David Connors
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Journalist once upon a time. Fondness for most sports and in particular GAA.
Galway, Ireland
Joined May 2009
Without a doubt RTÉ’s greatest news report ever. Gets better and better at every single turn.
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Ireland has some of the very best sports photographers in the world. Both locally and nationally. What a shot from @sportsfile’s Sam Barnes.
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This is why Harry Kane missed the penalty! We have to blame Jonny Wilkinson 😳😳😳😳😭😭😭. Nasty 😷
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“Christmas Day” in Galway’s Hole in the Wall looks tame enough 😬
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I’d choose a stint in Guantanamo Bay over being stuck on this flight.
On board the first of 3 Air France flights leaving @CorkAirport for Paris today to meet some of the thousands of Ireland rugby fans travelling to tomorrow’s huge #RWC2023 game against South Africa #IRE
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If I’d known when I was young that I was going to watch some many GAA matches on TG4, I’d have a lot tried harder in Irish class. Very annoying that my own ignorance means I haven’t a clue what the analysts or commentators are saying #GAABEO.
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It’s my first time actually seeing this. Another incredible piece of skill by Canning from the 2019 NHL draw with Carlow. 🎥 Mick Kelly (Facebook). #galwayhurling #GAA
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“You can save up to 25 per cent on your annual electricity bill by making the switch.”
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How to get Ireland back on side. Let children in every sport train in small pods. Permit inter-county GAA. Open the golf courses. Let people travel within their own county. Allow family visits. Return construction work. Max out the vaccinations we receive every week. Simple.
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Rumour has it the Galway U20s gave the dressing room a lick of paint on top of a sweep and mop.
THIS. Ahead of the #SundayGame, I asked Croke Park Stadium Director, Peter McKenna, if there were any incidents or stories from the #AllIrelandFinal between #Dublin & #Mayo - This was his reply.
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Can’t say it enough of times. Streaming club GAA is one of the best things to happen ever. Highlights galore all over social media meaning you can keep up to date on absolutely everything.
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Huge respect for Brian Cody but after what Henry Shefflin has gone through in recent months, don’t think a clap on the back and a “well done” would have been too much to ask. #GAA.
Not one word spoken between them. Cody stared Henry out of it and kept hold of his hand as Henry turned away. Me and Micko would be friendlier 🤣
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“I’ll be down a few quid from the punditry work and, to be honest, I don’t like it.”
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Lovely gesture from St Thomas’ captain Conor Cooney this afternoon, inviting both David Sherry & Gerald Kelly to lift the Tom Callanan Cup with him. Both players lost their mothers in 2021. Small things like that really show brilliant leadership #galwayhurling #GAA.📸 Sportsfile
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It’s must be great for Hoganstand to not pay a single reporter to attend any of club games and just be able to copy and paste quotes others go to the effort of interviewing, transcribing and writing up. Boycott these leeches at every opportunity. #GAA #DontClickHoganStand.
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Blessed💜. All praise must go yo @Cella_Kennedy for bringing our tiny Baby Ava into this world after a really tough year. Any tips for getting a word in, in a now female dominated home, over the next few years would be much appreciated😊
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The Sunday Game needs a radical overhaul. Everything about it is stale at this point. Keep a Sunday show purely for highlights and then Monday (football) and Tuesday (hurling) analysis shows, ala Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher on Monday Night Football. #SundayGame.
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Full-back, centre-back, wing-back, midfielder, and now ball-winning full-forward? Man-marking or playmaker. High ball or low ball. Daithí Burke is an unbelievable hurler, athlete and competitor. Some vision and his stick play is very underrated. One of the Galway’s best ever #GAA
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A somber silence fills the air as thousands of people, from all corners of the country, make their way through the gates of Kenny Park, Athenry to remember Kate Moran. Heartbreaking to hear of her tragic passing. May she rest in peace.
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Even to this day the heartrate rises and a sense of happiness comes over my body every time I see Canning’s point under the Cusack Stand. #LaochraGael.
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Get the feeling that Kilkenny people won’t fully realise what they had until he’s gone. Brian Cody, broke our hearts more than anyone, and is the greatest GAA manager that has ever lived.
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Wouldn’t like to be a Green Party politician seeking (re)election in West Galway or most parts of rural Ireland next time around.
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GAA pitches hopping all over the country at the weekend with club action. RTÉ, who we’re all forced to fund, have no match reports, round-ups, reviews or reaction pieces. Inter-county only game in town, seemingly. No wonder there was never any balance on split season debates.
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Kieran Fitzgerald is one of the biggest gents you’re likely to meet and the definition of a Laoch. Before he officially announced his retirement from Corofin, he made contact asking if we wanted the story, despite being contacted by the numerous nationals. (1/2). #LaochraGael.
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Only one winner here.
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Cody showing time and time again - in an era of experts and modernisation - honest of effort, winning your own ball and besting your own man remain the key principles of winning a game of hurling #GAA.
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We’ve had some great leaders over the years but when push comes to shove in the big games for Galway, one man always delivers. David Burke, the ultimate leader, onfield general and big game player. I hope it gives us one more year. #GAA #galwayhurling.
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The Pearse Stadium pressbox will be a lot quieter whenever GAA action returns to Salthill, that’s for sure. Come rain, hail or shine he was a permanent fixture. Just last year, was telling Davy Fitz to sit down and be quiet after he was sent to the stands 😂 RIP Brendan.
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Anything to be said for the Dublin footballers playing in their actual home ground during the league to give the pitch a chance to recover? #GAA
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If there was a Galway player - no matter how good - awaiting sentence and possibly facing time in prison, I don’t think I’d agree with them being selected. At least until the sentence has been handed out.
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“Why aren’t we able to have a replay?” asks Donal Og about the Munster final. Fairly simple, Donal, the club players (the majority after all) have already waited more than seven months to play Championship action. #SundayGame #GAA.
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After nearly six years, today marked my final day with The Tuam Herald. Thanks to my colleagues & anyone who took the time to speak with me or read a piece of mine during that time. From the court room to the press box, it’s been a blast. Now, it’s time for a new challenge.
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If I have to read another person in the national media cribbing about a lack of inter-county action in August/September…painful. So much self-interest. Some would actually want it all year round - to hell with the club - just to fill radio time and column inches. #GAA.
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A simply jaw-dropping strike of the ball, with no breeze, from Cathal Mannion. 14 yard line in own half to 21 in the opposition. Such a delicious side-step too. Rolls-Royce of a player 👏
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Christy O’Connor is actually unbelievable on @SmallerFishGAA during club season. I can barely keep up what’s happening in Galway across football and hurling. And there he is rhyming off facts and figures on every club championship in both codes. Ridiculous level of knowledge.
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Where would Galway have been over the past decade without Paul Conroy? Like a fine wine at 32. But whenever he does go, can’t say he hasn’t given every single ounce of effort for his county. #GAA #SundayGame.
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Stranded on a deserted island and you're left with Cluxton and a cake. You eat Cluxton and talk to the cake #GAA #SundayGame #personality.
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Amazing stuff from Kilkerrin-Clonberne. There’s something so pure watching a small rural club overcome all the odds to become All-Ireland champions. Great players, great team and great club with the achievement made even sweeter after the pain of 2019👏 #LGFAClub.
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You genuinely couldn’t oversell the manner of this season turnaround from the Galway minor footballers. Amazing to see some of the defensive heroics and level of resilience in players so young. Huge credit to the management. One sweet, sweet All-Ireland win #galwayfootball #GAA.
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What Daithi Burke has achieved at the age of 25 is absolutely amazing. What a player, athlete and teammate. Huge congrats to him and all the Corofin team, the first ever Galway team to win back-to-back All-Ireland titles 👏👏 #GAA #TheToughest #galwayfootball.
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Bought a house, started a new job, and (somehow) kept a two-year-old alive. Hard top this in 2024, all the same. Happy New Year all!
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I won’t nail the Galway player who threw a thump to that eye-gouger from Armagh. But if ever an individual deserved a slap… Anyway serious win, fair play to the players and management. That game will have brought them on a mile too #galwayfootball #GAA.
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You’d hardly guess he’s from football country. Mountbellew-Moylough’s Sean McDonagh. Finished today with 12 points in an outstanding display. This had to be his best moment though 👏👏 #GAA #galwayhuling #GAA
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Aidan Harte jokingly tells the media afterwards he reckons his last goal was in the Kilbeacanty Sevens. Some bullet! What a servant he’s been for Galway, though his performances might not grab the headlines, he’s been ultra-reliable for both club and county. #galwayhurling #GAA.
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When Daithí Burke gets a 5th All-Star this year, he’ll go joint top in Galway - alongside Joe Cooney, Pete Finnerty and Joe Canning - for most awards. Some achievement at 28, with plenty left in the tank. Surely ranks right up there with Lohan & JJ as best full-back ever? #GAA.
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Terrible news to hear that David Burke is out for the remainder of the season with an ACL tear as per Galway Bay FM. Massive blow to Galway and St. Thomas’. Hope it’s a speedy recovery for one Galway’s best ever players #galwayhurling #GAA.
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Anyone got the video of Paudie Clifford being elbowed. Can’t find it anywhere.
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College competitions are absolutely class. James Horan, and plenty of other intercounty managers, would rather them not played at all by the sounds of it and have the players training instead. Best ignored those self-serving opinions. Look at what we would be missing out on! #GAA.
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Special word for subs Fintan Burke and Evan Niland today. Burke had an excellent second half and somewhat curbed Hegarty’s influence as well as nailing a huge sideline. As for Niland, to come in and covert that long-range free “cold”. Unreal 👏 Huge potential #GAA #galwayhurling.
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The cruelest of cruel defeats. The better team by a country mile. St Thomas’ a credit to Galway. Gutted but you couldn’t but be proud of each and every one of those players #GAABEO #GAA #galwayhurling.
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Joe Canning is just 65 points off Henry Shefflin’s all-time scoring record having played 16 less games. He’s been young HOTY and HOTY. Won a Fitzgibbon, 3 Leinster titles, 2 minor, an U21 and a Senior All-Ireland. Oh and 4 club AIs. This year he’ll win his fifth All-Star 🐐? #GAA
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Henry Shefflin will be the new Galway senior hurling manager. Further details to be released come 7.30pm. He can’t possibly cause us as much pain as he did as a player. Certainly an appointment I think supports can get on board with anyway #galwayhurling #GAA.
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Final tweet before I put down the phone and enjoy the rest of the sun. On a day of negatives, and there were plenty, a word on Darach Fahy in the Galway goals. First EVER senior start at inter-county and didn’t put a foot wrong in a high pressure game 👏 #galwayhurling #GAA.
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It’s no All-Ireland medal and I’m sure Paul Conroy would tell you the same. But that Footballer of the Year is just reward for a fantastic year and phenomenal career in the maroon and white. Delighted for him. One of our greatest ever 👏.
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Spent a good deal of time, at the expense of my employer, gathering this info during the week. Lifted directly from the paper (out today) and not even a credit either. I know I’m beating this drum for awhile, but the fella running this is total scourge 😡
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Sarsfields, some club. That’s how you respond to defeat. Multiple All-Irelands now in both camogie and hurling is unbelievable when you factor in the size of the parish. A great club who treat the camogie the exact same as the hurling at all levels👏.
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Outrageous 👏👏 Thriving as captain #galwayfootball #GAA.
Sensational Performance by Shane Walsh in Tralee, completely Destroyed the Kerry Defence. Absolutely Brilliant Goal here 👌
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I’ve heard it all now. Where was this stuff when previous year’s All-Ireland finalists Galway deservedly bowed out in 2019. Let’s put the Top 3 in Munster through to the semi-finals altogether. Utter nonsense
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Declan Hannon is some role model for young people in Limerick. Intelligent, humble, a leader and a brilliant player #GAA #SundayGame.
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I’d love to see Joseph Cooney continue this rich vein form & get a first All-Star. Has been, & continues to be, a vital cog for Galway in recent years. One of the most underrated players in the country, so often overlooked because of his versatility. #GAA #galwayhurling.
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Jack Glynn is announced as 2022 Young Footballer of the Year. Amazing achievement and was unlucky not to get an All-Star. #GAA #galwayfootball.
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Feck it! Absolutely gutted. Some effort and Limerick are true champions, but it still stings. Just lacked that composure for a finish I feel. Couple of really silly things and wides cost us. Couldn’t fault any of the players - left it all out there. #galwayhurling #GAA.
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Heard this narrative in the past that people don’t care about the club season, outside their own club or county, and it wouldn’t work on RTÉ and the likes. If Covid has taught us anything, it’s that that is absolute rubbish. Show the games and people will tune in #GAA.
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From a playing point of view, the biggest compliment you could give Joe Canning was, that no matter how poor a team he was in, you always felt with his ability you stood a chance. He unmatched talent always put doubts in the opposition’s minds #GAA #galwayhurling.
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It’s worth remembering how much these players give for their clubs and parishes each every year, even if 95% of them ultimately come away disappointed. To come back year on year, after heartbreak, is a serious show of character and that resilience will always be remembered. #GAA
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July 24 - Galway will be in an All-Ireland Senior Football final. Isn’t that just mighty? . Can go there with absolutely nothing to lose. Galway much the better team when things opened up. John Daly and Damien Comer outstanding, but excellent team display. #galwayfootball #GAA.
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Connacht football title ✅ .Leinster hurling title❓.Both teams at business end of Championship ✅ . Galway doing quite a lot right as a genuine dual county, and that’s often overlooked. To have two teams performing to this level, we’re actually quite lucky. #GAA.
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Was the moon not available? Probably as central for both.
RE-FIXTURE . Please note that the Sarsfields V Slaughtneil game will now take place in Gorey GAA in Wexford tomorrow! . Spread the word!. @SarsfieldsCC @Galway_GAA @DerryCamogie1 @ConnachtCamogie @GACSlaughtneil @gbfmsports
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Sean Kelly is so, so good. Literally could play the man anywhere. Does anyone else have such a wide-ranging skill-set? The likes of David Clifford and Shane Walsh garner headlines and coverage, but Sean Kelly is unbelievable. #galwayfootball #GAABEO.
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Some effort - one that would make you oh so proud of this bunch of players after being written off by the entire country ahead of the final, and all year. Today is hopefully only the start of the journey for this team. They’ll be back! Congrats to Kerry! #GAA #galwayfootball.
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Captained Galway to Liam in 2017. Man of the Match in that final. Galway’s best player in 2018 final loss. Four All-Stars. Six county titles. An All-Ireland club. A leader and warrior. One of the most complete players to ever play the game. Galway legend🇶🇦.
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The Galway minor hurlers will finally be integrated into a provincial championship after a motion passes tonight in Congress. Will begin in 2024. Well done to all involved in getting this over the line. Parity and fairness at long last #galwayhurling #GAA.
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How many times could an individual watch A Year ‘Til Sunday between now and say Sunday week at 3.30pm? 🇶🇦💪.
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In extraordinary tough circumstances, Henry Shefflin has carried himself with huge dignity. It hasn’t been perfect but there’s been plenty of green shoots. I came out the 2016 Tipp semi-final loss hopeful and today I feel the same.
"I've obviously had some personal tough times, and you think about those people. Sport and hurling for us is your saving grace because that's what you love doing.". Henry Shefflin reflects on his first year as @Galway_GAA manager.
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I can actually get over a bit of sledging, even a punch or a slap of a hurl when you’re facing the person. But to actually stamp on someone on the ground with the intent to injure is absolutely disgraceful. I wouldn’t mind but Comer would eat him alive man to man.
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What will be an underrated piece of outrageous defending by Daithí Burke, that won’t feature on the #SundayGame tonight. To recover from this position and to somehow catch the ball is 🤯 Scrambling made easy. Still the best no. 3 in the business #galwayhurling #GAA
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Cianan Fahy sanctioned for his moment of madness. My gripe though is the complete lack of consistency and it seems it’s only the Sunday Game highlighted stuff that ever results in retrospective bans. They should either review all games and incidents, or not at all.
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The mad thing is those who take in the club championship have seen a version of this score 100 times over. The man could get a shot off in a phonebox.
Almost forgot this from Eanna Burke, five minutes before his winning point. The eye was certainly in. Talk about sharpshooting
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I cannot, for the life of me, understand why TV stations aren’t showing these college competitions when this is the calibre of player involved. Sit back, on a dreary winter evening, and see David Clifford, Cian Lynch, Brian Concannon, et al in action. #GAA #sigersoncup.
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Conceded a goal with the last puck of the games last weekend to lose by two points in championship. Greatly appreciate my good friend and the eagle-eyed @RayRyanpics for being on hand to catch the misery👎😢😂
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The Galway County Board get a lot of stick, some of it justified, some of it not, but they deserve tremendous credit tor pulling the acquisition of Shefflin off. Credit where it’s due, this is a fantastic coup and a real lift to the county ahead of 2022. #galwayhurling #GAA.
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I hope the new followers picked up from this tweet enjoy intermediate championship updates 🤣.
Without a doubt RTÉ’s greatest news report ever. Gets better and better at every single turn.
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Just checking, Galway are in an All-Ireland semi-final this weekend, right? Local media and podcasts aside, you’d hardly know.
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Tommy Tiernan would be completely wasted on the Late Late Show. He’s too good to be interviewing the latest RTE employee to appear on Dancing with the Stars #tommytiernanshow.
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