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Sports reporter, @echolivecork

Cork, Ireland
Joined November 2010
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1 year
Al Hilal bid €300m for Kylian Mbappé
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The unionists call him Firstname Londonsecondname
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The Dublin senior football team have been lauded for the example shown to others in not travelling outside the county
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3 years
Guaranteed to be the same old story, people looking for tickets for the All-Ireland final having not gone to a single league game this year
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3 years
All that’s wrong with how football is covered in the modern age
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9 years
Love Bowie's response when teenagers thought Man Who Sold The World was him covering Nirvana
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Jack Cork is now older than his father Alan was when Sheffield United reached the FA Cup semi-finals in 1993
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3 years
Drawn in the same group as last year
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Our 2⃣0⃣2⃣2⃣ #GuinnessSixNations line up! ✊ #TeamOfUs | #IrishRugby
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I'll always recall this picture from A Season of Sundays '99 of Nickie Quaid, playing for Ireland v Scotland in an U12 hurling/shinty game. Guarding such a large goal probably helped to improve his anticipation skills, displayed so brilliantly today
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5 years
Frank Murphy must be kicking himself that he never decided to become Executive Assistant Secretary of Cork GAA
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4 years
The black jersey which Cork hurlers will wear against Limerick on Sunday, with the footballers wearing black against Derry a week later. It commemorates Tomás Mac Curtain and Terence MacSwiney, both of whom died in 1920 while Lord Mayor of Cork
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5 years
No place for corner-forwards in the modern game
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2 years
Such a crying shame that Love Island is over for another year, everything crammed into eight weeks, the schools not even back, and now the other shows are given the rest of the year for themselves when so much more could be put into promoting LI and growing the dating game
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This picture, taken by Kieran Clancy, featured in the Irish Examiner on this day 21 years ago - David Stringer and Morgan O'Gara, brothers of Peter and Ronan, who were playing for @pbcrugby against St Nessan's in the Munster Schools Senior Cup
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Larry Tompkins and Tomás Mulcahy bring the Sam Maguire and Liam MacCarthy Cups respectively to the altar prior as Teddy McCarthy’s funeral Mass begins and the congregation erupts in applause
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6 years
Ballybrack have announced the signing of Stephen Ireland’s grandmothers
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2 years
Paudie Palmer wasn’t often silent in Croke Park but GAA headquarters comes to a standstill for him
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10 months
In the old days, Irish rugby fans used to sing Molly Malone, but I don’t think it causes endless culture wars around prostitution. Or fishmongery
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1 year
Really not sure that the Princess of Wales should be interfering in Tottenham Hotspur's transfer business
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4 years
Don’t be afraid to be ambitious with your new year’s resolutions. If proof were needed of what can be done in a short space of time, look at all of the people who became experts in epidemiology in 2020
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Most people in Ireland watching France hammer the Netherlands now and fearing the worst for Monday night while simultaneously there’s a small part at the back of the brain saying, “You know something, we could take the Dutch”
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5 years
My favourite example of a player being undeservedly booed is from 2002, when inoffensive Denmark player Peter Madsen had his every touch barracked at Lansdowne Road because the announcer incorrectly identified him as Peter Lovenkrands, who was with Rangers at the time
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So the not-dead Fernando Nuno La Fuente is in Galway rather than back in Spain. Seems like he was given the ultimatum of to Hell or to Connacht.
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6 years
Half-hour to throw-in at Páirc Uí Rinn. The names of the spectators will be announced to the teams soon
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3 years
All-Ireland final checklist: ✅ Ticket ✅ Lucky jersey ✅ Sandwiches ✅ Forget that the right-hand lane of the motorway is for overtaking
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4 years
Like Zidane being suspended for three matches for butting Materazzi in his last game before retirement
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2 years
Cork’s win today means that they are among the last eight counties in contention for the All-Ireland SFC for the fourth straight year. The only other counties to manage this are Dublin and Mayo. Please do not respond to this fact with technicalities.
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3 years
@newschambers Classy gesture from VM guy to RTÉ rival 👏🏻 Babestation fan here but huge respect for that
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4 years
Any chance we can get Coleen Rooney to find out who shopped Barry Cowen?
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5 years
Before he was scoring hat-tricks for Norwich, Adam Idah was netting them in Gaelic football - this is from @echolivecork on November 17, 2011
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Getafe signing Suella Braverman
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🚨 HERE WE GO Today @RishiSunak strengthens his team in Government to deliver long-term decisions for a brighter future. Stay tuned for the latest.
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(1/3) The loss of Paudie Palmer is tragic and incredibly sad for his family and friends. His commentary was the stuff of legend and one game involving his adopted club @valleyrovers perfectly encapsulates his blend of humour and quick thinking.
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4 years
Today’s public-service announcement: we are in uncharted territory, not ‘unchartered’. The territory is not an accountant.
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5 years
Trophy husband and wife on The Rotunda
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President Higgins doesn't seem to bother meeting teams before All-Ireland semi-finals any more - he hasn't done it since 2018, when *checks notes* coincidentally there was also a presidential election
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5 years
Permutations ahead of last set of Munster SHC fixtures next week, Tipp v Limerick and Clare v Cork:
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4 years
Breaking - the GAA is set to announce the immediate suspension of club games at all levels across the island of Ireland. Club social centres and bars are to close too
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An RTÉ TV ad for national league coverage screams, “The GAA is back!” as if the club finals weren’t on yesterday
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Has Michael Healy-Rae come in yet to say what a great job RTÉ are doing and that they'll always be welcome in Kerry?
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The Leinster and Munster SHC permutations together
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6 years
Best sporting event I've ever been at. Traffic on the way back down to Cork was so bad I nearly missed Nirvana in Sir Henry's
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Munster Rugby
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The All Blacks played 18 matches on their 1978 Tour of Britain and Ireland, winning 17 and losing one. 40 years ago today....“It’s over, Munster have won! History has been made and the All Blacks have been defeated!” #SUAF 🔴
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Picture of the top of the Masters leaderboard
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A great picture, Georgie Ring from Carrigaline in her Katie McCabe Arsenal kit welcoming the real thing to Cork
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6 years
Twenty-two minutes in and City fans chanting, "There's only one Liam Miller," applause in rest of stadium
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4 years
I've a joke about the Dublin Gaelic football team but I can only tell it at home
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2 years
It's nearly 3pm on a Monday in mid-June of an even-numbered year that's indivisible by four. I'm sitting on my couch but a World Cup group game isn't magically coming on, please help
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Will the Italians write a play about holding New Zealand at the Rugby World Cup?
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6 years
I know it’s early so this is a big call but I don’t think I’ll learn a better piece of trivia today than this: in @DouglasGAAClub ’s most recent intermediate hurling championship game, their goals were scored by Conor O’Brien and Brian O’Connor
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4 years
The right time for a clarification: They're white ticks, on blue backgrounds
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3 years
Always superb in interviews so it almost shouldn't need to be said but definitely a cut above the usual from a manager whose team have won so dramatically, not least talking about ref and Paul O'Shea
@GAA_BEO
GAA BEO TG4
3 years
Bainisteoir Peile fé 20 @OfficialCorkGAA Keith Ricken ag caint le #GAABEO tar-éis an cluiche iontach vs Ciarraí - Passionate words from Keith Ricken after their dramatic win over @Kerry_Official this evening in Páirc Uí Chaoimh #GAA
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Hated by everybody else due to a perceived unbearability when doing well but you can't argue with them reaching a final, even if they haven't played perfectly at times. The fans are raucous but at least they care. And anyway, that was last Sunday; England are in a final now too
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4 years
Unless it’s Kerry, the Cork fans don’t care. Very small attendance expected in Páirc Uí Chaoimh
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"Yeah, well, I still think Caoimhín Kelleher is a better midfielder than a goalkeeper..." (report from @echolivecork , 2009)
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Tough task, even if it’s football
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Springsteen to play Kilkenny, Cork and Dublin
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(3/3) "Here's Hughie O'Donovan, he's been awesome tonight. On to Kevin Canty and he's awesome most nights. "And now the ball is with [name removed to protect identity] and, well, he just thinks he's awesome." That was Paudie - a rogue but never nasty.
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Given the ‘I had the last laugh’ nature of Martin O’Neill’s autobiography, perhaps it’s not surprising that he doesn’t remember Mike Milligan’s reply to him, as recalled in Bryan Gunn’s book from 2006
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@mossylyons That was the joke Mossy! Nobody allowed into league games
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Cork win the Munster minor football title, to go with the minor hurling and U20 football and hurling. The county managed this in the U21 era in 1969, 1971 and 2005.
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8 years
Hearing worrying rumours that a college-going GAA player has been spotted without a monogrammed hoodie or skinny tracksuit pants
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3 years
Cork have lodged a request with the GAA for the 2022 All-Ireland U20 hurling championship to take place in September of this year 🙃
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Cork footballers will face Meath and Cork hurlers will take on Galway at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday, December 9 as part of a Teddy McCarthy tribute night, being run by Cork County Board and Sarsfields HC
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8 years
My favourite piece of graffiti-management, Bandon, Co. Cork. I'm sure @theirishfor would approve
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This is Cork's first senior hurling championship win achieved by scoring more goals and fewer points than the opposition since a 1991 victory over Waterford by 2-10 to 0-13
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A lot of comment around how "Ireland defused South Africa's bomb squad". Don't bomb squads defuse bombs? 🤔
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6 years
At least the tiresome debates on McClean and Matic not wearing poppies provide some levity
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Gareth Southgate should pay more attention to the GAA A club midfielder can play corner-back for the county but it doesn’t really happen the other way around
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7 years
No 45m lines #hurlingcounty
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2 years
One player has had to leave in a taxi before extra time starts as he is beginning the Leaving Certificate tomorrow
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Denis Irwin of @the_Barrs makes history with first association football goal at Páirc Uí Chaoimh
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7 years
Today's result means that All-Ireland hurling will end a drought of 12 years, 29 years or 58 years
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Great to see Xabi Alonso lead Bayer Leverkusen to the Europa League final, in the same city where he won an All-Ireland minor medal that time 👀
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Motion at Camogie Congress on the addition of shorts to acceptable playing attire beaten by 55pc to 45pc. Hard to see who would have lost out from such a development being passed
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7 years
Surely The Sunday Game could have managed a few more highlights of the All-Ireland U17 hurling final?
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5 years
Replay in Limerick next Saturday evening
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4 years
The @farmersjournal cover date is always a Saturday so the one for the new edition is one of the most perfect you could wish for (other fertilisers are available)
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Because of Uefa sponsorship rules, we’ll have to pretend Aviva Stadium isn’t really called that for Euro 2028 (as with 2011 EL final). I can’t help but feel that there’s a better name for a ground in that precise location than Dublin Arena
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Very sad news about the passing of Eamonn Ryan, a man who did so much for Gaelic sport of all codes in Cork but especially ladies' football, helping to win ten All-Irelands in 11 years. He always made the point that "sacrifices" were actually "winning choices"
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Cork LGFA
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It is with huge sadness we inform you that Eamnon Ryan @GlenvilleGAA @WatergrasshillG @ucc_gaa @CorkLGFA & @OfficialCorkGAA passed on to his eternal rest this afternoon after a illness bravely fought. A legend in his own lifetime. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis .
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The emotion shown by Peter O'Mahony today is the perfect response to those who say that project players don't care. Here's someone born and raised in Cork time spent in Limerick made him eligible for Ireland and he has given his all for them
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My favourite John Terry story which doesn't involve carnal knowledge or parking in disabled spots
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“Hey, look at this video I took of Jonathan Sexton kicking a conversion when I was in the Aviva.” “Oh yeah, I saw it actually. On TV. Broadcast quality.”
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You have to say, England are really good in tournaments where they get to play nearly all of their games at Wembley
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6 years
O’Donovan’s supermarket in Bandon getting behind @ConorHourihane and Aston Villa this week, but owner Jerry still hopeful of luring him to Elland Road
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Hopefully the awful attendances for the two FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley this weekend will see a return to the use of neutral club grounds
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Sometimes I underestimate what a privilege it has been to be present for so many people’s first ATM experiences
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Eamonn Ryan’s greatest achievement as Cork ladies' football manager was creating a structure that was able to survive without him.
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If you're unable to watch tonight's episode of Room To Improve, here's a synopsis of it, and every other episode
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Delighted and honoured to have been given the chance to work on this, looking forward to sending the finished article out into the world
@HerobooksD
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The very best of the good old days? Cover reveal for Larry Tompkins' autobiography published by Hero Books. Launching later this year. @OfficialCorkGAA @KildareGAA @NewYorkGAA @MunsterGAA @Kerry_Official @CastlehavenGAA @MeathGAA
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Barcelona or Real Madrid are going to sign Dani Olmo and play him six times before he reignites his career at Sevilla
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I'm old enough to remember when Liverpool - the reigning European champions, let's not forget - were being written off last summer because they didn't sign anyone
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7 years
Really looking forward to possibility of draw in Munster final, two captains sharing trophy and teams lining up for joint shot
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It seems hard to believe but Ballyhale Shamrocks v Borris-Ileigh will be the first-ever Kilkenny-Tipperary meeting in the All-Ireland senior club hurling final
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My mother has dementia and in 2019 I wanted to see if I could get the recording of her 1995 appearance on Where in The World? from the RTÉ Archives. Unfortunately, high demand meant they couldn't fulfil the request. A pity that there was no money to hire an extra researcher
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I was clean-shaven at the beginning of one Roscommon spell of possession and had a full beard by the next time a Cork hand touched the ball
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Clare’s draw with Limerick means that a win for Cork against Tipperary next Sunday will guarantee third place in the Munster SHC as they would have the head-to-head advantage over Waterford
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Fitting that Cork City and Cobh Ramblers should be playing on the day of Pat McAuliffe’s passing. This section of the Turner’s Cross pressbox was his fiefdom, hard to imagine anyone else there
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My favourite #Kavanagh story, good chance it's apocryphal but still perfectly Irish:
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Pat McAuliffe was the voice on the PA at Turner's Cross when I first attended Cork City games and I was later lucky to work in his presence. Always friendly, courteous and helpful and he'd usually have a good stat or two that nobody else would have thought of.
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