Tiktok. Sinead will be bringing their Tour Big Foot on a tour of Ireland and further afield (Check their Instagram for information). Keep an eye out for "Queer as Fluich" (@qafpodcast) premiering later this year as Sinead hosts a queer history of Ireland Podcast. Thank you to Eoin Brosnahan for the theme music. Please like and share this pod with your friends/lovers/enemies and acquaintances. You can follow the pod on all social media @tryingtimesrugby and keep up to date with the hosts gigs and other activities by following @nmaicomedy and @goodenoughgang on Instagram/Twitter/TikTok/Threads etc

Episode 14. Allie O'RourkeIn this episode we interview Allie O'Rourke, a stand-up/writer/hysteria comedy club founder/class giver/many more hyphener. We talk to Allie about her life in rugby from bad pitches out west, to running into Munster Rugby greats and ask the question how serious are Ireland about creating a Team of Us. You can find Allie on all social media under the handle @allie.orourke and hear about shows hosted by Hysteria Comedy Club at @hysteriairelandThank you to Eoin Brosnahan for the theme music. Please like and share this pod with your friends/lovers/enemies and acquaintances. You can follow the pod on all social media @tryingtimesrugby and keep up to date with the hosts gigs and other activities by following @nmaicomedy and @goodenoughgang on Instagram/Twitter/TikTok/Threads etc

In this bumper Six Nations Review, we hand out our Trying Times Awards. PART 1!Yes, the Oscars may be over but there is a new award show in town! So grab your tuxes and your frocks and lets get talking hypothetical rugby awards for hours at a time. We crown the Best Game, Worst Game, Happiest Team, Saddest team, Best Moment, Biggest WTF moment, Best Player, Best Coach as well as giving a few cheeky runner up prises. As the Six Nations Draws to a close and we have to find other means of talking rugby to whoever still talks to us, sit back and enjoy the first in our two parter award show. Thank you to Eoin Brosnahan for the theme music. Please like and share this pod with your friends/lovers/enemies and acquaintances. You can follow the pod on all social media @tryingtimesrugby and keep up to date with the hosts gigs and other activities by following @nmaicomedy and @goodenoughgang on Instagram/Twitter/TikTok/Threads etc

Who needs a Grand Slam anyway?We're not bitter, winning a grandslam is so 2023. We're all in on Italy now anyway. FORZA!Join us as we talk Irish Heartbreak, Italian joy, English vindication, French flair and Scottish Suffering. Wales also played. In this episode we reviewed what went right and wrong in a scintillating week of Six Nations Rugby. If you read this far let Jack know as he has no clue if anyone reads these and will slowly lose his sanity in the 4000 character limit of episode summaries. Thank you to Eoin Brosnahan for the theme music. Please like and share this pod with your friends/lovers/enemies and acquaintances. You can follow the pod on all social media @tryingtimesrugby and keep up to date with the hosts gigs and other activities by following @nmaicomedy and @goodenoughgang on Instagram/Twitter/TikTok/Threads etc

In this Episode of Trying Times we review the second half of Netflix's Six Nations Full Contact series. We discuss the highs, the lows, the huhs, and everything in between this Netflix show.Thank you to Eoin Brosnahan for the theme music. Please like and share this pod with your friends/lovers/enemies and acquaintances. You can follow the pod on all social media @tryingtimesrugby and keep up to date with the hosts gigs and other activities by following @nmaicomedy and @goodenoughgang on Instagram/Twitter/TikTok/Threads etc

No seriously?! How does it fall? Join us as we review Week 3 of the Guinness Six Nations and make our predictions for Week 5. We talk heartbreak in Lyon, dull spoons in Edinburgh and irritation in Dublin before giving highly informed and educated takes that will not at all make us look like fools in the mid to near future. Ah the Six Nations, we are all armchair pundits with Guinness stained blue jeans and awful brown leather shoes. So embrace it and enjoy our ramblings!Thank you to Eoin Brosnahan for the theme music. (Available at @brostheman)Please like and share this pod with your friends/lovers/enemies and acquaintances. You can follow the pod on all social media @tryingtimesrugby and keep up to date with the hosts gigs and other activities by following @nmaicomedy and @goodenoughgang on Instagram/Twitter/TikTok/Threads etc

In this Episode of Trying Times we talk to the fantastic Neil Green in Sin É about all things rugby. Neil is a South African Stand up Comedian based in Dublin. He has gigged all over Ireland and South Africa and everywhere in between. We talk about the Springboks winning yet another World Cup, being a Sharks fan, Neil's hatred of Springbok icon Habana, and the perils of telling jokes to Rugby Players. Neil shares his experience consoling Irish fans, gigging for New Zealand Rugby Players and how to properly address Eben Etzebeth. If you feel personally offended by Neil's takes on Father Ted and Flight of the Concords, be completely normal about it or go complain to him directly at one of his gigs. You can find Neil Green at @neilgreencomedian on Instagram/Twitter/TikTok/Threads etcA special thank you to Patrick Ryan for the mixing, who made this episode possible. Theme Song by Eoin Brosnahan (available at @brostheman). Please like and share this pod with your friends/lovers/enemies and acquaintances. You can follow the pod on all social media @tryingtimesrugby and keep up to date with the hosts gigs and other activities by following @nmaicomedy and @goodenoughgang on Instagram/Twitter/TikTok/Threads etc