ABC Radio Sydney’s leading Evening Radio Host, Chris Bath, chats with Jack Murphy about his brand new podcast series Lucky Country(first aired Mar 14 2019)

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Featuring 2 Dubliners who grew up 5 kms from one another BUT … 55 years apart! meet Harry Cummins & Neil O’Sullivan …

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Harry Cummins settles in australia while Neil O’Sullivan shares his passion for soccer & the big influencers during his formative years …

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Harry Cummins & judy his sydney born wife start their family in the snowy mountains. his fellow dubliner,Neil O’Sullivan,50 years his junior, DREAMS about heading to australia.

we meet martin cunningham, born in war torn northern ireland. he recalls how he & his mum narrowly escaped death when they’d simply gone shopping in the border town of newry.

martin was just 7 years old.

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South dubliner,Neil O’Sullivan settles into life in australia, playing soccer, setting up a business, while dealing with mental health issues.

newry born martin cunningham, recalls his early years in the troubles of northern ireland ,HOW he became an obsessed cricket follower & his dreams of university life in england.

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martin cunningham tells of his time leaving northern ireland for england - meeting english born sinn fein supporters & ex british soldiers, GRADUATING UNIVERSITY & getting a job in cambridge, before heading out on a 12 month VISA with HIS english GIRLFRIEND.

meet daragh foley, a 20 something dubliner & professional boxer. born in england to irish parents who’d returned home to the CELTIC tiger, darragh recalls his early years in ENGLAND & ireland and how his passion for boxing started!

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martin cunningham stays on in australia after his breakup & meets his future wife at a sydney train station.

daragh foley, recalls his early years in ireland & how he turned his boxing into a sporting success.

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daragh foley, moves to perth then sydney to become a professional boxer. he dreams of a world title fight in new york & las vegas.

we meet galway’s val baynes, an accountant & accomplished rugby player who tells of his early idyllic years growing up on ireland’s rugged west coast.

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we rejoin ‘35 something’ val who recalls his many sports including representing IReland in the junior world discus competition. he studies commerce at galway UNIVERSITY & moves to dublin to pursue accountancy. val joins dublin’s bective rangers RFC from galway’s corinthian’s.

he lands a great job at merrill lynch, only to soon find himself caught in the celtic tiger meltdown!

meet ‘50 something ‘ dave gallagher from dublin’s clontarf, who shares his irish life in the ‘BLACK & white ‘60’s & early ‘70’s era’. dave explains why there was always chocolate at home & why most of his childhood FRIENDS ended up in DIFFERENT SECONDARY schools to him.

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val meets his future wife in a dublin nightclub, moves to sydney & decides to bring a slice of irish rugby life downunder with his friend, pat noble. in 2013,they set up sydney irish RFC as a permanent rugby club for the diaspora. he marries and soon learns he is to be …

dave gallagher tells of his secondary school years at mount temple school in dublin, what it was like GROWING up in a musically creative year at school with what was to become the most famous band out of ireland,u2.

dave gets an australian working holiday visa, moves to sydney meets a girl and…

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dave gallagher tells of life in australia now with his childhood sweetheart wendy, running his own very SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS, but finds himself burnt out by 40.

we meet larger than life john leahy,also 50 something, from kildare via galway, who decided, at an emigrant wake, that he too would head off to australia at 23 years old,just in time for paddy’s day in sydney.

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