Chris McCann
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Director at Healthwatch England, formerly @GDSteam @BEISGovuk @tradegovuk - used to write for newspapers in Ireland. Mostly tweet about sport.
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He probably won’t get an Allstar because these things are too bound up in media profile but
@ConorMcCluskey3
has been the best cornerback in football this summer.
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Our Father who art in Heron,
Benny be thy name.
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In the queue for the Tesco on Drayton Park, was wearing a
@Doiregaa
goalkeeper shirt. Bloke in front of me in full cockney accent shouts back “Go on Derry” had a yarn with him (2 metres distance) turns out he was a Grieve and his oul boy from Dungiven. Brightened my day a wee bit
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Jesus but it does yer heart good to be in the middle of a crowd of your folk like this - a day I’ll not forget in a hurray.
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New
@Doiregaa
1993 wall art arrived today - designed by my bro
@samwheagle
hit him up if you want one of these of your club or county team created.
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As a metaphor for the historic institutionalised infrastructural neglect of Derry City, the special train for Derry fans heading to the Galway match at Croker running from Belfast is a bit too on the nose. Next thing you’ll be telling me they built Derry’s University in Coleraine
Rail campaigners have said they are “gobsmacked” at Translink’s decision to run a special train for Derry GAA fans on Saturday — from Belfast.
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There’ll be a narrative about Cork putting it up to Dublin, but this was basically an exhibition game until Dublin decided it wasn’t. People who can’t admit that Dublin are going to kill the football championship are the GAA equivalent of climate change deniers.
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Whatever my misgivings about Sky having the rights to the GAA games, there’s no questioning that the evidence based analysis provided by the likes of Canavan and McGuinness is light years ahead of the nostalgic bullshit you hear on RTE of a Sunday afternoon.
#GAA
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Shane! Shane! Come back!
Took me two weeks but I finally calmed down enough to write about the euphoria of the Ulster final.
@Doiregaa
’s Sharpshooter’s refusal to lie down, escape from Shawshank and a community exultant
#GAA
#Doireab
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#OakLeafRising
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@gunnerblog
He was stopping for pics for pretty much everyone who asked on Sunday. Cherry on top of a delicious cake of an afternoon.
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An Irishman locked down in a third floor North London apartment can get a fierce pang of jealousy when his brother in Donegal is sending pics like this from the beach behind house.
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The most tedious thing about Gaelic football is the constant desire to try and drag it back to some mythical halcyon era of catch and egged on by nostalgic ‘in our day pundits.’ If I could implement one rule change it would be a 5 year moratorium on rule changes.
Gaelic Football bogged down by “slow, cautious play” and change is coming says Croke Park chief Tom Ryan – The Irish News
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If you could nominate one sports image to hang in the Louvre Museum, what would you choose?
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Happy birthday 82nd birthday to John Hume. By God we could be doing with a 40 year-old version of ye right now John.
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With my old boots in an attic in Limavady, a return to GAA management and a first on-field training session tomorrow has necessitated a new pair of Kings.
#GAA
#styleneverages
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The last number of
@Doiregaa
jersies have been belters because of the clean lines and simplicity. It’s hard to mess up what is a classic template but O’Neill’s managed to bollix it here, that pixelation effect on the central band is dreadful and the band is only on the front.
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Irish mythology tells us of the Tuatha De Daanan a tribe of tall, red-haired, God-like people with supernatural powers.
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@SportsJOEdotie
Gatland's next wave of Lions call ups - Ivor the Engine, Charlotte Church, the Ghost of David Lloyd George and The Stereophonics
#Lions
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The ability to chill out on my sofa in Highbury on Saturday evening and watch the
@Doiregaa
SFC live on my TV is something generations of Oak Leaf exiles could only have dreamed of. The streaming service has been superb my thanks to everyone who has made it happen.
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Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane at
#Superbowl
. Do they go on holiday together like Fr Ted and Dougal?
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So farewell, Bran McCann, chaser of and destroyer of sticks and frustrated smiter of bumblebees. I know he was just a dog but he was my dog and I thought he was awesome.
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If my social media feeds are any gauge, the vast majority of GAA folk are supportive of Kildare’s stance. Ordinary members increasingly fed up with Croke Park prioritising financial considerations.
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Thanks to
@BBCNews
for the opportunity to talk about
@HealthwatchE
’s latest report on the importance of Accessible Information in NHS and social care services to ensure that people who are blind or deaf or have a learning disability don’t face barriers to accessing care.
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Ended up on Mexican TV yesterday talking about Raul Jimenez. Makes a change from being on BBC News talking about dentistry.
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Vintage sports shirts are my thing. I wanted the white Italia 90 so badly when I was 16 but didn’t have the cash. Took me nearly 30 years but finally got one.
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Another 1200 words from me for the
@Doiregaa
v
@DubGAAOfficial
programme. Basically I love our jersey
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One for the day that’s in it
@DanMartin86
on his way through
@IrishCorner10
on Alpe D’Huez in 2013. All the best in your retirement Dan. You’ve given Irish cycling fans some great days.
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A classic from
@ONeills1918
and one to keep in mind folks when you’re designing the next
@doiregaa
jersey - simplicity is beautiful.
#GAA
#prizedpossession
That collar 😍
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Dug out another interview from
@Doiregaa
1993 team
@BurnsEamonn
story might resonate with anybody who ever had to fight for their place on a team.
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The legendary Tony Scullion features on
@SportTG4
’s Laochra Gael tonight. I sat down with him many moons ago to talk about his footballing career and the joy he felt bringing the Sam Maguire Cup to his parents house
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Holy shit - if anyone wants me I’ll be out the back slaughtering a fatted calf.
.
@BBCSPORTNI
understands that former
@Derry
underage star Conor Glass is set to leave
@AFL
side
@HawthornFC
& return home to study
@UlsterUni
& resume playing for Derry.
More to follow soon.
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@mikenesbittni
@ecolitical
Apart from the ridiculous false equivalence you’re drawing here, Simon Zebo is not an IRFU player. Can’t believe you don’t see how bad this take makes you look.
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The internet has undoubtedly had some negative consequences, such as the undermining of liberal democratic norms, but that I can sit on my sofa in Highbury and watch
@GACSlaughtneil
hurlers on
@GAA_BEO
is pretty much all the mitigation I need for its existence.
#GAA
#TheToughest
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Jesus, there's nothing I don't love about this. Big Anthony taking that shoulder and still finishing, plus that inch perfect pass from
@PaddyB14
#DoireAbu
While we're all missing
#AllianzLeagues
action; GAANOW Rewind remembers the 2000 Allianz Football League Final! 20 years ago the inspirational Anthony Tohill scored a brilliant goal & captained
@Doiregaa
to overcome
@MeathGAA
in a replay to be crowned Champions!
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I’ve a few oul features with the
@Doiregaa
lads of 1993 floating about in my archive - this one with Brian McGilligan might be my favourite. His encounter with Jack Sheedy makes it worth the read
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I wrote a thing for Sunday’s
@doiregaa
county finals program. Persian Immortals, The Ship of Theseus, Trigger’s broom and how the ageless nature of the the teams we follow is a comfort as time has its way with us.
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Ah lads, it’s been an age since I had the joy of watching a Derry match for a second time. Gotta enjoy the good days, there’s been enough bad ones this last 10 years.
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I imagine any one not Irish reading this has gone ‘WTF?’
Aye, sex is grand, but have you ever been late for a party and tried to sneak in unnoticed only to accidentally kill the host's dog on the way in and then invite yourself to live in the host's house for free "as a guard dog" afterwards?
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You can see the look on Aoibhin’s face. Mark only ever won that accolade once and you might have thought it was something he’d have wanted to hang on to. But he wanted to make sure Aoibhin was happy with her present so he gave it to her. An absolute prince of a fella
#GAA
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There was a bit of me that hoped that after seeing the reaction to the balls they made of our red shirt O’Neills might rectify it for the white version, but alas no. They given us another dog’s dinner of a jersey.
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Thanks to all folk on Twitter, WhatsApp, Text and Facebook inquiring after my emotional well-being after my cameo appearance on MOTD live tonight. Bit of a miracle they managed to catch me not swearing.
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I know it’s an unfashionable opinion but I prefer Gaelic football to hurling and that fact that there’s no football being shown live on television until the third weekend of the championship is extremely frustrating.
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Jarlath really gets it unlike the flag profile pic faux patriot hate mongers who proliferate on this platform.
GAA President Jarlath Burns with a message more important than ever after the All-Ireland Final.
“For those who are our diaspora, who left this country because of war and famine, whose ancestors had to leave…and we thank the country’s who took you in and gave you jobs”
👏👏
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The latter part of the championship was the only bit that really worked I used to love quarter-final weekend. The Super Eights have actually made the football championship worse. When I’m watching golf ahead of Gaelic football something’s gone wrong.
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Go on Callum, great to see a Limavady lad doing well but imagine we had him to throw on in the last 20 minutes against Galway on Saturday.
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Normally I do the celebrity selfies just for the craic. But today I was properly in awe - Roberto Baggio, Roberto fucking Baggio!
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Watching Derry ease to a comfortable win framed by the always breathtaking vista of the hills of home. I genuinely can’t think of anything that makes me feel as grounded and content. The GAA is home.
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As an exile I wasn’t there but hard to imagine that this wasn’t most outrageously entertaining drawn game played in Gaelic football this year.
@nacunnaclg
@WattyGrahamsGAA
#GAA
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Looking forward to watching this cub destroying corner-backs for the next decade.
#Doireab
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Congratulations to
@Doiregaa
's Lachlan Murray this week’s
#GAA
Footballer of the Week as chosen by you!
#GAABelong
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Each year I become more convinced that the GAA's congress is a cabal of secret hurling fanatics working to destroy football
#GAAcongress16
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And that’s a wrap 20 hours and 10 minutes on we’re back in Highbury where we started - belter day. Thank you and good night.
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Had the opportunity to go on
@BBCNews
to talk about what the public tells
@HealthwatchE
about the crisis of accessibility and affordability in NHS dentistry.
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Just the hour’s delay on EasyJet - not too bad given the horror stories I’ve heard this week.
#RoadToClones
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Two own goals. Even as an outright atheist and ultra skeptical empiricist I'm starting believe in this priest's curse against Mayo.
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Bank account not very happy about it in the mouth of Christmas - but what hell. Flights home booked for next weekend.
#NaC
únnaAbú
#MonTheHounds
.
@AIB_GAA
#UlsterJFC
Final. Saturday 17th November in Celtic Park.
@nacunnaclg
v
@redhughs
with a 7pm throw in. 🇺🇦🏐🇺🇦
#YourClub
#YourColours
#MontheHounds
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That feeling when you score last minute tickets for Twickenham - thanks a lot to the ticketing team a
@IrishRugby
who helped convert printed tickets to mobile after a friend couldn’t travel from Wexford.
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Hard not to have mixed emotions on this one. Wish Callum every success in Oz but by Christ he’s some loss to our club.
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Privileged that my time as a GAA reporter in Derry coincided with the career of this man. I got a front row seat to watch a genius at work for 20 years. On top of everything else an absolute gentleman to deal with.
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Chilling at the oul pair’s house on Cruit Island. Donegal is pretty damn hard to beat when the sun shines.
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