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Irish journalist, and Czech citizen, resident in Prague. Opinions mine, not those of my employer, @RadioPrague . Contact: ianrwilloughby @gmail .com

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Ian Willoughby
2 years
Prague against Putin: Wenceslas Square this afternoon. 🔵🟡
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2 years
The statue of Sir Nicholas Winton at the Main Train Station in Prague this morning 💙💛
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2 years
“Imagine blue colour, yellow colour” Brilliant from Czech ice hockey fans who were barred by World Championship organisers from showing a Ukraine flag. 💙💛
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2 years
The amusing idea of Kaliningrad (Královec in Czech) being annexed to 🇨🇿 has really taken off in recent days!
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2 years
The Czech Republic joined NATO 23 years ago today — and I say thank goodness for that.
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9 months
Czechoslovakia, August 1968. “Every Czech a musician, every Russian an occupier”. Some things never change.
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1 year
Happy 87th birthday to Zdeněk Svěrák, Czech national treasure!
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2 years
🇳🇱Netherlands 2: 🇨🇿 Czech Republic 3 This game, which took place 18 years ago today, may well be the greatest international I have ever seen in my life. It was EPIC!!!
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1 year
My 1990s survival kit 😂
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1 year
Odvoleno! Frustration at the last presidential election was one reason I got Czech citizenship. Today, more than ever, I’m glad I did.
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2 years
Amusing!
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2 years
Brilliant! Someone’s added the sign on the bottom of Prague’s Krymská (Crimean) public transport stop: “Crimean Bridge permanently closed — We kindly ask Russian occupiers to go home on rafts”. 😂😂😂
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2 months
The “small ex-Soviet satellite state” referred to here is the Czech Republic. What the hell — did this Wall Street Journal headline writer just wake up after 30 years in a coma?! 😂
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3 years
Brilliant! Ireland’s president, Michael D. Higgins, plays with his dog with one hand while speaking to the nation 😂
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1 year
It doesn’t feel like SO long since there was one of these in every Czech supermarket 😀
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3 years
I got Czech citizenship three years ago so this has been my first time voting in a general election. Have to say it felt good!
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@Ian_Willoughby
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2 months
Just some Top Gun shit from the Czech president, Petr Pavel!
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1 year
Ladies and gentlemen, the new president of 🇨🇿, Petr Pavel.
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1 year
Look who’s in Prague — the extremely cool Willem Dafoe!
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2 years
😀
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4 years
Czechs should be really proud of the country’s dense network of colour-coded hiking trails – virtually all non-natives (myself included) who’ve come across this system are hugely impressed! 🔴🔵🟢🟡
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1 year
The first Orlando Bloom Staropramen ad is... pretty good?
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1 year
Aha, this is what he meant by “restoring order” 😀 Cute video shows values of new Czech president elect Petr Pavel.
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10 months
This doesn't get old 😀
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2 years
“Z — ZRÁDCE (traitor)” was projected on Prague Castle, seat of Czech President Miloš Zeman, on Thursday night.
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3 years
The moment the BBC tried to ask Czech PM Babiš why he used such a complicated route to buy properties in France.
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2 years
If you haven’t seen this amazing old lady at Sunday’s anti-fear and pro-Ukraine rally in Prague, do yourself a favour! (English titles) 🇨🇿🇺🇦
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I've said this before, but one thing Czechs should definitely be proud of is the country’s dense network of colour-coded hiking trails. Practically all non-natives (myself included) who have encountered this system are enormously impressed! 🔴🔵🟢🟡
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2 years
If Orban wins tomorrow, please tell me the Czech Republic will just give up on the Visegrad Four
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1 year
Commendable: Czech President Petr Pavel took a regular flight to London for the coronation rather than a government plane.
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7 months
This Czech Television sign language interpreter has won a lot of plaudits for a highly expressive rendering of the 🇨🇿 national anthem — even though it was an instrumental version 😀
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2 years
I've said this before but Czechs should be super proud of the country’s dense network of colour-coded hiking trails – virtually all non-natives (including myself) who have encountered this system are hugely impressed! 🔴🔵🟢🟡
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1 year
Czech president Petr Pavel and Orlando Bloom — a very Prague meeting!
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10 months
Only one of these tourists is welcome back in Prague.
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3 years
BREAKING: Czech finance minister does not see herself as a “horny biker MILF” — but does regard this term as a compliment 😂😂😂
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3 months
I bet YOUR country doesn’t have a head of state who jumps out of planes!
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4 years
BREAKING: Old football video encapsulates Czech government’s handling of Covid situation 😂
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10 months
Cool 🇨🇿 reference klaxon! “It looked like a Karel Zeman movie.” Ryan Gosling actually uses those words in this short video on the making of Barbie.
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2 years
Totally class ad from Czech Railways/ @ceske_drahy , especially considering Hungary’s shameful anti-LGBT legislation. You could call it trolling but it’s just too nice! 👏👏👏
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11 months
MUCH better than being a chcimír!
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1 year
Can anybody explain these badges, which actually exist, to me? What do they mean? Are they produced by his campaign?
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3 years
Patrik Schick’s PHENOMENAL long-range goal against Scotland — we’re going to be seeing this a LOT! 🇨🇿💪
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2 years
Happy Velvet Revolution anniversary day, everyone!
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2 years
Let’s hope we see Ukraine’s amazing president Volodymyr Zelensky here in Prague again some day!
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2 years
Proud and delighted to see the Czechs in first place here 💙💛
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3 years
“I think that after many centuries there is a kind of Russian problem: that Russia doesn’t know exactly where it begins and where it ends.” - Václav Havel, 2008
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1 year
Be honest, we all love the constant bizarreness of Czech politics, right?! 😂
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2 years
We thought we had seen it all in Czech politics – we have now. President Miloš Zeman, who has Covid, has just appointed Petr Fiala PM from inside a protective perspex box.
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Is it just me, or is this photo almost begging to be placed alongside other “president in the water” images of previous years? 😂
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So friends, today I have been living in 🇨🇿 for exactly 30 years! Little did I know when I arrived at Florenc bus station early one morning in September 1993 that I would never leave Prague, but somehow that's what's happened and I say three cheers for that!
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1 year
Somehow I never heard Pavel speaking English before — pretty damn good!
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2 years
What Prague’s Wenceslas Square looked like when Václav Havel died. 📸 @JanSibik
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3 years
Such a wonderful Prague image. (Sorry, don’t know the photographer).
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2 years
Question for Czech native speakers – how has he instantly gone from being referred to as "Princ Charles" to now being called "Král Karel" in Czech? I mean, why wasn't he "Princ Karel"?
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The Czech Republic joined the European Union exactly 18 years ago today — and I say thank goodness for that! 🇨🇿🇪🇺
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9 months
Looks great: New steps on Národní!
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1 year
Wow, new UK ambassador to Prague arrives with very decent Czech.
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Můj první den jako 🇬🇧 velvyslanec v 🇨🇿. Těší mě, #JsemTuNovej .
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🇳🇱Netherlands 2: 🇨🇿 Czech Republic 3 This game, which took place 17 years ago today, may well be the greatest international I have ever seen in my life. It was EPIC!!!
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Check this out! This 3D portrait of Václav Havel, assembled from a huge number of items associated with him, is really quite something. It’s on show for the next 12 months at Prague’s VH Airport.
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1 year
I don’t know guys, if he’s capable of drinking Staropramen maybe he really could start World War III 😂😂😂
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2 years
The demolition of Prague’s Stalin statue began on this day 60 years ago.
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One thing I’m sure of — I will never get tired of this design! #PragueMetro
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Best wishes to the amazing Volodymyr Zelensky, who is 45 today. Let's hope we can welcome him back to Prague some day as the leader of a free and intact Ukraine!
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Great to see. Tens of thousands of people have gathered on Prague’s Wenceslas Square this afternoon to show unity against fear and support for continued solidarity ❤️
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9 months
Respect, chaps!
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Jan Jakub Ryba’s Czech Christmas Mass as a public singalong at Prague’s Main Train Station — a lovely seasonal tradition here
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Václav Havel: Gone 10 years, and greatly missed. ❤️✌️
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9 months
One of the most powerful photos I know from the first day of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, 55 years ago today.
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Vinohrady vs. Žižkov
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Karel Schwarzenberg has died at the age of 85. The aristocrat supported Czech dissidents from exile in Austria under communism and became Václav Havel’s head of office following the Velvet Revolution. He later served twice as Czech foreign minister. RIP.
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2 years
Ouch!
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5 months
Czechia tells Russia where to stick its “summons” and I think that’s beautiful
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Somehow I have a strange feeling that this is perhaps not a golden age of Czech political debate
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Thirteen years ago this month: the moment Václav Klaus became internationally famous 😂
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1 year
🇨🇿 joined NATO 24 years ago today — and I say thank goodness for that.
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1 year
Orban is such a shit.
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2 years
A Czech woman on an Irish stamp? Brilliant! 🇨🇿🇮🇪
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2 years
“I miss Havel”. Photo by @JanSibik from Prague’s Národní today.
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2 years
Happy 73rd birthday Antonín Panenka, you total legend!
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2 years
Happy May Day, everyone!
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3 years
Photo of the day!
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2 years
Allen Ginsberg, Prague, 1965.
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Great news for Prague 3: Jiřího z Poděbrad Metro station is apparently going to reopen in a matter of days after extensive renovations.
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Great photo. It’s like a high school movie or something, with Babiš and co. looking enviously at the cool kid who’s become way more popular than them. “Just who does he think he is?!”
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👀 This film showing a steamboat on the Vltava in Prague is apparently from 1912.
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1 year
The “Tom Cruise’s dad” stuff doesn’t really stand up, given the age gap is less than one year. How about the “white haired Tom Cruise” or “non-weird Tom Cruise”? 😂
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😂
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3 years
Just been designing myself a new t-shirt 😂😂😂
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6 months
✌️🙏
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Václav Havel, Mary Robinson, Sinead O’Connor, Johnnie Fox’s Pub, Co. Dublin, June 1996.
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Amazing photo really capturing yesterday’s crazy rain storm in Prague 📸 Petr Topič
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Prague’s Petřín, early 1950s.
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1 year
RIP the great Czech photographer František Dostál, who has died at the age of 84. His series Letní lidé/Summer People from the early 1980s was particularly charming.
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Just sayin 😀
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2 years
Scum then, scum now.
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10 months
I feel I need to follow Czech media outlets on social media for work reasons but pretty much every day my stomach is turned by obnoxious crap like this. The ever-present laughing emoji is the cherry on the shit cake. (The hate-filled comments are of course best avoided).
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This time five years ago.
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Václav Havel was born 85 years ago today. How lucky we are to have ever had him! ✌️❤️
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"I think that there has been a kind of Russian problem for many centuries – that Russia doesn't exactly know where it begins and where it ends," – Václav Havel, 2008
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