Brian O'Riordan

boldthadyquill.blog/2021/05/27/lim… one from the archives for the weekend that’s in it. 25 years on

Christy Ring played his last game for the Glen 60 years ago this weekend echolive.ie/corksport/arid…

Thugamar cuairt ar Crush Coffee i gCorcaigh chun caife agus comhrá a bheith againn le Robbie O'Flynn agus Tommy O'Connell ☕️ 📆 Dé Domhnaigh/Sunday 🥎@LimerickCLG v @OfficialCorkGAA @MidletonGaa @ErinsOwn_GAA @SportTG4

Johnny Cash getting in and out of his Ferrari will be the best video you'll watch today😂

I always root for the bull 🐂

20 years ago ⁦Dingle Races a young Paul Townend won ⁦@DingleRaces⁩ Derby on Tony B 👏 Some journey since…. Thanks to Colm Sayers for video 👌

Martin couldn't let St. Patrick's day ☘️☘️ go by without a little song...

United fans at Selhurst Park begin to celebrate the imminent League title, the end of a 26 year drought (1993) #MUFC

Ring paid somewhere between $8 and $10 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot to tell 120 million viewers that their cameras now scan neighborhoods using AI. The math is wild. Ring has roughly 20 million devices in American homes. Search Party is enabled by default. The opt-out rate on default settings in consumer tech is historically around 5%. So approximately 19 million cameras are now running AI pattern matching on anything that moves past your front door. Today the target is dogs. The same infrastructure already handles “Familiar Faces,” which builds biometric profiles of every person your camera sees, whether they know about it or not. Ring settled with the FTC for $5.8 million after employees had unrestricted access to customers’ bedroom and bathroom footage for years. They’re now partnered with Flock Safety, which routes footage to local law enforcement. ICE has accessed Flock data through local police departments acting as intermediaries. Senator Markey’s investigation found Ring’s privacy protections only apply to device owners. If you’re a neighbor, a delivery driver, a passerby, you have no rights and no recourse. This tells you everything about Amazon’s actual product. The customer paid for the camera. The customer pays the electricity. The customer pays the $3.99/month subscription. And Amazon gets a surveillance grid that would cost tens of billions to build from scratch, with an AI layer activated by default, and a law enforcement pipeline already connected. They wrapped all of that in a lost puppy commercial because that’s the only version of this story anyone would willingly opt into.

The man from Clare called out our wing back on the Sunday Game last Sunday night. He has a short memory.......they arent all altar boys in Limerick and Clare.

@6Dutchgold Totally agree 💪🏻💪🏻 But Jesus leave off the cards 🤬

Nearly all sports compare favourably to 20-30 years ago apart from hurling. That first half of cork v tipp skill wise is like a different sport to what hurling was 20-30 years ago . Outrageous stuff and it’s only February !!!

The countdown is on for the much anticipated Tumbling Paddies who play in the complex on April 4th. Tickets now available @TicketmasterIre for their only Cork gig this year.. It’s going to be epic!!!!

FC Bayern will never forget. #FlowersOfManchester

It’s obviously not even news anymore. But the “Manchester is blue” myth died a death when City got good. Even with glory supporters now, their ground is half empty for a semi-final.

Just my luck, my 250 million year old salt has expired

@PKealyracing @pjaherne35 Enjoyed this 😄

@pjaherne35 Might not if there was a big hole waiting for me mate.why would you want to risk a horse when you see that happening?

Massive hole in ground and only Nicky Henderson took his horse out. Very much with him here. Cheltenham need to look at themselves

Mid-career Leonard Cohen lyric

Antoine Semenyo and Marc Guehi for £85m in January is dark magic… I would praise it, if the club in question didn’t have 115+ charges hanging over their head for breaches of financial rules. Any danger of getting a verdict anytime soon?

Manchester United used to be synonymous with leadership. In the dug-out, on the pitch, in the boardroom. Sir Matt Busby, Sir Alex Ferguson, Bryan Robson, Roy Keane, David Gill and many others, revered, even feared, authority figures, rated, adored, never ignored. Leaders who thought about the team and the club and fought for them. Football (society?) has fewer real leaders generally currently. At United, this great club changed the moment the Glazers arrived in 2005. United gradually came more about what could be taken out (£) rather than put in (commitment). The leadership principle was eroded, and that accelerated when Ferguson and Gill stood down in 2013. United lost expertise, experience and wisdom. They lost leaders. David Moyes and others tried but the culture had changed under the Glazers. They didn’t know enough, didn’t appoint well enough. They spent money - fans’ money - on the football side but not judiciously enough. They seemed more focused on the business side. The brand played on. The tills were alive with the sound of revenue, the distant Glazers were happy. But the football drifted. The squad cried out for more players with the right character, and proper investment in training ground and stadium. The Old Trafford leaky roof summed up the lack of attention – and a lack of love and leadership. New co-owners Ineos promised better. They promised strong leadership. They have delivered some good things, investment in the training ground, but the team continue to slide. How many United players would get into Arsenal’s XI? Arsenal showed leadership and judgement in appointing Mikel Arteta, and backing him because they could see his leadership qualities. Arteta has authority as well as his obvious coaching strengths. United keep appointing managers and they don’t last. Ruben Amorim – an Ineos appointment - was Manchester United’s fourth manager in their four most recent trips to Elland Road on Sunday following Glazer appointees Ole Gunnar Solskjaer 2021, Ralf Rangnick 2022 and Erik ten Hag 2023. Pay as you churn. How much will Amorim get in his pay-off? Millions. For failure. In a period when Ineos culled good staff – people who care about the club - to save a few quid. Poor leadership. And where was the judgement and leadership in recruiting a head coach committed to wing-backs? United are about wingers. Amorim deserved to depart for his stubborn commitment to a formation and philosophy that didn’t suit United’s squad or their DNA. Good managers adapt. Good managers also don’t talk like Amorim did in too many press conferences. Nice guy, but naïve, a headline waiting to happen, rarely positive. “Maybe the worst team in the history of Manchester United” – not great for players' morale? “I came here to be the manager of Manchester United not the head coach” – his job title from the word go was head coach. “That’s going to finish in 18 months and then everyone is going to move on” – basically predicting his departure. No wonder Jason Wilcox, Omar Berrada and Ineos had had enough. At least they’ve showed leadership in taking action. At least they’ve appointed a leader in Darren Fletcher to take the team for the trip to Burnley. Amorim never felt like a leader. A Manchester United head coach should sound the part – defiant, always positive about his players – and carry some aura. Also be appreciative of the great privilege of leading this great club. Look at United’s remarkable and patient travelling support. Total commitment to the cause. The biggest club in the country deserves to be properly led. And so to the pitch. Where are the leaders? Bruno Fernandes is captain, United’s best player, but not a natural leader. Moans too much on the pitch (but an admirable ambassador for the club off the pitch). Harry Maguire’s a good leader but not certain of his place (or pace). Bryan Mbeumo in a quiet way. Casemiro’s ageing. Too few leaders. Under Ferguson, there would be 5-6 you could give the armband to. Where are the standard-setters now? Any complaints about the criticism of pundits Gary Neville, Paul Scholes and Keane should be dismissed. Neville, Scholes and Keane represent the standards that United players should aspire to. The levels of commitment. All of them responsibility-takers, winners, and, in different ways, leaders. Manchester United need to recruit more leaders and for those already at the club, from dressing-room to board-room, to show greater leadership. Amorim was a symptom of the malaise as well as a cause. #MUFC

Merry Christmas @DaloAnto you can't beat it 💪🏻