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Laois, Ireland
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Rory McEvoy
3 months
Music can be so fucking phenomenal sometimes ❤️🎸 #Glastonbury2024 #Coldplay
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2 years
Wow!.... Elon Musk just changed the colour of the like button on twitter from red ♥️ to green💚!
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2 years
Remember the ice last week? 😆
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2 years
Tuesday giggles..it’s worth watching til the end 😀
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6 months
Some sad news to share… Our pet mouse Elvis just died. He was caught in a trap.
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3 years
If you could smell a picture, this would be the ultimate example! Am I right? #80sKids
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3 years
One time in New York I was in a restaurant with my cousins and Robert Downey Jr walked by, took one of my fries, dipping it in ketchup and said ‘no one is ever going to believe you’ before walking out..
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5 years
Here it is folks, ALL 93 songs from both seasons of the fab #DerryGirls . This was most definitely the soundtrack of my teenage years. @LisaMMcGee
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5 months
No words can describe how astounding the Northern Lights were tonight here in Laois. First time seeing them with the naked eye! The pics ⬇️are as we saw them. 40 years on my bucket list and finally they obliged #Aurora
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3 years
Does anyone remember that “perfect timing audience dude” from the Late Late Show? How did he time it so perfectly and do we know who he is? ⬇️⬇️
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1 year
Have you ever experienced this when asking for directions in Ireland? 😆
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27 days
This is doing the rounds but it’s very funny 😆
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2 years
So what I’ve learned today is that Conor McGregor and Jeremy Clarkson are pretty much the lowest form of nasty bullying pricks out there.
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2 years
You knew the house was posh if it had this in the bathroom..
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1 year
Just had my 15 month all clear scan. Words can’t describe the relief. Don’t sweat the short stuff. Life is too short 🙏
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1 month
The current queue on Ticketmaster for Oasis tickets
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1 month
Bring back the days of queuing at 4am outside your local record store the morning tickets went on sale and having the banter! #Ticketmaster #Oasis
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2 years
My recovery: January - April - Now It felt slow progress until you look back
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Rory McEvoy
4 years
Being fobbed off by airlines with a travel voucher that never gets processed? I made a charge back claim to BOI on my Aer Lingus flights, and was refunded the €504 to my debit card, for services not provided, after months chasing the airline. Pass the tip on!
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2 months
Celine Dion hasn’t sung publicly for 4 years due to her stiff-person syndrome, a terribly debilitating disease. Never knew if she’d sing again. She sang with such power from the Eiffel Tower to 1000’s tonight. Thats the #Olympics spirit right there 🫶🏻
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4 years
My mum is being vaccinated at 3pm today!! Last minute call from her GP. I can barely type through the tears. 🙏
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Rory McEvoy
1 year
If you get an email or message from someone that uses a Fada eg as in the name Cáit, do you make the effort to reply with the fada? Someone thanked me today for noticing it. It's the little things lads.
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1 year
Further hints on Coldplay coming to Dublin… this visible at their Amsterdam gig!
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2 years
Pick one scene from any movie released this year, and it will do mighty good to beat this. The Banshees of Inisherin deserves the Oscars it will get..
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1 year
What memories does this book evoke?
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Rory McEvoy
2 years
Some good news.. my first 3 month check up is ALL CLEAR! To celebrate? Guinness in Keoghs of course 🍻😀😇 #beatingcancer
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1 year
Received our 1st electricity bill since installing our solar panels 2 months ago. Fed back to the grid €107, Energy consumed from the grid €70. Credit of €37. Not a bad start! Any questions, just shout. There's a l lot of thought before making the decision!
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
A man who took an airline company to court after his luggage went missing has lost his case.
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1 year
How amazing is this? Worth watching and savouring 😍
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Rory McEvoy
11 months
A sneaky lunchtime Guinness to celebrate 21 months all clear from cancer today. To the wonderful staff who as always are so caring. Scanxiety was horrid this time, but here’s to good health 🍻
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1 month
I’ve moved up 2,000 places in the Ticketmaster queue in 9 minutes. That means I should get in around October 16th. 😆
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That’s gotta be a world record for a queue on Ticketmaster. I think I’ll go back to sleep 😆 #Oasis #Ticketmaster
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Rory McEvoy
2 years
Why doesn’t someone invent a clear toaster so that you can see how toasted your toast is while it’s toasting?
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
So I went to my doctor about my hearing. He said describe the symptoms.. I said Homer is fat & bald, Marge has blue hair, Bart is the cheeky one, Lisa is the bright one, and Maggie don’t say much…
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29 days
So @coldplay and @OfficialAslan in Croke Park ❤️❤️❤️ #ColdplayDublin
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Rory McEvoy
2 years
First gig in 3 years! First gig for the kids! 3 months into #CancerRecovery 💚💚💚❤️❤️❤️ Normality. It’s gonna be a great night #EdSheeran
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2 years
9 month check up today - All Clear! 🙏
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
The One where James Corden ruined #FriendsTheReunion I don't think I could bear to listen to him. Should have been Paul Rudd, Jeff Goldblum and Reese Witherspoon hosting the show!
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Rory McEvoy
10 months
Fastways courier comes to the door and said I should look in his van as the package may be revealing 🎅 Said he’d pop it over in the shed until the coast was clear. There’s lots of such nice people out there folks 🫶🏻
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
Officially one week to go to ring that special bell 🔔🙏🙏 It will be a tough final week, wish me luck 🤞 Day 110 of 117
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Rory McEvoy
10 months
We went to Dublin on the train yesterday with the kids. Group of 8-10 scumbags on the Red Luas gloating about hammer fights they had, and intimidating passengers. Thing is, scumbags existed in the 80’s when I lived in Dublin. It’s not new. Difference is these aren’t afraid.
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Rory McEvoy
2 years
Week 12 #CancerRecovery 💇Side burns and facial hair fully back 🪒Wet shaving feels great ⚡️Energy levels continue to improve 😒Tinnitus/hearing still affected. Grrrr! 🎂But it’s my birthday today! Not too bad for 48 given the winter I had 😆
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Rory McEvoy
9 months
Hurry hurry hurry, Aer Lingus have a massive sale on! 38 cent off flights to New York!
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Rory McEvoy
2 years
This day last year I had just started chemotherapy and I promised myself I’d do this zip wire when I returned. Today I zipped 🙏
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Rory McEvoy
2 years
@AL_0093 Where I come from we call it a bit of craic, a bit of fun. No one got hurt, I was amused for free.
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Rory McEvoy
1 year
Some good news! 18 months all clear from #NasopharyngealCancer after todays scan🙏 If anyone comes across the hashtag and has any questions, feel free to reach out For me there was so little info on this rare cancer, and what was there was so scary. Happy to share my experience
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
As a father, this breaks my heart into smithereens 💔💔. This is happening in a European city not so far away. Wrong wrong wrong wrong 😠
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3 years
Video of Ukrainian father saying goodbye to his kids while he stays behind to fight. Fuck war.
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Rory McEvoy
9 months
In other news, I’m officially 2 years all-clear of #NasopharyngealCancer 🙏 Blessed, thankful, and happy 🫶🏻
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
Ireland has now caught up on the US on our vaccination program. In Ireland 67% of adults with 1 jab and 47% fully vaccinated - exactly the same figures as the US, who started weeks before we did.
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Rory McEvoy
2 years
I don’t care what you say, but that “hello Rory” you get when you come back through passport control in dublin airport, is still a nice Irish welcome home touch.
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Rory McEvoy
5 years
Storms, snow, piss, rain, never ending winter and now the bleedin #coronavirus has landed in the Republic of Ireland.
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Rory McEvoy
1 year
Anyone ever get hit on their shins by these evil bastards? #80s
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
Proud daddy alert 🚨 on my little guys First Holy Communion. Nice to dress up for the first time in 2 years!
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9 months
Why can’t we train up thousands of block layers, plasterers, carpenters, plumbers, etc and build 150,000 new houses, including affordable, over the next 3 years, and solve a lot of this countries problems? Or is this way too simple thinking??
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Rory McEvoy
2 years
This Tuesday last year, around now, I received the horrifying news I had a rare Stage III #NasopharyngealCancer 4 months of treatment started swiftly but was very tough. Slowly returning to normal 7 month all clear last week 🙏 Thanks for the support ❤️ Live. Every. Minute.
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Rory McEvoy
2 years
Before mobiles…did you ever arrange to meet here?
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
I had my own Everest to overcome this winter, but today another personal milestone, my first hill walk, this one for Charlie ❤️ #CancerRecovery #ClimbwithCharlie #SlieveBlooms
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Rory McEvoy
2 years
I see MMA dick has deleted all his tweets from the last few days, including those harassing @pjgallagher and @Paulmcgrath5 and the extremely bizarre 3 airplane videos where he seems on more than whiskey. His PR / legal team must have gotten hold of his phone when he passed out..
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
Just got the 💉text!! Moderna on Wednesday in Portlaoise. 47 here. Feels like 15 months of stress has just fallen from my shoulders. 🎉🎉🎉 8 days earlier than my “too optimistic”guesstimate back in February 😉
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Rory McEvoy
2 years
My sliding dog tweet kinda took off! 1.3 million views and 20,000 likes. Dog videos still own the internet 😆
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2 years
Remember the ice last week? 😆
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Rory McEvoy
2 years
There’s days when you think #CancerRecovery is going backwards. But then you see a pic of yourself from just 2 months ago, and you tell yourself to cop on! Is that actually me on the left??
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2 years
This is doing the rounds, as they say😆
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
Anyone else remember these bizarre stipple effect ceilings from back in the day??
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Rory McEvoy
2 months
206 countries have taken part in these #OlympicGames   Ireland is ranked 12th 194 countries below us, 137 have no medals. What an achievement…so far… 🇮🇪🇮🇪
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
Beautiful morning in the Slieve Blooms.
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1 year
No no no no no 😥😥😥😥 Rest in Peace Sinead. This is unbelievably tragic news to hear. One of our truly finest singers and a troubled angels. ❤️Sinead O’Connor
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3 years
After a 300km drive and way too late for the shops, this was a nice touch to see at our holiday accommodation 😊. Decent Irish hospitality 🇮🇪🇮🇪
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Rory McEvoy
26 days
This sums up last weekend so well. Such joy they brought. Anyone else still flicking through the clips? 😀 All the more magical it happening in Croker. #ColdplayDublin Video credit: Alan Brennan Photography & IgersDublin
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Rory McEvoy
4 years
To anyone who protested on Grafton Street: You fucking pathetic deluded scumbags. I hope no one you know gets seriously sick due to your actions. 😡😡😡😡😡
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Rory McEvoy
2 years
Dear bank manager, if you could do me a massive one and reduce me oul bank loan by 99.4% and sure while you’re there just write off the aul overdraft and credit card. Thanks Ireland.
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
What’s the nicest / best thing that happened to you this week? I’ll start, a small thing. Managed over 30 minutes walk for the first time this year! #CancerRecovery
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
💉Moderna jab No 1 in the arm!🎉 Seamless, friendly, giddy atmosphere in @MidlandsPark Portlaoise. Relief is almost overwhelming😊 PS: Know your PPS number.
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Rory McEvoy
2 years
I hope Twitter stays and the good peeps stay too. I just couldn’t restart on a new platform..13 years, 78,000 tweets and almost 11,000 mostly sound pals here. Are most of ye planning to stay?
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
Im overwhelmed with the kind messages since I posted about my health issue tonight. They’ve really lifted me, as today was a bit yuk. If you’ve any questions at all, feel free to ask. Maybe hold off for the next 2 weeks until I’m finished treatment but Im happy to share / help.
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Rory McEvoy
2 years
I’ve tweeted quite a bit on my #CancerRecovery since treatment ended 3 months ago Thanks for all the incredible support, it really has helped 🙏 I won’t be tweeting about it again, as it’s time to move on, but I’ll let you know how the PET scan goes, but right now all is good😊
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
Post a feel good pic you took in 2021, and let’s get a good vibes thread going. Just images, no comments.
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Rory McEvoy
2 years
50 years ago today, my granny McEvoy, her son, her sister, and her niece were among 6 people killed in the worst car accident ever in Kildare. In a split second, young lives lost and their families lives affected forever 😥 Thinking of them today.. Drive carefully..
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Rory McEvoy
2 years
Who remembers going around with one of these in the 80’s? They’d blind ya!
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
We keep a potato masher in a drawer because sometimes it’s fun not to be able to open that drawer.
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Rory McEvoy
6 years
@bbuk The whole of Twitter every time Roxanne opens her mouth and spouts more lies. 😡 #CBB
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
Lots of happy tears since yesterday’s scan Shaking like a leaf when Dr Duane started her camera scope, then seeing her smile and knowing it was a very positive outcome, is a moment that will live with me forever☺️ The paused life, the many icky side effects, all so so worth it
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Rory McEvoy
2 years
On the train for first proper adult pints with the lads in Dublin in 27 months. The excitement is real 😀🍻🍻
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
BREAKING: An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale has just been recorded over the vast majority of Ireland. 🇮🇹 #Euro2020Final
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
We’ve come a long way baby! From 25k 💉a week, to 380k, to walk-in vaccination centers for all 16+ By Aug 10th I guesstimate: 18+: 95% partial💉/ 80% full 16+: 92% partial💉/ 77% full Total Pop: 75% partial / 65% full World-leading statistics👏🇮🇪 Full normality is not far away
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
From a Distance. Just beautiful. Sad to hear of the untimely passing of #nancigriffith 🥲
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Rory McEvoy
3 years
@gavreilly What possible reason would they have a cutoff of 39? Surely just send out a few dozen to each family in the state and be done with it. Tiring these half assed solutions
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Rory McEvoy
4 years
Reasons I’m positive: 💉Vaccine program accelerating 🏥Cases and hospitals stable 🦠Vaccines effective on transmission•severe illness•variants 🚘County travel for starters 🔚This is the last lockdown 🎊Life will gradually return to normal in 2021 ⚠️ This is just my feeling!!🤞
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Rory McEvoy
8 months
Lads wouldn’t ye be sickened, right back where you started! 😱 #StormIsha
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Rory McEvoy
5 months
Just two lads from Ireland having fun in New Orleans after winning a golf event
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This is not a drill. Rory McIlroy singing Don't Stop Believing
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My vaccinated mum got to hug the kids, wander around shops, got her hair done, and we could see each other’s smiles once again unmasked🙏
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