Shamerock
Episodes
32 episodes
Pat's Best Bits 3 - Christmas Special 2025
What better way to celebrate this time of year than in the company of our dear departed friend, Big Pat? Here, we look back at an Irish accent 'expert', remember a rather tetchy priest in Ballyhooly, hear from a wonderful Zambian uncle, and tur...
Pat's Best Bits 2 - Christmas Special 2024
The second tribute episode and a festive treat. Here, we relive a couple of sporting kerfuffles, Pat's Pain Olympics from his schooldays, pronunciation-related embarrassment, and a goose causing Christmas mayhem in a Cork psychiatric hospital.<...
Pat's Best Bits (Part 1)
A tribute to Big Pat where we revisit some of his Shamerock highlights. Overheard Irish chat. Weeing next to an Olympic champion. Insulting a heavyweight boxer. The 'Ace of Spades'. And a jolly little sing-song.M...
Leinster and Leicester
Grubs and Big Pat take in Tripadvisor reviews of the Leprechaun Museum and discover the Sinn Féin souvenir shop.
Kilk Any Old Iron
Big Pat and Grubs do fighting talk, foreign accent syndrome (no laughing matter) and a Ballyhooly memorial service. Sláinte, Paddy.
Boardsmill and Box Hill
Big Pat and Grubs take Irish accent instruction from an unwitting contributor, discuss the all-Ireland Egg-Off, and get irritated by shit language in ads. Before being cut off like like the dead heads of a rosebush.
Armagh and Margate
Big Pat and Grubs continue their Oirish accent education, pick 'n' mix their metaphors, and become scrum masters of their own destiny.
Kilkenny and Neasden
Big Pat and Grubs on genu-eye-ne Oirish accents, other people's embarrassing moments, and how kids writing jokes is...odd.
Chagford & the Child of Prague
Big Pat and Grubs examine Irish upbringings, play a round of curry-oke, and revive Embarrassing Moments. You. Will. Not. Want. To. Miss. This.
Newtownabbey and Newton Abbot
Grubs and Big Pat welcome back some Super-Contributors, wonder why "nookie" is no longer a thing, and reveal the secrets behind Ireland's love of sport.
Chris de Burkey
Back BY POPULAR DEMAND (Shamerock is contractually obliged to say). Paul Burke joins Big Pat and Grubs for a couple more spins of the BCWOF.
North Dublin and Northallerton
Grubs and a jaunty Big Pat chat about the weird 'donkey rub' fad, an unfortunately medicated Irish mammy, and a CONFIRMED urban myth.
Burkey and Lough Key
A bumper edition where Big Pat and Grubs welcome novelist, pop music savant and world-famous radio advertising exponent Paul Burke. (He's half-Irish, you know.) Moral of this episode: beware plummeting game birds.
Lisheen & East Sheen
Grubs and Big Pat hail County Cork's lugubrious rowing hero, crown a brand new Super Contributor and discover that, in fact, quite a lot rhymes with 'Donoghugh'.
Tyrone and Big Tone
A special bumper edition. Big Pat and Grubs are joined by Shamerock's inaugural guest. And what a guest: Tony Harris, all the way from Manila. Goats Don't Shave, reworking an Elton John track and Crumple of the Bailey. I...
Connemara Loopy Juice
Grubs and Big Pat revisit parental toe-curlers through the eyes of a 36-year-old, take in a few 'only in Ireland' news headlines, and conduct a cutesy-wootsy language self-help session.
Ballyhooly and Leigh-on-Sea
In this anniversary edition, Big Pat and Grubs talk birthdays, a maddening goose and cutesy-wootsy language.
Louth To Loughton
Big Pat and Grubs discuss awkward family TV watching, a foul-mouthed villain from the Wee County and the strange tale of the Dublin Seagull.
Innishannon To Ilford
Grubs and Big Pat on spliff-smoking at funerals, the ex-NYPD cop in trouble in Cavan, and THE BEST THING EVER.
Virginia Waterford
Grubs and Big Pat marvel at Kevin Ryan's hurling B-roads, revel in the glory of The National Leprechaun Museum (of Ireland!) and reminisce about the Devonian lyricism of Bob Coffin.
Belturbet and Belsize Park
Big Pat and Grubs talk school-day physical violence, fen dwellers, and an Irish take on Simon Cowell's ouchies.
Ballymena, Barry Cryer
Big Pat and Grubs explore the world of African compliments, marvel at the prowess of the Royal Mail in Northern Ireland, and steal material from the late, great (unable to press charges) Barry Cryer.
Unleash Portlaoise
From Lusaka to London. Beds the size of Bedfordshire, poor old West's taxi receipt, and what happens when you order a G&T in an Irish country pub.