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1 year

📍 Kilrudane cemetery, Loughlynn, Castlerea, Co Roscommon 🇮🇪 Locating the grave of their great-great grandparents Thomas and Brigid

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

📺 Lou Macari played for two of the giants of British football: Celtic and Manchester United. Today, he runs a homeless shelter. This week the annual charity fundraiser Big Sleep Out takes place. Film by @mikebreakfast featuring Andy (centre) and friends on @bbcbreakfast 🧵🪡⤵️

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

3 years

Solidarity with all BBC colleagues at this difficult time 🤯🤯

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

4 years

Stokies know how to socially distance...

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@jamesjohara

4 years

Super Jonny Walters wants to be @PFA Chair. I’d vote for him @thetimes ⤵️

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

6 months

Gladiators. Saturday night entertainment for Stoke fans everywhere 1/2

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

9 months

Next week on @BBCBreakfast : Homeless at Christmas. We return to the Macari Centre in Stoke-on-Trent @LouMacari10 🎄

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

4 years

Maradona in Stoke a few years ago ⤵️🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

4 months

Stoke City player of the season Bae Jun Ho. Only one man for the job. Narrowly pipped Own Goal to the title. Hope someone explained to him who Steino is. 👏🇰🇷👑

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

Heading back from our family holiday in Iceland where we bumped into this Stoke legend. Told our 10 year old what a good footballer Bjarni Gudjonsson was. Clear he loved his time with us, still loves us, and would love to come and visit again. Thanks Bjarni! 💙❤️🇮🇸 @KRreykjavik

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

7 months

Stoke. 82 minutes gone

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

🧵⤵️ Neil 'Nello' Baldwin and the Bafta winning #Marvellous at the @newvictheatre and coming soon to @bbcbreakfast 📺🎥🎭🤡🦜⚽️🎖

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

📸🎥💚 You’ll have just seen our crew - @alexmccartneytv and guess what? Alex is a @CelticFC season ticket holder and travels up to games from Preston. Could he look more pleased to spend the day with Lou Macari? 😂

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

4 years

Good morning from behind the scenes at @BBCBreakfast

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@jamesjohara

2 years

After the Brian Coxes, Day Two of ‘only on Breakfast’ 📺🙈

Rugby Football League

@TheRFL

2 years

😅 Kevin Sinfield is human after all…

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

3 years

. @BBCRadioStoke alumni on outputting and sports presentation duty on @BBCBreakfast this morning @ChetanPathak . @RogerJ_01 is from Stoke too. @luxmy_g just enjoys eating porridge 📻📺

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

🔴⚪️ Drastic measures in the Stoke City dugout after three defeats on the spin, as Right Said Fred are brought in to try and turn the team’s fortunes around

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

🔴⚪️ Today was the first time I've seen Stoke win since 7th March 2020

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

4 years

⚽️🔴⚪️ New season, football's back - COME ON STOKE!

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

3 years

Ten minutes until on air. Behind the Director at @BBCBreakfast ☕️📺

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

Breaking Monday morning news: surprise candidate makes late bid in race to be our next Prime Minister. Follow live from Downing Street on @bbcbreakfast 📺

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

1 year

@jonkay01

Times Radio

@TimesRadio

1 year

Just Prince Louis being Prince Louis at the #Coronation of his grandfather, King Charles III. Tune into with @janegarvey1 , @fifiglover and @Hendasow for continued coverage of the coronation.

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

Ah yes Stoke, a lovely spot 🏖️ @deathinparadise

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

Good lad Harry - keep up Lionel! 🇦🇺🦘 (📸 Pedro Nunes/Reuters)

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

3 years

🥁🥁 Really lucky to work with @OwainWynEvans as he takes on the @BBCBreakfast 24-hour drumathon - all for @BBCCiN #BBCBreakfastDrumathon #ChildrenInNeed 🤯

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

3 years

Østigård, Wilmot, Batth

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

🍟🏟️ Yes, he still owns the creatively named Lou Macari Chip Shop, close to Old Trafford @ManUtd nostalgia photo here:

COPA90

@Copa90

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Manchester United fans outside the Lou Macari Chip Shop, round the corner from Old Trafford, in 1995. The chippy is still going strong to this day.

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

4 years

Just back from a wonderful family holiday in Northern Ireland, so we are. We stayed on the north Antrim coast, just like MON did this summer, so he did. Stokies will understand the cultural reference ⤵️ (🥃 Bushmills btw)

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

4 years

This one's for Michael O'Neill. We bought the bottle on location during our quarantine-dodging summer holiday, so we did 🥃🎄⤵️

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

6 years

BRITISH EMPIRE MEDAL (BEM) for Neil Franklin Baldwin. For services to the community in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. #NewYearHonours #Nello @MalcolmJClarke @LouMacari10 Marvellous! 🎖

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

🧵 Hanley Town need just a point to win the Midland Football League Premier Division. They face Boldemere St Michaels in a top of the table clash on Easter Monday. It’s free to get in @HanleyTown66 ⚽️⤵️💙

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

7 months

Even bigger call when you hear who comes next 😍

John Percy

@JPercyTelegraph

7 months

Significant news from Stoke City - technical director Ricky Martin has been sacked. Martin has come under scrutiny after 24 signings this season, with the club currently only 3 points above the relegation zone. Big call by the Stoke board #scfc

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

👑☕️🧵 It's taken a bit of work: it appears that the teaset used by Her Majesty when she hosted Paddington was @RoyalDoulton and the 'Canton' range which was launched in 1977

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

4 years

1.1m watched Marvellous on BBC Two on Wednesday evening. 1.09m of them probably for the second or third time. 6.1% of the viewing audience.

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

10 years

Begovic and Odemwingie embrace at Full Time (pics: Getty & Reuters) #brotherlylove #StokiesattheWorldCup #NGAvsBIH http://t.co/vDRpmYzjvU

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

🔴⚪️ Hugely telling press conference from Alex Neil. Defensive minded boring long ball football to come. Anything to stop us losing anything to help us get a clean sheet anything to try and get a win. It’s not what he wants but it is what he needs. Quotes via @PeteSmith1983 ⤵️

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

4 years

🎖 Congratulations Toby Jones. Marvellous! #NewYearsHonours

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

3 years

🧵⚽️🔴⚪️ Here we are at an actual football match with actual people. Even got pre match tingles. Come on Stoke!

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

📺 Thanks for reading this thread, film on @BBCBreakfast on Friday morning

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

3 years

Barnsley Preston Sheffield United Millwall and now Cardiff we were winning in every game 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

3 years

Live in the @BBCBreakfast gallery with Charlie on OS1 in Windsor ahead of Prince Philip’s funeral 🏰⏰📺

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

4 years

This was brilliant tonight, like walking into a pub and finding three blokes taking about football. All our family enjoyed this, wonderful 🎙🎧

Matt Goodwin

@mattygoodwin

4 years

Thanks for that, guys. Millers and Potters fans - hope you enjoyed it. Sorry we couldn’t get to all the messages; there were so many! Here’s me, Les and @JohnBreckin saying hello!

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

3 years

😂 Shoutout to Barry wearing his Port Vale trackie live on @BBCBreakfast on BBC One this morning – likely seen by two million people. A Christmas present Barry? @MartinTideswell @LukeA_Mounteney @MeelayyB @BenWood47 @Dan_Townley @pvfc_carol @Adamyates83 @MBaggers37 📺

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

6 years

A stunning rainbow ending over Stoke City to cap off the day. Taken from the café at Northwood Garden Centre in Clayton. 🌈🧤 #GordonBanks #GordonBanksFuneral #GordonBanksRemembered

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

3 years

Good morning from the @BBCBreakfast gallery, it’s six o’clock 📺⏰☕️

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@jamesjohara

2 years

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

7 months

@stokecity IVERSEN GOOCH WILMOT ROSE THOMPSON BURGER CUNDLE JUNHO LERIS CAMPBELL HAKSABANOVIC

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

5 years

Why have I not been here before?! Delightful café in Longton @theglosthouse ☕️🍽

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

4 years

Lager shelves · Morrisons · Newcastle-under-Lyme · 🍺

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

Busy and rewarding couple of days with the tireless @BBCBreakfast team on Downing Street. These stars will be back there Wednesday from 0500 just sorry that I can’t be with them. Hope you enjoy watching! 👏🌟📺

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

5 years

First ever away match @stokecity @PeteSmith1983 @oatcakescfc @AngelaSmith_ and fair play to @pnefc only £2 for kids! Come on Stoke! 🔴⚪️⚽️

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

4 years

How on earth was this a penalty? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Bunny

@DUCKmagstoke

4 years

Please pass on our best to Kyle Naughton. Hope he pulls through. Self-inflicted grass burns can be so awful. @SwansOfficial #prayfornaughton

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

3 years

We will all miss Louise what a pleasure to be in the @BBCBreakfast gallery this morning ⤵️⏰📺😢

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

11 years

“ @BBCBreakfast : Sofia Helin and Kim Bodnia from #TheBridge are in the @BBCBreakfast green room! http://t.co/RQ45uYxg4F” @NordicNoirTV

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

1 year

. @stokecity can any of this lot stay on for the second half please? 🤷🏻‍♂️😡

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

@paulstanworth Good whip round waiting for her though 💰

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

4 years

253 - Biden 214 - Trump 101 - Hanley to Stafford

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

🎭 Lovely evening taking the older ones to @NewVicTheatre to watch #Marvellous and they met Nello 🤡🎪⚽️

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

| @bbcapprentice | @BBCBargainHunt | @BBCBreakfast | @bbceastenders

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

Bring. It. On. #FrozenTheMusical 🎭🎶🥶

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

⬆️ Ever the football manager, Lou is hoping to introduce a ‘promotion’ incentive. He’s recently converted a former pub and hotel for those who’ve come off the streets and are ready to take the next steps in their lives

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

@jonathancmunro @chrisckmedia Heroes, all of them 📡

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

🛌 Nowadays he’s still the stuff of legend. Here’s a look inside The Macari Centre in Hanley, the pods are warm and private and crucially have numbers allowing guests to have their own address

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

4 years

Michael O'Neill, walking into @stokecity , a year ago today ⤵️

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

3 years

Good morning from the @BBCBreakfast gallery, it’s six o’clock. Again. 📺⏰☕️

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

🎭🦜🤡⚽️ #Marvellous “life-affirming” by @thequentinletts in @thetimes ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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@jamesjohara

2 years

🥰👋 Say hello to 19 year olds Leighton and Chloe who are the first couple to have been given refuge at the centre. They’re living at Pod number 5. Chloe has a one year old son who she hopes to be reunited with one day soon…

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

4 years

😡⚽️ MON in the Stoke dressing room at half-time ⤵️

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

4 years

Good morning from the @BBCBreakfast gallery! Hope you're watching...? 📺⏰☕️

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

1 year

Wedgwood and Made in Stoke 🏺⤵️

Gary Lineker

@GaryLineker

1 year

I tell the story on this week’s @RestIsFootball of my last ever game in English football when @ManUtd presented me with a lovely gift before the game at Old Trafford. I still have it on display. 🙌🏻

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

7 years

Whatever result today, @PaulWilliams207 has done more for Stoke-on-Trent in two years than any politician has done in the last twenty #sot2021 🦆🏺

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

4 years

💉🦠❌ I found out this morning that I have the COVID-19 antibodies in my blood system ⤵️

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

🤝 We met Raf who’s moved on from the centre and has recently made contact with his children again as he gets his life back on track. Raf didn’t want his face on camera

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

Been threatening to do this for a while…join the @BBCBreakfast night team 5k club

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

6 years

Obituary in yesterday's @Telegraph @RogerJ_01 ❤️ #DianneOxberry

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

Staycationers warm to cold, rainy nights in Stoke: @Telegraph ⤵️

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

6 years

In our house we have a newspaper from the time of Gordon Banks' accident. Here are a few cuttings you might like to read: #GordonBanks THREAD 👇

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

9 months

We met Lee the barber who’s gone from heroin to haircuts; Anthony the child of Windrush parents; and local six year old schoolgirl Elsie who just wants to make the homeless happy at Christmas @mikebreakfast 😊

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

3 years

🏺🎞🎬 About to settle down to @skytv premiere of #TheColourRoom the story of how Clarice Cliff became a Pioneer of the Potteries and Phoebe Dynevor made the switch from Bridgerton to Burslem 🍿

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

Bedtime reading. True story: ‘Marvellous’ moved from Staffordshire to the West End because of a piece @DavidSillitoBBC and I made for @BBCBreakfast 🎭📺 @thetimes ⤵️

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

6 years

@StokeLoudProud Isn't it better to just follow the lead of the official commemorations? This free-for-all will just descend into confusion. There are some people who deserve official tributes and Gordon Banks is one of them. Let the club sort it out, it'll be great. 🧤🧤🧤

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@jamesjohara

2 years

🏆 We @stokecity may have been in the 'old' third division but they were glory days and Lou is still loved locally. It was also the time I started to go to matches home and away with mates. We won at Wembley and we won the league. And it was all down to Lou.

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@jamesjohara

2 years

🗣️ From Old Trafford he went into management and - this is the bit where I'm biased - was an outstanding success at Stoke City 👊

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

3 years

How it started How it's going

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

6 months

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

6 years

Job opportunity for anyone wanting to make a start in journalism/football reporting/sports reporting environment, could be just the first chance and experience somebody needs 📝⚽️💻

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

9 months

I started here, my BBC local radio station, answering the phones for two hours on a Saturday morning. I was paid £5 and most of that went on the bus fare 📻

BBC Stoke & Staffordshire

@BBCRadioStoke

9 months

Ever wanted to work for the BBC? 📻📺 We're looking for a new apprentice! Applications are open now and you’ve got until 8th January 2024 to apply. 📲 Apple here:

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@jamesjohara

2 years

My 12 year old whatsapped me at work last night ⁦ @BBCBreakfast with the message⁩ “Tell him well done from me!!” She spent a bit of time with him ⁦ @stjosephsstoke ⁩ and now she thinks they’re friends for life ☺️👍

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@jamesjohara

2 years

One for the Stokies on twitter: spent the day in Llandudno (always great, never lets you down) love looking at the dedications on the benches on the pier. Does anyone know Eileen & Frank, wedding anniversary 21st March 🔆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️💍🤵🏻‍♂️👰🏻

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@jamesjohara

7 years

Dear Paul Lambert, you’ve got one job and I don’t care how you go about it, keep Stoke up! Good luck! @stokecity ⚽️

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

5 years

Stoke win 4-2 away at Barnsley to come off the bottom of the Championship table and I’m watching The Great Escape on Sky Cinema Greats. It's a sign. ⚽️📺🎬

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

10 years

Huge cheers for @MindCharity #vlm2014 runners 300 of them raising £0.5M to campaign for mental health issues massive thanks from Chief Exec

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@jamesjohara

4 years

🎖 Congratulations to Darren Teale, co-founder of @Junction15 for his gong in the #NewYearsHonours

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

5 years

I love this photo. Had a lovely #Christmas morning with @BBCNaga and @MetMattTaylor and the rest of the team - great company. And yes, we may be bottom of the Championship, but Rudolph is a Stokie 🦌🧣🔴⚪️📺⏰

BBC Breakfast

@BBCBreakfast

5 years

On #ChristmasDay we wish everyone a very #MerryChristmas from all the team at #BBCBreakfast

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@jamesjohara

6 years

78 minutes gone.

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@jamesjohara

3 years

My Lenten observance has finished with an homage to Michael O’Neill. Even bought the whiskey while on holiday in Antrim in Northern Ireland, so we did. Happy Easter! 🥃☘️

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

2 years

🍻🥴 One year to the day since Sam Fender sat on the @bbcbreakfast sofa with a massive hangover and never once tried to hide it. Good lad Sam #neverforget #caniversary

BBC Breakfast

@BBCBreakfast

3 years

Newcastle fan Sam Fender took part in the celebrations following news of the club takeover yesterday. He told #BBCBreakfast he’s a little worse for wear this morning. 🥴

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@jamesjohara

2 years

Constituency profile of Newcastle-under-Lyme ahead of next month’s local elections in today’s @thetimes “A question of which is the bigger stink.”

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@jamesjohara

2 years

Tonight at 10…📺

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

4 months

Kin season three. Can’t wait. 🇮🇪📺

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James O'Hara

@jamesjohara

5 years

JON WALTERS: "We were on pre-season in Cork with Burnley. My brother passed away, I went back into Burnley the next day for training, and the same day, my wife lost a baby. And then we found out my daughter has scoliosis as well."

RTÉ Soccer

@RTEsoccer

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'My brother passed away, I went back into Burnley the next day [for] training, and the same day, my wife lost a baby...I'm okay with it but I struggle when I speak about it'

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