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Podcasts: PATH TO POWER (with Ivan Yates) and MAGNIFIED Radio: The Last Word @todayfm 4.30-7pm write @irishdailymail @businesspostHQ

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Matt Cooper
4 years
It will have to be be asked: when did EU commissioner Phil Hogan come to Ireland from Brussels and did he self-isolate for two weeks before heading to Clifden for the golf and Oireachtas Golf Club Dinner?
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Matt Cooper
2 years
This is going to cause ructions for the BBC 🤣🤣🤣
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Scott Bryan
2 years
STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WATCH THIS MOMENT FROM THE ONE SHOW
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Matt Cooper
3 years
If indoor dining is allowed only for the vaccinated - as apparently under consideration- then who’ll serve the food and drink? Because in most places it is the young - probably unvaccinated yet - who’ll do the serving. Accelerated vaccinations for these essential workers? 🤷‍♂️
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Matt Cooper
1 year
Twelve years ago Aileen wouldn’t have ever run for a bus. Today in Tokyo she has run the marathon. But while that in itself is great she has now finished the Six World Marathon Majors: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, New York and now this. 👋👋👋 🎈 ⭐️ 🥇 Great achievement.
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Matt Cooper
3 years
All those criticisms we made of Trump. We never went far enough.
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Matt Cooper
3 years
Holidays have confirmed it for me. Need to reduce the working hours a bit, enjoy more flexibility in the evenings after @lstwrd @TodayFM finishes at 7pm. So not returning to #tonightvmtv Have enjoyed the last four years greatly and thanks to all at @VirginMedia_TV
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Matt Cooper
2 years
Just bought a load of antigen tests so family members can make informed decisions before going over the weekend. Reasonable approach?
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Matt Cooper
4 years
If Michael Cawley was, correctly, required to resign as chair of Failte Ireland then what should happen to the Minister and Oireachtas members who went to this 80 person golf dinner? We know what should happen but will it?
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Matt Cooper
4 years
Countdown clock: how long until we get the resignation of Fáilte Ireland chairman Michael Cawley who is on his holidays...in Italy?
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Matt Cooper
4 years
Stepaside Shane Ross. #ge2020
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Matt Cooper
3 years
More class in 40 seconds than the outgoing @realDonaldTrump showed in four whole years.
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Richard Chambers
3 years
Biden: “We the people will not be silenced, we the people will not be bullied, we the people will not surrender.”
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Matt Cooper
5 years
Programmes like #Whistleblower are why we have a tv license fee. Congrats to @KatieGHannon and the RTE team for great public interest broadcasting.
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Matt Cooper
3 years
I’ve had enough of my timeline full of lies from @realDonaldTrump he may have until January 20 to disgrace himself in office but he’s way beyond boring, as well as disgraceful and pathetic. Unfollowed. If I need to know I’ll see it in a retweet.
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Matt Cooper
4 years
Hey let’s do wedding receptions in a 45/36 split in the hotel. Like the Oireachtas golf society meeting in Galway did last night. FFS.
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Matt Cooper
3 years
Switching off so I’m not following whatever the British government says today about a UK/EU trade deal. Every word from Boris Johnson will be bullshit anyway, utterly predictable jingoistic nonsense and of no value.
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Matt Cooper
3 years
Bad day for Sky not to have Roy Keane on pundit duties.
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Matt Cooper
4 years
It has been some evening courtesy of the @irishexaminer scoop. It is going to be one hell of a day tomorrow. The public outrage is and will be fierce. This story is massive because it is so simple and easily understood. Just what will Micheál Martin do? Good night.
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Matt Cooper
4 years
Outside polling station with eldest daughter. Her first general election vote. #GE2020
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Matt Cooper
3 years
So in summary: crowd shouldn’t have been on Grafton Street, elements within it behaved very badly and violently, Gardai reacted understandably and appropriately, hopefully CCTV and video footage will bring about successful prosecutions. (Switching off now for rest of weekend.)
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Matt Cooper
4 years
Had plane tickets for Paris for tomorrow, bringing youngest. Friend and his son were coming with us. Hotel paid for too. Disappointed rugby off but wrote off the losses, obviously not going. Amazed that I’ve been hearing today of people going anyway for the weekend. FFS.
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Matt Cooper
4 years
How many other people have not been repaid their money by @Ryanair ? A company that has massive cash reserves still #wheresmyrefundryanair
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Matt Cooper
4 years
New Supreme Court judge Seamus Woulfe has to make weighty legal decisions of great importance but whatever about his ability to do that he didn’t have the cop-on not to attend a 81 person dinner after being involved previously at the legal end of drawing up restrictions.
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Matt Cooper
4 years
Now, with the minister gone, what about the EU Commissioner?
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Matt Cooper
4 years
Surely the Dail should be sitting at present? Six week hiatus is unconscionable at this time. We’ll discuss that and internal tensions in government on @lstwrd @todayfm from 4.30.
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Matt Cooper
5 years
😳 this is very, very serious for her now, level of detail in report is jaw dropping (you can’t sue for injuries though if your jaw hits the floor). TD Bailey ran 10km race three weeks after swing fall.
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Matt Cooper
5 years
The idea that the FAI is paying €1.2 million per annum is insane. He is an out of work manager who would not feature in discussions for any Premier League vacancy. the IRFU wouldn’t pay Joe Schmidt that and it is a much wealthier organization.
@ExaminerSport
Irish Examiner Sport
5 years
Mick McCarthy agrees deal to take over as Ireland boss
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Matt Cooper
4 years
To everyone sitting in pubs enjoying the “craic” at present...
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Nooruddean
4 years
This 18 seconds is probably the best single piece of advice I’ve heard about the #coronavirus
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Matt Cooper
5 years
No one was injured in the making of this short video....
@TodayFM
Today FM 💛
5 years
A Dublin TD fell off a swing at Sophie's Bar in the Dean and sued. On the @lstword this afternoon @cooper_m will be delving into the world of insurance and personal injury claims. He did not fall off the swing... he held on with both hands. Tune in from 4:30pm on Today FM
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Matt Cooper
2 years
One for the Gardai? If an assault like that happened on the street…
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John Meagher
2 years
Don’t know who this Armagh eye-gouger is, but he needs to pay a very heavy price
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Matt Cooper
3 years
Extraordinary…
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Julia Macfarlane
3 years
Incredible beyond words. A US Globemaster C17, carrying more than five times its passenger limit. 640 Afghans saved from The Taliban. “The crew made the decision to go”. American heroes. Via @marcusreports @TaraCopp
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Matt Cooper
2 years
Brought it upon himself
@ukiswitheu
UK is with EU
2 years
Nobody wants to talk to Johnson at NATO summit
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Matt Cooper
3 years
Just got my 083 scam call claiming to be from the Department of Social Protection saying I’m under investigation! Was beginning to feel left out.
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Matt Cooper
5 years
So Theresa May has just delivered another bucket of shite.
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Matt Cooper
3 years
When I asked Eamon Ryan on #tonightVMTV if we were looking at early May before the lockdown would begin to be lifted he said it would not be wise to speculate on timings. Taoiseach gives a newspaper interview in which he says another 9 weeks. 🤷‍♂️
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Matt Cooper
3 years
Hey @CalThomas I hope you’ll be available to discuss these disgraceful events in Washington, encouraged by your disgraceful outgoing seditious President on @lstwrd tomorrow.
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Matt Cooper
7 years
Rarely shocked, but I am by the leniency of the Tom Humphries sentence considering what crimes he committed against a child.
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Matt Cooper
3 years
Twitter needs to "block" Donald Trump or shut down his account. His most recent tweet can be viewed either as incitement or evidence of his insanity.
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Matt Cooper
3 years
There’s always a tweet from the past for every current occasion...
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
9 years
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
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Matt Cooper
5 years
Boom ! 😂😂😂
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Matt Cooper
4 years
Watching @BBCNewsnight is extraordinary in comparing the almost casual attitudes of UK experts to ours. Safe to go to pub, football matches, foreign holidays etc. Glad I live on this island but this same casualness is being imposed on the north which surely is dangerous to us?
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Matt Cooper
2 years
Feel relieved that I have a restaurant booked for six of us for 8.30 tonight. Might be last night out for the year. Was out last night too and was surprised by how quiet it was. People are making choices for themselves. Surely that is one of the points of vaccination?
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Matt Cooper
3 years
Just watching what hopefully will be the last bout of Trump bullshit we’ll have to endure.
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Matt Cooper
4 years
What a load of bollix
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Matt Cooper
4 years
Whatever you may think of the decisions being announced this is the clearest statement from Micheál Martin by far. Much better written, more authoritatively delivered.
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Matt Cooper
5 years
British Prime Minister Theresa May did a deal on the backstop. Committed her country to it multiple times. Today, for political expediency, she broke her word and disgraced herself. Expects EU to dump on member state Ireland. Bad Neighbour. #tonightVMTV at 11pm.
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Matt Cooper
4 years
it is...
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Jon Cooper
4 years
Damn, this ad by Joe Biden is brutally effective. Trump can run, but he can’t hide.
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Matt Cooper
4 years
the conversations Micheál Martin must be having right now...
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Matt Cooper
4 years
Doubtful this controversy ends with Dara Colleary’s resignation. Others surely need to be held to account. Particularly EU Commissioner Phil Hogan and Supreme Court judge Seamus Woulfe, appointed only last month after being Attorney General for three years. But how?
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Matt Cooper
3 years
A very happy new year to everyone. It will be better (eventually).
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Matt Cooper
4 years
My reading of the relaxing of restrictions is for hairdressers and barbers from July 20. The house is in shock.
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Matt Cooper
2 years
If all these measures being announced are deemed as really required then fair enough but why not then close the schools for the first three days of next week before Christmas holidays start? @lstwrd @todayfm now after all the greatest concentration of unvaccinated is in schools
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Matt Cooper
3 years
I can’t recall the amount of times that the late great Robert Fisk joined us on @lstwrd - there were so many over the years - but we loved his insight and fearless honesty. Sad news, he will be badly and sadly missed. We must find something to broadcast tomorrow @TodayFM
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Matt Cooper
4 years
How well do you know your American geography? Any better than ⁦ @realDonaldTrump ⁩ ?
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Matt Cooper
1 year
A brilliant half of rugby. #IREvFRA extraordinary the number of people who went out of their seats to get drink, even at critical moments. FFS. Hours to drink in when this terrific game is over.
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Matt Cooper
2 years
The end of this…🤣
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Matt Cooper
6 years
England playing “football worthy of Barcelona” says BBC commentator at start of second half. 😂😂😂 it’s Panama FFS. Back to RTE so.
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Matt Cooper
2 years
Need to know a lot more about the real meaning of that Abrahamovich Chelsea statement before reading too much into it. Whiff of PR bullshit off it as it stands.
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Matt Cooper
4 years
Ok @apple what are you going to do for Ireland now as a thank you?
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Matt Cooper
2 years
Maybe what we should also say about that bullshit Abrahamovich Chelsea statement - all the crap about being a “custodian” - is that he failed to take the opportunity to condemn his country’s appalling invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇦 not a surprise though.
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Matt Cooper
4 years
I specifically wrote to @Ryanair for a refund. Filled the forms in correctly. Got an email this morning giving me details of the voucher I definitely said I didn’t want. #wheresmyrefundryanair and this is for flights booked for last April.
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Matt Cooper
4 years
A EU commissioner, government minister and a Supreme Court judge. You couldn’t make this up.
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Matt Cooper
3 years
wait for the reveal...
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James Felton
3 years
Live footage of the UK leaving the EU
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Matt Cooper
3 years
What has had to be handed to Kenny as manager: would anyone else have put in Bazunu, Odobamidele and Idah? Doubt it. And remember McCarthy wouldn’t play Doherty who has been excellent.
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Matt Cooper
5 years
Hate to tell you Mary but one of my first year teachers, a Christian Brother at the North Mon, was sent to prison earlier this year. He wasn’t a Renaissance man, but a brute who hit indiscriminately. unfortunately some other children suffered more outrageous things at his hands
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Mary Kenny
5 years
The Christian Brothers used to teach the importance of manners, based on a book by the Renaissance courtier, Balthaser de Castiglione. "Always show respect for others," etc. Could do with a revival!
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Matt Cooper
4 years
Beyond shocking.
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pdx law grrrl
4 years
The casual brutality by police in this video is shocking. Video taken a few hours ago in Buffalo, NY.
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Matt Cooper
2 years
If EU members can’t agree on putting Russia out of the SWIFT system for banking then that division between members is yet another win for Putin’s campaign against the EU. A self inflicted wound.
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Matt Cooper
2 years
The women is a station producer, who also released a pre recorded video online. What extraordinary bravery. Now in police custody, so you have to fear for her, but hopefully others will be able to follow her lead.
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Steve Rosenberg
2 years
Absolutely astonishing. During Russian Channel 1’s evening news broadcast, a woman ran onto the set with a sign: “No war…Don’t believe the propaganda. They’re lying to you here.”
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Matt Cooper
4 years
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 compelling. Compare this level of articulation and reasoned argument too to the man who boasts about being able to remember the list “person, woman, man, camera, tv” in order.
@cspan
CSPAN
4 years
Rep @AOC : "I do not need Rep. Yoho to apologize to me. Clearly he does not want to. Clearly when given the opportunity he will not & I will not stay up late at night waiting for an apology from a man who has no remorse over calling women & using abusive language towards women."
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Matt Cooper
4 years
Will Jeremy Corbyn go into history books as the greatest disaster for early 21st century Britain? Dreadful during the 2016 Brexit referendum, pathetic on Brexit in this campaign and with core beliefs that alienated and scared. Johnson blessed by having weakest opponent possible
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Matt Cooper
5 years
This is excellent. He’s bought and paid for.
@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
5 years
Nigel Farage funding secrets revealed - Channel 4 News investigation tonight at 7pm
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Matt Cooper
4 years
So that’s all clear now isn’t it? 🙄
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Matt Cooper
2 years
I tried growing it back during lockdown but it doesn’t grow as fast anymore 😅
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Matt Cooper
4 years
This is an extraordinary story. Outrageous actually. A partition in the room. FFS. No excuse for this going ahead given what is asked of the whole country. Bad judgement and arrogance to put it mildly.
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Mark Paul
4 years
Oh ffs.... Minister and 80 people at golf event in breach of health guidelines
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Matt Cooper
5 years
Those who think DUP will turn around at the last moment when pressure on don’t seem to remember it didn’t sign GFA in 1998. The “nothing can be different to the UK” rings very very hollow when you consider the social laws they opt out of. Hypocrisy at best.
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Matt Cooper
6 years
blame the anti-vaxxer morons...
@cnni
CNN International
6 years
Measles cases have reached a record high in Europe
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Matt Cooper
4 years
The power to remove Phil Hogan apparently lies with the Commission and not with our government. So he’ll probably tough it out as he’s not “the type” to do resigning is he?
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Matt Cooper
2 years
Short 🤣
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Matt Cooper
4 years
The ridiculous scenes after the Cork senior hurling final yesterday - particularly the home-coming at Blackrock in Cork city- must have been in mind at the GAA meeting this morning that has decided to cancel all club fixtures.
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Matt Cooper
5 years
When did the DUP ever say YES?
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TheJournal.ie
5 years
Brexit: A DUP source has told the Financial Times it's a 'no' from them
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Matt Cooper
3 years
And our best full back just happens to be in Paris...just not in the ground 🙄
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Matt Cooper
6 years
have many people would like more regular coverage of environmental issues on @lstwrd @todayfm ?
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FriendsofMerlinWoods
6 years
@think_or_swim @cooper_m @TodayFM great stuff ...ask him if we can have a weekly conversation on it till our government starts taking it seriously ...its bigger than the banking crisis ...
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Matt Cooper
3 years
Ten months later, after numerous efforts, my @ryanair refund for flights that did not go last April has finally arrived.
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Matt Cooper
4 years
He won’t address his tweet praising China and now lies about closing border to China - 40,000 people have flown there to US since. The bully and liar in @realDonaldTrump on full display in this press conference.
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Matt Cooper
5 years
My tweet from three years ago. It was meant as a kind of joke, not an entirely serious prediction.
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Matt Cooper
8 years
Boris for PM. Trump for President. bad hair day when they meet. Of course it's way more serious than that. way more.
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Matt Cooper
4 years
These people 🙄
@TheDailyShow
The Daily Show
4 years
Hannity. Rush. Dobbs. Ingraham. Pirro. Nunes. Tammy. Geraldo. Doocy. Hegseth. Schlapp. Siegel. Watters. Dr. Drew. Henry. Ainsley. Gaetz. Inhofe. Pence. Kudlow. Conway. Trump. Today, we salute the Heroes of the Pandumbic.
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Matt Cooper
4 years
Don’t laugh.
@alanferrier
Alan Ferrier
4 years
The school that Boris Johnson visited on August 26th to explain how safe schools are has just been closed due to #Covid19 .
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Matt Cooper
2 years
This is brilliant
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Rosie Holt
2 years
MP doesn’t know whether she attended Downing St Party
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Matt Cooper
4 years
Just when you think there are no more depths to which he will not sink...
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
4 years
Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment. @OANN I watched, he fell harder than was pushed. Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?
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Matt Cooper
2 years
A very Christmas to everyone (even to those of you I’ve muted here). 😃 back in a while. Books to be read, tv to be watched, golf to be played, food and drink to be consumed, friends and family to spend time with (in no order of priority there). Stay safe and healthy all 👋
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Matt Cooper
4 years
He’s so weak and pathetic is @realDonaldTrump
@PoliticusSarah
Sarah Reese Jones
4 years
This was Trump's epic meltdown on 60 Minutes and it was even worse than reported. Trump literally ran away because he didn't like the questions.
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Matt Cooper
4 years
Lucky that I’m in a position to pay for it but it really is a shame this #LEIvMUN game is on a pay channel and not on free to air tv. 😟
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Matt Cooper
5 years
No. I won’t stop. The point of the photo is that people have fogotten the devastation of the illnesses of half a century ago, that vaccination near eliminated. Anti-vaxxer flat-earthers don’t want reminders of progress. The point is how much vaccines have aided modern medicines.
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Declan Aherne
5 years
@cooper_m Jesus Matt leave it out depressing pictures . By the looks of the photo it looks like that was 30/50 years ago. Look at how much medicine and the equipment has improved. Even look how much an MRI has improved in the past 10 years
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Matt Cooper
10 months
has RTÉ in its long history ever received a kicking like the one it just got from Tubridy and Kelly?
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Matt Cooper
4 years
This photo from last Saturday's White House event nominating Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court is extraordinary in the arrogance it displays and contempt towards public health.
@ScottMStedman
Scott Stedman (indefinite hiatus)
4 years
Every scientist told them to social distance and wear masks. The President, Senators, and White House staff now have Coronavirus. This event, where Barrett was nominated for SCOTUS, was a superspreader event.
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6 years
I muted the @john_mcguirk account a few weeks ago. Might unmute it now.
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Matt Cooper
4 years
Why did Munster hire Stephen Larkham to coach the backs if the instruction to Conor Murray is to kick every ball?
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Matt Cooper
5 years
😂😂😂
@EdTodayFM
📻 ED SMITH 📻
5 years
Spurs fans 'accompanying' Pochettino to work right now... #Mourinho
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Matt Cooper
5 years
Listen to the end. Very funny.
@mikegalsworthy
Mike Galsworthy
5 years
Class. 😂👌
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Matt Cooper
4 years
That tweet from just over three weeks ago.
@DavidLammy
David Lammy
4 years
Boris Johnson boasting about shaking hands with coronavirus patients. You could not make it up. Britain is about to learn the hard way this is not the man to lead us in a crisis.
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Matt Cooper
4 years
Might it not make more sense to offer longer opening hours at off licenses to reduce the queues and allow for enhanced social distancing? 🤷‍♂️
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