Paul Kimmage @PaulKimmage Twitter profile

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

6 years

To those who’ve bought a newspaper (any newspaper) this year and agreed or disagreed with anything I’ve written, a heartfelt thanks and a Happy New Year. The trolls on here who give me abuse can kiss my ass.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

7 years

Take a pill...oh, wait.

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@MariaSharapova

7 years

New York, WOW!! How can I sleep after this! @usopen

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Paul Kimmage

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5 years

A sincere thanks to the people of Howth who did their best for Raphael on Saturday. And for the kindness shown to our family over the last few days.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

4 years

Grief is the price we pay for love.

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1 year

Gave this to my mother on my return from the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. She kept everything.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

5 years

Thanks for all the kind messages about Raphael. No goodbyes. We carry him with us always.

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@PaulKimmage

5 years

Que sera sera...

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5 years

Fair play to the Gibraltarians. The game has only finished and they’ve built a monument for John Delaney’s neck.

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3 years

“Right arm or left, Paul?” “Left” “Okay, I’m just going to…” “I know how it works.” “You do?” “Oh yeah. I’ve seen guys doing it at 30 miles an hour incredible. They didn’t even blink!” #RoughRide

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

5 years

Some advice @paulajradcliffe : if you’re going to be an asshole, be a consistent asshole. And don’t mess with @betsyandreu

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

6 years

Getting a lot of questions about Sir Flipflop. Put me down for what I said on the day he won the Tour in 2012.

Paul Kimmage: How Bradley Wiggins had to fight against the sport's drug demons in a race I still...

In July 2006, a week after six of the sport’s biggest stars had been evicted from the Tour de France for doping, the American cycling magazine Velonews ran a poll on their website.

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6 years

Love is...the way my mother tends my father’s grave.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

8 years

@lancearmstrong @OneZeroCon You're confusing me with one of those muppets that used to dance to your tune.

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4 years

Dull and Duller

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7 years

The Essential Rory: (Part 1)

Paul Kimmage meets Rory McIlroy: The truth about the Olympics, close friendship with Tiger and the...

Thirteen years ago, on a gloriously sunny morning in February 2004, I hired a car at Los Angeles airport and drove west for 130 miles to the Shadow Ridge G...

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

5 years

...Thank you Andy. I owe you more than you will ever know.

Irish Independent Sport

@IndoSport

5 years

Paul Kimmage remembers his brother: 'Dear Raphael, there is no one is this world that I admire as much as you' @PaulKimmage #RIPRaphael

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4 years

A massive thanks to the World Number 1 @McIlroyRory

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Paul Kimmage

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10 months

As my old friend David Walsh once said: “We reserve the right to applaud.”

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

4 years

Angela Kimmage is doing okay. (Thanks for asking)

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Paul Kimmage

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7 years

The Essential Rory: Part Two

Paul Kimmage meets Rory McIlroy - Part Two: Ryder Cup battles, Irish Open win and his longing for a...

Planet Rory. During those countless days spent gazing in wonder and watching from afar perhaps the strangest was that morning in May 2014, when a statement...

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Paul Kimmage

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5 years

Gay Byrne didn’t get to be Gay Byrne by avoiding tough questions. And those questions often made headlines. It was a difficult evening (he loved cycling) but an important lesson, and I wrote to him later to express my thanks and admiration. An absolute legend. RIP.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

8 years

The best line I've read this weekend on TUE's. Take a bow @declynchwriter

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

6 years

The dog ate my kidneys.

the Inner Ring

@inrng

6 years

L'Equipe reporting that Chris Froome's defence exploring whether his kidneys could have "malfunctioned", storing up salbutamol only to release a large quantity for the anti-doping test. The UCI has got a renal specialist on its side too (🇫🇷, €)

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Paul Kimmage

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8 years

Class is permanent.

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Paul Kimmage

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4 years

I cracked early on the Col du Glandon. I knew my parents were waiting at the top and composed a speech: ‘Da, I’m sorry. This is the reality. This is what I am.’ He had a bottle of water and filled my bidon. He said I was doing fine and my speech was cancelled. #RoughRide

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Paul Kimmage

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7 years

To clarify: I am really embarassed that Rory, who treated me and my newspaper with so much decency and respect, has been betrayed for clicks

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Paul Kimmage

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4 years

Thanks kid.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

3 years

The comeback starts here!

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@PaulKimmage

1 year

“You’re not to cry for me,” she said. “I’ve had a great life.” Angela Kimmage on Alpe d’Huez December 25 1987

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

5 years

Thirty years ago today. My last day as a racer.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

1 year

A sincere thanks for all the kind words about our mother, Angela. We’re heartbroken but mostly grateful: “The more we are together.”

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

6 years

Into Thin Air

Irish Independent Sport

@IndoSport

6 years

Paul Kimmage: The greatest ever or just another drug cheat? After all the bullshit, why should we care? @PaulKimmage

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

5 years

And we ride in his favourite jersey to honour him today.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

7 years

Pat McQuaid is alive and well...and still a prick.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

9 months

This should be required reading for every athlete in Budapest. As good as anything I’ve ever read about sport.

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Paul Kimmage

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3 years

By some distance the best interview I’ve heard with Neil Jordan (a personal hero). Take a bow @Tommedian Different class.

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@PaulKimmage

9 months

Journalist at work. Good man Mister Cat-Al.

Cathal Dennehy

@Cathal_Dennehy

9 months

Tobi Amusan was not keen to talk about what led to her charge for whereabouts violations

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

6 years

Advice to @SirWiggo : If you’re going to be an asshole, be a consistent asshole.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

7 years

July 5, 1981. I am 19 years and 8 weeks old and it’s the happiest day of my life.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

8 years

A text to @padraig_h yesterday: "Life in the oul dog yet, well done." "Yes," he replied, "and without pharmaceutical help." That's ma boy.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

6 years

Borrowed a bike and climbed the Gap of Mamore for the first time on Thursday morning. It stung!

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@PaulKimmage

6 years

A massive thanks to @padraig_h and @McIlroyRory . It was an absolute joy.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

11 months

Hello darkness my old friend…

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@PaulKimmage

4 years

Parked my laptop for an hour this afternoon to watch ⁦ @nicholasroche ⁩ on the Col de Porte. Why? Because I was schooled on the climb by Thierry Claveyrolat, the Eagle of Vizelle. And because I once knocked the bollix out of Stephen there, which tbf didn’t happen very often.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

3 years

Surprise us Daniel. Start with Freeman, marginal gains and Omertà.

Daniel Lloyd

@daniellloyd1

3 years

I can't remember a more entertaining week of racing. Pro cycling has just done a mic drop. Big stories every day at Tirreno, a Healthy Ageing Tour & Paris Nice with the most dramatic of finales. I'm on my laptop to write the GCN Racing News Show and I don't know where to start.

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Paul Kimmage

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3 years

Monster.

Late Irish rugby player David Tweed's daughter reveals 'monster sexually abused me'

Victoria Tweed - the second youngest of Irish rugby player Davy Tweed's four children - waived her right to anonymity this week after her father was killed...

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

5 years

Sweet!

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Paul Kimmage

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7 years

Put me down for what I said last time...

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7 years

Absolute shite.

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Paul Kimmage

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8 years

"He's a fucking cheat." "You said that." "I want you to say it, Chris."

Paul Kimmage: You can't be angry if you don't care

This is how it starts: It's Thursday afternoon and I'm sitting on a sunny beach terrace nursing a glass of chilled wine when my phone shudders with a missi...

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3 years

One of the better days (November 20 1990)

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3 years

Two years...

Paul Kimmage remembers his brother: 'Dear Raphael, there is no one in this world that I admire as...

Dublin brothers Paul and Raphael Kimmage run the risk of expulsion from the Dairy Rás Tailteann if they raise a hand to help each other on the way to Sunda...

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

6 years

Ouch! @DamianReilly knocks the brass off some well-polished necks.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

7 years

Reassuring.

Astana Qazaqstan Team

@AstanaQazTeam

7 years

Our general manager Alexandr Vinokurov congratulates @chrisfroome champion at the finish line at @lavuelta . #AstanaProTeam #LV2017

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Paul Kimmage

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4 years

The 'Where is George Gibney?' podcast on BBC Sounds is journalism at its best. How it started...

The Second Captain who went in search of George Gibney

There's a fear rooted in all of us, a kind of primal instinct, that men who sit in cars at night are up to no good. That's what worried them. It was dark, ...

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

6 years

RTE apologise for the only thing that made this shite watchable. Incredible.

Irish Independent Sport

@IndoSport

6 years

RTE apologise for comments made by Eamon Dunphy and Joe Brolly:

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

5 years

Hail Mary

New York Times Opinion

@nytopinion

5 years

"I joined Nike because I wanted to be the best female athlete, ever. Instead, I was emotionally and physically abused by a system designed by Alberto and endorsed by Nike," says Mary Cain.

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“Are you in, Paul? “What?” “The Team of Us. Are you in?” “No.” “Ahh go on?” “NO.” “COYBIG.” “No.” “Ahh go on?” “No.” “You’re in.” “I’m not fucking in.” “Ahhh Paul.” “No.” “Think of the children.” “No.” “Ahhh Paul.” “All right, fuck it, I’m in.”

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4 years

I am forever indebted to @aidomc and @Tony_Whelan for this precious memory of my father, who died on this day (in this spot beside the tree) five years ago. Christy forever.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

7 years

Take a bow, lady.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

8 years

Tripping over themselves to jump on the bandwagon, and not a mention for the girls. Clowns.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

6 years

Hail Johnno. And his teammates for the 40 phases. Just brilliant.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

6 years

Today in the Sunday Independent: ‘What is it about this doper I admire so much? Well, let’s see now...’

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@PaulKimmage

3 years

Great week…It’s been a while!

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

5 years

“Okay kid, ready?” “Yes Dad.” “Boots?” “Yeah.” “Shorts?” “Yeah” “Socks?” “Yeah” “Jersey?” “Yeah” “Gumshield?” “Yeah” “Painkillers?” “Yeah”

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5 years

Hilarious.

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@PaulKimmage

6 years

‘Driver died after collision with cyclist’...said no headline ever!

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

8 years

How has a mild-mannered Kenyan with an ordinary pedigree and an ugly racing style transformed into one of the greatest cyclists of all time?

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5 years

Remembering Christy and Raphael.

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5 years

“Recovering” had me from the opening line... “It is the winter of 2016 and I am well.” ...and kept getting better. Congrats to @RichieSadlier and @dionfanning on the @AnPostIBAS Sports Book of the Year.

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6 years

First of the year: frozen feet, shrunken willy and absolutely legless. Damn you @oldbikerider1

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4 years

Rory revisited

Irish Independent Sport

@IndoSport

4 years

Rory revisited: No question off limits, no subject out of bounds as @PaulKimmage meets golfer of the decade @McIlroyRory #BigRead

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3 years

How it started. How it’s going.

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2 years

Tremendous.

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Paul Kimmage

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8 years

Brushing up on my French: "Royale with Cheese" = a Quarter Pounder "Infiltration locale" = a Cortisone injection

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

4 years

Thanks for all the kind messages, very much appreciated...

Irish Independent

@Independent_ie

4 years

Paul Kimmage: The Late Late, spitting in the soup and becoming an accidental journalist - 30 years of A Rough Ride

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

2 years

Fuck off!

Eurosport

@eurosport

2 years

"I do remember it being a very 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 moment" 🤩 @daniellloyd1 reflects on @SirWiggo ' Tour de France triumph 10 years ago today and what it meant to him 🇬🇧 #TDF2022

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@PaulKimmage

8 years

@lancearmstrong But I'll answer you, although I'm not sure you deserve it. Will I sit diwn with you? Absolutely. But not on these terms

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8 years

To be a truly great sportstar you don't need Angina, ADHD, Asthma, Bilharzia or Testicular Cancer...but it sure helps.

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2 years

Angela at 80. Happy birthday Ma.

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4 years

From the moment she started racing Debbie Kane was turning heads. She was a hero to me and one of the best people I’ve known. Absolutely gutted to hear we have lost her to cancer. Sincere condolences to Dave and all of her family.

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

3 years

Thanks Philip, but you can go sell crazy someplace else, we’re all stocked-up for now.

Mícheál Lehane

@MichealLehane

3 years

Professor Philip Nolan said this will be an outdoor summer where social contacts will still be somewhat limited. He told @thisweekrte that the revised Living with Covid plan will deal with the reality that people need to meet up (outdoors) for their sanity

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Paul Kimmage

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6 years

A confidential line that nobody knows about; a cheque for twenty grand that nobody will speak about; some unanswered questions for Tom Ryan and the GAA.

Irish Independent Sport

@IndoSport

6 years

Paul Kimmage: The curious case of a Dublin club, a twenty grand cheque and some unanswered questions for the GAA

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4 years

Don’t get mad, get...

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Paul Kimmage

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5 years

So, after putting on the jerseys and shedding a few tears, we rolled down to the start in Kenmare at 8:15

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10 years

Johannes Draaijer: The Complete Series http://t.co/9AoblRgzEt http://t.co/3WrvGWBqM0 http://t.co/5BDepki2Mf http://t.co/JPBACGCEs1

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

7 years

Barry Ryan rocks.

Cyclingnews

@Cyclingnewsfeed

7 years

Brailsford launches rant against Cyclingnews journalist #TDF2017 |

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Paul Kimmage

@PaulKimmage

7 years

We could do with a few Andy Murray's in pro cycling. They're all sheep.

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@PaulKimmage

4 years

Journalists make their names by talking the talk but are often found wanting when it comes to walking the walk.

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Paul Kimmage

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4 years

Ripped my office apart on Friday looking for a photo from LA in ‘84.

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5 years

G.O.A.T (Happy birthday kid)

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8 years

What a thrill! Twenty six years later 'Rough Ride' has been published in Spain. A sincere thanks to Eneko Garate and David Batres Marquez

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Paul Kimmage

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7 years

Stuck here for a while...could be worse I guess.

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2 years

Gabriel Byrne on whether he felt he was ‘trespassing’ on his parents private life by asking his mother about his father: “I think a lot of the things people regret is that they don’t trespass more.” Yep.

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5 years

Great day for it.

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3 years

My first time to talk doping and cycling on Sky. Great that @AtTheRaces are at the races.

At The Races

@AtTheRaces

3 years

“Jim Bolger is absolutely credible” @PaulKimmage thinks the top trainer’s attempts to clean up drugs issues in horse racing is the best chance the sport will get to fix the problem… #RacingDebate