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the anger is on

Dublin, Ireland
Joined August 2009
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@gergilroy
Ger Gilroy
3 years
My Da's consecutive attendance streak at All Ireland hurling finals - every year since 1953 - ended today and yet he couldn't be happier! @AontroimGAA
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
This going to be one of those occasions when the BBC or The Daily Mail refers to the British golfer and we all nod vigorously.
@Graeme_McDowell
Graeme McDowell
2 years
“This is what I LIV for.”⚡️Welcome to my home for an all-access tour. Watch the full feature on the @LIVGolfInv YouTube channel!📲
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
The ludicrous charade of only picking an Irish 'player of the match' surely has to stop. We are being beaten by Luxembourg and are crowning an MOTM 🤮
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Ger Gilroy
10 months
The gang learns about the poppy
@McDonnellDan
Daniel McDonnell
10 months
News: James McClean is on the verge of finalising a move to Wrexham, the Football League newcomers funded by Hollywood investment Story to follow @IndoSport
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
That is basically the full Irish football history experience distilled into one 97 minute game. But we got our team back. #COYBIG
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Maybe having a 37 year old outhalf to come off the bench isn’t a bad idea after all…
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Ger Gilroy
1 year
One of the all time great Captain's winning speeches! This game had everything.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Almost everyone.
@BarstoolBigCat
Big Cat
3 years
Unreal. Is there anyone classier than Djokovic?
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
We should make this the official away kit.
@offtheball
Off The Ball
3 years
Are we Yay or Nay on the blue kit? It looks pretty good to us! 🇮🇪 #IRLQAT
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
The Leinster Championship is the worst sports competition on the planet. The people who run it voted to keep it alive, and it looks like Dublin also voted for it, but we will never officially know because GAA democracy is about as transparent as the Masonic order.
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
Why is there not a rule that anyone named in a Sigerson/Fitzgibbon panel can't play intercounty until their team is knocked out of the Sigerson/Fitzgibbon. #GAA #OTBAM
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Bizarre really that FAI "sources" would pick the English Daily Mail to leak a story to. You have to ask, who benefits? At least Stephen Kenny knows for sure now that someone in the FAI has it in for him.
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Ger Gilroy
7 years
Thanks folks! Thanks for all the help along the way... Special thanks to Stefan Varjas and @lancearmstrong too.
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Off The Ball
7 years
Sports Broadcaster of the Year.... @gergilroy ! 👊
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Should split Leinster in two.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
“Champagne Football”, genius from Darragh Maloney
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Ger Gilroy
4 years
Donnacha Ryan is Ireland's best second row.
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
We need a Rassie style video from the Ireland camp obviously…
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Quality line from @noriordan 'This was a taxing watch which, given the two countries involved, was somewhat ironic.'
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
Derry will be playing half of whoever wins now after that melee and the suspensions. Immediately an all time Croke Park row, with management from both teams involved, sneaky gouging, headlocks. That face/eye gouge needs banned for 12 months.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
What’s the point of having rules if you don’t use them? That’s a black card…
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
The away fans singing for Stephen Kenny. The away fans always know their shit.
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Ger Gilroy
1 year
Seamus Coleman is a legend. What a performance.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
First exercise in 6 months this morning. I can confirm pre-season training of lying on the couch eating nuts and drinking wine is not ideal preparation. Still, it'll justify tonight's refuelling.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
So is the whole Clifford Vs Con is the GAA’s Messi V Ronaldo thing being blown out by Sean O’Shea being the best of the three of them?
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
I have found being in your 40’s is mostly sitting on the couch eating chocolate and drinking wine watching TikTok videos about how to get fit and eat healthy.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Next year is the 20th anniversary of @offtheball - been some journey, with hundreds of people making that possible. Some get namechecked here, others don't, but all were part of it. Plenty more to come too. (Ps - side profile pics are proper inspiration to get off the couch 🙄)
@PaulKimmage
Paul Kimmage
3 years
The Gamechanger.
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
Holy shit balls! Australia here we come! COYGIG
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Ger Gilroy
7 years
They're ponchos.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Dublin could have had two red cards and a black card in that second half. Mayo have every right to feel aggrieved about that, and not being given a chance to win it there in normal time…
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
I kinda love Atleti
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Boateng's backheel to concede the corner is the coolest concession of a corner in football history.
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Ger Gilroy
7 years
Happy 15th Birthday @offtheball
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
If you only read one thing today then make it this by Dave Hannigan in the Irish Times. It's heartbreaking and brilliant.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
The triathlon mixed relay is fucking awesome btw
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Jesus. This guy boxed in the Point when it was still the Point.
@DAZNBoxing
DAZN Boxing
3 years
KIKO MARTINEZ KNOCKS OUT KID GALAHAD WITH THE FIRST PUNCH OF THE SIXTH ROUND! #GalahadMartinez
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Ger Gilroy
6 years
Hats off to @AerLingus all the same!
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Ger Gilroy
4 years
John Giles reflecting here on the life and times of his brother in law Nobby Stiles, including the Rock n'Roll dance scene on the Navan Road in the late 50's, Munich air disaster, cheering for England in 66 and much more.
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Ger Gilroy
7 years
GOOD MAN DIDI
@DietmarHamann
Didi Hamann
7 years
This is for all the morons trying to tell me that Bale went for the ball.Cowardly. O'Shea can count his lucky stars.
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
Hahaha, rugby laws are a joke, that’s what happens when a bunch of billy big bollox barristers get control of things…
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Yes please!
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
Took me a while to realise this but once you do get it you can never unlearn it - 'It’s a complete waste of money. It’s the transfer of money from the tax payer to massive multiglobal sports organisations for no other reason than the vanity of politicians'
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Off The Ball
2 years
| Heated debate | 🗣️ It's a vanity project - transferring money from grassroots to FIFA 💶 #OTBAM teases out Fianna Fáil Senator Shane Cassells' call for a new 'signature stadium' to be built in Dublin as part of Ireland's combined 2030 World Cup bid 🏟️ What do you think? ⚽
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
The seesaw app. Oh my.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
What a picture!
@EoinNG17
Eóin Noonan
3 years
This fella Ronaldo is a cod!!! 🇮🇪 🇵🇹 #IREVPOR
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Wales are the greatest rugby team of all time.
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
This is happening
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Ger Gilroy
7 years
When did the Beeb athletics coverage start calling the team Great Britain and Northern Ireland? Is it cos of Brexit or a shit medals table?
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
The Dublin flag at half mast in Parnell Park tonight.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
This is amazing. Whatever happens it’s our best football in ages.
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Ger Gilroy
4 years
This is a thing of beauty - take 3 minutes and get some joy in your life. Happy Birthday John Giles
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Off The Ball
4 years
Put simply: we love this man. Join us on Off The Ball tomorrow to celebrate John Giles' 80th birthday! We have some absolutely amazing guests lined up for you. What are your favourite memories of John? (Hat tip to @RichieMcCormack for the montage...) | #LUFC #MOT
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Awesome. It's the involvement of the others, like they're bricks in a moving wall that he builds at will, that will make this one of the five or six highlights....
@Messilizer
J. 🇵🇸
3 years
This view of Messi’s goal.. INSANE
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Ger Gilroy
4 years
It is not an act...
@obsessfooty
Football Analysis
4 years
Old tape footage of a Manchester United team bonding table quiz from two decades ago. Good laugh watching Roy Keane lose the head as the coaching staff rack up all the correct answers. Keane believed the quiz to be fixed. He simply didn't like losing that man.
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Ger Gilroy
4 years
I'm now eating tomorrow's dinner, this Trump press conference better be worth it.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
And if you hold it here Lisa you can see the precise moment he joined Real Madrid #Liverpool #United
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Very strong statement from Alan Kelly, issued directly on twitter too, not by the FAI. He clearly intimates someone within the FAI was leaking to the English Daily Mail, and asks the key question, who benefits?
@Keepingskills
Goalkeeping Skills
3 years
Alan Kelly statement: “Enough is enough”
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
Went into the supermarket for fruit… 🙃
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Ger Gilroy
6 years
I realise sports funding isn't a sexy topic but it matters hugely in the lives of people who can't access it. We did three separate pieces this week and for various reasons they're worth your time. Next three Rt's are the full pieces.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
I love British politics, where 100k dead is no big deal but splashing the cash on new curtains is a sackable offence. An illegal war here, a needless invasion there, all fine, but don't decorate the gaff.
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
I’ve always been a big fan of participation medals 😀🚴🏊‍♂️💨
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
This is bull fucking shit from the ref
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
Look, if after last night, Liverpool want Stephen Gerrard I don't think Villa should stand in the way of their dream reunion. Villa will just have to accept their place in the pecking order and accept whatever compensation is on offer.
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Ger Gilroy
8 years
Just bringing this back out into the light this evening.
@Zonal_Marking
Michael Cox
8 years
Ireland were poor at this tournament. Technically and physically inadequate, very fortunate to face half-arsed Italy in final group game.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
This is brilliant.
@OwsWills
Owen Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
3 years
Michael Sheen for President of The Republic of Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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1 year
The view of the Killarney skyline from the top of the stand is incredible. Maybe it's the light on the telly, and the time of the evening, but it's legit one of the nicest in sport.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Holy shit. Katie Taylor is always value for money, brilliant last few rounds.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Saturday morning shout for this tribute to Jerry Kiernan, an explainer of how his humanity made him a better coach from Ciara Mageean. It might make you sad, but it'll definitely make you determined to do something with your life too.
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Off The Ball
3 years
"To be honest, trying to even sum Jerry up in words..." @ciaramageean joined @gergilroy to pay a beautiful tribute to her late former coach - Jerry Kiernan - who passed away yesterday. FULL CHAT:
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Ger Gilroy
4 years
Even with his team losing 1-0 I'm happier Kenny is on the touchline and Big Mick is in the commentary box. #COYBIG #OTBAM
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Ger Gilroy
4 years
John Giles is 80, we are celebrating tomorrow from 7pm, come and join us for the party.
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Off The Ball
4 years
Put simply: we love this man. Join us on Off The Ball tomorrow to celebrate John Giles' 80th birthday! We have some absolutely amazing guests lined up for you. What are your favourite memories of John? (Hat tip to @RichieMcCormack for the montage...) | #LUFC #MOT
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Ger Gilroy
6 years
Zombie playing out at Gillette Stadium.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Away goals: a weird, anachronistic, brilliant bit of football, add a chaotic level of intrigue to games. It will be missed. We'll end up with lots of boring extra time draws. I'll especially miss commentators bad maths, and my favourite cliche: 'This changes nothing'.
@offtheball
Off The Ball
3 years
UEFA clubs have voted to scrap the away goals rule Football with @paddypower
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Ger Gilroy
6 years
Dan Leavy must be in with a shout for player of the tournament. Although Murray and Sexton should always just be given these awards jointly.
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
Tasty! if I was describing a wine I'd say there's notes of smugness and some imminent muscle pain for sure....
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
An amazing post match interview from Amber Barrett there. Incredible character to talk so meaningfully about Donegal, poignant and then immediately brilliant insight into split second decision making going through on goals.
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Ger Gilroy
1 year
Is there anything to be said for a whole month where Tyrone teams just play Kerry teams at all levels - minor and senior intercounty, Junior, Senior and Intermediate club? You'd watch them play sevens....
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Ger Gilroy
4 years
We want 8....
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
My new goggles make me faster because you can’t see the fear in my eyes…
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Doherty playing his best game for Ireland here.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Loving the Opel Ireland jersey on @Kelly64kg brother here
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Ger Gilroy
1 year
Hahahaha
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
This is like Holland-Ireland 2001, except we are Holland…
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Ger Gilroy
6 years
Don't forget this.
@MaryERegan
Mary Regan
6 years
Ross turned down 30 public schools before giving huge grant to Wesley via @sundaybusiness
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Ger Gilroy
7 years
And today the Church control over 90 per cent of our schools. It's the same church it was when The Mother and Baby homes were being run.
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Ger Gilroy
7 years
Seriously. Colm Boyle was going great. Taking him off makes zero sense.
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Ger Gilroy
7 years
Suddenly it's Great Britain again, the Norn Iron has disappeared!
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Is it possible Wales are actually shite? Who knew? 🤔🙄😅
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
OH FOR FUCK SAKE #6nations2021
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Is it possible Wales are actually shite? Who knew? 🤔🙄😅
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Ger Gilroy
7 years
The All Blacks are some shower of whingers all the same.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Sometimes golf's definition of great is debatable.
@GolfDigest
Golf Digest
3 years
Phil Mickelson shared a great story recalling the Pavlova dessert served at Adam Scott's Champions Dinner. 😂 #TheMasters
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Ger Gilroy
4 years
I can't begin to describe all of the things that Tommy Tiernan talked to us about last night. Liverpool, Latvians, Bearna, Derry Girls, stand-up, Hector, football sucking you back in, disappointing your kids and loads more - YouTube here
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Ger Gilroy
8 years
When the entire Olympics is ruined for you, when you're sick to your stomach, watch these two before turning away
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Ger Gilroy
6 years
What clown put the Kearney thing on the big screen?
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
I wasn't really prepared for the emotion I felt in the queue. In the main part of The Helix, where we have done live shows, getting some part of life back. It feels good. #vaccinated
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
We've been singing this in our gaff for about a year, with covid subbed in for posion.... I got the posion I got the remedy I got the poison, the rhythmical remedy I got the posion I got the remedy I got the poison, the rhythmical remedy.... I got the remedy....
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
Wow. What a game. Hurling, bloody hell.
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Ger Gilroy
6 years
Holy Fuck Balls
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Ger Gilroy
2 years
Ironically I got both the remedy (no. 3) and covid, in the space of 24 hours last weekend. #Ironic in an Alanis Morissette kind of way obviously. Either way, happy isolation Christmas to you wherever you are. Here’s to 2022 having less virus.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
We've been singing this in our gaff for about a year, with covid subbed in for posion.... I got the posion I got the remedy I got the poison, the rhythmical remedy I got the posion I got the remedy I got the poison, the rhythmical remedy.... I got the remedy....
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Ger Gilroy
7 years
We, as a Republic, choose to allow the Church to welch on their debts to the abused, choose to allow them control of our schools/hospitals.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
It must nearly be time to break into the emergency chocolates for 'unexpected visitors', given the circumstances? Safe yet?
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Ger Gilroy
6 years
The Arsenal job now is one of the best in World football, no comparison to United after Fergie. Arsenal are a giant, dozing after a big lunch in the mid-afternoon, after a glass too many of Chablis.
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Ger Gilroy
3 years
This refereeing is batshit. #EXEvLEI
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