Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

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Ciarán Murphy
 Oct 12, 2018
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The weekly Ross o'Carroll-Kelly column in audio, read by Paul Howard.

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Episode Date
Honor is only running for Mount Anville head girl to downgrade her old dear’s greatest life achievement
Apr 27, 2024
‘There’s a video of me doing the rounds on this famous Tick Tocks dot com’
Apr 22, 2024
‘You should be ashamed of yourselves! We’re old enough to be your parents and we’ve taken you to three sets!’
Apr 12, 2024
‘If you play that match, Ross, our marriage is over’
Apr 08, 2024
‘You are not having a hort attack! I’m not allowing it!’
Mar 29, 2024
‘I didn’t play football for Rathnew. I didn’t play football for anyone. I resent the allegation’
Mar 22, 2024
Three European Cups, three Six Nations, one Grand Slam – but never winning a Leinster Schools Senior Cup clearly still rankles Heaslip
Mar 15, 2024
‘Don’t tell me I don’t know Ross O’Carroll-Kelly. You bullied me for most of secondary school’
Mar 08, 2024
‘I haven’t cheated on you in, like, 10 years, though – well, let’s just say a long time’
Mar 01, 2024
Honor rubs at the graffiti with a dainty, circular motion, like she’s applying foundation to the face of an elderly loved one
Feb 23, 2024
Sorcha goes, ‘I don’t need a 26-old copy of Cosmopolitan to tell me that I married the wrong man’
Feb 16, 2024
Our daughter came out of the womb with two middle fingers raised to the world. That’s not down to us
Feb 10, 2024
'I’ve got my top off, and Réaltín’s looking at me like my old man turning his nose up at cheap steak'
Feb 02, 2024
‘Honor O’Carroll-Kelly is not the victim. She is a highly intelligent young woman from a privileged background’
Jan 26, 2024
‘How could the child of a mother who puts the mental into environmental action grow up with a moral compass?’
Jan 19, 2024
'She’s hord work, my new padel portner. But the girl fascinates me. She’s like a female me'
Jan 15, 2024
‘Ross, this was my sliding doors moment. And I made the wrong choice’
Jan 05, 2024
‘The Leopardstown Races, eh, Ross? A great way to blow off the old cobwebs after Christmas!’
Dec 29, 2023
Honor is like, ‘There’s no chocolate Kimberleys left,’ and that’s when I end up suddenly losing my sh*t
Dec 22, 2023
‘Oh my God, is this really all the books that we own as a family? I’m so ashamed’
Dec 15, 2023
‘You need to look up the difference between mincemeat and minced meat. Merry focking Christmas’
Dec 08, 2023
‘I’ve never even cleaned up my own children’s vomit, I’m not mopping up after some randomer’
Dec 01, 2023
‘Sneaking around behind my wife’s back is something I’m very, very good at, in fairness to me’
Nov 24, 2023
I wake up on Sunday morning thinking, am I having one of my famous erotic dreams?
Nov 17, 2023
Sorcha is like me before every Ireland squad announcement – in other words, focking delusional
Nov 10, 2023
‘When I close my eyes at night, I can still see that bird’s horrible, leering face’
Nov 03, 2023
‘Sorcha, I honestly don’t think we can just saunter in here like nothing has happened’
Oct 27, 2023
‘Ross, this is all your fault, you sniggering halfwit - that daughter of yours has been going wrong since the day she was born’
Oct 27, 2023
‘Ross, didn’t you get a present of an All Blacks jersey once and use it to wash the cor?’
Oct 13, 2023
‘What does being Johnny Sexton’s hype man involve exactly, Dad?’
Oct 06, 2023
‘I’ve never seen Sorcha so upset - and given my record as a husband, that’s a genuine achievement’
Sep 29, 2023
‘Dad, you need to ask yourself what do you want to be – a rugby fan or a good father?’
Sep 22, 2023
Some things are more important than family. Rugby happens to be one of them
Sep 19, 2023
‘There’s no caps for your so-called matches against Mexico and, I don’t know, Guava Larva. I made the entire thing up’
Sep 08, 2023
‘It turns out that every single vehicle in the Mount Anville cor pork has had its tyres done. Except one’
Sep 01, 2023
‘A chap taught me how to hot-wire a cor this morning,’ the old man goes
Aug 25, 2023
I’m no stranger to seeing my old man standing in the dock accused of serious crimes
Aug 18, 2023
Camino Royale: the final exclusive excerpt from the new Ross O'Carroll-Kelly book
Aug 17, 2023
Camino Royale: the second exclusive excerpt from the new Ross O'Carroll-Kelly book
Aug 16, 2023
Camino Royale: an exclusive excerpt from the new Ross O’Carroll-Kelly book
Aug 15, 2023
‘Honor, there has to be a better way of trying to save the planet than this’
Aug 12, 2023
Dude, you’re not allowed to just, like, shoot seagulls
Aug 04, 2023
Father and son. From the same city. And we might as well be a donkey talking to a parrot
Jul 28, 2023
‘We caught the so-called SUV avenger tonight, in the actual act!’
Jul 14, 2023
People like us don’t get embarrassed. That’s how we’ve ended up where we are in life
Jul 07, 2023
‘What if the SUV Avenger turned out to be your daughter, Sorcha?’
Jun 30, 2023
The SUV Avenger has slashed the tyres on Sorcha’s cor
Jun 24, 2023
‘Bloomsday is God’s way of telling middle class people they have too much time on their hands’
Jun 16, 2023
There’s nothing like the school sports day to get the old competitive juices flowing
Jun 09, 2023
‘I want to have – oh my God – everything done?’ Honor goes. ‘My chin, my nose, my forehead, my lips’
Jun 02, 2023
‘What does Patrick Kielty have that I don’t?’ asks the old dear
May 26, 2023
The old man is a focking embarrassment at rugby matches
May 20, 2023
The two of them are staring at me like this is the worst thing I’ve ever done. It’s not even in the top 10
May 12, 2023
Honor says Joshua just wants to be friends. Better than nothing I say, but I hate lying to the girl
May 05, 2023
I’m the father of a 15-year-old girl. I think, by this stage, I’ve earned the right to embarrass her?
Apr 28, 2023
‘I’ve been polyamorous since the late 1990s’
Apr 21, 2023
Here we are on the roof of the house, vaping away to our horts’ content
Apr 14, 2023
The old dear arrives at the door, smelling like a distillery tour, asking to see her granddaughters
Apr 11, 2023
We’re a father and daughter vaping away to beat the band, properly bonding
Mar 31, 2023
I’m 43. Andy Farrell would want to be pretty focking desperate for a 10 to pick me
Mar 27, 2023
What a day . . . I’ll just send a quick congrats text to Johnny Sexton
Mar 21, 2023
Girls, if Johnny Sexton was here, he’d tell you – you are never, ever beaten
Mar 17, 2023
Now I’m doing something that I never do, doubting myself
Mar 10, 2023
I want this school to be a conveyor belt of women’s rugby talent
Mar 03, 2023
I’ve ended up on a poster for adult incontinence treatment on a gable wall in, like, Ranelagh
Feb 24, 2023
I’m getting the tattoo of J-Lowe, a late 40th birthday present to myself
Feb 17, 2023
One day, there’s going to be a Leinster Schools Senior Cup… for girls!
Feb 10, 2023
I’m surrounded by people who keep me grounded. I wish they’d focking stop
Feb 03, 2023
Sixmas is what I call the Six Nations Championship – the most wonderful time of the year
Jan 30, 2023
Would I have to take my top off for any of these jobs? That wouldn’t be an issue for me
Jan 20, 2023
If women’s rugby is ever going to be treated seriously, they’ll have to embrace the whole obnoxiousness thing
Jan 13, 2023
I silently curse myself for giving St Michael’s College credit that they don’t deserve
Jan 06, 2023
‘You put the focking Quality Street, the focking Roses and the focking Celebrations in the same bowl!’
Dec 23, 2022
'I’m having a slash when in walks Santa, and all my Christmases come at once'
Dec 16, 2022
It’s the Castlerock College mince pie-eating contest, and Leo is stepping up to the plate
Dec 09, 2022
‘I’m not having a Terenure College Christmas tree in the house’
Dec 02, 2022
'Honor isn’t for everyone. She takes after her old man in that regord'
Nov 25, 2022
The neighbours have visions of the Vico Road turning into Morbella
Nov 18, 2022
‘Schoolbooks shmoolbooks ... I didn’t do a tap at school and look at me’
Nov 11, 2022
‘Newpork is famous for kids with pierced lips...They don’t even care about rugby’
Nov 08, 2022
'It’s Halloween week and we’re living in a house that’s, like, haunted – literally'
Oct 28, 2022
'I’ve been shocked by the change that has come over my daughter since we moved to Terenure'
Oct 21, 2022
'Already I feel like I’ve created a team in my image – in other words, winners'
Oct 14, 2022
'I’m a big believer in overpraising my children. Never did me any horm as a kid'
Oct 07, 2022
'Honor storts screaming at the top of her lungs. But no one hears her. Because mine are louder'
Sep 30, 2022
'Ronan is a – what’s the word – Republican? As in, he’s got the names of the whole crew from 1915 tattooed on his upper orm'
Sep 23, 2022
'The girls are staring at me in just, like, awe – they’re ready to learn from the master'
Sep 16, 2022
‘Just because I’m a serial liar doesn’t mean that I can’t be trusted’
Sep 09, 2022
‘How much would it mean to the girls storting school here to have the legendary Ross O’Carroll-Kelly teaching them rugby?’
Sep 02, 2022
‘Sorcha Lalor, you were the best Dalkey Lobster Festival Queen we ever had’
Aug 26, 2022
I’m lying by the pool, doing my daily sit-ups with my top off, when I hear Honor go, ‘Oh, for fock’s sake! Not these two focking clowns!
Aug 19, 2022
‘Pissing in a swimming pool is a bit like farting at Mass. The trick is to squeeze it out quietly’
Aug 13, 2022
What are the girls in Mount Anville going to say when they find out you’re living in a housing estate?
Aug 06, 2022
I look fantastic for a man of 42, abs like speed bumps and pecs like bay windows
Jul 29, 2022
‘No focking way. I’m not breaking into the dude’s office’
Jul 22, 2022
‘I wonder sometimes are these kids definitely mine’
Jul 15, 2022
Our daughter is completely devoid of human feeling
Jul 08, 2022
Noah is graduating from creche. (Who the fock is Noah?)
Jul 01, 2022
Sometimes you have to break the Mount Anville code
Jun 24, 2022
‘You didn’t think I was going to sit back and watch you allow girls into this school, did you?’
Jun 17, 2022
‘I love Honor’s attitude. Not everyone does, but I’d be a major, major fan’
Jun 10, 2022
Sorcha is still serious about knocking gaff and turning it into aportments
Jun 04, 2022
"Three triplets and only one can be a mascot for Leinster. Who will it be?"
May 27, 2022
‘We want to build a block of aportments... affordable ones’
May 20, 2022
‘There are millions of people who would give their right orm to live in Killiney’
May 13, 2022
Women’s toilets? I mean, what’s next? A hockey pitch?
May 06, 2022
‘My antigen is still positive, but I’ve never felt better’
Apr 29, 2022
‘I will never forgive your old pair for treating us to this trip’
Apr 23, 2022
‘You focking idiot, Ross! Chocolate is poisonous to dogs’
Apr 16, 2022
‘Fifteen rooms is a lot to put down.’
Apr 11, 2022
‘Girls learn differently to boys – and when I say differently, I mean slowly and not as well’
Apr 02, 2022
‘A co-educational school has never won the Leinster Schools Senior Cup!’
Mar 26, 2022
'Do you mean there’s going to be, like, girls going to Castlerock?'
Mar 19, 2022
'It’s off to Budapest for Dr Holger Esterházy’s miracle hair restoration treatment'
Mar 12, 2022
‘You lifted the Leinster Schools Senior Cup – does that mean nothing to you now’
Mar 04, 2022
‘Fifty grandingtons!’ – that’s the cost of the Budapest hair clinic
Feb 25, 2022
'Just because we have money, we can't keep Killiney all to ourselves'
Feb 18, 2022
Rezoning Dalkey for affordable housing? The natives are up in orms
Feb 11, 2022
‘I feel like my old man – the pub bore, shouting opinions into the air while everyone zones out’
Feb 04, 2022
‘When I say it’s oaber, Rosser, Ine thalken about me and Hodor’s business. It’s boddixed’
Jan 28, 2022
‘Like a great many politicians, I have a public position, as well as a private position’
Jan 22, 2022
‘This is killing me, Sorcha. I feel about as useful as a focking Orts degree’
Jan 14, 2022
‘Andrea Shotton called me maskier than thou,’ Sorcha goes
Jan 07, 2022
‘Oh, please, God, no. I can’t become a father again at, like, 42’
Dec 31, 2021
‘It’s such a good present I actually wanted to smash it to pieces – just purely out of spite’
Dec 24, 2021
Sorcha injures her foot, while Honor makes a shocking discovery
Dec 18, 2021
The Christmas cards are out, but a problem arises
Dec 10, 2021
‘If you have to hide a cash incentive inside a food, it’s almost certainly not worth eating’
Dec 03, 2021
'Johnny goes, "My daddy says we’re going to eat a reindeer"'
Nov 26, 2021
Of course Santa exists – who do you think drinks all the Heineken?
Nov 19, 2021
‘I lead the boys at gunpoint up the Shelbourne Road’
Nov 13, 2021
‘I can lie – very easily – but not when it comes to rugby’
Nov 05, 2021
‘They talk about the Collison brothers, but those chaps have got nothing on you, Honor’
Oct 29, 2021
‘You are not giving me a combover’
Oct 22, 2021
Ross O’Carroll Kelly: ‘I can’t go bald. I’m 41 – but I’m, like, a young 41?’
Oct 15, 2021
'My children are storting to grow on me'
Oct 08, 2021
‘He has a dreamcatcher tattoo on the back of his wrist. It’s like he does these things deliberately to make me hate him’
Oct 01, 2021
"I’m having Vietnam-style flashbacks here"
Sep 24, 2021
"Sorcha did Fake Sincerity as an extracurricular subject in Mount Anville"
Sep 18, 2021
"First day in Willow Pork for the triplets – the absolute shame of it"
Sep 11, 2021
"My fingers are actually shaking as I type my exam number into the laptop"
Sep 04, 2021
‘I genuinely don’t think I’m ready to be a Blackrock dad’
Aug 27, 2021
"Honor says she’s not getting the Covid vaccine"
Aug 20, 2021
"You don't seem angry, like a lot of people who are into the Irish language" - Normal Sheeple excerpt #4
Aug 19, 2021
"It's a ball, but not an ordinary-shaped ball. This one is, like, round" - Normal Sheeple excerpt #3
Aug 18, 2021
"Out of the hundred or so people seated for dinner, I'm the only one wearing a Leinster jersey" - Normal Sheeple excerpt #2
Aug 17, 2021
"Everyone's clapping as Sorcha steers Samantha Power to the front row" - Normal Sheeple excerpt #1
Aug 16, 2021
‘His wife moves the cursor on his work laptop every five minutes, so it doesn’t go into sleep mode’
Aug 07, 2021
‘I want you to, like, Insta-story my Covid test journey’
Jul 30, 2021
'Are you suggesting I pretend to have Covid?’
Jul 23, 2021
‘Hennessy Coghlan-O’Hara taught me how to drink a Mortini in three mouthfuls’
Jul 17, 2021
‘Ronan showed me how to light a fire and make it look like an accident’
Jul 09, 2021
‘I’d rather rip out my molars with a pliers than holiday in Ireland again’
Jul 02, 2021
‘You’ve massively disimproved with age ... The big, fat rugby head on you’
Jun 26, 2021
‘I’ll throw on my nudey lady borbecue apron’
Jun 18, 2021
I’m like Cersei Lannister – refusing to leave the throne
Jun 11, 2021
‘There wasn’t even a turn-down service, Judge. I’ll be having flashbacks for as long as I live’
May 28, 2021
‘Rugby banter is taking a dump in someone’s shoes’
May 21, 2021
‘Rugby is not pass the porcel, Morcus’
May 14, 2021
'Then she says it – the words all south Dublin parents dread'
May 07, 2021
‘They brought a corvery dinner to my room!’
Apr 30, 2021
‘We’re looking for Fionnuala O’Carroll-Kelly. She absconded from quarantine this morning’
Apr 23, 2021
'I just assumed quarantine wouldn’t affect people like us'
Apr 17, 2021
‘Get in before they change their minds and haul your orse back to jail’
Apr 09, 2021
My opening line in the Irish oral was ‘Bonjour’. I never really recovered after that
Apr 02, 2021
‘The judge tells us – in, like, legal language – to shut the fock up’
Mar 26, 2021
‘We’re not a priority for the vaccine.’ ‘Even though we’re rich?’
Mar 20, 2021
‘I urge you all – standing here, in the People’s Pork – to remove your masks!’
Mar 12, 2021
‘Netflix is port of the conspiracy! A form of methadone’
Mar 05, 2021
‘We can’t just dump all our rubbish in the front gorden, Sorcha'
Feb 26, 2021
"Wuthering Heights is basically the story of my life"
Feb 19, 2021
'After a year of being locked up together, we are sick and tired of the sight of each other’
Feb 12, 2021
‘Have you seen the chemtrails over Foxrock this morning?’
Feb 05, 2021
‘I know every mork on the floor, the walls and the ceiling of this bor’
Jan 29, 2021
‘75? What on earth makes you think I’m 75?’
Jan 22, 2021
‘Honor has been, like, homeschooling me’
Jan 15, 2021
‘The pressure of being the cool parent ends up being too much’
Jan 08, 2021
‘Do Dry January? That’s crazy talk’
Jan 01, 2021
‘I want a Christmas that Tony Holohan would approve of’
Dec 18, 2020
‘How much moo are we talking – for, like, midnight Mass in, say, Foxrock?’
Dec 11, 2020
‘One of your Three Wise Men stuck his middle finger up at me’
Dec 04, 2020
The kitchen smells of rum. Either my old dear is over or Sorcha’s baking a Christmas cake
Nov 27, 2020
‘I’ve storted a rumour Matt Damon wants to build a house on Coliemore road’
Nov 20, 2020
‘Honor was walking around with the blond wig and Make America Great Again sweatshirt’
Nov 13, 2020
‘Where is Flavian Way, anyway? It actually sounds more Glenageary than Dalkey?’
Nov 07, 2020
‘You can’t end a relationship with someone by climbing out the window’
Nov 07, 2020
I can hear the old dear’s hysterical voice going, ‘Better men than you have eaten my one-pot stews!’
Oct 23, 2020
‘Johnny actual Sexton is at the front door’
Oct 16, 2020
‘Ross,’ the old man goes, ‘I’m afraid I’ve made a dreadful mistake!’
Oct 09, 2020
‘Oh, right – you’re one of these maskier-than-thou people’
Oct 02, 2020
‘I’ve never been much of a conversationalist, but I’m on fire with this woman’
Sep 26, 2020
‘They want us to vacate this place so they can use it as a love shack?’
Sep 18, 2020
‘I wouldn’t expect an animal to live in that place. And, besides, it’s rented out at the moment’
Sep 11, 2020
I’ve seen her drink turpentine and still be sober enough for nine holes in Foxrock
Sep 04, 2020
This is still the Vico Road. Pandemic or no pandemic
Aug 28, 2020
Your old dear is no scene-stealer... she has sticky-out ears and legs like the William Dorgan Bridge
Aug 21, 2020
‘I’m going to ask you something,’ Sorcha goes, ‘Have you two been sleeping together?’
Aug 14, 2020
‘We could be in DeVille’s among people who get where we’re coming from. Literally the Vico Road’
Aug 07, 2020
We’re not American. This is how people from south Dublin talk?
Jul 31, 2020
‘I know none of us should be travelling - but Fock it’
Jul 24, 2020
‘We’ll be eating soup in Drizzle Mór while everyone else is sipping pina coladas’
Jul 18, 2020
‘You see, the 50-person limit has made Mass tickets a hot commodity’
Jul 11, 2020
‘That’ll teach him to challenge the Rossmeister to a mickey-swinging contest’
Jul 03, 2020
‘I’m the same as you. I hate it when other people are good at stuff that I’m not good at’
Jun 26, 2020
‘We give our children everything they ask for, if that makes us bad parents – guilty as chorged’
Jun 19, 2020
She saw a goy in a white coat and shouted, ‘Hero!’ And he was like, ‘Er, I work in Kiehl’s’
Jun 12, 2020
‘We’re having a fancy dress porty and I’m going as the wife of a philanderer’
Jun 05, 2020
‘Adultery is like getting a dent in a new cor. Once you’ve done it once, it gets easier’
May 29, 2020
‘It’s a shame it took a global pandemic to get Ross to keep it in his trousers’
May 22, 2020
‘Dad, you can shove your offer. I’m going to sit the Leaving Cert’
May 15, 2020
‘I’ve been booking supermorket delivery slots weeks in advance. Then selling them for €70 each’
May 12, 2020
‘Ross, how would you like to make love to a woman with grey hair?’
May 02, 2020
‘Sorcha has an – I think it’s a word – alterior motive for the Zoom call’
Apr 24, 2020
Joe Wicks goes, ‘That’s our warm-up completed.’ I’m already focked
Apr 17, 2020
‘We’re not going to eat the banana bread. We’re going to give it to the neighbours’
Apr 10, 2020
‘We’re fine up here, Ross. I just can’t imagine this thing coming to Foxrock’
Apr 03, 2020
‘Ross, from this morning, you’re going to be home-schooling Honor.’ I laugh out loud
Mar 27, 2020
‘The O’Carroll-Kelly Saliva Stakes is the closest thing we have to live sport now’
Mar 20, 2020
‘Ross, I hate to be the bearer of bad news. Your mother is on Tinder’
Mar 14, 2020
‘I recognise the look instantly. One cheater knows another’
Mar 06, 2020
‘Samuel Beckett’s a writer. He wrote Waiting for Bobo’
Feb 28, 2020
‘I just shake my head... The dirty dog. The filthy hypocrite’
Feb 21, 2020
‘Sold to the man in the Ireland jersey with a bowtie tied around his neck!’
Feb 15, 2020
‘I want you to flirt with the girl on the reception desk’
Feb 07, 2020
‘I want this to be as big as the Statue of bloody well Liberty!”’
Jan 31, 2020
‘Críost on a rothar. It looks like Chorlie Haughey’
Jan 24, 2020
I hate my father-in-law the same way dogs hate lampposts
Jan 17, 2020
"You’re a camel hair coat away from being your grandfather, Ro"
Jan 10, 2020
‘We should have maybe hired a professional jockey’
Jan 03, 2020
‘Is anyone going to own up to this Kris Kindle? Is this some kind of joke?’
Dec 24, 2019
‘Ross, you can’t hold a note. I don’t want you embarrassing yourself’
Dec 20, 2019
‘Goys, does Ronan look like he’s actually in control of that horse?’
Dec 13, 2019
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘We may need to cuff him when we get to Lapland’
Dec 06, 2019
‘Tubs sees the boys then and – in fairness – he gives them the benefit of the doubt’
Nov 29, 2019
'The dude goes, The horse is a maniac. He's the maddest animal I've ever seen'
Nov 22, 2019
'Oh my God', Honor goes, 'there's a focking horse in the gorden!'
Nov 15, 2019
'Me and the goys are thinking of buying a horse'
Nov 08, 2019
‘It’s supposed to be like Quinta do Lago – except outside it’s Ballymahon’
Nov 01, 2019
"It absolutely kills me to say this, but people hate our kids"
Oct 25, 2019
‘Munster didn’t beat the All Blacks in 1978. This video proves it’
Oct 18, 2019
‘No, Sorcha. I’m going to Japan. The team needs me’
Oct 11, 2019
'All these early morning matches are taking their toll on me'
Oct 04, 2019
'My meal was served on a 1986 edition of the 01 phone directory'
Oct 01, 2019
Isn’t everyone wearing a kimono to watch the rugby?
Sep 20, 2019
‘Munster beat the All Blacks. We’ve all heard the story... but did it really happen?’
Sep 13, 2019
‘How does another dog plus five grand sound?’
Sep 06, 2019
‘How dare they leave out the hyphen?’
Aug 30, 2019
Schmidt Happens: Excerpt Three
Aug 29, 2019
Schmidt Happens: Excerpt Two
Aug 28, 2019
Schmidt Happens: Excerpt One
Aug 27, 2019
As one girl puts it, ‘Send him back to Google in a focking wheelchair’
Aug 23, 2019
‘The dude pats me down to make sure I’m not packing heat’
Aug 16, 2019
‘You can’t fire me as a godparent. I resign’
Aug 09, 2019
A south Dublin borbecue – what could possibly go wrong?
Aug 02, 2019
‘I wouldn’t be shocked if she was running a meth lab out of her bedroom’
Jul 26, 2019
‘You found 10 bags of cocaine and you go to the police?’
Jul 20, 2019
‘It’s coke, Rosser.’ I’m there, ‘Well I knew it wasn’t Shake n’Vac’
Jul 12, 2019
I’ve tried my best not to love my son any less since he storted wearing glasses
Jul 05, 2019
Honor has suddenly started to think about environmental issues ... but why?
Jun 29, 2019
Honor leaves Love Island to admit to driving the cor
Jun 21, 2019
‘While I hate lying to him, that’s my job as a parent’
Jun 14, 2019
‘Sorcha says the words that every rugby father dreads’
Jun 08, 2019
'The Lambo my old man gave Ro is having a strange effect on him'
May 31, 2019
‘We’re going to be doing what I call, Maths Through Rugby’
May 24, 2019
‘You’re a Montessori teacher. A babysitter with good insurance cover’
May 17, 2019
‘I know deep down she actually hates that I’m the cool parent’
May 10, 2019
'I don't mind being buried in Deansgrange. It's a good address'
May 03, 2019
'What the fock are you doing in a red Lambo?'
Apr 26, 2019
‘We’re going to miss the Easter Bonnet Parade in Dalkey’
Apr 19, 2019
‘I’m just saying that our kids are three little yobs’
Apr 12, 2019
‘Let’s just say the match is not a good advertisement for rugby’
Apr 05, 2019
‘I dedicate each sit-up to someone who’s done me wrong over the years’
Mar 29, 2019
I’m remembering Fr Fehily hyped up to fever pitch after listening to his Hitler 45s
Mar 22, 2019
‘Gout? What the fock is gout? And please don’t say it’s caused by rugby’
Mar 15, 2019
‘We would have beaten you with or without Fr Fehily’s doping programme’
Mar 08, 2019
The old man takes his truth bus to UCD’s snowflakes
Mar 01, 2019
No one warns you as you leave Holles Street, “Kids can be seriously focking annoying”
Feb 22, 2019
‘A convicted criminal is what this female student person called me!’
Feb 15, 2019
''Fock England!’ they shouted as we passed actual England supporters'
Feb 08, 2019
‘Ugly right-wing views? Is this about my letter to The Irish Times?’
Feb 01, 2019
‘I’m entitled to know why taxi drivers seem to think so little of me’
Jan 25, 2019
'How does this sound: The O’Carroll-Kelly Institute of Rugby!'
Jan 18, 2019
‘Honor can be terribly cruel – it’s hilarious if you’re not the one on the receiving end’
Jan 11, 2019
‘Honor cops me standing there, staring at her like she’s a dog explaining Brexit’
Jan 04, 2019
‘Croia called me a Gender Binarist because of my Goys and Dolls party’
Dec 28, 2018
‘Our way of dealing with our children’s anti-social behaviour has been to totally ignore it’
Dec 21, 2018
‘I’m sorry but that’s where this Santa Claus draws the line’
Dec 14, 2018
'I shan't be moving. I've got a full stomach and an empty bladder'
Dec 07, 2018
‘I’m sorry for crying. It’s just my brain feels like it’s turning into paté’
Nov 30, 2018
‘I swear on my children’s lives I’ve had no contact with Peter Casey’
Nov 23, 2018
‘Our bogey group should be lactose-intolerant Border-county cyclists’
Nov 16, 2018
‘I’m now a member of nine Mount Anville WhatsApp groups'
Nov 09, 2018
‘Just because people are vulnerable doesn’t mean they’re not taking the piss’
Nov 02, 2018
‘Honor was actually conceived in this cor?’ ‘We should push it off a cliff’
Oct 26, 2018
‘You grew up in south Dublin, but it’s like you arrived from space an hour ago’
Oct 19, 2018
‘I’m with The Girls. We’re getting along like doughnuts and Blanchardstown’
Oct 12, 2018
'There’s a girl who works in the Bailey. And before you say anything,we were on a break at the time'
Oct 05, 2018
‘I had no idea how difficult being a Mount Anville mom was going to be’
Sep 28, 2018
"Limerick’s definitely been tidied up a bit since ‘Angela’s Ashes"
Sep 21, 2018
My sons take after me in their love of being surrounded by admiring females
Sep 14, 2018
Dancing with the Tsars Excerpt #4
Sep 07, 2018
‘Working remotely is modern business-speak for on your own time and for no extra money’
Sep 07, 2018
Dancing with The Tsars Excerpt #3
Sep 06, 2018
Dancing with The Tsars Excerpt #2
Sep 05, 2018
Dancing with the Tsars Excerpt #1
Sep 04, 2018
‘I suddenly feel like Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society’
Aug 31, 2018
‘Goys, this is Tayto Pork!’ The triplets’ faces light up’
Aug 24, 2018
'A chill goes through my body as I notice her - get this - kissing an actual boy'
Aug 17, 2018
"There’s a lot of Oh! My! God!s – even by normal South Dublin standards"
Aug 10, 2018
‘You cried once when Elaine Crowley was on holidays and someone else was presenting Midday’
Aug 03, 2018
‘Tag rugby is, like, speed dating for South Dublin people’
Jul 27, 2018
‘I’m reminded of an old rugby saying of mine: never be afraid to let the opposition see your abs’
Jul 20, 2018
‘The hosepipe ban isn’t for People Like Us. It’s only €125’
Jul 13, 2018
‘I considered driving over a cliff just so I wouldn’t have to hear their focking voices’
Jul 06, 2018
'I'm close to cracking up and we're not even on the runway yet'
Jun 29, 2018
'I'm morking the 20th anniversary of failing my test for the first time'
Jun 23, 2018
'Unless it's escaped your attention, I'm a complete moron'
Jun 16, 2018
‘Are you saying you want me to be one of those stay-in-bed fathers?’
Jun 08, 2018
‘I’m the best estate agent you have – and that’s not me being big-headed’
Jun 01, 2018
‘If she’s never met a brat like Honor before, she mustn’t be from around here’
May 25, 2018
‘He was basically saying I’m Leinster and Ireland’s unsung hero’
May 18, 2018
It turns out that I’m not as blue-blooded as I thought
May 11, 2018
‘Priced out of Killiney? That’s what you get for choosing an orts degree!’
May 04, 2018
Kielys of Donnybrook could be lost forever
Apr 27, 2018
‘I can sense Sorcha tensing up when Honor is asked, “Do you reject Satan?”’
Apr 20, 2018
‘I’m not posting bail for Conor McGregor. He dresses better than I do’
Apr 13, 2018
‘People need to realise ‘Room to Improve’ is just a TV show. It’s not reality’
Apr 06, 2018
‘I’ve chosen Vladimir for my Confirmation name. After Vladimir Putin’
Mar 30, 2018
‘It’s 500 yoyos to secure a seat, non-refundable in the event of cancellation’
Mar 23, 2018
‘Bouncy castles attract undesirables. They’re not for People Like Us’
Mar 16, 2018
‘You’re going to need to find another sucker – Mother’s Day or no Mother’s Day’
Mar 09, 2018
‘You went down a different route, Sorcha. You had a family. Three beautiful children. Plus Honor’
Mar 02, 2018
‘Why am I driving a shit cor? Because rugby is no longer a guarantee of anything’
Feb 23, 2018
Grab It, Trouser It and Leg It – a proper name for an estate agent
Feb 16, 2018
‘All these years, I’ve taken the rap for being the unfaithful one’
Feb 09, 2018
The Gord goes: ‘Do you ever inquire as to what your daughter gets up to online?’
Feb 03, 2018
‘We’re from South Dublin – none of us want to work for anything’
Jan 26, 2018
‘When Dricmas falls on a weekend, people are entitled to the Monday off’
Jan 19, 2018
‘To my ears, Irish always sounds like someone is hurting a Norwegian’
Jan 12, 2018
I’m the most high-profile Irish rugby player who never got the Leaving?’
Jan 05, 2018
‘Your resolution was to become part of the Irish coaching staff. How did you get on?’
Dec 30, 2017
‘Oh my God, it’s Christmas – and we’ve just been told there’s no room at the Inn’
Dec 22, 2017
‘Don’t forget to leave a very, very large gin and tonic out for, ahem, Rudolph!’
Dec 15, 2017
‘Dave came back from that HR course like a soldier who’s been to war and can’t speak about it’
Dec 08, 2017
‘Grandad!’ Rihanna-Brogan shouts. ‘Don’t call me that! Call me Rosser. Or Rossmeister’
Dec 01, 2017
‘You don’t discriminate. You’re a complete pig to absolutely everyone’
Nov 24, 2017
‘I have no prejudices. Except people who aren’t from Dublin’
Nov 17, 2017
‘I know HR is an actual thing now, but to me it’s like homeopathy or dinosaurs'
Nov 10, 2017
‘A brain like tiramisu.’ ‘Multi-layered?’ ‘No, soft and full of custard’
Nov 05, 2017
‘I have to say my year in UCD was possibly the happiest three months of my life’
Oct 27, 2017
'Believe me,’ Honor goes, ‘she’ll thank us for this in the long run’
Oct 20, 2017
‘You’re a bloody good estate agent. I’ve heard of your lack of emotion and basic humanity’
Oct 13, 2017
‘If white collar crime is a crime, then why does no one ever go to jail for it?’
Oct 06, 2017
‘This is my actual Dad, Ross. He’s a kind of fat rugby has-been’
Sep 29, 2017
Operation Trumpsformation: On Referendum Day, The Cornival Atmosphere Turns Sour for Ross
Sep 25, 2017
Operation Trumpsformation: Micheál Mortin Calls The Old Man's Attitude Cavalier & Irresponsible
Sep 24, 2017
Operation Trumpsformation: Honor, The True Heir to The O'Carroll-Kelly Rugby Name
Sep 23, 2017
Operation Trumpsformation: The Old Man's Vision for A New Ireland
Sep 22, 2017
‘There could be anything in there: a gun, €100k in cash, one of her teachers gagged’
Sep 17, 2017
The old dear goes: ‘I will never forgive you for this, Ross’
Sep 08, 2017
‘It’s the Vico Road. Do you think anyone around here cleans their own gaff?’
Sep 01, 2017
‘It still hasn’t dawned on Sorcha that Honor is the wrong crowd’
Aug 25, 2017
‘The anaesthetist is a total knockout – no pun intended’
Aug 18, 2017
‘Public transport is for the poor and fallen’
Aug 11, 2017
‘You drove to LA to hear a man from Crumlin swearing? You should have just gone to Crumlin’
Aug 04, 2017
‘Ross,’ he goes, ‘you marbles-in-your-mouth, soft-as-shite, South Dublin mammy’s boy’
Jul 28, 2017
‘The doctor says it’s an old rugby injury – I can’t tell you how proud that makes me’
Jul 21, 2017
‘Is Honor double-bluffing me? Or is she double-double bluffing me?’
Jul 14, 2017
"We need a name that says it’s for welfare cheats”
Jul 07, 2017
‘I hear someone blubbing and I suddenly realise it’s me’
Jun 30, 2017
'He dresses like shop security from the 1980s'
Jun 23, 2017
‘We’re southsiders,’ I tell her. ‘We don’t really do feuds’
Jun 16, 2017
‘We’re about to have our first openly second-tier-private-school-educated taoiseach’
Jun 09, 2017
‘Look me in the eye, Rosser. Did you hab sex with my wife that neet?’
Jun 02, 2017
‘We all make mistakes, Ro. . . Just try not to sleep with the wives of any other gangland killers’
May 26, 2017
‘Look, the recession was a fluke. No one knows why it happened, just that it did’
May 19, 2017
"It’s like if Tarantino directed Wind in the Willows"
May 12, 2017
‘I stop seeing them as criminals, and more as a normal family, like the Kordashians’
May 05, 2017
‘All estate agents know how to make bread. It’s one of the first things they teach you'
Apr 28, 2017
'Your daughter is malevolent, belligerent and discourteous'
Apr 21, 2017
"Ronan, I'm terrified of you being sucked into the world of guns, drugs and non-rugby nicknames"
Apr 14, 2017
‘I push the stick towards him with what resembles a dead rat on the end of it’
Apr 07, 2017
I am so excited thinking about all of the people’s lives we can change with this money!
Apr 02, 2017
Ross will pay it, Shadden. As a matter of fact, Ross will pay for absolutely everything
Mar 23, 2017
I genuinely feel like grabbing that wig right now and focking it in the Liffey
Mar 16, 2017
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: “I’m here to watch Denis O’Brien wipe the floor with you.”
Mar 10, 2017
‘It’s the Celtic Phoenix, Sorcha. People are thankfully being stupid again’
Mar 03, 2017
"The Dublin accent was invented to allow criminals to talk to each other"
Feb 24, 2017
‘If you showed Dermot Bannon around the inside of my head, he’d say the design was minimalist’
Feb 17, 2017
They’ll have to rename it ‘Don’t Tell the Bride I Did the Dirt on Her Again’
Feb 10, 2017
The old man wants to build Trump’s Mexican wall
Feb 03, 2017
‘I actually like Trump. I like the way he pisses people off. I can see a lot of myself in him’
Jan 27, 2017
‘I thought Pythagoras was something the Greeks dipped their bread in'
Jan 20, 2017
"She unbuttons her coat and that’s when I notice that my old dear has had . . . augmentation"
Jan 13, 2017
‘I win Most Ingenious Yet Borderline Illegal Use of the Phrase “Within Commutable Distance” award’
Jan 12, 2017
‘The two of us listen to them roaring at each other’
Dec 29, 2016
‘The turkey shuffles into the room and jumps onto the sofa beside me’
Dec 21, 2016
Going through Honor’s Santa list must be what it’s like to go on Tonight with Vincent Browne
Dec 15, 2016
‘The old man is making a complete orse of himself’
Dec 09, 2016
Have you ever had an episode like this before? You could use his orteries for attic insulation
Dec 02, 2016
‘I wouldn’t be any kind of best man if I didn’t try to persuade you'
Nov 25, 2016
I think it was John F Kennedy who said that politics was the something of something else
Nov 17, 2016
When she was born, the midwife smacked her orse and Sorcha fake-smiled her back
Nov 11, 2016
Don’t be frightened, it’s just latex and make-up – but you can call her Granny
Nov 07, 2016
‘Mount Anville took out a High Court injunction banning me from their debs one year’
Oct 21, 2016
‘You’re a dirty dog. And I can’t tell you how proud that makes me feel’
Oct 13, 2016
Women want more. I say let them have it. I’m just not sure I’m the man to give it to them
Oct 07, 2016
“ It feels like you’re.”“What?” “I’m going to use the phrase ‘pimping me out’.”
Sep 30, 2016
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘No one goes to lectures before Christmas’
Sep 23, 2016
‘Her ex worked as a risk assessor for an insurance company. I call him Love Actuary’
Sep 16, 2016
‘Did you hear that, Shadden? George Clooney is one of Hennessy’s neighbours!’
Sep 09, 2016
‘Honor is pacing in front of the cage, glowering at 200 terrified kids’
Sep 02, 2016
RO'CK Game of Throw-ins Extract 4
Aug 29, 2016
RO'CK Game of Throw-ins Extract 3
Aug 29, 2016
RO'CK Game of Throw-ins Extract 2
Aug 29, 2016
RO'CK Game of Throw-ins Extract 1
Aug 29, 2016
We can hear them chanting through the walls of the dressing room
Aug 26, 2016
‘You’re so transparent. You’re trying to butter me up so I won’t humiliate you too badly’
Aug 22, 2016
‘After 2km, I’m wheezing like a 60-cigarettes-a-day man while Garret isn’t even breathing heavily’
Aug 17, 2016
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘He’s got 12 months of hord training behind him. All I’ve really got is drugs’
Aug 05, 2016
‘That’s a side-effect of taking these pills, by the way – short-term memory, em . . . thingy ’
Jul 29, 2016
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘What’s happening with your face?’ ‘I’m thinking. I’m thinking deeply’
Jul 22, 2016
‘I suddenly feel the kind of shame that only a couple of lunchtime pints can help erase’
Jul 16, 2016
"See that little island down there. Lambay Island. Or – as it will soon be known – Aquatraz"
Jul 08, 2016
“Do you want to be the fedda puking his ring up on the soyud of the road?
Jul 01, 2016
‘I find myself standing on Vico Road, hand on the wall, throwing my breakfast up’
Jun 24, 2016
‘Claire doesn’t have, like, a Wicklow Wicklow accent? she’s very, very nearly South Dublin’
Jun 17, 2016
‘Are any of you familiar with Countdown?’ Of course they are – they were in UCD
Jun 10, 2016
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘You’re like a young Katie Hopkins – except more, I don’t know, evil?’
Jun 03, 2016
JP’s dad won’t be able to show his face in Doheny & Nesbitt’s again
May 27, 2016
‘I can see Honor standing in the wings, giving Miss Pallister the famous one-finger salute’
May 20, 2016
She might have fitted into the dress on our wedding day, but now, well..'
May 20, 2016
‘I put Leinster on the Census form as my religion’
May 07, 2016
‘If at first you don’t succeed, it’s a pretty good indication you’re never going to’
Apr 29, 2016
‘I could tell you the word she used except The Irish Times probably wouldn’t print it’
Apr 22, 2016
‘I can’t wait to see Denis O’Brien wipe the floor with you in the High Court'
Apr 15, 2016
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: doing a hard sell on Inchicore as an estate agent
Apr 08, 2016
Honor is naturally gifted on the piano. She’d want to be – we’ve spent about 12 grand on lessons
Apr 01, 2016
‘The last time JP had his hand on a breast, it came out of a bucket’
Mar 25, 2016
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘I haven’t heard the word pronoun since I sat the Junior Cert’
Mar 18, 2016
‘Are you the same guy who first called Mullingar the Gateway to Dublin?’
Mar 12, 2016
‘I make sure to just say it in my mind. Because that’s being a good husband'
Mar 04, 2016
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Chorles wants a prison colony for people who don’t pay their water bills’
Feb 27, 2016
‘The government is planning to come down hord on people not paying their water bills’
Feb 19, 2016
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Keep your friends close. But make sure you have the means to destroy them’
Feb 16, 2016
This is getting ridiculous. It’s like being on a spa weekend with Sorcha
Feb 05, 2016
He smiles with the same smile he uses when choosing his lobster in Cavistons
Jan 29, 2016
These apartments will be so small, there won’t be room for two people to break wind
Jan 15, 2016
These are going to be our Family Date Nights
Jan 08, 2016
Has she been drinking or is she still pissed from last night?
Jan 02, 2016
I just don’t consider it a sport. It’s like watching CCTV footage of a fight
Dec 18, 2015
You look like something Dr Marie Cassidy should be going at with rubber gloves and a bone saw
Dec 14, 2015
I actually love women. If that makes me a feminist, then so be it.
Dec 14, 2015
Christmas is a time of year when, er… you get loads of stuff
Nov 27, 2015
I’m the porty spokesperson on Gender Issues
Nov 20, 2015
Ross, we need to take Pang to the Beacon – right now
Nov 13, 2015
My son’s nickname is Manslaughter.
Nov 06, 2015
Sorcha hasn't touched her chicken
Oct 30, 2015
“Ireland won alright. Which means we’re into the semi-finals of the World Cup!”
Oct 23, 2015
“A lot of children are just born that way – they’re d**kheads.”
Oct 16, 2015
I’m there, “Pang, give me those cigarettes.” She goes, “Get away from me, you racist!”
Oct 09, 2015
If you can do it on the upper deck of a no 40 bus
Oct 02, 2015
‘If you bought a gaff in Tenerife, they'd say they bought one in Elevenerife’
Sep 23, 2015
I should report you – underfloor heating is a human right
Sep 18, 2015
Seedless in Seattle Extract Five
Sep 14, 2015
Seedless in Seattle Extract Four
Sep 14, 2015
Seedless in Seattle Extract Three
Sep 14, 2015
Seedless in Seattle Extract Two
Sep 14, 2015
Seedless in Seattle Extract One
Sep 12, 2015
RO'CK: It's here. A day I thought I'd never see
Sep 12, 2015
Ross goes to Electric Picnic: “I’m not staying in a focking tent”
Sep 04, 2015
People are chanting, "Co'ck for Taoiseach!"
Aug 28, 2015
‘His dog just bit me,’ Honor goes. ‘Get up off your knees. We’re going to the Gords’
Aug 21, 2015
‘Why don’t you just tell Denis O’Brien’s solicitor that you’ll stop having Denis O’Brien Hair?’
Aug 14, 2015
‘Whatever you think about two men kicking the humanity out of each other in a cage...'
Aug 07, 2015
I've got to stop thinking about my old man as an ATM
Jul 31, 2015
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly - JPs old man
Jul 24, 2015
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly - You know that smell
Jul 10, 2015
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly - I've genuinely never seen Sorcha so angry ...
Jul 03, 2015
Ross O'Carroll Kelly: ‘Why would I want to date you? I’m already married to you.’
Jun 26, 2015
Ross O'Carroll Kelly (June 20th - 2)
Jun 22, 2015
Ross O Carroll Kelly (20th June)
Jun 19, 2015
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly (May 23rd)
Jun 11, 2015
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly (June 13th)
Jun 11, 2015
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly (June 6th)
Jun 11, 2015
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly (May 30th)
Jun 11, 2015