Time for a whole new Ball game

Off The Ball was once a simple three-hour sports radio show on Newstalk. Now, as its managing director Ger Gilroy explains, it’s so much more

Ger Gilroy, managing director of Off The Ball: ‘We never really had any doubts that we were going to kick on’ Picture: Bryan Meade

‘If we are not ready to give everybody the content they want when they want it, then what is the point of making it?” Ger Gilroy, managing director of Off The Ball, said of the decision to turn the radio show into a standalone media company last year.

The decision proved to be on the ball. While previously it produced a radio show on Newstalk, now Off The Ball also produces several radio ...