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Mark Tighe

3 years

Just got delivery of a fresh batch of the new slimline paperback edition of Champagne Football. Out in all good bookshops now. 📚

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Mark Tighe

@MarkLTighe

2 years

Lampard praising Seamus Coleman in the dressing room for his leadership in last night’s second half comeback.

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3 years

Ireland coming out of lockdown in December!

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3 years

Outside the GPO now.

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4 years

Absolutely delighted to win Journalist of the Year. Thanks to everyone who trusted me to get the truth out there. #journoawards19

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4 years

There’s a pirate version of Champagne Football being sent around. ☹️ Would appeal for folks not to send it around and to support our journalism instead. #buyabook

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5 years

Just spent the last three hours in the High Court after John Delaney tried to get an emergency injunction to prevent us reporting on FAI and Delaney payments. The judge ruled in our favour! Story in @SunTimesIreland tomorrow. 🙂

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2 years

Did this fella post this thinking it was a win for him? Well done to Pat Kenny. Cool and rational.

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5 years

Just noticed this bit of action after the finish line on the video of #newyorkmarathon2019 just after I’d finished. 😂👏🏃🏼‍♂️💍❤️

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4 years

Begun, the Covid rebellion has. 🥘

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4 years

Just been told by @PenguinIEBooks that there’s been massive demand for Champagne Football and they’ve just ordered a second print run of the book which will hit the shops at end of next week. Thanks for all the support! 🍾⚽️

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2 years

Breaking: After a two-year legal battle, the High Court has rejected former FAI boss John Delaney's attempt to claim privilege over 1,000+ documents which would have kept them from investigators in Corporate Enforcement Authority who are carrying out a criminal investigation.

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3 years

“There’s only one thing I’m interested in and that’s catching bent coppers.”👮‍♂️

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2 years

Eight days since Mick Wallace, an Irish MEP, dismissed western warnings of Putin’s imminent invasion of #Ukraine as “lies” and “fear mongering”.

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4 years

Devastatingly effective dismantling of Gemma O’Doherty and John Waters case from Judge Charles Meenan. No response to affidavit from Dept of Health. And then, “unsubstantiated opinions, speeches, empty rhetoric and a bogus historical parallel are not a substitute for facts”.

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6 months

Hmm. Controversial ruling from the múinteoir here on "how many corners does a semi-circle have".

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2 years

😂

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6 months

Who had Sinn Fein defending Leo Varadkar from an Elon Musk attack on their bingo cards? Kudos to David Cullinane for taking the high road and risking the wrath of all the Musk devotees.

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@davidcullinane

6 months

No he doesn’t.

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2 years

Kelly Harrington’s advice to kids includes “surround yourself with all your friends”. 😬 Nphet will be having kittens. #LateLateToyShow

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4 years

Just got word from @PenguinIEBooks that Champagne Football was the number one selling book in Ireland last week! There were 4,645 books sold in just three days. 😮 Amazing. Thanks to everyone for all the great feedback and support for myself and @paulrowantree 🥂⚽️

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3 years

Grealish and Rice not the only ex-FAI men in Wembley today?

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3 years

@bglendenning @marktigheST spotted at Wembley!

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4 years

We've been digging deep into the John Delaney regime at the FAI and are excited to announce our book Champagne Football is now available for pre-order from Easons. Will hit book shops in Sept - barring any last-minute injunction attempts! Appreciate RTs

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4 years

One politician was sent an advance copy because she was the only one who asked serious questions about FAI governance over a long period of time before the shit hit the fan last year.

Catherine Murphy

@CathMurphyTD

4 years

My copy has landed

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2 years

Big personal news… After 16 years, this weekend is my last with @SunTimesIreland . Made great friends, learned a lot, upset some people and broke some great yarns with a super team. It’s been the best job I’ve ever had. Looking forward to a new challenge starting late June. 📰

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11 months

Interestingly, RTE's auditor is Richard Howard from Deloitte, who football fans will know was the FAI's auditor for years until the sh*t hit the fan in 2019 and Deloitte resigned at the end of that year.

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3 years

Asked @Donie for an interview last Wednesday BEFORE the Trump rally. 😱 He’s been busy since then but the gent that he is he still found time to talk with me about what became a crazy week for him and the beat he covers. Watch out for his interview in @SunTimesIreland tomorrow 📰

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3 years

For the “one bad egg” brigade.

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Some of the abuse handed out to gardai today.

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4 years

Michael Healy Rae was a no-show in the Oireachtas sports committee hearing today about the crisis facing Irish football. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Fair weather fan?

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5 years

So, there was an intriguing debate about the Extinction Rebellion protests on Virgin Media One on Thursday night. Broadcaster Niall Boylan held up a chart to back up a claim that the number of natural disasters is actually decreasing over the last 100 years.

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5 years

Disappointing standards shown by @offtheball last night. They allow John Giles to read a prepared statement on air and agree not to ask him one single question. Statement attacked ST but no opportunity given to us to respond. Then they post the statement up as a story...

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2 years

Today is exactly 5 years, 6 months and 7 days since the Irish women's team had to threaten strike action, in the face of serious intimidation, to secure better conditions from the FAI. What a turnaround. ⚽️ 🇮🇪

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4 years

Having the CEO of the Irish banking federation at the Oireachtas Golf Society dinner just isn’t a good look on top of everything else.

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6 years

I think "new low" might be a bit of a stretch.

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4 years

Will Klopp accept Liverpool have been sloppy today? 😇

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1 month

The Cass report has a clear message: medical interventions on children should be backed by scientific evidence that they work and are safe. This was the reaction from a TD in 2022 when I reported Irish doctors' concerns about the HSE use of Tavistock to treat over 200 Irish kids.

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5 years

Amazing interview from Maria Bailey on RTÉ. Attacking journalists for reporting facts she put before the court and refusing to say why she thought the hotel was responsible for her injuries after she fell off a swing.

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4 years

Leo Varadkar: “There’s a fair few nutters in every party, including my own.” Catherine Noone: “I got this.” #ge2020

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3 years

Richard Keogh awarded £2.3m in breach of contract case against Derby

Richard Keogh awarded £2.3m in breach of contract case against Derby

Richard Keogh has secured a payout of about £2.3m from Derby after winning his long-running compensation claim against the club

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

Publication day for Champagne Football! Really excited to check out some bookshops later.

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3 years

Absolutely delighted to get this award with @paulrowantree for Champagne Football from @AnPostIBAS . Thanks to everyone who helped us. Great to see such support for investigative journalism. Lucky hoody came through again! 📚🍾⚽️

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2 years

FAI paying Robbie Keane €250k a year for doing nothing is an embarrassment on both sides

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3 years

One of the all-time great FAI statements. Still on the website six years later.

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2 years

We looked at doing a Champagne Football podcast last year and the only firm sponsorship offers to help fund it came from bookies. We turned that down. No way. Much of the advertising from the gambling industry is really insidious. It should be regulated way more than it is.

RTÉ Soccer

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"We are really concerned that we are raising a generation of children who think that betting and football are synonymous and in doing that creating an epidemic of gambling" The @DroghedaUnited chairman has been speaking to @morningireland #rtesoccer

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2 years

Five years on from the brashest birthday party in Irish football history tonight. Not the present he was hoping for from the High Court today.

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3 years

Not so sure about this new Dublin tourism video. 😂

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7 months

Quentin Tarantino Universe

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7 months

Tell me someone in yellow more iconic than her.

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4 years

Unfollowing lots of people today who are being abusive to pols that have either lost or won seats. No need for it. 🤷🏼‍♂️ # #GE2020 ✌️

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2 years

I remember Charlie Bird taking time to help show us around the RTE newsroom when I was a student journalist on a class trip to Montrose 17 years ago. A class act. #climbwithcharlie

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5 years

Another week on the FAI beat. Myself and @paulrowantree have a big story on John Delaney.

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Mark Tighe

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4 years

Delighted to confirm that myself and @paulrowantree are working on a book about the FAI for next year with @PenguinIEBooks 📚 My DMs are open for anyone who wants to share their experiences of what happened under the Delaney regime.

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4 years

Things getting back to normal. Joe Duffy has a woman and man on complaining about the “pornography” on RTE in Normal People.

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5 years

Waiting over an hour at St Patrick’s Cathedral for some parade action so the horse poo sucker up guy getting big cheers. 😂

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3 years

Biggest team in the country caught breaking GAA and Covid rules? It’s definitely front page news. Even the most ardent Dub supporters should be able to see that instead of attacking the newspaper that broke the story.

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Have a premium subscription @Independent_ie and this is front page news - I’m not saying that it was right what went on (by no means) but front page? All that’s going on at the min and this is your headline story? #ForShame #subcriptionCancelled

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3 years

There’s been a serious failure from the government to plan for indoor dining and the inevitable arrival of new Covid variants. Worst in class.

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2 years

Tonight the Late Late Show is a special on 100 years of the FAI. Nope, I haven’t been asked on. 😂🍾⚽️

John Byrne

@tellyjohn

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This week's Late Late Show celebrates the centenary of the FAI:

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4 years

Have had a couple of offers from people to post or Revolut me money for Champagne Football after they got the pirated version. Please support your local bookshops and don’t use or pass around a pirated copy that isn’t even the complete version of the book. 👍

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3 months

New FAI sponsor? 🙈 got sent this after the PAC hearing this morning 😆

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4 years

Boyhood dream come true to see our book on the shelves. Signed a few copies of Champagne Football in @Hodges_Figgis in Dawson St earlier.

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5 years

John Delaney racked up €40,000 spending on FAI credit card in six months.

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4 years

Brilliant from Emily Maitlis. “Unbecoming!? He was a sex offender!!!” #PrinceAndrew 💥💥💥

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"Having watched all of the Bloody Sunday shooters testify, I can say with certainty that they include not only unapologetic killers, but unrelenting liars."

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3 years

Brilliant. 😂

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3 years

This dad press conference is excellent 😂

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Don’t speak Irish, company that accepts gaeltacht grant tells staff

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5 years

Anyway, just thought this information was important for anyone who watched the chart paraded on air and wondered what was the real story.

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@MarkLTighe

3 years

Stunned over this.😀Bestselling Irish published book in 2020! Held off a late charge from @irelandincolour Thanks to everyone who helped us get this story in print. Great to hear from so many readers since. So many have their own jaw-dropping stories that would fill another book!

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@PenguinIEBooks

3 years

We are over the moon that Nielsen ICM data today confirms that Champagne Football, by @marktigheST and @paulrowantree , is Ireland's bestselling Irish-published book of 2020, selling a staggering 49,307 copies. We couldn't be prouder.

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5 years

Cool effect from @SubsetDublin on the old run down bandstand in Bushy Park.

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6 years

The student whose experience with Al Porter was that he was groped and kissed by him when he was in a psychiatric hospital is one of the bravest and most impressive people I've dealt with in my time as a reporter with the Sunday Times. This young man spoke about being groped 1/3

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2 years

As a free agent from July, what's to stop TCD looking to hire Holohan then and pay for it out of its own resources?

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2 years

Statement from Trinity on Tony Holohan.

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3 years

Our book Champagne Football was released exactly one year ago today. Great that we have reached that milestone and we haven't been sued!😃 Also delighted that a new paperback edition will go on sale at the end of this month. 🍾⚽️ 📚

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Roderic O’Gorman ‘raids’ Magdalene and Traveller funds as part of €1.1m increase for LGBTQ+ projects

Roderic O’Gorman ‘raids’ funds to push €1.1m to LGBTQ+ projects

Equality Minister Roderic O’Gorman has been accused of playing “parish pump politics” after his department transferred €1.1m to LGBTQ+ projects. The money ...

www.independent.ie

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4 years

RIP Robert Fisk. Amazing career as a journalist and newspaperman. Got to meet and interview him when I was doing my journalism course in @nuigalway 🗞📰🕵️‍♂️

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3 years

Woot! 🍾

An Post Irish Book Awards

@AnPostIBAS

3 years

The WINNER of the @BordGaisEnergy Sports Book of the Year is… Champagne Football by @MarkTigheST and @paulrowantree ! #APIBAS #ReadersWanted

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CNN’s man in Capitol storm, armed with a Kerry accent #Donie

CNN sends Donie O'Sullivan into the Capitol storm, armed only with a Kerry accent

The CNN reporter who covered Donald Trump’s Save America rally in Washington DC last Wednesday could not have been better qualified. Donie O’Sullivan, from Cahe

www.thetimes.co.uk

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5 years

A lot of detail in this story and much more inside in News and in Sport with ⁦ @paulrowantree ⁩ on FAI and John Delaney. Worth it to #buyapaper tomorrow!

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3 years

I love it when #FOI works. Over a year after making a request I’ve got my hands on the contracts signed by the state 💴 , the FAI⚽️ and the IRFU🏉 to build and manage what became the Aviva stadium🏟. Some fascinating details. Story ⁦ @SunTimesIreland ⁩ tomorrow.

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4 years

That’s a huge impact @aoifegracemoore and @PTHosford ‘s story on #golfgate has made. ✅ EU Commissioner resigned ✅ Government Minister and Deputy FF leader resigned ✅ Deputy Leader of the Seanad resigned ✅ Supreme Court judge under investigation by former Chief Justice.

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3 years

That cabbage of a press officer was on the Late Late twice. 🤨

The Recount

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Day 1 Press Briefings: Trump admin vs. Biden admin

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4 years

Myself + @paulrowantree just got news that Champagne Football is the #1 bestselling book in Ireland for a second week with 4,502 copies sold. The second print run hits shops today so it should be easier to find copies. Thanks for all the support. We’re absolutely delighted! 🍾⚽️

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5 years

Delaney ‘used FAI funds’ for his 50th party

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4 years

@brendanbelfast science.

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5 years

We have been busy bees this week. Some cracking stories on FAI and John Delaney coming in The Sunday Times tomorrow from myself, @paulrowantree and @colincoyle

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One week on from that late night press release it’s great that the biggest story in Irish football is a young Irish striker smashing two goals in against Spurs. Take a bow @AaronConnolly_9 👏

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4 years

Would an €8.50 meal give you Covid? 🤨

RTÉ News

@rtenews

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Pubs will be allowed to reopen on 29 June if they serve "substantial" meals costing not less than €9, according to new guidelines being prepared by Fáilte Ireland.

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4 years

Documentary from RTE this Monday evening at 9.35 “The John Delaney Story”. Definitely will be worth a watch. ⚽️

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FAI ‘payment’ to John Delaney’s ex-girlfriend

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FAI to put faith in Stephen Kenny with new contract as Ireland manager

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4 years

The liberate Ireland crowd at the Four Courts today. 😷

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5 years

Brian Kerr should be the first of the independent directors appointed to the FAI board. A deep knowledge of football, a keen eye for wasteful spending, and, most importantly, he’ll never be a yes-man.

Gavin Cooney

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Met Brian Kerr today. This is pretty long, but I think anyone who has been following the FAI story over the last few months should read it.

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Trainer of champion greyhound that tested positive for cocaine tells @thetimesIE the dog could've got it from hands of ppl patting its head.

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Health officials accused of deleting minutes showing junior minister promoted gender service whose founder was struck-off.

Department of Health officials accused of deleting details after meeting over ‘unsafe’ Tavistock...

Department of Health officials have been accused of altering records of a meeting between ministers and doctors to delete details of a junior minister prom...

www.independent.ie

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This is exciting. 🍿 TV deal for John Delaney saga: best-selling book on FAI boss to be made into a drama series

TV deal for John Delaney saga: best-selling book on FAI boss to be made into a drama series

The epic tale that details the rise and fall of one of Ireland’s most controversial sporting figures, John Delaney, in the best-selling book Champagne Foot...

www.independent.ie

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How Roy Keane ends every story.

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5 years

Great to see a happy, smiling Sinead O’Connor!

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3 years

So, @ucddublin !?

Ronan McGreevy

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3 years

“The reason that globalists support masks is that oxygen deprived people are easy to manipulate,” UCD professor Dolores Cahill.

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4 years

Thanks for all the support, folks. Champagne Football is currently ranked 390th out of 6m+ books on which is pretty cool. It’s great to support the terrific local Irish bookshops out there though and pls don’t pass on pirated books. 📚

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7 months

Have read this intro 10 times. 🏉

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3 years

UK and Brazil passengers allowed in to Ireland without Covid test results

Approximately 80 people have been allowed to enter the country after arriving on flights from South Africa and Britain without test results to show they were fr

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The FAI got over €12m from Denis O'Brien, but that went solely on wages for Trapattoni, Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane.