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@RudiKinsella

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Journalist, radio guy and sports writer. Content Editor for Irish Star US. Formerly worked for FM104, JOE and Pundit Arena. All views my own. Up Firhouse.

Dublin, Ireland
Joined June 2012
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@RudiKinsella
Rudi Kinsella
3 months
Think there should be just as much scrutiny on the US and their ability to safely host a World Cup as there was on Qatar
@BNONews
BNO News
3 months
BREAKING: Gunfire erupts at the end of the Super Bowl parade in Kansas City, MO
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3 years
Made one for Kopparberg
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4 months
Gibbs-White saying “look at their faces, they don’t wanna be here” and then the camera cuts to Eriksen looking completely uninterested. Art.
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1 year
Imagine how he feels now after being at fault for like seven goals in four three games in the most important part of the season
@primevideosport
Amazon Prime Video Sport
1 year
Aaron Ramsdale, the perfectionist... Arsenal won, but he conceded. His reaction shows his elite mindset! 🙌 #AONArsenal
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Really hope they talk about the culture Fergie created at United and how different it is today. Be a real breath of fresh air.
@WeAreTheOverlap
The Overlap
30 days
Tomorrow on Stick to Football we are joined by none other than Rio Ferdinand! 🤩
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3 years
Proper David Brent stuff from Tommy Bowe here
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5 years
Jason McAteer going mad about a five aside game is absolutely incredible. We were robbed, in fairness.
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25 days
He tried to hit the ref with the “Why I oughta!”
@centregoals
CentreGoals.
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🚨🚨| RED CARD FOR CRISTIANO RONALDO!!!
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5 months
Andrew Tayto
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James Kavanagh
5 months
What in the name of Andrew Tate is going on
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3 years
Ireland: Announces 3,394 new Covid cases, tells the entire nation not to leave their houses Ryanair: Don’t mind that, flights to Malta are only €8
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Rudi Kinsella
5 years
Remember when we used to all do Honest Opinions on Facebook and you’d get someone you didn’t really know so you’d just start stating facts. “You’re in my year, good mates with Sean. Think I saw you eating a chicken fillet roll once”
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2 years
Ireland during the minute’s silence:
@BBCBreaking
BBC Breaking News
2 years
One-minute silence to be held across UK on Sunday - the night before Queen Elizabeth II's funeral
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5 years
I’ve never been but this is what I imagine Trinity Ball is like
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2 months
How Ben Chilwell looks starting fights with Liverpool’s academy
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@RudiKinsella
Rudi Kinsella
6 years
I have never seen those words combined in my life.
@HARESQUEAD
HARE SQUEAD
6 years
Conas ata tu nigga 🇮🇪
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24 days
That’s how humans wave alright. One hand in the air, completely stationary. Then two hands in the air together, also stationary. Good stuff.
@Jennifer_Bray
Jennifer Bray
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Simon Harris outside Leinster House after winning the vote to become Taoiseach @IrishTimes
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4 years
Drug dealers Primary school teachers 🤝 Slightly changing their name on Facebook
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3 months
There’s a real gap in the market for a young lad from Dublin, preferably in his 20s, to try different spice bags and review them online
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5 months
Worth digging out this full scene from The Wire if you can. 10/10 television and a 10/10 song to go with it. RIP Shane.
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3 years
Thinking a lot about Stormzy’s analysis of Jolene today
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2 years
Joanne McNally has found such a smart way around the housing crisis in Dublin by just moving into Vicar Street
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3 years
Maradona watching Salt Bae prepare his dinner might be the most romantic thing I’ve ever seen
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5 years
The worst advert I’ve ever seen.
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7 years
Some artists define a genre. Some define a generation. This man did both.
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14 days
2042 World Cup is going to be ours 🇮🇪 🇧🇷
@IrishTimes
The Irish Times
14 days
More than 58,000 Brazilians live in Ireland, with 40% intending to stay
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Rudi Kinsella
2 years
Restaurants - I promise you that I don’t want to have to cut my pizza myself. I am a little boy and you have a pizza cutter in the back, do it for me please.
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5 months
Rory’s Stories about to do 25-to-life
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Rudi Kinsella
4 years
Mourinho's reaction to a Rashford miss after fans had been pressuring him to play. He's actually evil. I hope he fails MISERABLY.
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3 years
Everything felt so calm when Pogba was in the midfield. Then Fred comes on and it immediately feels like you’re at a rave with one light and no exit.
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Rudi Kinsella
4 years
If you look up “breath of fresh air” in the dictionary, you should see a picture of Micah Richards. What a man.
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30 days
Beige.
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Emerson Kennedy
30 days
If you could only eat one color of food what would it be?
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3 years
Don’t tweet the Eriksen video lads. Just don’t do it.
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Rudi Kinsella
2 years
Me with my €60 from getting my mam to sign up to Revolut
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2 years
Only isolating with my girlfriend a few hours and she’s said I look like Brendan Gleeson. I don’t see this ending well.
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Rudi Kinsella
6 years
When I was in the Gaeltacht in Galway when I was 14, me and the girl I was seeing had a fairly upsetting break up and I had wrote a full remix to California King Bed called Connemara King Bed and I was about 1 second away from puttting it on Facebook
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Rudi Kinsella
5 years
Now that Game of Thrones is over there is only one show that can take its place. One show to unite us all. Quizone.
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Rudi Kinsella
5 years
If a commentator ever says "Ah you hate to see this sort of thing", 9 times out of 10 it is, in fact, something that everyone wants to see. Players fighting, managers having a row, disrespectful celebrations. All class.
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2 years
Beckham sold his soul to Qatar already, but it’s understandable to feel disappointed in Neville. After all, he cried for three weeks about the prospect of the Super League. Where was this energy in The Overlap? He must have left it on the flight to Qatar.
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4 years
Two years today since France won the World Cup, and celebrated in the coolest way possible. What a tune.
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Rudi Kinsella
4 years
Zoey 101 really sold me a dream about what my college campus would look like. Instead I ended up on campus in Ballymun, at a college that was under construction for my whole time there, and its biggest selling point was chicken goujons.
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4 years
Feel like this video of Ronaldinho making a show of Gerrard isn't talked about enough
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1 year
Daniel Radcliffe 🐐
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1 year
Daniel Radcliffe: “if you’re going to talk about trans kids, it might be useful to actually listen to trans kids.”
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3 years
Darren Randolph and Alexandra Burke is the only celebrity relationship I care about
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3 years
Don’t you normally tick a box after you’ve completed a task? Not months in advance.
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Rudi Kinsella
4 years
Posh girls from south Dublin shouting “yup Tallaght” on nights out is cultural appropriation. I won’t be discussing this matter further.
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Rudi Kinsella
4 years
Very sick of those small little ketchup sachets making a show of me in public. Too difficult to open a lot of the time. Sometimes I won’t even try and I’ll try convince myself I don’t like ketchup. But I do. I do like ketchup.
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Rudi Kinsella
1 year
Kyle Walker after Mbappe has scored two in the first 35 minutes:
@City_Xtra
City Xtra
1 year
Kyle Walker is preparing to deal with Kylian Mbappe with high tech goggles, compression boots and a massage gun. [ @samcunningham / @iPaperSport ]
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5 years
I don’t think he’s joking
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Rudi Kinsella
10 months
Lovely touch here in Tallaght. The first ever Irish women’s team giving the current team a guard of honour as they make their way on to the pitch. 50 years on and we’re going to a World Cup.
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Rudi Kinsella
1 year
I know it smells crazy in that room
@AnfieldAgenda
Anfield Agenda
1 year
"You should've killed us when you had the chance, Liverpool are BACK!"
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Rudi Kinsella
2 years
A decent weekend for the lads. Three tips. Three losses. If you followed their advice (as I’m sure loads of their young audience did), you’d be down 70 quid since Friday. The caption on all three posts? “Easy money”.
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4 years
Stormzy’s lyrics about Maya Jama. Fuck. “Now I haven’t even got the luxury of knowing you”
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Rudi Kinsella
4 years
The women’s team had to share tracksuits.
@gavreilly
Gavan Reilly
4 years
FAI accounts reveal that Martin O'Neill, Roy Keane and other members of the previous men's senior management team received €1,903,277 in severance
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Rudi Kinsella
4 years
CNN journalist Omar Jimenez has just been arrested live on air. His whole camera crew arrested too. America is broken.
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Rudi Kinsella
9 months
In utter awe of the guy in front of me on a 15-hour flight who watched Impractical Jokers for the ENTIRE thing. How much divilment and messing can one man consume?
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Rudi Kinsella
4 years
The greatest achievement of any DCU Journalism alumni
@itvpresscentre
ITV Press Centre
4 years
ITV2 today announces that Laura Whitmore will host season 6 of Love Island. The show will launch on the channel on 12 January 2020.
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Matt Doherty plays like the sprint button is broken on his PlayStation controller
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2 years
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@England
England
2 years
Rock, paper, scissors: the loser gets lifted in the air 🤷‍♂️😂
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5 years
Definitely the most people who’ve ever said “aw bollocks” at once @outburstpal
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2 years
Just saw Andrew Garfield speak beautifully to Stephen Colbert about grief. Colbert has a knack for getting moments of brilliance out of people when discussing death...
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2 years
This is class.
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4 years
Fair play to him cos I tell people that Nicky Byrne from Westlife is my second cousin almost immediately after meeting them
@Complex
Complex
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John David Washington says he would hide his father’s identity to get acting jobs on his own: “I used to lie, saying he was a construction worker or in jail.”
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1 year
I think there’s a case to be made that Frank Lampard is the worst manager in PL history.
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Rudi Kinsella
3 years
What’s a mansplainers favourite Christmas movie? Actually, love...
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Rudi Kinsella
2 years
Choosing to believe this means he prefers Eric Bailly to Harry Maguire. I’m with you Bruno.
@B_Fernandes8
Bruno Fernandes
2 years
Feeling very safe between these two 😂
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Rudi Kinsella
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There are lads I know who actually find this guy cool. What a way to live.
@THR
The Hollywood Reporter
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. @elonmusk gives multiple poses on the #BreakthroughPrize red carpet
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Rudi Kinsella
4 years
Hundreds of people have gathered at the Spire in Dublin to show solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, in light of the death of George Floyd. Also dozens of “End Direct Provision” signs visible.
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Rudi Kinsella
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Robbie Brady playing against Jeff Hendrick and Shane Long tonight in the Championship. If you told me they’d be facing off in a few years during Euro 2016, I’d have assumed it was in El Classico.
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Rudi Kinsella
1 year
When you ask a Taximan in Dublin if you can pay by card
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Rudi Kinsella
4 years
Until tomorrow
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7 years
People - don't direct your anger towards Bus Eireann or Dublin Bus workers - there's one man to blame and that's Cian Twomey
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1 year
“If you played a drinking game that required you to take a shot every time Liam Brady said: ‘I don’t know much about the lad’, you’d end up in hospital.”
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Rudi Kinsella
10 months
Nathan Collins taking Nathan Collins’ title as most expensive Irishman
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@FabrizioRomano
Fabrizio Romano
10 months
Brentford are set to sign Nathan Collins on permanent deal from Wolves — done and here we go. 🐝 #BrentfordFC Medical already booked, as called by Sky Sports. Fee will be around £23m for the centre back.
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Rudi Kinsella
5 years
What was my personal highlight of 2018? Probably the bit at the end of The Greatest Showman where Zac Efron excitedly takes the baton from Hugh Jackman and you know that the circus is in good hands.
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Rudi Kinsella
2 years
Some thoughts on Kenny and Ireland (would write an article but I’m on the beach in Spain 😅). He 100% deserves to try and qualify us for Euro 2024. We have been terrible for almost my entire life. Terrible football played by average players, all of whom were ALWAYS over 25.
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Rudi Kinsella
7 years
Thank you for your services, Taoiseach.
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Rudi Kinsella
3 years
I sat through three Premier League football matches this weekend, and took notes on every gambling advert that appeared on my screen. There was loads. I felt quite sick, and wrote this.
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Rudi Kinsella
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The FAI should be implementing a four-year plan to make sure we qualify for the Euros we’re hosting, and we don’t disgrace ourselves when we get there. Instead they’re too busy making a balls of sponsorships and struggling to even hire any manager. A constant disgrace.
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Rudi Kinsella
3 years
Roy Keane’s comedic timing is undefeated. He’s spot on here too about Henderson...
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Rudi Kinsella
3 months
Bazunu is only 21. Nearly 150 senior appearances and still improving. What a man.
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Rudi Kinsella
1 year
“Four three” yeah that’s what I meant
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Rudi Kinsella
1 year
@PlanetRugby You’d all be too busy saying please and thank you to the referees like nerds
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Rudi Kinsella
10 months
Like I said - it’s all been looked after.
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Rudi Kinsella
10 months
I’ve had a word with Sam Kerr folks. She’s going to take it handy on us. It’s all been looked after.
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Rudi Kinsella
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Westlife as a group should be on the 50 euro note. All four of them just smushed on to the yoke. They deserve it. They're that good.
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Rudi Kinsella
5 years
Nice to see Rory’s Stories has matured since this interview answer *checks notes* two weeks ago. What an ambassador.
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Rudi Kinsella
1 year
Gary Neville letting himself down more and more by the day
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Rudi Kinsella
1 year
We were hammering a team one time but just couldn’t score. 0-0 with a few mins left and he goes to me “get yourself into the box son you might win a penalty”. Don’t need to tell you what happened next!
@deanbrady11
Dean Brady
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Anyone remember this head case from Paul the Celtic ref from schoolboy football 😂😂😂 is the cunt still alive or what
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Rudi Kinsella
1 year
Virgin are treating this like the massive game that it is and that’s a really good thing
@VMSportIE
Virgin Media Sport
1 year
Live weather report from Dalymount Park! 🎥☀️🌧📺 Let's hope the weather picks up for tomorrow night's Dublin Derby! @deric_tv is there for @IrelandAMVMTV this morning. #BOHSHA | #LOI
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Rudi Kinsella
4 years
Can’t believe this was snubbed at the Emmys last night
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Rudi Kinsella
4 years
If we’re doing another lockdown then I may as well watch Normal People from the start again. Maybe this time Connell won’t leave. Maybe this time he’ll stay.
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Rudi Kinsella
4 years
He will pay for his sins in another life.
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@TheAthleticFC
The Athletic | Football
10 days
Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has admitted that Amad deserves more game time than he has been given. More from @Dan_Sheldon_ ⬇️
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Rudi Kinsella
3 years
If you used to take down four Jägerbombs for a tenner in The Palace then you don’t have to worry about the Covid vaccine
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Rudi Kinsella
7 years
I used to think college would be like Zoey 101 and we'd all be flying around on Jet X's but really it's just culchees playing hurling
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Rudi Kinsella
1 year
The most famous (former) couple in the world’s child wearing a Katie McCabe jersey. Crazy.
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Rudi Kinsella
2 years
Troy Parrott to Harry Kane in the pre-season drills
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@AlasdairGold
Alasdair Gold
2 years
When Son went down, the whole crowd went silent. Kane went over and helped him back up before he rejoined the next run to cheers. Now Kane, Son, Tanganga, Bissouma have all dropped out of the last set of runs. Troy Parrott probably the fittest and was leading the final run.
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Rudi Kinsella
2 years
Absolutely love this Ireland team and love what Stephen Kenny is doing. He’s brilliant. That Armenia loss is such a shame, we’d be in a great spot in this group if we’d won that.
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Rudi Kinsella
1 year
Those 35 games that Argentina went unbeaten must have been in the Leinster Senior League
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Rudi Kinsella
3 years
Some personal news! 🤢 Finishing up with JOE this week, four years after I first started. I’m so grateful for the opportunities I was given, and have loads of good memories. I got to write about The Palace on multiple occasions. For money! Madness. It’s been a crazy ride.
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Rudi Kinsella
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Mental that he had time to stop and ask his religion even though the guy had an 8-inch knife
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