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Kieran Cunningham

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Chief Sports Writer and current affairs columnist - Irish Daily Star. Tweets only reflect my views.

Dublin via Donegal
Joined October 2010
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Kieran Cunningham
6 years
Roy Keane posing for selfies is my new favourite thing.
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3 years
Convinced he won an All-Ireland with one of the Ulster counties in the early '90s.
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Kieran Cunningham
4 years
Do storms take Monday to Friday off and just work weekends?
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3 years
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Kieran Cunningham
2 years
Do Declan Rice next.
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2 years
The Ireland women's team apologise for singing a song referencing the IRA following their world cup qualification win against Scotland last night.
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Kieran Cunningham
8 years
Hard to get your head around the mentality that thinks there's a need to pin a poppy on Cookie Monster.
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2 years
Well done, Sky. Now put a few hard questions to your pundit who set up a company with Daniel Kinahan.
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2 years
What an image.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
The two most admired people in Irish sport are two female boxers. Remarkable.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Dublin's north inner city is one of the most neglected and damaged parts of Ireland - and that arsehole in Dubai contributed to a lot of the damage. It needs heroes and role models. It has one of the best in Kellie Harrington - the real face of a sport full of decent people here.
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Kieran Cunningham
4 years
Donegal has the highest Covid rate in Ireland but there's an anti-mask protest in Letterkenny today. Wankers.
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Kieran Cunningham
1 year
Remembering when there were people making the case that he was Ireland's greatest sportsperson. Good times.
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Kieran Cunningham
6 months
There is no way Conor McGregor's sponsorship of Katie Taylor fight should go ahead.
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Kieran Cunningham
4 years
Tim Martin of Wetherspoons looks like one of those German managers who always pops up at World Cups, in charge of his seventh national team.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Obsession with the Late Late is strange. Tommy Tiernan brilliant where he is in a format that suits him. Why move him? Maybe he doesn't want to ask rugby players about their books.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
England's best footballer scrapes into the England squad.
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Sky Sports News
3 years
BREAKING: Trent Alexander-Arnold is set to be included in England’s final squad for #EURO2020 .
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Imagine being an FAI employee who lost job or had wage cut looking at pic of John Delaney in one of the best seats at a European Championship final.
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Kieran Cunningham
5 years
Newly qualified nurses in Ireland are paid €24,850 a year. The FAI paid John Delaney's annual rent of €36,000. Think about that for a while. #decentskins
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Kieran Cunningham
11 months
30 years ago, Eloka Asokuh won the Under-17 World Cup for Nigeria alongside Jay Jay Okocha and Nwankwo Kanu. He ended up playing for Finn Harps, settled in Donegal, and his daughter, Abigail, is now an Ulster winner in GAA. Nice piece by @FrankCraig13 .
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Against Georgia four years ago, Ireland made just 79 passes in the first half. There were 38 passes in the build-up to Callum Robinson's third goal tonight.
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Kieran Cunningham
5 years
Don't like putting anything personal on here, so deep breath... We lost little Paddy, who had Down Syndrome, in 2007. Two of our favourite people are Lucy and Jacob, who have Down Syndrome, and remind us of what Paddy could have become. Please support #WorldDownSyndromeDay . Ta.
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Kieran Cunningham
1 year
@ScottEaglen She mixed up her words when talking on live TV. Anyone who's ever broadcast live has done it.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Public humiliation is one of the toughest punishments anyone could endure. Gordon Elliott must be going through torture. He messed up really badly and a suspension is only right. But to mess up is human, and second chances are important.
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Kieran Cunningham
5 years
Roy Keane was a great footballer. What he said about Jon Walters last night is further proof that he's far from a great man.
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Kieran Cunningham
2 years
Marking Kate Bush's birthday in Fairview Park. For Women's Aid.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
I know we rightly go on about Skibb but Grange in Sligo - population 586 - has two Olympic finalists. Mona McSharry in swimming and Chris O'Donnell in athletics.
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Kieran Cunningham
1 year
Oh, the Burkes are at the Grand National.
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Kieran Cunningham
4 years
Salary for Taoiseach last year was €207,590. Salary for new FAI CEO will be a maximum of €207,590. How can a sports body that had to be bailed out justify these wages?
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
One of the worst things about the past year was the weaponisation of mental health.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Museum Building in Trinity. A hidden treasure.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Moaning that people from a different country don't support your national team is weird.
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Kieran Cunningham
5 years
Virgil van Dijk will have to move out of his house because Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who owns it, will now be moving his family from Norway to live there. That's hilarious.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
England is a really weird place.
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Kieran Cunningham
5 years
Deliighted that Sean Cox's brothers were at Anfield to see that.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Stephen Kenny learning the first rule of managing Ireland - you have to deal with shite and dickheads.
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Kieran Cunningham
2 years
UK and Ireland, not British Isles. It's really not that hard.
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Kieran Cunningham
5 months
Conor McGregor has deleted more tweets this week than he's had fights in the last 10 years.
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Kieran Cunningham
5 years
A week to remember Cavan footballer and British soldier Bill Doonan, who went missing during a lull in the Battle of Monte Casino in 1943. He was found up a tree with a radio tuned into commentary on the Cavan/Roscommon All-Ireland final.
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Kieran Cunningham
1 year
It's Rhasidat Adeleke's time. Get used to it.
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Kieran Cunningham
2 years
MTK Global has shut down.
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Kieran Cunningham
2 years
We had a baby boy, Paddy, who was stillborn. Today would be his 15th birthday. For all sorts of reasons, especially the complications of family stories, the time capsule section on the census form is a great idea.
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Kieran Cunningham
5 years
This is great. Limerick are the All-Ireland champions but kids come on to the field to join in their warm down.
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Liam Mulcahy
5 years
Warming down with the fans @LimerickCLG
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Kieran Cunningham
6 months
Among those charged over last night's riot are people from Longford, Celbridge, Dun Laoghaire, Swords, Santry, Ranelagh, Churchtown and Beaumont. All a long way from the inner city.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Could anyone tweeting #NotMyPresident please block me? Will save me the hassle.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
"Here we are, all the lads together."
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
What a way to end RTÉ's coverage of England v Germany at Euro '96. Never knew about this. Fair play to Bill.
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5 years
Billo calls out the 'cowards' who killed Veronica Guerin. (1996)
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Kieran Cunningham
1 year
Why don't Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher just text each other?
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Kieran Cunningham
6 years
Kieran Donaghy's wedding to Hilary Stephenson produced one of the great Kerry statistics. There were 300 guests, with 105 All-Ireland medals between them.
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Kieran Cunningham
5 months
1. I wasn't at Katie Taylor's press conference. 2. Sean McGoldrick asked the question about Conor McGregor. 3. Sean was right to do so. The current Garda investigation makes that clear. 4. The notion that hard questions can't be asked in front of KT is daft. She's 37, not a child
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Kieran Cunningham
5 months
After all the toxicity of the past month, Shane MacGowan's funeral is a reminder of the real Ireland. Decent, kind, empathetic. Human.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Ipswich Town, Derby County and Nottingham Forest were English champions more recently than Tottenham. Can they sign up for the European Super League too?
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
It was always in Nicole Turner.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
If only Daniel Kinahan had sat on a dead animal, there might have been a move to push him out of sport.
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Kieran Cunningham
2 years
Recognising the fact that what happened on Bloody Sunday was murder and an atrocity - and that the relatives deserve proper justice - doesn't mean you support the IRA. Does that really still need to be stated?
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Many in Sinn Féin very vocal about the Zappone affair. I sent questions to SF nearly a year ago concerning possible links to MTK Global and Daniel Kinahan. There was no response. Try a bit of that transparency, lads.
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Kieran Cunningham
2 years
Hey @mrsamjones88 , just noticed your tweets from the last couple of years supporting Daniel Kinahan have disappeared. Think you've been hacked, mate.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Joe Canning speaking to Vincent Hogan in 2018.
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Kieran Cunningham
5 years
Didi Hamann is a Champions League winner who has played in a World Cup final. Does he ever question his life choices when he finds himself analysing Ireland v Gibraltar?
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Kieran Cunningham
4 years
Batman.
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Jim Corr
4 years
Thinning out my friends list... who wears a mask while driving?
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Kieran Cunningham
2 years
Up Ireland. Up Donegal. Thank you, Amber.
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Kieran Cunningham
4 years
Have been dealing with depression for decades. Not many would know this, but the weaponisation of mental health for selfish and political reasons means I felt the need to write about it. @IsFearrAnStar .
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Kieran Cunningham
2 years
Michael Conlan, one of the most prominent Irish boxers of the last 20 years, has a world title fight next Saturday. There is no coverage at all in some of today's Sunday papers. That was unthinkable with Irish world title bids in the past. Thanks, Dan.
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Kieran Cunningham
5 years
Michel Platini (pictured with unidentified fan) has been arrested.
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Kieran Cunningham
2 years
Have been working on this for a while. Four part podcast series. Coming soon.
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Kieran Cunningham
8 months
Paul O'Donovan completed his degree in physiotherapy in 2017, then he started a medicine one. Since then, he's won five world golds and an Olympic gold in rowing. And he qualified as a doctor earlier this year. A remarkable man.
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Kieran Cunningham
5 years
How did they ever rule half the world?
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Roy Keane talking on Sky today about watching Diego Maradona train in Seville. This is what Maradona made of Keane at the time.
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Kieran Cunningham
4 years
One of the sports stories of the year. Efrem Gidey, originally from Eritrea, was in a refugee camp in France two years ago. Has just won bronze at the European Cross-Country Championships for Ireland.
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Kieran Cunningham
5 years
Five years on, still one of the great tweets.
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Oisin Langan
10 years
After scoring 2-2 Ryan McHugh was very tired physically & emotionally but Jim was there to support him http://t.co/FNeX44zVtO
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Kieran Cunningham
5 years
Ireland's greatest sportsperson.
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Kieran Cunningham
4 years
Why would anyone want to read a PDF of a book? Miserable experience. Buy an actual book.
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Kieran Cunningham
5 years
Paul O'Donovan is world champion for the fourth year in a row, and has an Olympic silver medal. But he's never mentioned in debates for Ireland's greatest sportsperson. He's definitely up there.
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Kieran Cunningham
2 years
Isn't it fantastic to see the real, positive side of Irish boxing? Ireland's sport.
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Kieran Cunningham
5 years
Glengesh Pass. #lovedonegal
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6 years
A month in the life of Ireland. JP McManus: Doesn't pay tax in Ireland. "A great man, what a hero." Travellers: Most don't pay tax in Ireland. "Spongers, Want everything for nothing." Peter Casey: Doesn't pay tax in Ireland. "Tells it like it is. What a man."
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Kieran Cunningham
2 years
New Kerry jersey looks like something you'd get in O'Carroll's Irish Gifts. Awful.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Have been told more that a few times that I'm obsessed with the DK story. My brother, Paddy, boxed in London. He loved boxing, and boxing people. Paddy passed away at 26. Sometimes, things are personal.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Look who rushes to pat Ronaldo on the back before he gets to Ferguson. Ireland's greatest sporting moment.
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UEFA EURO 2024
3 years
🏆 Cristiano Ronaldo 🤝 Sir Alex Ferguson
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Roy Keane confessed today that he used to drink Bacardi and Coke. It's also the tipple of John Giles. Did Ireland stop producing midfield generals because of the decline of popularity of B&C? Read my 15,000 word investigation in The Athletic on Tuesday. Incredible detail.
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Kieran Cunningham
6 years
Neymar has had five different hairstyles at this World Cup. Pat Jennings has had the same one for 45 years. #teampat
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Kieran Cunningham
4 years
Good journalism brought John Delaney down, bad journalism played a significant part in his rise.
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Kieran Cunningham
5 years
Jesus, he's like one of those eejits waving when Marty Morrissey does a piece to camera.
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Seán Hussey
5 years
@dionfanning Political Masterclass from Shane Ross.
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Kieran Cunningham
1 year
Seven years ago this month, Michael Conlan was named as Sportsperson of the Year in Ireland, and he was a popular choice. His latest pro fight is tomorrow and there's hardly a word about it. Sad, really.
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Kieran Cunningham
2 years
What it means to finally win an All-Ireland after 50 years in coaching. Mickey Moran kisses the ground at the point where winning goal was scored. From @StephenAnnett video.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Never saw this pic before. When John Treacy pipped a showboating Steve Ovett on the line at Crystal Palace.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Something that is rarely mentioned. Many students around the country have their options restricted because they can't go to Dublin colleges due to Dublin rent.
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Kieran Cunningham
4 years
Fair play to GAA for opening up Croke Park for coronavirus testing. That's the real GAA, a community organisation.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
You learn something new every day. BBC televised the 1980 All-Ireland football final between Kerry and Roscomon. Barry Davies was the commentator. His co-commentator was....Eamon Dunphy. Wow.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Getting a job with CNN and still insisting on being called Donie. Respect.
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Kieran Cunningham
5 months
Are the men who burn down hotels vetted?
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Kieran Cunningham
5 years
You can tell a lot about someone with how they act when they think no-one's watching. This is great with Donegal manager Declan Bonner.
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Half time fun for Declan Bonner😂😂
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Kieran Cunningham
2 years
Compared to the rest of golf, Rory McIlroy is Che Guevara.
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Sky Sports News
2 years
🗣 "Any decision you make in your life that's purely for money, usually doesn't end up going the right way" Rory McIlroy says his stance on the LIV Series 'has been pretty clear from the start' 👇
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Kieran Cunningham
4 years
My year has been made. Just found out that Ger Loughnane has a Jack Russell called Davy.
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Kieran Cunningham
1 year
From clattering Con O'Callaghan to the Oscars, what a journey.
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Kieran Cunningham
2 years
In fairness to Sunny Edwards, he's been campaigning against drugs in boxing for a long time.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Let he who has never sat on a dead horse to make a phone call cast the first stone.
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Kieran Cunningham
3 years
Giving Robbie Keane, with hardly any coaching experience, €250,000 a year to effectively be assistant to the Ireland assistant coach was some move by John Delaney.
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Kieran Cunningham
6 years
Maybe it's hurling, not PE, that should be compulsory in schools...
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Kieran Cunningham
4 years
Is it not blindingly obvious that the stuff they sell in pubs will make it virtually impossible to enforce social distancing in pubs?
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