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Paul O’Kane

2 years

This is one of the funniest pieces of live radio you’ll ever hear. And the animation adds an extra layer. #Radio #GerryAnderson

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

4 years

Was thinking, if this happened in Ireland a) we’d have known who this guy was within an hour & b) the rest of his hometown would be like, ah that’s raccoon Davy, sure nobody pays any attention to anything he says. #WashingtonDC #CapitolHill

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Paul O’Kane

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2 years

Gerry Anderson’s son David was in touch with me after I inadvertently made Gerry go viral. He & the family loved reading all the messages & seeing Gerry reach a whole new audience. They are creating a website to host his work. #GerryAnderson

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Paul O’Kane

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4 years

We are all #HugoInDalkey

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Paul O’Kane

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2 years

This voucher is almost 15 years old. I reckoned I’d lost it, but then it turned up in a box. It moved house with us & was mislaid again. Despite being older than 2 of my children, @louis_copeland accepted it with a smile. Proper shop, wonderful service. #CustomerService

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Paul O’Kane

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4 years

Youngest (8) seems a tad unhappy at the lack of a bedtime story due to earlier misdeeds. This note was thrown at me. At least her spelling is improving. #parenting

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

3 years

Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the wee donkey: Liam Neeson stole the show with his #DerryGirls cameo. @LisaMMcGee also gave him the best line. How many Catholic officers are in the RUC, Erin asked him. “Well, if you count the Jewish fella from Ballymena, 3.” #ThereIsNoTape

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

3 years

Ireland in microcosm courtesy of a very short @Twitter thread. Brilliant. Just brilliant.

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

3 years

Public service announcement for all broadcasters over the next couple of weeks. There is no tie in Tyrone: repeat, there is no tie 👔 in Tyrone. If you pronounce it with a tie in there, you’re mispronouncing it. Here endeth the lesson. #GAA #MayoTyrone #Mayo #Tyrone

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

4 months

Batter a fella, but if you’re a GAA star just give him a few quid & that’s fine. Outrageous. This is the second time that Diarmuid Connolly has not received a conviction for an ‘unprovoked’ attack.

Former Dublin GAA star Diarmuid Connolly avoids conviction for ‘unprovoked’ New Year’s Eve attack

The Gaelic footballer admitted assaulting two people in Santry on December 31st, 2022

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Paul O’Kane

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4 years

When I was at @DCU 30 years ago we had to learn how to print & develop B&W photos. I took this shot of a lovely old guy by the Royal Canal. Think it’s Ballybough. Just found it & was thinking it’s someone’s dad, grandad or uncle and they might like a copy. Do your thing @Twitter

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

2 years

Wow. I shared this today as the clip had popped up as a FB memory & I thought maybe some people might find it as funny as I do. The animation is by @flickerpix_ni . Had I known this was gonna go viral I’d have tagged them. 📻 🐓(There really should be a Child of Prague emoji.)

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

3 years

Has anyone at the deli counter ever not wanted their sandwich cut in half?

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Paul O’Kane

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5 years

I’m 52. A husband. A father. A radio listener. I work in the suburbs and I live in the suburbs. I am not on the way to the most important meeting of my life, but I am sick of that bloody awful Suzuki Vitara ad. Please make it stop. 🤢 🚘

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

1 year

Utterly meaningless. They spent €45 on whiskey, €48 on wine & desperados & €31 on 20 bottles of honey. That’s €124 of the total €208 original bill. Proves we pay too much for alcohol, which we all knew anyway, and also that Pooh bear is living in this house.

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I present to you: $200 of groceries in Ireland

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Paul O’Kane

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4 years

The day Ian O’Doherty gets to decide who is Irish and who isn’t is the day I’d start to think about handing my Irish passport back.

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

2 years

Huge red moon reflected on the sea at Bull Island. Phone doesn’t do it justice. #moon

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

3 years

Mo Salah doesn’t get enough credit for his defensive play. He puts in such a shift. #UCL #LIVSLB

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

3 years

About 4 weeks ago I emailed the NDLS because my new driving licence had a mistake on it. Got this email today. This is comically bad customer service - ‘we didn’t reply to your email so we’re gonna delete your email’. Also, how can my query be resolved when it was ignored?

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

8 months

OTD 37 years ago in 1987, @U2 released #TheJoshuaTree . They came to Belfast record store Makin’ Tracks, where I was working at the time, for a midnight album signing. I got my copy signed before we opened the doors to the public. Bono is seen here in Makin’ Tracks. #U2

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Paul O’Kane

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1 year

Major protest? Then again I suppose rioting and looting orchestrated by far right racist thugs wouldn’t fit. #dublinriots

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

3 years

Two foxes in the garden across the road just now. Not in the least bit perturbed by the humans watching them. 🦊 🦊 #Clontarf

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Paul O’Kane

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6 years

@RachelSJohnson @BethRigby @KayBurley @SkyNews This is the mainland. You live on the next island over.

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

3 years

A March 17 tradition by this point. Happy St Patrick’s Day. #StPatricksDay

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

1 year

And his mother looking on. Great picture - three generations celebrating.

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This photo of Jack McCaffrey celebrating with his Grandmother is absolutely beautiful 💙

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Paul O’Kane

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3 years

Looking south from Dollymount. #LoveDublin #Clontarf #nofilter

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

1 year

This. #nothingcomparestoyou #SineadOConnor #RIPSinead

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

2 years

Brandon Lewis - the man who famously said the British Government was going to “break international law in a very specific and limited way” - has just resigned, having reportedly told #BorisJohnson that Govt requires "honesty, integrity and mutual respect". Who needs satire?

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Paul O’Kane

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4 years

Thought I might give this famous Irish author a try. Heard he’s quite good.

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Paul O’Kane

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8 years

The new gents urinal in the Adelphi Hostel in Dublin. #Trump

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

2 years

Sorry I’ve been unable to reply to people. Had to switch off alerts. Lovely to think so many people are getting such a laugh from the late great Gerry Anderson. The video had about 30K views when I posted it at lunchtime yesterday, so it’s really hypnotised people. Ahem.

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

2 years

Brandon Lewis has just resigned. #BorisJohnson will be appointing @Number10cat as a Minister as this point.

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

3 years

I have a question. How many times had you heard Delilah by Tom Jones before you realised it was a jaunty tune about a fella murdering his girlfriend in a jealous rage?

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

4 months

This is utterly brilliant by @KeyesGraeme . You may have to be a certain age to get it.

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

3 years

The level of joy that you derive from your 12 year-old car passing the NCT first time is simultaneously totally pathetic and also rather endearing. 🎉 🚙

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

3 years

Some personal news. After 15 great years, I’m finishing up in daa today. Like many during the pandemic, I had a long think about my working life, & it struck me that I was 15 years out of journalism in Feb & was 15 years at daa in Apr - 12 of which as CCO

Paul O'Kane on LinkedIn: #communications #publicrelations #airports #ireland | 528 comments

Some personal news. After 15 great years, I am finishing up in daa next Wednesday, June 30. Like many during the pandemic, I had a long think about my… | 528 comments on LinkedIn

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3 years

Three years ago this week @U2 ⁩ in Dublin - fabulous. #U2 .

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3 years

I didn’t realise there was a special rule in football that allows Ronaldo to raise his hand to another player and not get sent off. #PORIRL

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11 months

I know nobody will see this, as I’m not a right wing crazy with a bullshit blue tick. But for what it’s worth, Fisk on Netflix is a thing of beauty. #PSA #Fisk

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

3 years

Some personal news: really looking forward to my new role as a Director with @MurrayIRL .

MURRAY

@MurrayIRL

3 years

Murray Group is delighted that Paul O’Kane is joining us as a Director in our Corporate and Financial PR team.

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@pmokane

3 years

Pretty sure that if #BrendanRodgers was from Cobh, Clonmel or Castleblayney, rather than Carnlough Co Antrim people here would be making much more of a fuss about the fact that a team managed by an Irishman just won the #FACupFinal . Well done to him and his @LCFC team.

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

4 months

I’m exhausted after @tayswift13 ’s amazing 3 hours 20 min show last night. How does she do it three nights in a row? Wow. #TaylorSwift #TaylorSwiftDublin #erastourdublin #DublinIrelandTSTheErasTour

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@pmokane

3 years

It was 35 years ago this week that #U2 came to Makin’ Tracks in Belfast to launch The Joshua Tree. We opened just after midnight so me & the other staff wore pajamas. I got my copy signed just before we opened the doors. H/T to @BraidenGB for reminding me. #TheJoshuaTree35

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3 years

Hi @DubCityCouncil , can you please remove this sign at the Wooden Bridge in #Clontarf . It’s really ugly and is a visual blight in a beautiful location. It also serves absolutely no purpose, as the project in question finished several years ago. @donna_cooney1

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Paul O’Kane

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3 years

Absolutely brilliant headline on the Sudocrem story in the Northside News.

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Paul O’Kane

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3 years

@donalodonovan @glubold We also have a word in Hiberno-English. Shite.

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5 years

The fact that #SorryMeHole was trending was in itself a joy to behold. Then I saw why. Go Red Van Man & thank you Irish Twitter.

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

6 years

Fair play to @Hodges_Figgis for accepting my ancient gift vouchers. Hugely impressive customer service. No expiry date meant no expiry even though the punt is long gone. Added a couple of euro & treated myself to something special.

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

2 years

Absolutely fantastic picture by the hugely talented @tom_honanphotos in today’s @IrishTimes showing a murmuration of birds as the sun rises over Dublin’s Poolbeg Lighthouse. #photography #DublinBay #loveDublin #murmuration

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3 years

The very fact that @tcddublin elects 3 people to the Seanad is entirely undemocratic. To paraphrase George Orwell, all Irish graduates are equal, but some are more equal than others. I attended @DCU , so am in the less equal cohort. #tcdseanad

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3 years

This day 4 years ago I fulfilled a boyhood dream and went to Pompeii. It was absolutely amazing.

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3 months

@CSOIreland The six counties in the North that you’ve excluded from your map - they’re also not Skibbereen.

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Paul O’Kane

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1 year

On this day in 1985. Still have my ticket. #OTD #LiveAid

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2 years

Wandavision witch vibe. #Eurovision

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4 years

The Wooden Bridge in the fading light. #Clontarf #LoveDublin

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4 years

Near the end of lockdown day 17,821. #Clontarf #WoodenBridge

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3 years

@tim_carey1 Ireland and Britain.

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3 years

Why sport is brilliant #853 . #WALvITA #SixNationsRugby #Rugby

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Paul O’Kane

@pmokane

4 years

Mystery solved. Thanks @Monto22 & @BallyboughDub & everyone else. The picture is of the late John (Jack) Brown RIP. The power of the way we are connected is amazing. 👏 👏

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@pmokane

4 years

When I was at @DCU 30 years ago we had to learn how to print & develop B&W photos. I took this shot of a lovely old guy by the Royal Canal. Think it’s Ballybough. Just found it & was thinking it’s someone’s dad, grandad or uncle and they might like a copy. Do your thing @Twitter

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Paul O’Kane

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4 years

Trying to kid myself that I am having breakfast in a French café. Ce ne pas working.

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Paul O’Kane

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2 years

This is brilliant. Taken from a WW2 Lancaster Bomber en route to Dublin yesterday for the Bray Airshow. Dublin Bay is so beautiful. #LoveDublin #DublinFromAbove

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Paul O’Kane

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3 years

Socrates enjoying the fine weather @NBGGlasnevin . Note the sunglasses. As all Monty Python fans will know, Socrates himself is particularly missed, a lovely little thinker but a bugger when he’s pissed.

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Paul O’Kane

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4 years

Clever idea well executed by @WoodiesIreland . Wonder who the agency is?

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Paul O’Kane

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3 years

For those interested - and there seem to be a few - my salmon coloured jacket now has its own Twitter account and is available for communions, confirmations, weddings bar mitzvahs etc. Thanks. 🍣🧥

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3 years

Saw this in the flesh at the Wooden Bridge a few minutes ago. It was amazing. #Clontarf

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Paul O’Kane

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2 years

100 points for the gag, less the obligatory 90 point fine for talking about yourself in the third person.

Neil Gaiman

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2 years

He’s rubbish that way.

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@tim_carey1 To be totally accurate Ireland, Britain and the Isle of Man. The Isle of Man is a British Crown Dependency and isn’t part of Britain or part of the UK.

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5 years

@afneil Any journalistic credibility you ever had in relation to Irish politics has just evaporated in a single tweet.

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2 years

This is a brilliant front page. #BorisJohnson

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Paul O’Kane

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4 years

Can I be Pope, asks daughter (9) apropos of nothing. No, sorry the Church says you have to be a man, I reply. That’s silly, she says, there’s nothing a boy can do that a girl can’t do. She’s gonna go far, although not in the Catholic Church obviously. #parenting

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4 years

There’s some fella from Dublin Airport on the telly box. And before you ask the matching tie and face-mask was entirely unintentional.

Sky News

@SkyNews

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"We’ll have two testing facilities here at Dublin Airport and they’re open to everyone." Chief communications officer at Dublin Airport, Paul O’Kane explains how #COVID testing works at Ireland’s busiest airport. #KayBurley Get live updates 👉

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4 years

Got the hair cut today with the boys. Barbers had something of a last chopper out of Saigon feel about it.

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4 years

I will not be taking questions at this time.

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Paul O’Kane

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1 year

The Taoiseach is absolutely right and this needs to be said more often. Nobody criticises British politicians for being unionists. They are entitled to their view. No Irish politician should ever have to apologise for being a nationalist. The idea that they should is ludicrous.

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Taoiseach: “Why is there a double standard applied to Irish politicians … when we say we’d like to see a United Ireland.” “The PM describes himself as a proud unionist. The SoS often talks about how committed he is to the union . Not only to we accept that - we respect it.”

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@AnfieldWatch Shite

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Paul O’Kane

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4 months

The judge in this case noted “that Connolly had no recorded convictions”. That’s because when Connolly attacked another fella in 2014 he was spared a conviction after he pleaded guilty to assault and paid his victim, who had a fractured eye socket, €5,000.

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Paul O’Kane

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4 years

@oh_dear_wadawa Barred from the chipper when he was 17 for starting a fight with Johnny Murphy’s guide dog. It was the talk of the town. Well for two days anyway.

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It seems utterly bizarre for these huge amazing old army barracks in the heart of Dublin to be used merely to store what seems to be junk. That’s on the ground floor. Who knows what if anything is upstairs. #CollinsBarracks

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The clip has now been viewed more than 2.2 million times, which has meant a lot to Gerry’s family. Thanks all. #GerryAnderson

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@pmokane

2 years

Gerry Anderson’s son David was in touch with me after I inadvertently made Gerry go viral. He & the family loved reading all the messages & seeing Gerry reach a whole new audience. They are creating a website to host his work. #GerryAnderson

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❤️ Dublin.

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@terrychristian Bowie, U2, Queen, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Sting, the Who, Boomtown Rats, Ultravox, Dire Straits, Elvis Costello, Sade, etc. All for £25. Still have the ticket.

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3 years

@DearbhailDibs @elainefeeney16 It has a name already. It’s called @DublinAirport . No need to be named after man, woman or small furry animal. Separately, we should celebrate Irish female aviation pioneers much more. People like Lilian Bland and Mary Heath.

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3 years

On this day 18 years ago. And they said it wouldn’t last.

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3 years

Just back from a wonderful weekend in #Bergamo , with a little Sunday side trip to Lake Como. First time off the island in 20 months and it was just magical. Can’t recommend it highly enough. ❤️ 🇮🇹

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The utter folly of selling the tickets for the Irish shows an hour earlier than the British shows. #Oasis25 #Oasis

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@pmokane

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This is an astonishing message from a police force in a western democracy. The job of the police is to uphold the law and people have a legal right to protest. This is like something from an authoritarian state.

Metropolitan Police

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Our tolerance for any disruption, whether through protest or otherwise, will be low. We will deal robustly with anyone intent on undermining this celebration. 🧵🔽

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Just had the most amazing breakfast @CuanDublin7 in Smithfield. Owned and run by the friendliest couple. Daughter dropped her white pudding and they brought her fresh ones - “best day ever” she reckoned.

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@nancyfordephoto

BeanoMark

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@gefeedly @pmokane @BigDirtyFry Flickerpix...

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4 years

You’d want to have dropped a few es to have come up with that. #abrdn

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This time 39 years ago I was on the pitch at Wembley watching #LiveAid . Best £25 I ever spent. #OTD

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My entire timeline is just filled with an outpouring of grief for #Sinead and a celebration of her amazing voice and talent. #SineadOConnor

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4 years

Birds on the sandbank at dusk. #Clontarf #BullIsland #nofilter

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The most delusional resignation speech in British political history. #BorisJohnson #BorisResigns #Boris #ThemsTheBreaks

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@michaelbuck1990 Have to agree to differ. I would say it is entirely relevant to the outcome of both cases. Of course he should have received a conviction the first time.

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3 years

Mark my words, Róisín will be running this country in about 40 years. #LateLateToyShow

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3 years

Update on this. They called me this morning and were very apologetic and helpful in relation to the issue. But as I said to their representative it shouldn’t have required a tweet that got lots of traction for them to deal with this. What about all the other people waiting?

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It’s really awful being in the EU, ruled by perfidious Brussels and being forced to drink - eh, checks notes - pints. Just don’t tell the Brexit types.

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Do you think it will still get there ok? #santaletter

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