DIVERTED

In this episode, Eoin brings you on an injury-delayed tour of Peru. 

There is the story of mountain climbing in Arequipa and how the political turmoil of 2022/23 affected the nation, while there is also an analysis of the societal divisions in Peru as represented by football.

We traipse up towards the Amazon river, taking in a massive John the Baptist celebration en route to a rickety boat along the river. Cocooned away from the...

In this episode, Eoin brings you on a sporting tour through three countries in Central America.

We begin in Costa Rica, where we watch their World Cup dreams dying a death, before an unlikely resuscitation allows an entire nation to dream, if only for a brief moment.

We venture to Belize where a small town is looking to recapture past glories in the nation’s Premier League.

And we go to Guatemala, where we take chicken buses up to the...

In this episode, we take you to Mexico City where Independence Day is in full swing. We use the information provided by the Irish Hooligan to go and spend the day with some lucha libre fighters in a “dangerous part” of Mexico.

For Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), then, we go to San Cristobal de las Casas and we attend a rave in the woods, learn about the Zapatista movement and we meet the people trying to build a gym in order t...

In 1972, a plane carrying members of the Old Christians rugby team of Montevideo crashed in the Andes, leaving behind a slew of survivors. After 72 days trapped on the mountain, 16 survivors managed to make it home.

In this episode, Eoin visits the home of one of the survivors, Antonio Vizintin, for an extended chat about those 72 days and, indeed, the reaction to the revelations that dead bodies were used for food on the mountain.

W...

In this episode, we go on a journey into the Bolivian highlands for a completely unique festival called “Tinku.” It takes place in a tiny town called Macha, which is not exactly a tourist hot spot. The aim of the game is to fight thy neighbour in order to spill blood and satisfy the Andean gods, which are all-powerful to the indigenous Aymara community.

We drink with the locals, dance with the locals and some of us fight with the lo...

In the second episode of this series, we get invited to spend an afternoon at the plush environs of the Prince of Wales country club in Santiago, Chile. Here, some of the country’s national rugby players are putting kids through their paces and they themselves prepare for a first ever Rugby World Cup.

A snoop around a flea market, then, tips me off about a storied football club, Club Deportivo Palestino. We meet the fans and those r...

In the first episode of this series, Eoin takes you to Colombia, where our first destination is the city of Medellin. Here, there are football ultras trying to make the world a better place, and there is a football club trying to get away from the historic association with Pablo Escobar.

There is the national sport of Tejo, where drinking beer is encouraged and making things explode is the aim of the game.

In Bogota, we hear abo...

Coming to your OTB Daily feed this Tuesday (March 25th) at 10am - the first episode of Eoin Sheahan's Diverted.

Before the first episode went live, Eoin chatted to OTB's Mick McCarthy about the 10-part series, which you can find each Tuesday in the OTB Daily feed, and in its own podcast feed. You can access that here to subscribe.

Follow Eoin on this not-so-smooth journey from the Deep South of the USA to the southern tip of Argent...

Follow Eoin on this not-so-smooth journey from the Deep South of the USA to the southern tip of Argentina, as he tries to recover from missing out on the Biggest Party In The History of The Universe (™).

Each week, this podcast will travel to a new country, and we will bring you to a ritualistic fighting festival in rural Bolivia, to the basketball-crazy highlands of Guatemala and to the equine sport heartlands of Argentina’s gaucho...