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I do music for a living. I tweet about Finn Harps mostly. Been known to hold a camera & a mic for FHTV. Groundsman at Finn Park, for my troubles.
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I am 6 foot 2. Paid over 100 quid to watch a TV screen.
Marlay Park is a brutal venue, and whoever made the decision to put the stage at the top of the hill instead of the bottom needs shot.
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Shamrock Rovers earned more prize money for drawing one game of football, last night against Djurgardens (€166k), than they will if they win the league title this season (~€110k).
A pretty damning reflection on the state of finances in domestic Irish football.
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I quit my job today.
I'm taking a huge gamble and giving up solid employment to take a chance on a business I've always wanted to do.
Call it stupid, call it brave, you only live once.
👌🎶🎶
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@baddestmamajama
@hazuhll
😂😂Effectively saying "I'm gonna make a badass show about this Irish woman who stood up to English oppressors, who in turn didn't touch her land for years until after she was dead, but I'm going to use her (not) English anglicised name to make her more English"...makes sense.
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Side note..it was still worth it. Pearl Jam were fucking class.
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Anyone know the process of a refund on
@FAIreland
season ticket? Absolutely no way I'll be traveling up and down from donegal to a neil lennon managed ireland team..pathetic appointment if it's true.
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Please, tell us more about the idea of committment to Irish football, This Is Anfield Ireland..
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So, I'm at Smashing Pumpkins Dublin show. Some young lad beside me, maybe 18/19 years old. Absolutely obsessed by
@Weezer
who are support band. He's at his first ever gig, all by himself. Said it was a "life complete experience" and it's made my night. Music is just class guys.
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Up the Harps. Day two.
Celebrating attending every single Harps game this season, home and away. First time I've done it in over 20 years supporting Harps.
Here's to many more years 🔵⚪💪💪
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16 weeks into the
@LeagueofIreland
season, there's been just shy of 400,000 people through the gates of LOI grounds this season, (300k Premier, 100k First).
Represents an average of 3.5k Premier, 1.2k First Division attendances weekly.
On course to smash all attendance records.
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This week in Finn Park..office worker, ticket seller, groundsman, pitch cut and lined, cameras, interviews, video editing, FHTV weekly, and more..home at 12:20am after getting to Finn park at 10am this morning. Wouldn't change a thing. What a club. Up the Harps. 🔵⚪
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Just out on a Sunday evening making sure Vinny Perth doesn't have to complain about the pitch here on Friday week again 👌
#uth
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I am utterly disgusted that after two training sessions Stephen Kenny hasn't turned Ireland into 1994 Brazil.
60% possession? Brutal.
90% pass completion? Give me a break.
This Kenny fella hasn't a clue. Playing young lads? Should have called up Robbie Keane.
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Just the 12 hours done in Finn Park today on the ground. Extremely difficult conditions this week with a stupid amount of rainfall today alone. Soaked..tough gig for a guy using one arm 🤦
#uth
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One of the most impeccably observed minutes silence I've ever seen in 25 years attending Finn Park.
Really emotional and sombre feeling here tonight.
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Battling performance, horrible weather, but still over 2,500 out to see the beginning of a new era.
Certainly more positives than negatives to take out of that game. Something to build on for sure 🤞💪⚽💙
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Left this morning at 10:30am.
In the door just after 1:30am.
Bottle to the head, soaked to the skin, through to the next round of the cup.
Sure you couldn't beat it. LOI football has it's ups and downs, but it's the
#greatestleagueintheworld
for so many reasons. Love it.
#uth
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Still going at 8pm on a wet Thursday night. Volunteers going above and beyond in Finn Park as per usual 👌🔵⚪
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Get out and see him while you can. The genius Paddy McCourt retires at the end of this season. A once in a generation talent in our league.
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Pitch work never ends..likely a final cut of the year in Finn Park as the preparations for 2024 season has already begun.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the Minister for Sport in Ireland.
Head buried firmly in the sand here. Really worrying stuff really how clueless he's come across here.
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I've watched this over and over again, I can't come to any other conclusion that yet again,
@Owolabi9_T
has been denied a stonewall penalty.
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Starting to worry about next season for the first time. The 2021 Harps squad probably could have achieved so much more. To see it being torn apart is gut wrenching. Seeing some top players leaving, players with big potential leaving & lads who gave it their all, it's hard to take
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Stephen Kenny could win the world cup and would still have people calling for his head.
There's a mentality within Irish football fans that unless you've managed at the top level, you're immediately not good enough, see suggestions for Dyche, Hughton etc.
#coybig
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This sort of craic makes me last person to leave the ground. Match finished about 9:30, leave the ground just after 11pm.
A quick stop for a coffee and on the road to Donegal.
All for the love of it. Up the Harps.
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The FAI organising pitch inspections during the peak hours of the stormy weather tomorrow morning is just, well, peak FAI stuff.
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@gavreilly
Can the minister of state for sport consider releasing promised funds to Finn Harps stadium development, only 16 years waiting now..plz thanks..
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Finn Park will always hold special memories. If I had my way, the 4m would go into developing it, but alas, we have something to be truly excited for, and a stadium to be proud of.
Hopefully won't be long until the builders are back on site 💪🔵⚪🔵⚪
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One of these days I'll prioritise my job over endless hours working on a football pitch.
Another day put in today preparing for Fridays visit of Cork..
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Can't be letting
@ShamrockRovers
have all the fun. Four year old Finn, of course a
@FinnHarpsFC
fan, gets in a bit of wall ball down in the local park on a cold wet winter afternoon.
#FootballLovesUs
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Hup the Harps!! What a win. After such a miserable start, getting three points so convincingly on the board is a massive kickstart for the season.
Once this side clicks..💪⚽🔵⚪
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Far from ideal, but having spent about 95% of my days in the last four or five months in Finn Park, I have seen the amount of work thats gone into trying to sort this out.
We badly, badly need our new stadium now.
The club can confirm that this Friday's clash vs UCD will now kick off at the earlier time of 5pm.
We regret the inconvenience caused to our supporters but the club has no choice following the failure of the floodlight system to pass a test this evening.
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All games down in LOITV. What a quality service we've got this year..
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@wcurtin67
@FAIreland
I have been there, I'm a repeat season ticket holder. I have been a countless friendlies & dead rubber games for years now. I am a shareholder & season ticket holder of a LOI club who haven't won anything in 20 years. I know exactly what it's like to follow a team at it's lowest.
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Not an ideal result but kudos to the good Harps travelling support down tonight. Around 100 dotted all along the stand.
Hopefully something more to cheer come Friday night 🔵⚪⚽
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It may have taken a battering during the game...but a small group of lads worked miracles to ensure that game went ahead at all tonight, considering the amount of rain that fell on it over the past few days, and today especially.
Legends.
#UTH
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I love Finn Park. I spend about 4-5 days a week there. I grew up watching my own heroes playing, & I'm still there doing my bit for the current generation.
I can't wait to see us leave the place.
It's so far beyond saving. And it's sad. But its a reality. Its time to move on.
Following feedback from shareholders and supporters, the Finn Harps SGM scheduled for this Sunday, 7pm at the Villa Rose Hotel will now be an open meeting for all shareholders, supporters and the wider Donegal community to provide an update on the stadium project.
#UTH
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Some of these days we'll get a refereeing decision in our favour..
@Owolabi9_T
denied a stonewall penalty.
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@OrielCelt
Well, to be fair, if we didn't speak out about anything that negatively impacts us, we wouldn't strive to make things better.
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My take.
If you're going to lockdown, actually lockdown, don't pick & choose what you're closing.
It's either everything, or quit messing people about.
There's no point closing gyms while putting 30 people into a classroom.
Poor implementation of restrictions have us in a mess.
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@dsheridan70
@johngosullivan
I wouldn't expect a huge amount of support for the Irish League on this side of the border, to be fair.
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Volunteer groundstaff hard at work again, working today on the new training ground in Stranorlar, hand picking stones as the site is further prepared for seeding. 💪🔵⚪
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What a disaster, not only for us, but for Webby himself. Has been a huge asset to Harps for the past few years, on and off the pitch. The way he carries himself is an example to all young players out there. A top player and a top man.
Hoping for a speedy recovery.
Finn Harps can confirm that captain David Webster will miss the remainder of the 2022 season after suffering a serious knee ligament injury against Bohemians on April 15th.
Everyone at the club wishes Webby the very best with his recovery 👊🔵⚪️
#UTH
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Some result for Sligo in Europe tonight. Credit where it's due, that's a top class result for a LOI side to beat a Scottish Premier team ⚽
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FAI know the craic with cup draws.
Do it live on radio so nobody can see you mess it up.
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It's a wet one, but it's a classic Finn Park day for football. ⚽️👊
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All the damage...roofs, trees, sheds, trampolines...
Finn Park.
Bulletproof.
I'm not sure how either, but here we are.
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Duty done. Donegal has a long history of voting no. Today is no different.
No to racism.
No to fascism.
No to right wing policies.
No to inadequate housing policies.
No to closing more vital services.
Good luck to all genuine candidates running today local & European elections
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Oh well..nice to visit Waterford again. Nice ground with pleasant people. Even the ten year olds who kept calling us cunts. They were alright really.
Onto Tralee next week 🔵⚪⚽
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27,135 people through the gates of LOI grounds this weekend.
Several capacity crowds in that, so it would have well exceeded it had there been proper facilities across the country.
League is making great strides, and long may it continue.
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Part of the furniture in Finn Park. Really devastating news. Rest in peace Ronan. 💙
Today we are all heartbroken at the news that we have lost our man Ronan.
Our steward, supporter and our great friend.
Ronan, it's impossible to imagine match nights without you.
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Today's delivery! Delighted to finally get the new
@FinnHarpsFC
3rd kit.
Super service from the clubs online shop, right down to the packaging & note inside.
Happy to contribute in a small way to
@DonegalDS
as part of it with a tenner of each jersey sale going to a great cause.
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Irish football expert John Joe from Offaly, with a Man United crest as his Facebook profile picture, has decided that Evan Ferguson is declaring for England.
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Donegal in a nutshell..lovely bright sunny weather one second, and the clouds of doom the next.
#LousySmarchWeather
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@FAIreland
More vanity nonsense instead of investing in the game here. Get your priorities right.
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When the postman delivers a new treat in time for match day. 😁😁🔵⚪🔵⚪
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Finn Harps wishes to confirm that the club has declined the invitation to compete in the proposed European Super League
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Still, three hours after the full time whistle, trying to wrap my head around Damien MacGraith referring performance in Finn Park tonight.
Shambles is probably too kind a word.
The lack of accountability for refereeing in Ireland is a proper problem.
#loi
#harpsvbohs
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End of 2020 season ⏩⏩ Preparation ahead of 2021 season.
It's getting there 🔵⚪
Cracking team of volunteers making it possible. Great credit to all involved.
#uptheharps
#bawa
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Never mind the begrudgers. Fourth place after ten games. We'll have good days and bad days and I'm sure Harps will bounce back suitably next week against Dundalk. 👌🔵⚪
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It must be a truly Donegal trait to call yourself a fan of a team, but take some weird sense of joy out of them getting beat. They all come out of the woodwork after a defeat, but nowhere to be seen after a win.
A weird, fickle county we live in.
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Murph is a legend, and a pleasure to deal with. Great to have Tommy back on board and Kevin could nearly still put the boots back on himself 😅
Best of luck men, hopefully all goes well 👏
Darren Murphy will continue as interim manager of Finn Harps for the remaining games in the 2023 season.
Head of Academy Kevin McHugh and Former Harps U19 Manager Tommy Canning, most recently of Dergview FC, have joined the backroom team for the rest of the campaign.
#UTH
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The office today was a different sort of one.
Not a whole lot of craic and a tough gig by yourself. Lot of respect for lads who do this on a regular basis. A handful of shaky moments but overall I hope it went okay. Top marks to
@tclansee
and
@aidanmcnelis
on commentary.
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Definitely not an idiot for travelling to Dundalk tonight.
Up the Harps. A good start to preseason. 💙
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All is well in North Korea.
Devo squaring up to the kids in the stands, an absolute disgrace, he needs to be gone ASAP
@BrayWanderers
#devoout
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Reading between the lines, guessing no UEFA qualification, angling at an MLS style league with no promotion or relegation, and you'd be leaving behind the First Division clubs to fend for themselves. There's an awful lot of information missing to pass real judgement on this.
News: The FAI have rejected the advances of an Irish-led US investment group that was willing to commit €90m to establish a new top tier for football in Ireland with the eventual involvement of teams from both sides of the border
Details here
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Set for the new season thanks to
@FinnHarpsFC
online shop! Absolutely superb service, and loving the new mugs and hats! 500 Club badge looks class on the sleeve too 👌🔵⚪
#uth
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If there's one place LOI could do with funding, it's not in infrastructure or players wages, but administrative roles within clubs. If only FAI could set aside something ~€400k each year so that each club could employ 1 full time admin staff, we'd see a much healthier league.
My wife and the treasurer of Ramblers will be stepping down from her role next month. Huge blow for the club. Her reasons are valid. A top administrator unnecessarily lost to the LoI . Will we ever fucking learn that respect does not cost anything especially to those that earn it
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Any sort of football result tonight feels so unimportant in grand scheme of things.
The people of Creeslough and surrounding areas are dealing with utter devastation in their community, and it's just beyond heartbreaking.
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Important business in Finn Park as
@FinnHarpsFC
directors Rory White and Aidan Campbell wait patiently with first team kitman Dougie McNulty for the FAI Cup Quarter Final draw.
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What he has done as manager is second to none. The work ethic of Ollie & the hours put into the job will never be beaten, no matter how it ever went on the pitch, win, lose or draw.
It'll be a strange sight seeing a new manager in the dugout. All the very best Ollie 🔵⚪
#bawa
Finn Harps can confirm that First Team Manager Ollie Horgan has left the club by mutual consent.
Everyone at the club would like to thank Ollie for his dedication, tireless work ethic and success during his time at Finn Park.
More:
#UTH
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What a night. My two boys enjoying the match in Finn Park tonight.
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@StephenWarnock3
@HighburyJD
@mylutin
Wow, that sounds incredibly different to what you actually said. It's almost as if you're back tracking after being caught out talking nonsense...
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