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Conor Wilson

8 months

It’s a firm tradition at this stage. My end of year best of barbecue thread - my favourite outdoor cooks from the last 12 months. Let’s put 2023 to bed. 🧵

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5 years

Liverpool have now lost as many games in all competitions as Manchester United’s treble winners did in the whole of 1998-99. It’s still February.

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5 years

Liverpool have now won as many Premier League games this season as Arsenal’s invincibles did in the whole of 2003-04 It’s February

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4 years

Euro 2020 was supposed to be kicking off tonight with Turkey v Italy in Rome.

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4 years

Everybody watching CNN in Ireland when @donie pops up live.

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4 years

A lot of talk the last few days about non-Irish actors who’ve nailed Irish accents. And one performance cruelly overlooked.

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5 years

On the train back from Cork and looking forward to this person getting on to find their reserved seat.

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5 years

Update: After 20 years of confidence-and-supply, my amazing partner Máire and I have decided to form a permanent coalition, agreeing a programme for government which will last the rest of our lives. In Lisbon, 20 years to the day since our first date, she agreed to this proposal

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Conor Wilson

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3 years

Doing antigen tests with the family in a Lidl carpark on Christmas Eve. A Tom Waits song for 2021.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

4 years

Djokovic is having quite the 2020. We can’t be far off a revelation that he was at the golf thing in Clifden.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

2 years

One of the lads in school said that his telly was so big that you could see Zig and Zag’s legs on it.

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@joelgolby

2 years

for a long time i have been fascinated with a very particular concept, which is 'small town pathological liars'. if you grew up in a small town you knew one of these directly. i would love to know the lies you have been told

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2 years

“They got cars big as bars, T.”

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Conor Wilson

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5 years

So it turns out that Declan Rice was more Brady's Ham than West Ham.

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Conor Wilson

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3 years

Denmark’s achievement shouldn’t be glossed over. In a normal tournament, it’s impressive. Having lost their best player, it’s exceptional. Having watched their team-mate almost die on the pitch, it’s nothing short of extraordinary. Gutted for Kjær. A leader and a hero.

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Conor Wilson

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3 years

The 6 year old rode her bike to school and back today. No stabilisers. Little bit of rain. She arrived in the school yard as if she’d just landed a fighter jet. Walking very tall since she got home.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

Blimey. More in 24 hours than Ireland has done in total.

Sky News Breaking

@SkyNewsBreak

3 years

The UK has administered a record 711,156 first and second COVID-19 jabs in the latest 24 hour period - up from the 660,276 announced yesterday - which marks the highest daily total so far For more on this and other news visit

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Conor Wilson

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5 years

Looking forward to upcoming co-living developments such as The Famine Workhouse The Industrial School The IRA Internment Camp The Mother & Baby Home The Direct Provision Centre

Former orphanage reinvented as co-living space – called The Orphanage

Historic Dún Laoghaire institution to offer ‘five-star’ rentals at €1,500 per month

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Conor Wilson

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3 years

Just read this out loud to the kids, working my way through the listed counties and building up to a glorious crescendo when they expected me to say Dublin, but I roared “WEXFORD” and laughed heartily. It’s the little things.

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Conor Wilson

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2 years

Tomorrow, we will be married.

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Conor Wilson

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11 months

gaut

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11 months

I present to you: $200 of groceries in Ireland

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Conor Wilson

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4 years

Large local supermarket has no fresh garlic. Manager tells me “there’s been no garlic in Ireland for 4 or 5 weeks”. Blames Brexit. Other, smaller, local supermarket has loose garlic, bundled garlic, organic garlic, smoked garlic and rose garlic. A tale of two Brexits?

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Conor Wilson

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3 years

This time last year, I did a thread of my favourite things I’d barbecued over the previous 12 months. This year, I’m doing it again. Let’s roll.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

4 years

I’m only repeating what a lot of other people are saying but what a tremendous job the #LateLateToyShow team has done here. Months and months of hard work, and that’s in a normal year. To put a show like this together this year, in these circumstances, is just incredible.

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Conor Wilson

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3 years

Ewan Murray on Sky Sports apologising for Shane Lowry’s language. It’s twenty to ten at night, lads. Release your clutch on those pearls.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

Let’s be adults about this. It’s terrific to see the Irish diaspora excelling and doing well on the international stage, even if it is for other countries, so the very best of luck to Thomas Delaney tonight.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

6 years

After all the talk of the Dos and Don'ts while casting your ballot, a bloke just strolled into my local polling station eating a bowl of cereal. I feel like we need some advice on this for the next election or referendum. #8thref

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

Last couple of days before Christmas, I hope we can all make an effort to be extra nice to 🎄 Retail and hospitality staff 🎄 All the people working in testing centres 🎄Anyone arranging or administering your booster shot Plenty of people going the extra mile to keep us safe

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Conor Wilson

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11 years

"Let's send a get well message to Schumacher" "OK, I'll just do up me trousers." "No, fuck that, it has to be now" http://t.co/zQRxcTAOpN

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Conor Wilson

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4 years

Was supposed to be on a stag party in Kilkenny this weekend. It should go without saying that it’s been cancelled. It’s now a virtual stag party - lads drinking each other’s health from home in the WhatsApp group.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

One year ago today, I mixed a little flour and water together in a small tub and gave it a name. It’s been a journey. Happy Friday.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

4 years

Claire asks Eamon Dunphy on @TodaywithClaire about the sort of things that Maradona would get up to off the pitch. “Well, he wouldn’t stay in watching Prime Time, Claire” says Dunphy.

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5 years

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Conor Wilson

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4 years

Genuinely impressed by the number of people on Twitter who’ve become epidemiologists and experts in public health in such a short space of time. Especially those with no backgrounds in medicine. Quite an achievement, all told.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

4 years

A lot of negativity about this so far but Scarlet Johansson’s performance as Fungie will take your breath away.

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@RottenTomatoes

4 years

Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Jon Hamm, and Christopher Walken star in the first trailer for their new romantic comedy #WildMountainThyme .

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4 years

Part of me hopes that Fungie goes off with that school of other dolphins that he was seen playing with. He’s put in the hours in Dingle. Doesn’t owe anybody anything. The ocean’s a big place, kid. Don’t die wondering. Go with them. Go with your friends. *Roll credits*

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

Hiked the Dublin Mountains Way. Started in Tallaght yesterday morning with full pack and finished in Shankill this evening. Great weather but I’m absolutely wiped.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

4 years

One does not take one’s aperitif *after* one’s evening meal.

RTÉ News

@rtenews

4 years

'When you see slabs of cans being taken home you know that they are not being taken home for an after-dinner aperitif' - minister calls for review of off-licence opening hours

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

7 years

Just told my daughter that schools will be open after all. She's getting into her uniform. May as well wring some Dad-craic out of this.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

Looks like the kids may have won this battle. But the war continues.

Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

Just read this out loud to the kids, working my way through the listed counties and building up to a glorious crescendo when they expected me to say Dublin, but I roared “WEXFORD” and laughed heartily. It’s the little things.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

2 years

I’ve done this the last few years so we could possibly call it a tradition at this stage. Thread of my favourite things barbecued throughout 2022. Mount up.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

Local GAA club has started selling sausage butties after the Saturday morning nursery. To raise funds, you understand. Our walks home have improved considerably.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

4 years

@amyohconnor Don’t forget “400 f to c”

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

4 years

That’s a ten grand jumper that looks like something a bloke would run into Dunne’s or Penney’s and buy because he was in town wearing a t-shirt and the weather suddenly got a bit too cold for short sleeves.

⭐ amy o'connor ⭐

@amyohconnor

4 years

“Vintage shorts, by Kildare GAA”

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@ConorWilson

3 years

With apologies to vegetarians, I’m about to make a pasta sauce with six different types of meat in it.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

5 years

Wearing these shoes all day and only when I sit down like this do I realise something.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

1 month

Feel sorry for all the countries that don’t have Tim McCarthy commentating on their Olympics basketball coverage. 🐐

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

2 years

Off-grid this weekend. Proper, old-school outdoor cooking for this campfire chilli.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

5 years

9 years on. He has not been stopped.

Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

14 years

Once Thomas Pringle pops into the Dáil for the first time, it is difficult to imagine that he will ever be stopped. #ge11

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

4 years

Teenager has gone to bed. I’ve told her she still needs to get up at 7am and get dressed into her school uniform during school hours, as per government diktat. I have terrible form for this kind of thing. She might do it, she might not. We’ll find out in the morning.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

7 years

In times like these, with news and political situations breaking and developing rapidly, I'm glad that Twitter has revamped the timeline so that tweets from hours and days ago take up the majority of my feed.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

Smoked this pork neck for nine and half hours today. I hope it’s tender enough.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

5 years

An import thing to mention- a lot of younger journalists talking about doing their first live TV on Morning Edition. Keelin’s work was courageous and vital and challenging, but she kept the ladder down and pulled people up behind her. Always full of advice and encouragement.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

2 years

I was once stood up by a girl I was meeting under Clery’s Clock. I waited for ages before leaving and going home. Turned out she’d been there and already left. I was running a little late and she thought I’d stood her up. Anyway, we’re married now.

Joan O'Sullivan

@JoanStories

2 years

This is the moment the newly restored Clery's clock was unveiled in O'Connell street today. More about the redevelopment of the store and when it's reopening coming up on @rtenews #sixone

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Conor Wilson

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4 years

It’s customary this time of year for journalists to post a thread of their favourite stories from the year, or the stories of which they’re most proud. Rather than post a thread that’s almost exclusively Covid stories, here’s a thread of my favourite things I barbecued in 2020:

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

#ThemSlags

Pop Crave

@PopCrave

3 years

In honor of @Twitter being founded 15 years ago today, what's your favorite moment on the social media platform?

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5 years

My daughter will turn 13 next week. For her birthday, she wants a record player and vinyl albums inlcuding Bruce Springsteen, Wham!, and the soundtrack to Grease. It's like the last 35 years never happened. What are the best shops in Dublin for old vinyl?

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

5 years

I met Keelin on my first day in RTÉ, 15 years ago. She was a friend, a mentor, and a shining example of everything I wanted to be better at in my own career. She was a beautiful, incredible person and we’ll all miss her terribly.

RTÉ News

@rtenews

5 years

The death has been announced of RTÉ broadcaster Keelin Shanley following an illness. She passed away peacefully this afternoon, aged 51

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Conor Wilson

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2 years

11 8 22 The Perfect Day

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Conor Wilson

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3 years

Been working on singing sea shanties since January in anticipation of the pubs reopening and now the moment is upon us. Everybody’s still interested in that, right?

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@ConorWilson

2 years

Probably the best, jiggliest and juiciest brisket I’ve done to date. Bought from @higginsbutchers , smoked for 12 hours and rested in a cooler for around six hours.

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5 years

As @mcculld is left alone with the powerful touchscreen of PRSTV by himself with no guests on @ClaireByrneLive , he has the look of a child finally getting to play with his new Christmas toy in peace once his cousins have gone home. #GE2020

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3 years

From serving up Big Macs in the McDonald’s at Millfield to an Olympic semi-final in Tokyo. Balbriggan is proud of Andrew Coscoran.

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2 years

In a change from the prevalent stereotype of teenagers playing their hippity hop music, the person on this train blaring the tunes through his phone’s loudspeaker is an older gentleman. He’s listening to John Creedon on Radio One.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

6 years

This kid is amazing. “I need you to sign it.” Not a question. Not a request. A voice several octaves deeper than Davy Fitz’s too. #LateLateToyShow

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

I’m sure it is.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

Carrauntoohil today with the Teen Titans - my daughter and godson. The Kingdom in all its majesty.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

Dinner can be breakfast Breakfast can be dinner

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

4 years

Refusing to put the heating on until 1st October because I am a Da.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

7 years

Daughter's school is closed. I reckon I'll let her get into her uniform and make her lunch before telling her. Discipline is important. Got to keep them on their toes. #sneachta

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Conor Wilson

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4 years

Cummings ends press conference by coughing. Into his hand.

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5 years

@iresimpsonsfans

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

Smoked this duck on the rotisserie with a little package of tea, sugar, star anise, cinnamon, rice and orange zest. There’s no sauce on it - that colour is purely from the smoke.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

6 years

This is an investigation that I’ve spent several months working on, along with my producer Isabel Perceval. It’s a full programme-length documentary. If you can watch tonight, please do. #rtept

RTÉ Prime Time

@RTE_PrimeTime

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Tonight on Prime Time, we investigate the increasing phenomenon of terminally ill Irish cancer patients travelling to foreign clinics which offer alternative and unconventional treatments. That's RTÉ One 9.35pm. #RTEPT

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

1 year

Camping this weekend. A rustic French-style beef stew cooked over the fire in the Irish great outdoors.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

4 years

We grew up just a few hundred metres from the Stardust. My parents could see the flames from my bedroom window. Today I’m thinking of the 48 beautiful young people who never came home, the families who waited for them that night and are still waiting for justice 40 years later.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

6 years

If you're in Dublin tonight, any part of Dublin, and you're wondering what that noise is - it's my daughter and the seven friends she has staying over tonight. No, I don't know what we were thinking either.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

For anyone getting tweets ready for tomorrow’s Leaving Cert results, I want you to know that just because you don’t come up with a clever or inspirational tweet, it does not make you a failure. I’ve never had one but I turned out alright. Believe in yourself & find your own way.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

2 years

Arguably better than the Christmas dinner itself.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

Six different meats, four different cheeses and six hours to make. Carmela Soprano’s Baked Ziti with Sunday Gravy (aka The Red Lead).

Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

With apologies to vegetarians, I’m about to make a pasta sauce with six different types of meat in it.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

In today’s “because I had nothing better to do” Carbonara from scratch.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

Defibs are expensive but grants are available. Modern defibrillators basically talk you through every step but ideally, adult volunteers (and adults generally) should be trained in CPR and in how to properly use the defib machines. It literally saves lives.

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3 years

If your sports club doesn’t have a defib, now is a good time to look at getting one.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

Unless he’s the one on the left then I don’t think this headline is accurate.

New York Post

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3 years

Leonardo DiCaprio unrecognizable in first photos of new Scorsese film

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3 years

#latelatetoyshow

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4 years

A great documentary about a beautiful relationship. Everybody needs somebody. #michaelandmatt

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

6 years

Imagine paying money to go and see Ricky Gervais tell an audience about all the times he had the last laugh over people on twitter.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

4 years

There’s been frost and ice in the garden all day but we’re cooking outdoors today. Chicken shawarma kebabs incoming.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

10 years

#AdviceForYoungJournalists When you get older, try to avoid giving pompous and patronising advice to young journalists on social media.

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4 years

No boos at full time. Solskjaer and the team retain the support of the piped-in audio of fans.

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Conor Wilson

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3 years

The Hellfire Club on a wet, windswept October night.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

2 years

Work today.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

Up in Virginia staying with the in-laws. Absolutely melting in the heat. Nevertheless, I’d put money on the mother-in-law sticking the central heating on at 9pm tonight “to take the chill off the house before we go to bed”.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

Saturday morning. The bread is baked.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

4 years

In order to prevent what has happened in Italy from happening in Ireland “we need to treat each other as pariahs” - Dr Catherine Motherway, Intensive care physician at UH Limerick on @RTE_PrimeTime just now. #rtept

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Conor Wilson

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3 years

@PeyonceJoyce As ever, letters like this tell more about the person who wrote them than the person in receipt. Or, in this case, the nine people who apparently wrote it. You’re doing a terrific job.

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Conor Wilson

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4 years

The footballer who dominated our childhoods. The World Cup and Maradona were practically synonymous. El Diego RIP.

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4 years

Sunrise on a bank holiday Monday.

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3 months

It’s rare that the four of us are at home together for breakfast on a Sunday morning. Pushed the boat out a little.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

Spent the whole day making these. Hot and sour Sichuan-style wontons, pork and cabbage dumplings, pork and prawn steamed buns. #YearoftheTiger a great excuse to make bright and vibrant food at a miserable time of year.

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Conor Wilson

@ConorWilson

3 years

This has been my go-to for the last few pizza nights - pepperoni, buffalo mozzarella, jalapeños and just a little bit of red onion. It’s a winner.

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Conor Wilson

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5 years

24 hours of television in a day and half. Many thanks to the guests who went without sleep to come into us at all hours and the candidates who came to studio when they’d rather be anywhere else - I must do a tot of total numbers. That’s it done. I’m going home. #ge2020

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8 years

Any non-Irish looking at Irish twitter tonight. #LateLateToyShow

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