Graham Ross

@doc2912 @Richie_Allen Ironically, think Cheika is actually who they need. Think they’re back culturally where they were when he first took over

@Richie_Allen Who would you replace him with?

Leo Cullen needs to resign. Biggest budget in Europe. Keeps his mates on the coaching staff. Stacked to the high heavens with internationals. Noel Mc was told to move onto the Sharks when he was better than most involved in Leinster. A fucking shambles. HEADS. MUST. ROLL.

@mattkalish The bots always win out in the end.

Poker in 2000s got me into gambling. You’d show up and make a few bucks. It was fun and it was easy. Give pros a little time to suck the life out of it and you end up with a great game that’s almost impossible to have fun with and pros squeeze it til it’s beyond dead

How many times do you need to see the same movie before figuring it out? Early 2010 DFS. Crypto shit, and meme coins collectibles. Retail stock bull markets. Name a single time Wall Street and professional gamblers sustainably built a business farming retail. Kalshi is next up

@AndrewDettmer @Casey_Evans_ Throw in Jose & make it like that Fred, Ramsey, Gino escapade

@Casey_Evans_ Or hear me out, the two of them cohost a travel show together.

Hopefully now he’s leaving City, Pep finally gets to reignite his rivalry with Klopp by becoming an Expedia ambassador

@RedArmyPod @Overthehillprop Is there a table for PR own goals?

One last time for those at the back: 2. Leinster - European pedigree, 12 wins 5. Munster - basket case, 11 wins 8. Connacht - media darling, 10 wins 9. Ulster - great season, 9 wins

@ChrisPoole___ Quit after timing

I can confirm my cash stopped him in the King George

@dec_car @punchestownrace The move back to early start times Tues to Thurs has completely blown most of our covers 😭

Only in Ireland do customers find it completely acceptable that you're only kind of available in the mornings @punchestownrace week "Sure you're probably going to Punchestown..."

@TheIrishField Terrible news. John was an absolute gent to deal with. RIP

The racing and bloodstock community has been shocked by news that John Fleming has died. theirishfield.ie/racing/news/ra…

@ChrisPoole___ Vibes

Number of my ex Husbands , not the names

@ChrisPoole___ Did he tell you the one about Monkerhostin

Lunch with a fellow who tells me he owned a Cheltenham winner and has more touches than Bill Cosby

@thefantasygrind Revealed Phil as a villain 😂

Liv legacy: - Destroyed Matthew Wolff's career (what was left) - Forced Mito Periera to retire - Ruined Cameron Smith - Sold us Joaquin Nieman > Scottie Scheffler - Sold us Talor Gooch > everyone - Cost us three years of peak Rahm - Turned Phil into a villain - Turned Sergio into a bigger villain - Made Patrick Reed a hero?🤔 Feel free to add ...

@marionmckeone Evidently you can

You can’t make this stuff up…

I got a lot of my teammates in work, several who do not bet at all, to back Potgeiter in the Masters. Stone last +12

@MarionDorgan @HelenORahilly investwise.ie have a cork office Marion. No self interest bar being a satisfied client

@HelenORahilly I’d love to find one in Cork as well. Same, just need a bit of advice.

@HelenORahilly Dave Quinn @InvestwiseFP & the Investwise team are top notch Helen investwise.ie

@BHDFlanagan @lloyd_murphy Quite right!

@GrahamRoss76 @lloyd_murphy Arkle was top table

Had to do the racing themed tables at my wedding 😁🏇

@BHDFlanagan @lloyd_murphy Arkle would have approved

@lloyd_murphy Nice one. I did it 20 years ago at my wedding too and my younger brother shamed the family by asking who Flyingbolt was

@DrJStrategy @BenGHutton The epitome of conjecture

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

@AKBets @quevega Wait till you see Tipperary

Dundalk on a Wednesday is mad craic

@buff_egan The no look back after the last swing is the proof of guilt. Not a scintilla of regret to show he might have misjudged it

100% a Red Card for Murphy 🔴

@robwoollard_afp @liam_hedgecock I’d say many have wished he did it since

An absolute marmalade-dropper of an interview with Richard Keys in the Telegraph today. This is magnificent.