Lads I know it’s hard to find at this time of year, but does anyone in their mid-to-late 30s have any outdated, ideally unsolicited advice for teenagers about to sit exams?
Leo Varadkar, somewhere, is currently weighing the pros and cons of recording a video to wish the soccer team good luck tomorrow.
Pro: loves hearing own voice replayed
Con: empathy with the working class and its things
Tadhg Beirne, Oli Jager, Joey Carbery – all brought to Munster by David Nucifora without any connection to the province.
Simon Zebo brought back on an IRFU contract and not a single involvement in a squad since.
Maybe it’s not Nucifora
With interest in Antoine Frisch being reported from clubs in France and apparent interest in Mike Haley, it’s worth noting the dismantling job Nucifora has overseen on the Munster squad that won the URC less than 12 months ago through makey uppy rules and a reduced budget.
John McGuirk has absolutely no credentials that merit him a place on national TV discussing public life and policy. And yet, he's there because he's a notable contrarian online. If ever there was an argument not to feed the trolls.
Lads I know it’s hard to find at this time of year, but does anyone in their mid-to-late 30s have any outdated, ideally unsolicited advice for teenagers about to sit exams?
@SimonRaiwalui
His late-career rivalry with Sexton divided Munster/Leinster and when beating Leinster in big CC games he has stoked the tension, not always a gracious winner.
That said he deserves his legacy as a top player and coach IMO. He’s spiky but not beyond sportsmanship
As a retaliation to a perceived anti-Brexit meme tweeted by Ireland Simpsons Fans, an anonymous account stated tweeting people my home address and encouraging them to let me know how they feel. The internet is fucked up.
I am absolutely baffled by the number of people who claim to be die-hard Leinster fans who didn’t buy tickets when they were on public sale. I paid €55 for amazing seats covering two finals!
💬 Finally, we will continue to discuss further 🎟️ options with
@ChampionsCup
should more become available from LaR and a further raffle will also be held should STH not purchase by the deadline.
Thank you as always for the support - we are trying our best with what we have 👍
Who said student politics doesn't matter? In 2015 students in TCD voted for Lynn Ruane to be SU President against the odds, and campaigned for her in Seanad elections. Just over a year later and she's voting to
#repealthe8th
at
#8committee
👍🏻
A few months ago I was cycling to Connolly station and a group of kids had set up a translucent string very tightly at head height across the entrance to Seán O'Casey Bridge. It was a deliberate effort to hurt someone, and this kind of thing is common
Ticket's to Nigel Farage's
#Irexit
event are free, with a 50p booking cost and limited to one per email. Who wants to help buy them up and leave the room empty? Genuine question... 👀
Even assuming the absolute worst intentions from Michael Fry, it’s completely immaterial. There’s no point having any kind of emotional reaction to it. He didn’t stop any houses being built and dunking on an easy target won’t build any more.
Gerry Adams ceding the Presidency of Sinn Féin is a big moment in modern Irish history, regardless of the view you take on his legacy. Interesting day.
In a nutshell this is why Labour are unfortunately a shadow of themselves. Cosplaying Connolly and calling each other comrade while hitting the poorest in government and not being especially sorry about it. So sad
A spokeswoman for Labour tells the
@IrishMirror
: “Among the many differences between us and the Social Democrats is that the Labour Party was founded by James Connolly. The Social Democrats were founded by Stephen Donnelly.”
On your first day of college you get assigned a nickname based on your Leaving Cert points ranking. Unfortunately despite doing quite well I picked a course where everyone did quite well. They called me “median” for 5 years. But I turned out ok.
@JohnDugganSport
With all due respect some of us have seen for a long time that it wasn’t going to work and OTB Football sneered and dismissed. It wasn’t hard to see!
The Parish priest in Nenagh found out earlier this week that he’d have to eulogise Shane MacGowan in front of some of the most famous people in the world and he did stunning justice to the man
Imagine holding an opinion with absolutely no basis in reality and volunteering to go on national TV and articulate it. Jamie Bryson is quite the character.
#CBLive
Sharing lived experience of mental health is powerful BUT we can’t keep asking parents to share their story & have nothing change.
@andreagilligan
@NewstalkFM
putting parents voices with the latest failings of our mental health services. 💔 No Words.
I grew up around the narrative that Sinéad O’Connor was “mad” and it definitely affected how I thought of her for years. Over time grew to understand the injustice and hypocrisies she saw and for some reason always held the guilt of what I used to think of her.
It's tragic that such a regressive and draconian piece of legislation as the
#SafeAccessZonesBill
was rail-roaded through the Dáil tonight.
We owe a lot of gratitude to the 10 TDs who bravely voted against it.
Once the unintended consequences and discriminatory nature of this
@timoconnorbl
He brought them to Munster in exactly the same sense in which he dismantled the title-winning team. I’m sorry if it’s not convenient to have to interact with perspectives other than your own
I get most of my information about
#Brexit
from Simpsons memes and witty Twitter hot-takes and I know twice as much as anyone currently on Sky News discussing it. What a shit show.
@timoconnorbl
If David Nucifora can be accused of “dismantling” a team because as high performance director he signs off on everything, then he’s also responsible for the stuff you like because he approves it
Imagine what the Aviva could be like if landlords and corporate clients didn’t get so many tickets?
It’s inconceivable that this is the same population as the one that creates an outdoor pub/library during the Six Nations.
As a millennial, mine would be 300,000 orders of avocado toast with a latté. I don't like milk-based coffee but it's important to remain true to my socialist values even in times of extreme wealth.
@RugbyInsideLine
6N is owned by the participating unions. You know this. Serious conversations don't change anything unless they see a commercial value in it. You know this.
Al Porter's statement in summary: I was only being gas, everyone was mean online, I lack the moral grounding to distinguish between right and wrong.
Smell ya later!