Ger Siggins
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Journalist (cricket) writer (children's fiction, RUGBY SPIRIT series) & editor. President Lord’s Taverners Ireland. Searchin' for my lost shaker of salt
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In light of Delilah will IRFU review its PA music? Boys are Back in Town (condones street fighting, knife crime), Dearg Doom (glorifies beheading), Fields of Athenry (corn larceny) Beautiful Day (celebrates climate change)?
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Two tries for Jonny May, one more and he’ll be level with his sister Theresa
#RWC2019
#BrexitDeal
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It’s all over for me in Times Ireland tonight. Last man standing in the office so won’t get the traditional knockdown. If you’re out there, give your table or desk a good bang for five seconds and I’ll hear you. And do yourself and the world a favour - keep buying newspapers
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So 83 years ago today this was the programme for Ireland’s home game in Dalymount Park
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Brian Siggins. 13.01.1933 - 10.11.2020. Thanks for everything Dad. Sleep well
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"Tá a lán áthas orm an corn seo a ghlacadh ar son foireann Sasanach"
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If Kamala takes over before the next election does she become the 46A?
@dublinbusnews
#Bagatelle
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Does anyone remember the RTE results show for the 1983 referendum? Michael D was getting increasingly agitated and at 6pm John Bowman turned to camera and said "now we break to go to the Angelus". A lone voice could be distinctly heard: "well that's very fecking appropriate..."
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Poor Sean Hughes, there's a lot of pain in this poem he wrote about his own funeral...
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There that great
@irishcricket1
pic again from 2007 - Shivnarine Chanderpaul with 10yo
@GarethDelany
@Irelandcricket
@windiescricket
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My Europe order for tomorrow (might take a bit of time travel and some fake moustaches)
1 Jon Rahm
2 Sergio Garcia
3 Shane Lowry
4 R Jonson
5 G Sergiovich
6 Seanie Lowry
7 J Ramstein
8 S Garcy
9 LS Lowry
10 Ron Jam
11 Georgio Sarcia
12 Laine Showery
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“Chuffed to bits”. Full page on the
@IPL
deal that sees Josh Little off to
@gujarat_titans
.
@cricketireland
@CL_LLightning
@pembrokecricket
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Yesterday was a sad day with The Times telling us it would stop printing an Irish edition. The team were great to work with and will all continue to fly, despite the poor prognosis for the industry. I also got a chance to write lots of cricket: this is today’s column.
#Buypapers
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Can't help thinking today of two great
@cricketireland
fans who would have loved to be in the MCG. The iconic shot from the win in Jamaica 2007 was of Arthur Deeny and Derek O'Neill dancing a jig. We lost Arthur in 2018 and Derek, pictured in Bangalore 2011, last Saturday. RIP
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300 word statement and the closest to a mention of Ireland is his wife’s name.
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When I was about 8 we had our own football team, O’Connell Spitfires, and used to play friendlies against a team from Finglas. I used to write match reports and my dad copied them for all. Sorting out his stuff I just found one and it brings it all back gloriously. Great times
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I'm done already, but thoughts with former colleagues on
@thetimesIE
on their last day. Really enjoyed working with you all and I've no doubt your talents will find a home. And while
@GarryDoyle1
has been displaying his greatest hits over on his timeline, here's two of mine
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It is now exactly 1,000 days since Ireland cricketers last played a Test match; there are no more on the horizon.
It is nearly five years since ICC granted Test status to Ireland, who have played three Test matches since.
(1/3)
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Sixty years ago today. He really wanted to make it to this great day but sadly Dad fell in the home straight. We’ll toast him well with Mam.
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In researching Cricket history I’ve looked at every single Irish national newspaper since the 1850s, so I can assure you that there has never before been four broadsheet pages devoted to the sport. Followers of Cricket simply can’t miss today’s
@TheSundayIndo
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@Irelandcricket
making a few points. "Yes Marian, they're still on a high after beating England two days ago," "Well Marian, it's hard to say how this one will go but Ireland are well placed" and the like. Three weeks later I got home to discover Charlie Bird had been presenting that day. (2/2)
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When your Daddy appears on TV after being away for three weeks playing for Ireland...
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Lot of nasty comments about
@CampherCurtis
because he was not born in Ireland. Of the 59 men capped in ODIs for
@Irelandcricket
before this, 8 were born in SA, 6 England, 5 Australia, 3 NZ and 1 India. Give the lad a chance
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Another demagogue finishes his reign in a bunker
AP got the shot. Trump on the golf course while Biden is announced as new President
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Raking America Great Again
Trump: "You gotta take care of the floors. You know the floors of the forest, very important... I was with the President of Finland... he called it a forest nation and they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things and they don't have any problem."
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Delighted to get my quiz prize from
@cricketleinster
and the
@LordsTaverners
Ireland. A great souvenir of a memorable night 11 months ago
@Middlesex_CCC
v
@LCU_Lightning
.
#sportingchance
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A producer for the Marian Finucane radio show asked me to go on one Sunday in 2011 when
@Irelandcricket
where playing India in the World Cup. It was a very noisy Bangalore stadium and I could barely hear a word from Dublin, so I winged it by giving a brief update and (1/2)
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First Father’s Day without him. I’m going to sit and read our favourite bedtime story - his present to me when less than a month old. Love your Dads
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Good company for
@balbo90
here...
Most List A runs in 2019
Usman Khawaja 769
Andrew Balbirnie 671
Aaron Finch 634
Virat Kohli 611
Ross Taylor 593
Shai Hope 585
(Balbirnie’s average of 68.3 second only to Taylor)
@pembrokecricket
@LCU_Lightning
@Irelandcricket
@irishcricket1
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Great turn out of Irish media here for the Test. On occasions like this I always think of those we worked alongside who would have loved to see this day; Sean Pender, Karl Johnston, Stanley Bergin, Davy Holmes. We’re thinking of you, men
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@cricketireland
men and women on screens, papers delivered (full page on
@IrishWomensCric
in
@irishdailymail
) …. Do not disturb
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Cover reveal: a very special book in tribute to a very special man.
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I remember back in 1984 and a lot of fuss about a teenager who scored 1,000 senior runs and a record 4 centuries. 38 years on his daughter has scored 1,000 senior runs and a record FIVE centuries.
@thelewdog50
@lewis_gaby
@YMCACCDublin
@cricketleinster
@cricketireland
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Welcome to cricket in 2018...where the only footage of the game that may have knocked Afghanistan out of the world cup comes from the wife of the Zimbabwe captain in the crowd.....
For those asking here is the full video of Vitori taking the last wicket and
@BrendanTaylor86
golden catch! WHAT A TEAM, WHAT A WIN!
@ZimCricketv
@GraemeCremer
@Maru09Mw
@sean14williams
@PJMoor10
@kingsoly21
@Craig_Ervine77
#ZIMvAFG
#CWCQ18
#CWCQ
#Zimbabwe
#bulawayo
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The stuff about an all-ireland soccer team will get the fuss but this anecdote tells you all that is wrong with the
@FAIreland
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Just witnessed the emergence of a star. Amy Hunter is 16 today, and celebrated by scoring the first ODI century for Ireland since July 2000 and only the 4th in all.
She’s also the youngest to score an ODI ton for ANY country, beating Mithali Raj 16y 205d.
@mpm_a
@grealey_miriam
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Dad and Uncle David loved their rugby, never missed a home game in 60 years. They reckoned a win in NZ would be better than a World Cup. They both left us in the last 18 months but I’m sure they’re smiling down at us today.
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I see the old Garda club on the SCR is now a 24hr gym. Or a 37hr gym in Garda numbers
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We're running out of road at
@thetimesIE
so I had a bit of fun with the penultimate column... (free to subscribe, two articles free per week)
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Nice bowling by Josh Little - best bowling return in the two seasons so far of The Hundred. 5-13 off 20 balls.
@cricketireland
@cricketireland
@pembrokecricket
@LitFam13
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Seventh Olympic gold for Ireland 🇮🇪 since 1924 - only downside is it puts Cork top of the county medal table with 3, followed by Wicklow 2, Dublin 1 and Tipperary 1.
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BREAKING: Ireland’s greatest batsman edjoyce24 to retire from all Cricket with immediate effect
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I’ve a piece with
@ShaneGetkate
in today’s
@TheSundayIndo
in which he tells the remarkable story of his collapse from a heart condition during a
@WarwickshireCCC
game and how he rebuilt himself to become the newest
@Irelandcricket
international
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Nanci Griffith was a seriously good singer and songwriter. It used irritate me a lot that she was only known for From A Distance, but songs like Love At the Five and Dime and her version of Speed of the Sound of Loneliness are masterpieces
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"Worst specimen I have met in 30 years". Brendan Behan didn't impress his boss as a lighthouse painter
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What a thrill for these kids to have
@Eoin16
passing on tips to younger members of the club where it all started for him. Class act.
🏏 | Great to have former Rush man
@Eoin16
back in the club today for a catch up. As per usual, Eoin was fantastic in giving his time to the kids. No better person to learn from than a World Cup winning captain !
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First
@cricketireland
win over
@OfficialCSA
since 1947 when Jimmy Boucher did the business!
#IREvsSA
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I saw
@FAIreland
play Italy there in my first football international back in 1971. Lovely to see Lansdowne Road lit up in solidarity with our Italian friends tonight
#covid19Ireland
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New world record for
@SimiSingh147
- highest score by any No8 batsman in an ODI.
@cricketireland
#IREvSA
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Hugely honoured and completely chuffed to write Ireland's children's book for World Book Day 2018. Rugby Roar is on the way and out March 1.
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This is the 293rd international match in all formats played by
@IrishWomensCric
and Amy Hunter’s 121* is the highest individual score in all that time. And 312-3 is Ireland’s highest ODI score too, She won’t forget her 16th birthday!
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Sad day as one of the greats bows out. He deserved better but we’ll always have that magic night when he took England apart for six after six. Best of luck in all you do Kev.
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What a hypocrite Stokes is with his "I would have called him back" twaddle. England captains are just as willing to play dumb. Did Collingwood call back Elliott? Did Morgan called Balbirnie when Foakes cheated him out at Malahide?
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Great news that RTE will show 1hr highlights programmes of the Test and T20s.
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That’s it!
@KevinOBrien113
becomes Ireland’s first Test centurion
@railwaycricket
@LCU_Lightning
@Irelandcricket
@MarianCollege
@StaroftheSeabns
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Nine different scorers for Dundalk after 83mins ... equals world record of nine set by Liverpool (11 v Stromsgodset 1) in ECWC 1974/75.
@DundalkFC
@FAIreland
@SSEAirtricityLg
#ATHvDUN
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A year gone today. Will raise a glass 🥃 later to the great Roy Torrens.
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Last column for
@thetimesIE
@TimesSport
today - I take a look at the
@LCU_Lightning
revolution ahead of their game against
@Middlesex_CCC
on Friday.
#buyapaper
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Gavin and Conor Hoey bowling in tandem for
@TrinityCricket
- first time a father and son played together in 200 years of trinity cricket 🏏
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Interview with Orla Prendergast in today's
@irishdailymail
ahead of six-game West Indies series - which will be shown live on BT Sport.
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Nice to see Jimmy Anderson play his 150th test. At current rate,
@KevinOBrien113
will be 86 when he plays his 150th test for
@Irelandcricket
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What a night!
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949 days since "Test nation" Ireland last played a Test.
Neither of two Tests expected to be played in 2022 are in the schedule just released.
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That stand of 215 by
@harry_tector
and
@jack_tector
yesterday is the first double century stand by a pair of brothers in 100 years of senior
@cricketleinster
competition
@YMCACCDublin
@RushCricketClub
@NCU_Knights
@LCU_Lightning
@thelegendHT
@anitatector
@timtector
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.
@LCU_Lightning
@SimiSingh147
Just checked it and Simi has become the first player to score a century and take a 5-fer in any first-class match in Ireland. Bob Lambert was only one to do it for
@Irelandcricket
, v
@CricketScotland
in 1911, but that was in Glasgow.
@phoenixcricket
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“An area the size of Connecticut” they tell us on Morning Ireland... that’s a great help. Try “an area the size of Northern Ireland” say, or “slightly smaller than Connacht”
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I really enjoy getting letters from readers but this, from Cathal in Co Clare, is the best ever. He’s drawn a whole comic about his visit to Dublin to meet, eh, his favourite writer and how he evades security to meet me in my office in the Aviva. Thanks Cathal I’ll be in touch!
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Wow! Fantastic win for
@IrishWomensCric
against AUSTRALIA! That’s world champions,tournament hot favourites, 5 wins in last six events Australia.
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Hull 0 Leeds 4 sounds like the Housemartins album I could get onboard with
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Stirling is so consistent. Since start of 2019: 22 ODIs, 5 hundreds, 8 fifties, 1,282 runs, average 61.
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@TrinityCricket
host
@MCCOfficial
in the only 3-day game in Ireland this year, starting today. Marks 125th anniversary of first fIrst-class match in Ireland (albeit two years late!) lovers of red ball welcome
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The cricket season should be starting this weekend, and
@tcddublin
marking 200 years of playing in College Park. But that’s not likely to happen now. In today’s
@TheSundayIndo
I get a bit nostalgic for
@TrinityCricket
and the grand old place...
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Most runs in six over power play in all t20 history
@stirlo90
67
@KevinOBrien113
23
@Irelandcricket
93-0 v
@windiescricket
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The last Delany to wear a green shirt in the MCG went home with a gold medal 🥇
@cricketireland
@irishathletics
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