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Kerry based sports scribbler, politics nerd, Deerhunter fan LLAP🖖

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@damianstack
Damian Stack
3 years
Everyone in Kerry around twenty past nine
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@damianstack
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4 years
Here it is everyone, the worst take of 2020
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1 year
Guys ... I'm watching League of Ireland of a Friday night, I've watched (in person or online) every Kerry FC game so far. I wouldn't have been a League of Ireland man before, but it's really enjoyable having a local side to follow
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
3 years
Kilmoyley finding out where their All Ireland semi final will be played
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Damian Stack
4 years
You can have more people at wedding indoors than a football match outdoors. This. Makes. No. Sense. Whatsoever.
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1 year
This is the GAA version of the dress. Really struggling to understand the people who see this as Cantwell being unfair to the giant ego in the grandfather shirt
@TheSundayGame
The Sunday Game
1 year
"Of course you must have secondary competitions" Dónal Óg Cusack addressed his recent remarks about the Tailteann Cup with Joanne Cantwell ahead of today's Munster SHC fixtures 📱 Updates - 📺 Watch - #RTEGAA
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
4 years
Hang on if Dublin goes to stage 3 and there's no sport allowed in Dublin... Can Killarney host the All Ireland final?
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
4 years
Been doing this job for 13 years now and have to say some of the best, most memorable days in that time have been from following the hurlers. Today was one of great days following the hurlers. Super performance from a great bunch of lads, deservedly getting their day in Croker
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Damian Stack
1 year
Saturday Game a great success last week... So obviously RTÉ decide not to bother with it this week 🤷
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Damian Stack
4 years
The worst thing about that disrespectful shitetalk from David Hickey this morning is that he has no clue what Mayo have done for this Dublin team. More than anyone Mayo have validated Dublin. The failure alone to see that tells you all you need to know #GAA
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5 years
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
6 years
How good has Tommy Walsh been so far this year? Serious credit to him and to Micheál Quirke and everybody who's helped him get back to this level. He's so strong and fit and sharp looking at the minute. Looks like he's got a pair of after burners added too. Delighted for him
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
5 years
I don't see Denis Irwin in the photo though 🤔
@sportbible
SPORTbible
5 years
The two best left backs in Premier League history... 😍
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
3 years
If only there was some sort of an purpose built outdoor venue where people could watch the game in Killarney
@AustinStacksGAA
AustinStacksGAA
3 years
Kerry V Clare Big Screen at Austin Stacks GAA Watch the Kerry V Clare game live on the Big Outdoor Screen at the Austin Stacks GAA Club House this Saturday evening. Forecast Excellent. Gates open at 6pm. Game at 7pm. No cover charge. Full Bar Service. Outdoor seating only.
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
4 years
@NaomiOhReally We should do a North South Erasmus type thing maybe in secondary school. Most of us, myself included, haven't spent any time there at all
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
3 years
What positive, fresh and new ideas have the Raes brought to the table in the 24 years they've been in the Dáil to help rejuvenate rural Ireland?
@thejournal_ie
TheJournal.ie
3 years
Minister Eamon Ryan was repeatedly heckled (at some volume) by independent Danny Healy-Rae as he spoke about the Climate Action bill today, as the Dáil sat in the convention centre.
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
3 months
Hulk Hogan fresh from the RNC came to support Clare in the All Ireland final
@McCarthyMick
Michael McCarthy
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❤️
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
4 years
Death, taxes and Des Cahill running a mile from anything remotely controversial on the Sunday Day
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
2 years
I really don't get bringing the club championships to the semi final and final stage and parking them for at least a month instead of getting on and finishing them 🤷 kinda undermines the integrity of the competition imo. Teams have momentum now... Get on with it
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
3 years
Woooaaaah Kerry beat Tipp in senior hurling for the first time ever. Incredible stuff. Bravo 👏👏
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
5 years
It's saying something that on a day when David Clifford kicked seven of the most exquisite points from play you'll ever see, we all left Fitzgerald Stadium talking about one man: Bryan Sheehan. The man is a phenomenon. A pleasure to watch him at work #GAA
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
2 years
Colin from Portsmouth is my favourite comic creation since Philomena Cunk
@Exploding_Heads
The Exploding Heads
2 years
📞"Everyone should have freedom of speech, EXCEPT THOSE I DON'T AGREE WITH." 😡 "Gary Bloody Lineker lost the Brexit war in 2016. Freedom of speech does NOT extend to political prisoners!" Colin from Portsmouth wants @GaryLineker to stay out of politics and stick to football.
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Damian Stack
5 years
Super season by Kerry. They can be proud of themselves and Kerry people can be proud of them. Played great stuff. Showed nerves of steel. Showed indefatigability so many times to come back in games. They'll be back. They'll learn. They'll win. #GAA
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
7 years
@Ciaran_O @jonfavs It's bonkers. She always polled better than Bernie, won more votes than Bernie, the rigged narrative is nutso.
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
5 years
This neutral venue looks eerily similar to Dublin's home venue last week. Jesus I can't figure it out at all at all #GAA
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
5 years
All the major cities of Europe. Paris, Oslo, Dingle 😁
@ventryweather
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The combination of Hurricane-force F12 gust & spring tide makes #StormBrendan a dangerous storm. Orange alerts in place but I’m with Red on this one ⚠️🌬🚩
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
3 years
@mrjamesob Why have him on Irish TV in the first place?
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Damian Stack
5 years
Has there been a better club footballer anywhere else in the country this past decade?
@ballsdotie
Balls.ie
5 years
There's something so beautiful about the flight of this ball, which was struck by Kerry great Bryan Sheehan. Thanks to Fintan Herlihy for sharing it on.
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Damian Stack
5 years
I don't have kids, so this will probably get me hung drawn and quartered, but if at all possible please do not bring your kids to the supermarket, do not let them run around like little lunatics, do not let them bump right into members of staff, do not let them paw stock
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Damian Stack
4 years
While totally in favour of the sentiment being expressed here, is the whole no mass gatherings before September thing just out the window now?
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Chloe Hanan
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Damian Stack
2 years
Easily the worst year I can recall for media access has been capped by the news that Kerry won't be organising any press briefing of any description ahead of the All Ireland semi final. You'd really wonder what do the GAA's sponsors nationally and on a county level make of it?
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
5 years
Anybody else think we've lost a sense of occasion from the GAA in the last two seasons? The build up to these two All Ireland hurling semi-finals has felt fairly low key all week. We've lost something special with this condensed calendar (that achieves very little) #GAA
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
3 years
@ESPNF1 @MercedesAMGF1 Siri show me why everyone in Europe wants anybody but England to win
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
4 years
At what point does Labour start seeing some love in the polls? They're head and shoulders above the rest of the opposition on just about every issue at the minute
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
2 years
@autosport Yes. Use synthetics and go v10 and loud
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Damian Stack
3 years
Seven years in, this is a famine. Kinda fooled ourselves into not thinking it as such because of the minors and potential etc since say 2018, but make no mistake this is a famine
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Damian Stack
5 years
Absolutely delighted for Killian Spillane. Three points, some real beauties, came of age as a senior footballer today #GAA
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Damian Stack
3 years
This is now a David Clifford appreciation account
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
5 years
Killian Young has retired. A super footballer and an integral part of the Kerry panel for over a decade. Will always remember him up the back of a flat bed truck in Ardfinnan collecting the Munster U21 Cup after beating Tipperary. Four All Irelands later he bows out. Class act
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Damian Stack
3 years
Kerry bet and dark at 9pm... Welcome to the winter of our discontent
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
4 years
Diarmuid O'Connor is a Rolls Royce of a footballer. The performance he gave against Legion in Stack Park this evening was hugely exciting from a Kerry point of view. Whatever it is, he has it #GAA
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
2 years
I thought the Miami Grand Prix was a gaudy, horrid mess which risks tarnishing F1's brand. My take in this week's column 👇
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Damian Stack
7 years
Love this 👇 👇 via @rte
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Damian Stack
8 months
I left the office to go cover this final at 3.30pm... just published now, least you could do is give it an aul click for me 🥺
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Damian Stack
3 years
This is a disaster for Kerry. Integrity of this year's championship in tatters.
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Damian Stack
11 months
@ChrisMedlandF1 Imagine Vegas without tyre blankets?! Sensible call
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Damian Stack
7 years
@fotoole @Channel4News Maybe Michael D has more power than he realises 🤔
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
5 years
Cork number eleven very emotional after beating Kerry, citing five tough years. Could not begrudge them that one minute. Congrats lads 👏
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Damian Stack
5 years
Get Paudie Clifford on the Kerry panel ASAP
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
8 years
Do yourself a favour and Read this by @CharlesMBlow . Blistering and brilliant: No, Trump, We Can’t Just Get Along
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Damian Stack
3 months
@tompeck A dash isn't a hyphen though 😂
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Damian Stack
2 years
Have the fixture makers in Croke Park ever been to Kerry or Mayo? To Ballinskelligs or Achill? Seems like consistently Kerry get the most awkward possible slot for games on Jones Road...
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Damian Stack
2 years
"In Munster rugby is the beating heart of our province"... Eh no it's not
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Damian Stack
5 years
@MorganOnBass Have you seen this one?
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Damian Stack
2 years
@Jontys_Corner @fia @F1 I never really thought about it, but I presume the fence is secure enough to take the weight or twenty guys?
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Damian Stack
2 years
There's an unwarranted focus in a lot of the coverage of the Kerry Babies story today on somebody who's been proven to have had absolutely nothing to do with Baby John. Leave her out if it for god's sake
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Damian Stack
2 years
@EoinListon It always is Bomber, but no. Those Tipp Kilkenny finals were better.
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Damian Stack
3 years
Pádraig O'Hora has some mouth on him by the looks of it 🙄
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Damian Stack
2 years
If there's one thing Tyrone know all about, it's how to defend an All Ireland title 🥴
@hoganstandgaa
hoganstand.com
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Kerry "incredibly reliant" on the two Cliffords - Cavanagh: Former Tyrone star Sean Cavanagh believes Kerry's reliance on the Clifford brothers could see them caught out in their All-Ireland SFC defence next year.
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Damian Stack
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If Kerry GAA are serious about the district sides giving them no preparation whatsoever and pitching them in against battle hardened club sides ain't the way to go. Having club semi finals a week before the SFC round 1 is frankly ridiculous and insulting to districts.
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Damian Stack
4 years
The GAA explaining to the Government the Dubs training breach was an isolated incident
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Damian Stack
4 years
Back from Mullingar. Absolutely brilliant day for Kerry hurling. So hard to choose a man of the match from of the match. Maybe Eric Leen though, man was lion-hearted again today again. Kerry's fate very much in their own hands now. Top of the group after two rounds
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Damian Stack
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Rewatched the minor match. Think I'm gonna have to go with Darragh Rahilly as my man of the match actually, won eight kick-outs (five in the first half when Kerry were under the cosh round the middle) and kicked three points from play. That's just a massive contribution #GAA
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Damian Stack
7 years
Watching sport on TV is the be assaulted constantly by adverts for god-damned betting companies. We'll look back on this in a few years and realise we were absolutely off our rockers yo allow it. Think of how weird it would be to see tobacco advertising now, it's basically that
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
3 years
Not for the first time the not red weather warning storm is far worse than the actual red weather warning storm 👀
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
11 months
Kerry GAA should source land and build a few of these around the county instead of wasting €70-100m on a stadium unlikely to be filled more than every couple of years
@BrennanEoin
Eoin Brennan
11 months
Great shot of new full size astro in @ClarecastleGAA Looking forward to first competitive match under lights this evening when Clarecastle face Scariff-Ogonnelloe in the Under 16B Hurling Championship Quarter-Final replay
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Damian Stack
5 years
Most of the money for these projects is public money and even if it's FAI money it's not like it's John Delaney's money. Delaney is not fucking Oprah. This pseudo clientism appeals to MHR who takes credit and votes from people for 'getting' them what they're already entitled to
@ballsdotie
Balls.ie
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After a three-minute love letter from Michael Healy-Rae to John Delaney, Ruth Coppinger tells him: 'I'm sure there are grants heading down the Kerry way... You're an embarrassment.'
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€72m... Which would probably end up well over €100m by the time the project is complete. I really can't see a justification for that kind of money being spent tbh. Even accounting for the pandemic when was it last sold out?
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Damian Stack
2 years
Graham O'Sullivan was immense.
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Damian Stack
4 years
Look at France there building for the World Cup with a 22 year old 10... Does anybody honestly believe Billy Burns is a potential 10 for us in 2023 (or Jonny Sexton too for that matter)? So what are we at? Genuine question
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Damian Stack
3 years
Still no statement of thanks or even mention of outgoing management team by the County Board...
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Damian Stack
6 years
Dublin for Sam
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Damian Stack
6 years
The goal against Armagh in 06 is probably the defining Darran O'Sullivan moment. Explosive and direct, he was a super servant for the Green and Gold. Enjoy your retirement 👏 #GAA
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
5 years
Aside from the goal - which was classic Geaney - thought Paul was really important in getting Kerry back on track tonight. Showed real hunger, desire and leadership, took it on, kept his head, inspired the rest. Class act down the stretch #GAA
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
11 months
Advocating changes to competition structures less than a week after being relegated
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
3 years
@gavnugent Stop giving extravagant funding to greyhound "industry" would be a good place to start.
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Damian Stack
6 years
Would love to see Dáithí Casey back on the bench. He'd be such a great option for Kerry in the last twenty minutes of games. Showed his game management and intelligence in the league, saved Kerry at least once #GAA
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
5 years
Downplayed this a little. Greens have gone from 1,100 in 2016 to 4,074 this time around (final tally) #GE2020
@damianstack
Damian Stack
5 years
Green Party in Kerry increase their vote by 300%. Probably won't be picked up by many people, but that's impressive #GE2020
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Damian Stack
5 years
Looks like Mikey Geaney has retired (?), but nothing on Kerry website or Twitter as of yet, but a tweet from the family bar is a pretty good indication... A good footballer, always gave it everything, had some very good days in green and gold 👏
@GeaneysBar
Paul Geaney's Bar & Restaurant
5 years
Congratulations to Mikey on his Kerry career! 👏💚💛 Best of luck for the future! 📷 sportsfile
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
12 days
@autosport Maybe try avoiding having a month long wait between races just as the season is reaching a crescendo
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
4 years
Maybe if he'd fairly tore into virus suppression and proper public health measures we wouldn't have the longest, and one of the most stringent, lockdowns anywhere in the world?
@newschambers
Richard Chambers
4 years
Tánaiste fairly tears into ZeroCovid - says it’s as much a slogan as a strategy to some people. He says he wants to see tougher interrogation of the advocates for it on what exactly they want. Taoiseach comes in and says ZeroCovid means a much longer lockdown than we have now.
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Damian Stack
4 years
Kerry football lads. Twould do the heart good.
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Damian Stack
5 years
Okay so that was something by Kerry. Brilliant, ballsy, aggressive stuff from Kerry. David Moran lording it. Geaney back on form. Fifteen points in a half of football is fair clipping. This team has just announced its arrival #GAA
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Damian Stack
3 years
Tis rare enough I feel the need to quote Coco Chanel, but looking at this over designed jersey this comes to mind: "Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
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Damian Stack
3 years
You know all those times when you see things in other counties and go to yourself: it wouldn't happen in Kerry... Well it's happening in Kerry 👀
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Damian Stack
5 years
But but but the mother of all welcomes awaited him
@radiokerrynews
Radio Kerry News
5 years
FAI confirms John Delaney won't be part of delegation to Kerry. More on 8 o’clock news, 96-98fm or
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Damian Stack
3 years
Hard to envisage this statement being made had the County Board thanked Peter for his service to the county last week when they should have done to be honest with you:
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Damian Stack
3 years
Dubliners love of those smoke stacks in Poolbeg has me confused... Do we need to start a love fest for the Tarbert Island chimneys?
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
6 years
Peter Keane is, for me, the outstanding candidate to replace Fitzmaurice. He's done well at every team he's managed and his minor teams have been a joy to watch. They're so well coached (Tommy Griffin has a big role to play too) plus knows the young guys better than anybody #GAA
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Damian Stack
2 years
There are far too few Senior clubs in Kerry. County champions and three in a row senior club winners, Austin Stacks, being in a relegation playoff is a complete absurdity. Something needs to be done
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Damian Stack
3 years
First time I saw Joe Canning in the flesh was against Cork in a qualifier in Thurles. This very loud Galway fan behind me kept roaring that "there's only one Joeeeeeee"... He was right. No show like a Joe show. Laoch.
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@damianstack
Damian Stack
6 years
Top, top class footballer. Everybody in Duagh has taken immense pleasure from your career and successes, Anthony. All Ireland winner and All Star, deserved it all.
@Kerry_Official
Kerry GAA
6 years
Congratulations Anthony on your Retirement
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Damian Stack
11 months
@gavreilly Ask her if she's considering her position in light of this massive failure, please
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