Jamie Knox - The Windsurfer

Jamie Knox has 25 years of experience in the sport of windsurfing and is a former professional in his field. A true gentleman, he is renowned for his patience and sense of fun in a sport that is generally considered to ... more»

Monika Dukarska - The Rower

Monika Dukarska is a female rower representing Ireland in a an extremely physically challenging sport. She moved to Killorglin from Poland in 2006 at the age of 16, without a word of English, and since then she has ... more»

Roy Guerin - The Paralympian

Roy Guerin has represented Ireland at the Paralympics in Atlanta, Beijing and London. Starting out in athletics, he then progressed to power-lifting and became the first Irish power-lifter to compete for Ireland for ... more»

Nuala Moore - The Ice-Swimmer

Nuala Moore has always had water in her veins – her father was a fisherman and as a child she swam in Peddlers Lake in West Kerry. She recalls her journey through ice-swimming and the enormous challenges she faced ... more»

John Lenihan - The Mountain Runner

John Lenihan is a legendary mountain runner from Ballymacelligott and has won close to 500 races during a career spanning from 1960. He is a brave and charismatic character. His story was published in June 2015, aptly ... more»

Spanish Bull Fighting

Weeshie caught up with a Spanish lady to talk about something a bit different and something you don't often hear on Irish radio....Spanish Bull Fighting more»

Sonia O Sullivan

The mere mention of the name itself invokes a multitude of magical memories.  We watched her on the box, enthralled, as she plundered gold, silver and bronze medals in the premier championship races around the ... more»

Tommy Flanagan

Interviewed Tommy Flanagan in Sneem as part of a cycling reunion with those who rode in the fifties and sixties. more»

Paudie Fitzgerald

Paudie Fitzgerald was the Kerry winner of the 1956 Ras Tailteann. He talks about the controversy during the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. more»

Adam King

Interview with a young South Kerry boy from Ballinskelligs Adam King who is the best hammer thrower in his age in the country. He captained Ireland last week. Adam started throwing hammer about two and a half years ... more»

Jerry Kiernan (2)

Jerry Kiernan was born in the little village of Brosna in north Kerry, where his father was a member of An Garda Síochána. A very promising footballer in his youth, he won a Kerry Minor County ... more»

Pa Fitzgerald

Pa Fitzgerald is a very remarkable Tralee man. As a brilliant Austin Stacks footballer, he was part of the Kerry team which won the 1955 All-Ireland final against Dublin and, in his professional career; he became a very ... more»

Joseph White

Joseph White was born in Castlecove in 1931. Joined the Air Corpse in Dublin where he began cycling and won a host of All ireland track and field and road championships. Also raced in the Ras Tailteann and won a stage ... more»

Lynn Jones

Lynn Jones is one of the top basketball players in the country and plays for Scruffy's St. Pauls in Killarney. more»

Dainty Man Greyhound

Dainty Man, the dog from the Rattle Away Breed, was a Moyvane greyhound and the very first winner of the Irish Derby in 1930 in Clonmel. The Sawtell Cup which it won is an exact replica of the Webb Ellis Rugby World Cup ... more»

Caseys of Sneem

Interview with Myrtle and Patricia Casey about the Legendary brothers from Sneem. more»

Kerry Olympic Oarsmen - Paul Griffin, Sean Casey, Cathal Moynihan

Paul Griffin, Sean Casey and Cathal Moynihan talk to Weeshie about qualifying to row for Ireland in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. more»

Tribute to Conor Spellman

Tribute to a great Kerry sportsman Conor Spellman who died at the young age of thirty one in November 2011. Weeshie's graveside tribute to Conor The death of any family member is always a very traumatic and ... more»

Tribute to Denis Coffey

Tribute paid by Tomas Kelliher to the late Denis Coffey - a great Killarney man who had a lifelong involvement with the Killarney Golf and Fishing club. He was a former Captain, President and Director of the club and ... more»

Tomas Kelliher

Tomas Kelliher was Chairman of the Organising committee for the very successful 2011 Irish Open which recently took place in Killarney. He talks about what was involved in putting on such an event. more»

Brent Pope

Brent has worked for RTÉ Sport for over 12 years and has also appeared in many crossover programmes such as The Restaurant, The Den, The Afternoon Show, The Hook and Popey Roadshow, The Late Late Show and various ... more»

Tracy Piggott

Tracy has been one of the main faces and voices on the Irish sporting scene for almost 20 years. She started her broadcasting career in 1988 when she won the Ladies Race in Leopardstown and was spotted by Tim O'Connor, ... more»

Frank Conway

Frank Conway this born and bred Kerryman has had a glittering career on the running tracks of America and Europe. It was an amazing experience to sit and talk with him for hours about his life and times. His career ... more»

Willie 'Big Bang' Casey

Willie Casey is a professional boxer from Southhill in Limerick.  He is known for his trademark power and gung ho style, which contribute to his nickname; "Big Bang". His aggressive and exciting ... more»

Moss Keane

Born in Currow, Keane started out as a Gaelic footballer, playing at college level for University College Cork and in the process winning a number of medals including three Sigerson Cups, one Cork County Championship ... more»

Jerry Kiernan (1)

Jerry Kiernan is a former long-distance runner from Listowel. He represented Ireland at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, where he finished in ninth place in the men's marathon. Kiernan twice won the ... more»

John Lenihan

Legendary hill runner talks about his career in athletics. We have also put together a special feature page on John Lenihan. You can view the two hour film on his life and times right here on the Terrace Talk website. more»

The Hillsborough Disaster

The Hillsborough Diaster occurred on April 15th, 1989 when 94 Liverpool fans lost their lives in a crush at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield. One of the quest speakers now lives in Killarney. The other ... more»

Butty Sugrue promotes the Muhammed Ali fight in Dublin in 1972

A kerryman, Butty Sugrue promoted the fight between Muhammad Ali and Al "Blue" Lews in Croke Park in 1972. Narration is by Gary O Sullivan Produced by John Heffernan Interviews with Eddie Keher, Killkenny ... more»

John Delaney

John Delaney was in Kerry to announce that the Tralee Dynamos Soccer club in Tralee had been given permission to enter a senior team in the League of Ireland. The first ever team from Kerry to do so. A historic event ... more»

Jimmy White (2)

In this extraordinary interviewm Jimmy White the greatest Snooker player never to win the World title spoke to Terrace Talk when he visited Killarney in 2009. And listen to the amazing story of how he and his family ... more»

Ken Doherty

Born in Dublin on the 17th of September, 1969 Ken Doherty has become one of Ireland's most gifted and successful snooker players. His string of successes as an amateur proved his ability and tenacity and he has ... more»

John Dowd

John Dowd from Waterville summited Everest on his first attempt in May 2008 - the first Kerryman to achieve this feat. John has established himself as one of Ireland's premier high altitude mountaineers in recent years ... more»

Gene Mangan

Gene Mangan from Killorglin was a legendary Kerry cylist and won the Rás Tailteann in 1955 - the youngest winner of the competition at only 18 years old. more»

Paul Griffin

This 24 year old young Kerry man from Barley Mount Fossa, three miles outside the town of Killarney, rowed himself into the sporting history of Kerry when he helped Ireland qualify for next year's Olympic games in ... more»

Jimmy White (1)

Jimmy White is one of the world's best snooker players. Born in London, has appeared in many world snooker finals. In 2001, he played an exhibition game in Killarney, Co. Kerry and spoke exclusively to Terrace Talk. As ... more»

Paddy Casey

Paddy Casey one of seven brothers from Sneem Co. Kerry in his very last interview before his death in February 2002 tells the amazing story of their sporting like. One of his brother's Steve Casey was the only Irishman ... more»

Mick Galwey

Mick Galwey, the now legendary Irish rugby captain comes from Currow Co. Kerry. His displays with Ireland and the lions of Munster are now part of Irish folklore. He also won an all Ireland senior football medal with ... more»

Jim Culloty

Winner of Cheltenham Gold Cup 2003 This young man from the town of Killarney, Co. Kerry, achieved the near impossible in 2002, when he rode "Bindaree" to victory at the English Grand National, the greatest ... more»

Ollie Browne

Tralee man, Ollie Browne, holds a very special place in Irish boxing history. Now in his eighties, Browne's major claim to fame is that he is the only Kerry man ever to have won a national senior boxing title. In a most ... more»

Michael Carruth

Michael Carruth's unbelievable achievement of winning a Gold Medal for Ireland in boxing, may never again be experienced in our lifetime. The Dubliner will be forever remembered as the man who won Ireland's first Gold ... more»