Some personal news
My new book, I Like it Loud, is now available to buy on Amazon.
It's a basketball tour through Europe that takes you through the bizarre and often thrilling relationships communities have with their sports teams.
Buy it here:
A year ago I reported that the Science Gallery was to close. Today, I can exclusively report that it will reopen at Trinity College Dublin next summer.
Read my report on
@businessposthq
RTÉ really needs a cooking show targeted at single people who share their apartment and have THAT white cooker in boxy environs rather than the Donal Skehan giant and we'll equipped kitchen making food for a family fare.
Josh Allen is inarguably a Pro Bowler if the teams are picked today...and that's in a conference with both Mahomes and Jackson.
We were so wrong about him.
We said goodbye to Dad overnight for the last time. Thanks to all who have already reached out to me and the family in the past few hours.
Details on Larry's arrangements will be provided later. I'll share them here.
Thanks again everyone. RIP Dad.
Dad had yet to turn 1 the last time Tipp won the Munster Football title.
For the love of everything give this 86 year old man the second of his lifetime
Mam just called to let me know that her and Dad got their second doses of the Pfizer vaccine today.
Between that and my new flatmate arriving, it's been a pretty great hour or so.
Just got my first dose of Pfizer. Wore the same jersey I wore when the DCU Saints made the playoffs for the first time.
Wasn't expecting the call but GP had spares and called patients.
Just waiting the 15 mins now before heading home.
Good sign, we're getting there
Shaming young people for drinking by the canal is cheap point scoring. It's time the city council stepped up and provided adequate toilets and bins
Read my
@businessposthq
column
It's Dad's 87th birthday today.
Now that the smaller matter in Croker is out of the way, he's ready to properly celebrate it by watching
@KCrokesGAAClub
play the county league football final.
Ma and Da weren't able to go to the game in person when
@KCrokesGAAClub
won the Dublin LGFA senior title for the first time but, after watching the final online, they got their hands on the trophy today.
Thanks to everyone in the club for arranging. Really means a lot.
Did a little photoshoot with the folks.
Ma and Da with the Dublin senior ladies football, men's football, and hurling championship trophies.
Thanks to all in
@KCrokesGAAClub
Yesterday was the only day this week Ciarán Behan didn't play a competitive game of football.
It's also the only day this week he didn't score.
vs University of Ulster (Monday)
vs UCC (Tuesday)
vs UL (Wednesday)
Rest day
vs Dundalk (Friday)
Scoring god
There isn't a toilet within 1km of the main gathering point on the canal nor one green bin in the vicinity.
Yet Dublin City Council wants to blame young people for the problem?
Read my
@businessposthq
column on the canal, cans, culture, and culpability
This quote from Mr Rogers feels quite apt tonight.
"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping'."
Much love to you all.
You'd better believe I am marching into the
@businessposthq
with this held high on Thursday.
Our first ever win at the annual Oireachtas press gallery quiz. Thanks to
@obraonain
for dragging me out.
Dad loved quizzes. This one is for the big guy.
Last night an eviction notice was served on people in tents.
Tonight, men in balaclavas representing the state apprehended peaceful protestors.
At what points do we, the moderates, demand our government act like a progressive democracy?
The beard must resign.
I have interviewed some of the most powerful people on the planet.
I have 8 nephews and 1 niece.
I am fortunate to have amazing friends.
But I did not see this coming
Some good news on a rainy day as Da is coming home from hospital this afternoon after nearly a fortnight in there.
Big thanks to all the staff in St Vincent's for looking after him.
Truly the end of an era for
@businessposthq
as Pat Pidgeon is retiring today after more years of service here than he'd allow me to say online.
Ní bheidh a leithéid arís.
There are two types of people reading the above tweet.
1. Those who have never had THAT white cooker.
2. Those who roared YES and knew exactly what I meant.
#WATCH
‘Momo challenge’ slammed as a hoax by internet safety experts
It comes as schools in Ireland are warning parents to be wary of the apparent new online bullying trend.
@NewsChambers
reports:
Last Saturday marked 9 years for me at
@businessposthq
. It's been a mad week forgive me for marking it 7 days late.
Over the course of the morning I'm going to share 9 articles I did that I rather enjoyed doing with the BP over that time.
The 30 under 30 edition of Connected is in
@businessposthq
this weekend, featuring
@jesskellyNT
on why free beer can't replace empathy in tech
@alex_meehan
on the risks of Pegasus
@roisinkiberd
on the low-code/no-code revolution
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My Ma is great.
Born a couple of months before WWII.
Was a nurse & nun in Belfast at the start of the troubles.
Raised 6 kids including this eejit.
Has seen rationing, recessions, and the rest.
Now she is staying indoors.
Be like my Ma.
#MothersDay
1. Player does nothing wrong.
2. One governing body breaks the rules.
3. A second governing body punishes the player for other governing body breaking said rules.
Another case of grown-ups being really bad with children's sports
Connected
@sundaybusiness
returns this Sunday with our cover story about how diversity and inclusion is fundamental to the growth of the tech sector in Ireland.
Also:
- The increasing issue of work absence
- Hyper converged infrastructure
- Data privacy defence
And much more
In a new look Connected
@sundaybusiness
this weekend
- Bobby Healy's $10bn plan to deliver literal pie in the sky
-
@roisinkiberd
asks to bot or not to bot
-
@alex_meehan
looks at the constant battle for our attention
All that and much more across 40 pages of fury.
Every tech CEO whose Twitter hasn't been hacked by that crypto scam is furiously copying and pasting the text so they can make it look like they matter
Up de Dub, literally. 38,000 foot over China on the way to Paris from Hong before my connection homd watching
#DUBvMAYO
on
@GAAGO
Looks like I'll be over Mongolia around full time
This is
@SquidgeRugby
's fault for such a positive video.
To date he has convinced me that Chile, Ireland, NZ, and Romania will all win the World Cup but especially Chile.
Given face masks are mandatory on public transport from Monday a quick tale.
I forgot mine leaving the gaff yesterday so got one while in the newsagent up the road.
It just happened that all they had were...Terminator skulls surrounded by flames.
I'd just like to say that
@gavreilly
is a friend, a fine gent, and has excellent personal hygiene.
I fear for him of he's wrong about this extra bank holiday.