If you're a football supporter and you're not going to LOI games, you're missing out. Give me away buses, singing sections and pre- and post-match pints over a telly and a sofa any day.
Some 23,824 at the SSE Airtricity Men’s Premier Division fixtures this evening.
More than any round last season and a total of 32,871 including the four MFD games.
What a night 😍
#LOI24
@AdamLynch27
A Chinese is a bad example because the food you get isn't really like the food in China. I don't think there's many spice bags ate in Beijing. This is a silly comparison anyway.
@AdamLynch27
They're a club based in Scotland followed week-in week-out by Scottish people who travel around Scotland to watch them; Celtic are Scottish. What makes them Irish?
Stewards and Gardaí all over the shop, fellas dancing around, and somebody going for a spear in Oriel Park all while Live It Up plays. Beautifully chaotic.
@bfcdublin
Shelbourne FC have cancelled a number of ticket orders for home sections made by away fans.
Any away fan who is identified with a home ticket outside of the ground will not be permitted entry to the ground.
@bfcdublin
10 hours spent going across the country and back just to watch a game of ball in the pissings of rain. You can keep your Premier League and your Sky Sports, I wouldn't have it any other way 🔴⚪️🍻
~500 people travelling to Longford for a first-round cup game is mad. Club is pushing for more tickets as well so the figure could easily end up being in the high hundreds. What a time to be a Saint 🔴⚪️
50 away tickets remain of our initial allocation of 500 for Sunday's FAI Cup 1st round tie away to
@LongfordTownFC
(6pm KO)
We advise all St Patrick's Athletic supporters to get their tickets online now to avoid disappointment ➡️
#StPatsFC
#Saints2023
This is how they behave in public and no doubt they will be untied at Anti Immigration protest over the weekend chanting:
‘we don’t feel safe’
We see through your double standards. We ain’t blind.
@munsderbyfacts
"Typical politicians. Why didn't he refer to Matty Smith's miss against Drogheda last week instead?" asks local League of Ireland supporter.
Clare Daly is deemed fair game for a (fairly laughable) hit piece by Britain's Sunday Times because she's one of the few politicians who'll stand up to imperialism, even when it's unpopular to do so. Give her your
#1
vote on Friday, June 7th.
Britain’s Sunday Times has attempted to smear
@ClareDalyMEP
, Ireland’s anti-imperialist MEP, by insinuating that her work on prisoners rights somehow implicates her in a shady (non-existent) plot between the Russians and the Real IRA. However disappointing it may be to Rupert
Overheard in Palmerstown. You'd know the granny rule had a serious affect on Irish football from this alone.
"My nanny could play for Ireland."
"... Yeah, she's Irish."
"No, what I'm saying is ... we're crap."
@OverheardDublin
SO'D left Pat's for Dundalk, gets replaced by Clancy with Daly as his no. 2. Clancy gets sacked and replaced by Daly. Daly gets sacked, replaced by former Dundalk manager Stephen Kenny, and ends up taking the Dundalk job.
And that's mostly just from the Pat's perspective.
@osowxvyy
"NOOOOO IT HAS TO HOLD 60,000 TOURISTS, HAVE A KIOSK SELLING ARTISAN CREPES AND BURRITOS, LOOK GOOD FOR THE SKY SPORTS CAMERAS AND HAVE LOTS OF MEMORIALS OUTSIDE FOR ME TO TAKE PHOTOS OF OR ITS A SHIT FOOTBALL GROUND!!!"
✅️ Losing 4-0 to a FD side
✅️ Livestream issues
✅️ No in-play social media updates
The fact that UCD are so clearly limited yet still play at the top level of Irish football is a bad sign for the game. Do we want LOI to be taken seriously or not?
Me da (a firefighter and paramedic)'s turnout gear ready for the morning.
Respect the frontline and essential workers who are putting their lives on the line for us by staying inside, following the guidelines and we'll beat this virus.
✊
#COVID19ireland
#Coronavirusireland
"It is not about creating an event, relying on gimmicks, vacuous taglines or sporadic fanfare.
What drives any sport ... is a sense of belonging, the feeling of routine.
Going to the match is part of your life and things are arranged around it."
St Pat's revival prime example of League of Ireland culture shift.
No need for gimmicks to see attendances rise, the challenge now is to capitalise on a change in attitude.
@Irish_Unionist2
Non-English teams would struggle to qualify for European competition and lose out on money. Hard to see many people travelling from London to Scotland or the north of Ireland for an away day very often too, tbh. Deffo a non-runner, imo. Thoughts on a All-Ireland League?
Tonight, the
@workersparty
launched our new policy paper titled "The Future is Secular", setting out how to go about building a new secular and socialist republic. If you'd like a copy, let's know and I'll send one your way.
Stuff like this shows Irish fans of the Premier League up for what they really are imo, largely gloryhunters who only want to see the world's best. They will never have the same commitment to "their" club that actual supporters (as opposed to Sky Sports customers) do.
Lots of pissed off Irish ☘️ Manchester United fans over this after paying top dollar to get tickets. I recall this game only got announced around the start of June . I felt the Lens game would have been the game that ETH would want to get 80/90 mins into the players legs before
🆕
@IanBermo
has confirmed that The Saints In The Community Programme, Ballyfermot United Youth Section & Cherry Orchard Running Club will be three of the partners & beneficiaries of his testimonial
The full story & interviews with Ian, Niall, John & Kenneth is on our website
Solidarity from Ireland with
@ONCommunists
, who are contesting a general election tomorrow. A vote for them is a vote to create jobs, raise wages and expand public services in Ontario!
#OntarioVotes
We’ll be at home to
@WexfordFC
in the 4th round of the Leinster Senior Cup as we begin our defence of the trophy in our first competitive game of 2023
Exact fixture details will be confirmed in due course
#StPatsFC
#Saints2023
🔴⚪️
📸 Darragh Connolly
Imagine how much this and whatever the
@SEI2001
had planned for yesterday would have added to the day. Not going to pretend to know the full details but it's very poor from the FAI to scrap the plans at the last minute. They should offer some sort of explanation.
The planned tifo for yesterday’s cup final.
Due to incompetence and backtracking on what was originally agreed from the FAI, we were not able to unveil it.
Thank you to everyone who kindly donated towards this over the past few weeks.
@nasti_2k
Just because people think it's strange to shout yourself out for making TikToks it doesn't mean they don't want to league the grow.
It doesn't even mean they don't think TikToks help the league grow, it just means they think you're bigging yourself up a bit much.
🗣 "That was a snapshot of our season.
🗣 "We have a habit of shooting ourselves in the foot.
🗣 "If anything, St Pat's are lucky to get outta here with a draw.
@DundalkFC
manager Stephen O'Donnell speaking to
@Joe_Caulfield_
after tonight's defeat to
@stpatsfc
.
#PATDUN
#LOI
@betweenstripes
@YouBoysInGreen
Both. It's embarrassing that Irish people don't know the Irish national anthem, but having it on the screen will probably help them half sing along.
Huge appointment to get Kenny until 2029. A lot of work to be done in terms of building over the next couple of years but no better man for the job. We could be looking at a good few years ahead of us.
Stephen Kenny has been speaking on his appointment in Inchicore.
He meets some familiar faces in his first two games in Ruaidhrí Higgins and Damien Duff tomorrow and Monday.
#LOI
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@stpatsfc
After organising stalls & getting abuse, after knocking on doors + leafleting & getting abuse, after doing banner drops & getting abuse and after putting up posters & getting abuse, I assure anybody who thinks it was just bc it was "fashionable", it wasn't. Was 100% worth it tho!
Very patronising of Young people there on Radio 1. They canvassed in massive numbers, and in doing so got abuse the likes of which they never experienced before ...not because it was fashionable but because it was right!
Proud of our Workers' Party candidates and campaigners for increasing our vote in the areas where we've stood. It wasn't to be this time round but you either win or learn. The fight goes on. UTS ✊🏻🚩🇮🇪
✊🏻🚩🇮🇪 A huge thanks to the 364 people in
#Palmerstown
,
#NorthClondalkin
,
#Lucan
who gave us their number one vote, as well as to all who saw fit to give us a preference.
(1/2)
Some of the atrocities committed by 🇬🇧 soldiers in 🇮🇪 in the past 100 yrs.
Hillcrest bar bombing (1976)
Dublin & Monaghan bombings (1975)
Bloody Sunday (1972)
Ballymurphy Massacre (1971)
Bloody Sunday (1920)
Sack of Balbriggan (1920)
Burning of Cork (1920)
Never wear a poppy.
Finishing off 2021 isolating alone in me room with COVID-19 obviously wasn't part of the plan, but I honestly couldn't give a bollocks because Pats have won the cup haha yeoooooo 🔴⚪
.
@NewryCityAFC
vs
@Ballinamallard
in the Irish Cup today. Hugely important win for Newry after a really competitive game. Fair play to the great people working behind the scenes there that looked after us. Proper football people. Will deffo be back.
Think it's fair to say nobody rated the Silver Granite Saints going into the Hano Cup, but we've definitely shown them we're there now. Roll on next year.
You can't talk about imperialism without talking hegemony, yet the people who call Russia and China imperialist all of the time are quick to ignore, downplay or deny the imperialist role that United States, the dominant global hegemonic power, plays around the world.
There’s an imperialist streak to many on the Irish left willing to support regimes like Putin, Cuba, Iran and China in the suppression of their people in a way they’d never tolerate being inflicted on the Irish people.
The Workers’ Party has stated that it has a democratic mandate to claim the Dublin City Council seat of the late Anthony Flynn and has called for a ‘intensive’ investigation of ICHH.
My da's a fireman and once woke me up to tell me he'd saved a dog from a fire in a factory and he'd brought it home only for it to be a fucking lifesized stuffed toy, he left it lying out the back garden so it looked real and all from the window. Cunt got my hopes up.
I’m at work with my dad ( he’s a truck driver ) and I went to the bathroom in a garage and when I came back he had bought me tea, a muffin and a little toy truck that says No.1 Trucker, my heart:(((
Shels dug deep, played their game and earned three points tonight. We can complain about ref decisions and cynicism but that goes both ways in football. An improved performance on the last few weeks but we need to be better if we want Europe. For the love not the glory 🔴⚪️
Dublin Mid-West has the highest percentage of No votes in the Family referendum of any of the Dublin constituencies counted so far at 71.1%. Would not be surprised if this was overtaken by neighbouring Dublin South-Central going by tally reports.
#Ref24
#Referendum2024
#dmw
#dsc
People giving out about the new Ireland away jersey purely because it’s orange: what do you think the tricolour represents? If you want a united Ireland but don't want us recognising the 1 million or so Protestant Irish people living in this country, you’re no republican.
✊🏻🇮🇪
Great points made by
@GreeneOctober
. It's all well and good to accept that we need to do something about climate change, but what exactly should that something be?
Nuclear clearly has to be discussed as part of the conversation. The usual empty gov. rhetoric won't do the job.
🌡 Following a report which shows that 90% of Irish people believe that Ireland needs to act on climate change, it is time that the government starts exploring options such as nuclear energy, according to
@GreeneOctober
.
Read Garrett's statement here 👇🏻
Silver Granite Saints go out of the group stages of the Hano Cup on goal difference, unfortunate on our debut but a proud gaffer after the shift put in by the boys. Up the Gbox 🟠⚫️
Of our 3 goals, 2 have been knock-ins from corners and 1 was a Git Forrester cracker, but that isn't going to happen every week, sadly. 4 games in and we've still no clue where our goals are likely to come from. They're certainly not coming from winger/wingback crosses, though.
@stpats_szn
@dlooney
That clearly wasn't what you were saying, though, considering UEFA rules have nothing to do with half-season tickets for Pat's or how the club decide who gets a ticket.
Loyalty points for away games would be of very little use to the club. They don't get money from away games.
.
@workersparty
has put in so much work over the last 3 years to get cost rental public housing on the agenda that it’s now politically dangerous to ignore it. DCC tonight deferred a vote on the sale of O'Devaney Gardens.
We'll take that for now, but this is far from over.