Raf Diallo
🇮🇪 Sports journalist with RTÉ primarily covering football and host the ⚽️ RTÉ Soccer Podcast and some radio bits. From lovely Leitrim
- One of the more enjoyable podcast episodes to record #coybig
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- Spoke to the captain of Brian Kerr’s first U20 World Cup squad who was in giving a talk to our U17s last week www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
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- "Hungary at the moment feels very much like a one-man team. They're just relying on Szoboszlai almost too much…” #COYBIG #IRLHUN www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
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- A few ex-LOI players prominently involved in that Grimsby giant-killing of Manchester United: Darragh Burns, Jaze Kabia and Cameron McJannet
- Evan Ferguson looking encouragingly sharp for Roma very early on vs Bologna 🇮🇪🐺
- Unbelievable result for Shelbourne 💪 www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
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- 🇮🇪 Fun one this week with a bit of analysis and nostalgia 👇 #COYBIG
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- Bonus episode of the RTÉ Soccer Podcast feat. an in depth chat with the FAI’s grassroots director Ger McDermott about the Football Pathways Plan, while major concerns about calendar alignment are put to him via points raised by the Carlow & District league’s secretary www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
- Having somewhat recovered from the Rory McIlroy Rollercoaster last night, got through the latest episode of the @rte.ie soccer podcast which is out now 👇
- Brilliant from Alex Dunne 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪 www.rte.ie/sport/motors...
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- @dundalkfc.bsky.social captain and 17-time Ireland captain Daryl Horgan the special guest this week, talking #COYBIG and Dundalk past and present
- Coverage details etc for 🇮🇪 Ireland v 🇧🇬 Bulgaria tomorrow www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
- For any Irish person who followed Formula One in the 1990s and beyond, there’s only one Eddie Jordan Penned a few words for @sport.rte.ie about his lasting legacy. RIP www.rte.ie/sport/motors...
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- First half of this week’s @rte.ie Soccer Podcast is dedicated to Ireland v Bulgaria Stephen Kelly talks Ireland and what Berbatov was like as a team-mate Football writer Teodor Borisov is insightful on Bulgaria’s problems Plus LOI with Graham Gartland and Rachel Graham youtu.be/A70Z7sswmX0?...
- Thirty years of watching F1 and most seasons don’t end up being classics This one’s shaping up to be a belter though. Few words below on the 2025 season for @sport.rte.ie #F1 #AustralianGP www.rte.ie/sport/motors...
- Spoke to John O’Shea for this week’s @rte.ie soccer pod and talking points include scouting the LOI and potentially eligible players in England, the pecking order of Ireland strikers amid Troy Parrott’s form, Irish players going continental and Jake O’Brien’s new-found versatility etc 👇
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- "I'm not one for regretting anything but I've learned from mistakes I've made back then - not really mistakes - but I've grown up and learned from what I should have done or shouldn't have done and you learn and you grow as a player and as a person with that experience” www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
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- “You don't see us puking on the side of a track in training and I feel it would have been nice had they showed that a little bit more” - Spoke to Sharlene Mawdsley yesterday and the Netflix show Sprint - track and field’s answer to Drive to Survive - was among the topics www.rte.ie/sport/athlet...
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- RIP Matt Doyle Just 18 months ago, he and Sean Sorensen were very generous with their time to speak to me about their memories of their Davis Cup heroics for Ireland around 1982-1983, the high point for Irish tennis in the competition www.rte.ie/sport/tennis...
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- Great to catch up with Offaly’s Alex Dunne ahead of another potentially big year on the road to his dream of trying to get to F1
- Must say Tom Cairney has been excellent on MNF tonight
- The ‘Diallo Derby’ 😂 Like how the Sky commentator is trying to make that a thing
- Between Olympics, winning a title with his club Kampong and this coming Christmas/January in India - all with a young family, it’s a hectic time for 🇮🇪 Ireland men’s hockey goalkeeper David Harte. Enjoyed chatting to him during the week about all the above and more 📺/📝 www.rte.ie/sport/hockey...
- RTÉ TV and radio coverage details + Updates from 🏴 Wales v 🇮🇪 Ireland as they happen 👇 #WALIRL #COYGIG www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
- ⚽️ This week’s @rte.ie soccer podcast is out now in all the usual places Méabh De Búrca and Paul Corry on with me this week and previewed 🇮🇪 Ireland WNT v Wales, reacted to #COYBIG getting Bulgaria and Shamrock Rovers at Rapid Vienna among other talking points 👇 #COYGIG www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
- Athlone’s David McHugh is mental performance coach for the Washington Spirit who are playing in the NWSL Championship final tonight Spoke to him during the week about his role and (on the podcast version) how sports psychology could translate to international level etc👇 www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
- Keith Treacy on the ‘Nathan Collins in midfield’ experiment and pros & cons going forward in and out of possession 🇮🇪 #COYBIG 📺 youtu.be/1c1afStC6FI?...
- The latest RTÉ Soccer Podcast episode is out now. Keith Treacy and Paul Corry joined me to sift through what went wrong at Wembley and takeaways from the November window as a whole 👇 #COYBIG #ENGIRL www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
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