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All the right words, but not necessarily in the right order. Features editor @NationCymru . david.owens @nation .cymru Views are my own. Standard disclaimer.

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2 years
Arrogance, entitlement, and privilege. The mask slips. Reality is revealed.
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Start as you mean to go on.
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Thank god @GarethBale11 chose to play for Wales and not his home planet of Krypton.
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2 years
Fucking hell we’re in another sticker album.
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2 years
Defeats never get any easier to take for Peter Taylor and Brian Clough.
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7 years
@TechnicallyRon @ErayKurtoglu98 @criticalbill @hrtbps @jjauthor The wearing of the 'British hijab' is now compulsory amongst men.
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David Owens
1 year
Please stop. You’re not at a fucking Coldplay concert.
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David Owens
2 years
Modern art.
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2 months
Love this pic taken in Cardiff on St David's Day 40 years ago. (L-R Julayara Begum, eight, Minara Mia, 11, Emma Wassell, six, Pauline Seto, eight, and Hameda Rehman, eight)
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5 years
The sooner we are declared as an independent nation and this man installed as leader the better.
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WalesOnline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Amazing gesture - @michaelsheen admits he has 'given everything' to fund the Homeless World Cup
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David Owens
3 years
Happy #StDavidsDay . Hope you enjoy this ace pic from the @WalesOnline archives. Julayara Begum, eight, Minara Mia, 11, Emma Wassell, six, Pauline Seto, eight, and Hameda Rehman, eight, pictured in Cardiff in 1984. I'm proud to live in a diverse, welcoming, multicultural city.
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8 months
Kylie Minogue, Dannii Minogue, Bouncer the dog, Mrs Mangel, Harold Bishop, Hugh Jackman, Margot Robbie, Paul Hogan, Alf from Home & Away, Rupert Murdoch, Germaine Greer, Dame Edna Everage (RIP), Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, your boys took one hell of a beating. #RWC2023 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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David Owens
2 years
Today @Manics ' Richey Edwards has been missing for 27 years. He was 27 when he disappeared on February 1, 1995. He's been gone as long as he was with us. Here is one of his smashed guitars from an early gig that the band keep in storage. Always missed. Never forgotten.
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David Owens
1 year
@WestminsterWAG I've found the receipt...
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8 years
The wearing of the 'British hijab' is now compulsory amongst men. #trumpfacts
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3 years
I LOVE THIS TEAM. I LOVE BEING WELSH. CYMRU AM BYTH. FOOTBALL YOU BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL THING. CHEERS WALES. CRYING NOW. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚽️❤️
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1 year
@Arsenal Arsenal social media manager checks Twitter. "Wow, look at the views and the engagement on that video. Oh..."
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6 years
Worst makeover since Vincent Tan turned Cardiff City red.
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David Owens
7 years
So here's the story. The never-before-seen images of @U2 and @depechemode at the Top Rank Cardiff in 1981 and 1982.
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David Owens
2 years
I’ve worked as a journalist for 34 years. This is the first award I’ve ever won. (Seventh time lucky) I’m in shock. Wales winning last night. This tonight. Best 48 hours ever. Thanks to my superb colleagues at @NationCymru for all their encouragement. And thank you @W_M_A .
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David Owens
3 years
Who wore it best?
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David Owens
1 month
Robert Page: Wales are a team in transition Danny Ward - 40 Connor Roberts - 55 Chris Mepham - 46 Joe Rodon - 44 Ben Davies - 86 Neco Williams - 38 Ethan Ampadu - 51 Jordan James - 10 Brennan Johnson - 26 Kieffer Moore - 41 Harry Wilson - 54 491 caps 🤔
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David Owens
5 years
There is no greater pleasure than listening to Malcolm Allen being tasered while celebrating a Wales goal.
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10 months
The Prince of Wales with some bald bloke.
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David Owens
3 years
Where can I buy shares in Ifor Williams Trailers?
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David Owens
8 years
The greatest use of the @Manics ' You Love Us ever. #WALvBEL
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David Owens
4 years
Fucking hell we’re in another sticker book.
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David Owens
1 year
@piersmorgan ‘Loves being a media star’. You don’t do irony do you, Piers.
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David Owens
5 years
The world's oldest record store @spillersrecords has taken a stand against the singer.
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David Owens
2 years
There will be plenty of clips of Eddie Butler's elegant, eloquent commentary and rightfully so, he was a master of his craft, but as an orator this speech at the independence rally in Merthyr is sublime.
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David Owens
4 years
Sad to announce today is my last day at Media Wales... /1
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3 years
We’re playing every neutral’s favourite team in front of no Wales fans. Beat them and we’re the most disliked team in Europe. It’s never easy supporting Wales is it.
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David Owens
1 year
Page tactical ineptitude cost us again. Got it wrong against USA. Got it wrong again today. And not the first time. Denmark in Euros. Holland Belgium games in the Nations League. Needed pace, width from off to stretch Iran defence, get balls into Moore. We failed miserably /1
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David Owens
1 year
How it started >>>>>> How it’s going
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David Owens
11 months
Here be dragons. @manics at @glastonbury
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David Owens
6 years
What a whopper. @stevescott_itv ladies and gentlemen. Stultifying arrogance and astonishing lack of respect. Totally dismissive of an excellent Croatia side who haven’t lost a game at this #worldcup and lest we forget beat Argentina 3-0. They’ll never learn.
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David Owens
4 years
@realDonaldTrump Sometimes I feel like I’m living in an alternate reality such is the insanity on display here. It’s scarcely believable what we are witnessing from such a deluded individual masquerading as a spoilt child. Trump supporters should be embarrassed to their core by this madman.
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4 years
Campaign to get ‘The Man Don’t Give A F**k’ to number one after Dominic Cummings controversy
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4 years
I've been a journalist for 30 years. I've always viewed it as a great responsibility and an enormous privilege to be able to tell other people's stories. In tomorrow's Western Mail, I've written the hardest piece I've ever had to write. My own story. /1
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David Owens
1 year
Wales fans proved once again they are the friendliest supporters in world football by spreading some Welsh love and handing out daffodils on the streets of Split. Full story:
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David Owens
4 years
This certainly ticks all the boxes, if your boxes are: 1. Beautiful kits 2. Cool as f*** Welsh football players
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3 years
A sad day. RIP one of Cardiff’s greatest pieces of graffiti (as seen on the side of the Brains Brewery building in Grangetown)
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David Owens
2 years
Let's all be thankful Gareth Bale chose to play for Wales instead of his home planet of Krypton.
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3 years
"His is the hiraeth of a love affair with his country, a grand longing to elevate Wales to even greater heights, a dragon’s fire that refuses to be extinguished." Wrote this about Gareth Bale...
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David Owens
1 month
We're all thinking the same thing aren't we. And no I can't let it go.
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Brennan Johnson with his fifth Premier League goal of the campaign tonight 🔥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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1 year
@thetimes The spark is gone — you’re better off reading another newspaper than relying on useless, unreliable nepo babies with ideas that never work.
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1 year
@HananyaNaftali When you're so blinkered that you cannot see what the world sees. When you're so brainwashed and delusional that the idiocy of risible propaganda is your only device. We see you. We'll never stop seeing you.
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David Owens
2 years
@yannicknoir Bill and Jenny are currently in a witness relocation programme hiding under new identities.
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David Owens
4 years
Has England diverted it to Liverpool yet?
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4 years
Moon has more water than previously thought, scientists say.
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David Owens
3 years
The road is long, but the rewards are great.
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1 year
You can tell you are Welsh when they say the name Callum Lang on the EFL highlights show and you immediately sing "yn llawn daioni."
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David Owens
2 years
We've looked completely at home against Poland, Netherlands and Belgium. These are heady days indeed. Drink it in and savour every drop. #YmaOHyd
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David Owens
3 years
Whatever happens tomorrow, I love the way Rob Page speaks, his passion and his undoubted pride in managing Wales. He's a good man and we're lucky to have him.
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David Owens
5 years
Such a lovely moment for @TheAlarm 's Welsh rock hero Mike Peters and a fantastic gesture by @TheKillers . Mike was in the crowd when suddenly one of the biggest rock bands in the world started playing one of his songs.
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David Owens
3 years
After watching Wales not qualify for major international tournaments for more than 40 years I will never tire of this. I’m 52. Don’t @ me.
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1 year
Thinking of @manics Richey Edwards on his 55th birthday. I interviewed Richey twice - in 1990 and 1992. I’ve never met anyone so intelligent, eloquent or articulate. A rock star with the mind of a scholar. Below is the pic from that first unforgettable meeting in Cardiff.
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Love stories like this. I genuinely had no idea that @fleetwoodmac 's 1975 hit 'Rhiannon' had its roots in the Mabinogion, nor that it has been a 40-year obsession for @StevieNicks
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David Owens
1 year
And cameras will only cover the far right of the pitch.
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1 year
Saturday's Match of the Day will not have studio presenter or pundits after contributors pull out in solidarity with Gary Lineker
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David Owens
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Love this #StDavidsDay picture from @WalesOnline archives. Julayara Begum, eight, Minara Mia, 11, Emma Wassell, six, Pauline Seto, eight, and Hameda Rehman, eight, pictured in Cardiff in 1984. I'm proud to live in a diverse, welcoming, multicultural city.
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Can’t believe we’re just hours away from potentially being in another sticker album. ⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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David Owens
2 years
Looking forward to doing the Ayatollah against Iran.
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Thinking of @manics Richey Edwards on his 54th birthday. I interviewed Richey twice - in 1990 and 1992. I’ve never met anyone so intelligent, eloquent or articulate, nor someone so startlingly brash and so deeply thoughtful. Below is the pic from that first meeting in Cardiff.
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Today @Manics ' Richey Edwards has been missing for 28 years. He was 27 when he disappeared on February 1, 1995. He's now been gone longer than he was with us. Here is one of his smashed guitars from an early gig that the band keep in storage. Always missed. Never forgotten.
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2 years
For too long we’ve harboured an inferiority complex about who we are and what we are. Last night underlined what a little country with a big heart can achieve when it truly believes in itself. Footballing self-determination today. Independence tomorrow.
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Thinking of @manics Richey Edwards who disappeared 26 years ago today. I interviewed Richey twice - in 1990 and 1992. I’ve never met anyone so intelligent, eloquent or articulate, nor someone so startlingly brash and so deeply thoughtful. Below is the pic from that first meeting.
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6 years
And this is it... Cardiff is going to be named the UK's first 'music city'. Now crack open the beers and nibbles.
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4 years
Look at his face. Just look at his face.
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Sgorio ⚽️
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JONNY WILLIAMS: ‘Amazing moment for me’ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Arwr y gêm, sgoriwr unig gôl y gêm a'i gôl gyntaf dros ei wlad, Joniesta! #UEFANationsLeague
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2 years
There is nothing like Twitter as a shared community at wonderful moments like this. I'm watching Macca alone at home, but alongside thousands on here. Just beautiful. The power of music. You can't beat it. #Glastonbury
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I will never tire of knowing that we don’t look out of place at this level and can compete with the best in the world. Da iawn bois. #WALBEL
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3 years
We'll look back on these years and realise just how lucky we were to live in the age of Gareth Bale.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (falls off chair)
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Britons have come to realise that there is only one person in public life who can ever truly provide the comfort and reassurance needed in times of trouble: Her Majesty
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Many of us feared this moment, but now here it is. Monday January 9, 2023 will forever be enshrined as the day Wales' greatest ever player retired from football. A captain, a leader and the proudest Welshman. He gave us hope, belief and the greatest of times. Diolch Gareth x
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3 years
When you’re managing Germany at 5pm and you’ve got a gig with your Inspiral Carpets tribute band at 9pm.
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When you've played a Euro group game on Saturday and you're off to Spike Island to see The Stone Roses on Sunday.
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Welsh football fan falls asleep in stadium in Bordeaux. Welsh rugby star ensures he’ll never forget it.
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3 years
WORK NEWS KLAXON! I'm absolutely delighted and extremely excited to join the team at @NationCymru as features editor. If you like to read stories about work announcements, which include ropey selfies, then you're in luck...
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I'm still numb with shock at this news and profoundly moved by her statement. It explains so much. Her bravery in speaking out is immense. We can only send her all the love and strength in the world.
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1 year
Trust me this is one of the best things you will watch today, or any other day for that matter. American gets all the feels and the passion as he hears Dafydd Iwan's classic song for the first time.
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3 years
Happy birthday @manics James Dean Bradfield - a man who has patiently suffered my debatable interrogation for the last 30 years.
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Leeds United player sent off with a tackle that was so late Arriva Trains Wales would have been proud of it. #neilwarnockfootballgenius
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So @NationCymru has broken its record for most views in a month. The third time in four months we've set a new record and had over a million visitors per month. It appears a Welsh news service by the people of Wales for the people of Wales is quite a popular concept 😉
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5 years
This was a joy to write. How one of Cardiff's most famous family businesses @kellysrecords has survived for 50 years and is now thriving thanks to the vinyl revival.
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2 years
Happy #StDavidsDay . Love this fantastic photograph. Julayara Begum, eight, Minara Mia, 11, Emma Wassell, six, Pauline Seto, eight, and Hameda Rehman, eight, pictured in Cardiff in 1984. I'm proud to live in a diverse, welcoming, multicultural city. (Credit: South Wales Echo)
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29 years ago today @Manics Richey Edwards disappeared. I interviewed Richey twice - in 1990 and 1992. It's safe to say that I have never met anyone so intelligent, eloquent or articulate, nor someone so deeply thoughtful. Below is a pic from that unforgettable first meeting
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Say what you like about Macca's voice. Or his age. The sight of young kids in that audience singing his songs back to him will never grow old. In terms of cultural influence there is no one greater. Cherish him while we can. #Glastonbury
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2 years
Another day spent wondering how a giant Gareth Bale statue like the Colossus of Rhodes would look straddling the River Taff.
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As the constant confusion of the world clouds our senses, there is at least a reassuring constant, a guiding light, to illuminate the dark and shade. Pushing ever onwards @Manics @MotorpointDiff proved they are, as they have ever been, a design for life. Hold them to your hearts.
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7 years
There is no greater pleasure than listening to Malcolm Allen being tasered while celebrating a Wales goal. #MDAWAL
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2 years
Wales v Netherlands. The only game where one set of players will need breathalysing before kick off.
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