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@rioferdy5 @FA_PGMOL Rules = can’t pull someone’s hair. Simple.

Explain @FA_PGMOL

@PintsBeauty @RobbieWhelan7 6 in a row

Drop, drop, drop, drop, naughty drop, drop 👌🏻

@DarraghC81 @iGerLynch @leedsthat @LUFC As a Dubs and Leeds fan this is just perfect. MOT, Coybib.

To understand significance of this friendly in Ireland, you need to understand the history of the venue 💚 #lufc @leedsthat @LUFC #mufc #gaa youtube.com/shorts/Yd8cujh…

@cmcmenamy_ Hill 16 is Leeds only!

This'll be some craic

@GrahamSmyth @TheSquareBall Dairy Free or Free Derry was a particular highlight 🤣

Congratulations due to everyone at @TheSquareBall for last night's show in Dublin. As brilliantly slick as it was legally questionable. Looking forward to the home fixture tomorrow night.

@LansdowneRD_IE In a very old Leeds United jersey

Jack Charlton as a young boy. Imagine telling him at the time, "Right son, you're going to win a World Cup with England and then become a Saint in Ireland.." #legend #ireland

@CorkCityFC MOT !

Cork City Football Club has announced the appointment of Simon Grayson as Advisor to the Board. Grayson's primary focus will be working closely with the board to finalise the appointment of a new First Team Manager, aligned with the Club’s vision and ambition. His role will also include an analysis of the club’s existing football structures in order to establish robust methods and structures. This process is designed with the intention of propelling Cork City back to the League of Ireland Premier Division, and reestablishing them there. His appointment comes at a crucial time as the club seeks to reclaim its place among Ireland's elite. A Proven Winner Joins Cork City Simon brings a distinguished career in football management to Leeside, with an impressive track record that includes multiple league titles and cup triumphs. After more than 500 games as a player and Simon counts some 800 games as a manager of clubs such as Blackpool, Leeds United, Preston North End and Sunderland. In his time as a manager, he has overseen a win percentage of over 45%, four English Football League promotions, as well as winning trophies in India and Nepal in recent years. A Perfect Match The partnership between Simon Grayson and Cork City FC represents an alignment of ambition and tradition, as the club gains a leader who understands what it takes to build successful football operations from the boardroom to the pitch. While this process is ongoing, the current interim management team of David Meyler, Liam Kearney and Mark McNulty will continue to oversee first team affairs. #CCFC84 🇮🇹

@RobbieWhelan7 @ManUtd @MayoGAA @DubGAAOfficial @LovinDublin @IrishStarSport Great photo, remember that day well.

Took me a while to find this, but for the day that’s in it… My Ma & new @ManUtd Manager, Darren Fletcher (in a @MayoGAA jersey !) Croke Park, All Ireland Final, Sept 22nd 2013 The Dubs won of course, hence her big smile 💙🩵 @DubGAAOfficial @LovinDublin @IrishStarSport

@GrahamSmyth Fun fact- Ampadu’s Dad lived on the same street as Troy Parrot in Dublin

Significant blow to Ethan Ampadu's future YEP ratings #lufc yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football…

@terrychristian Mani and Jonny Marr’s Ma’s where friends in Kildare.

Kind of unofficially there - All the Smiths, All Oasis, Half of Buzzcocks , Caroline Aherne, Peter Kaye, Rob Gretton, Tosh Ryan, Martin Hannet, Toss The Feathers,

@MickPuck Siouxsie Sioux and Suzi Quatro

Greatest male rock and roll names...not many can top MICK JONES SYLVAIN SYLVAIN JOHNNY THUNDERS DEE DEE RAMONE and an appreciation too of the unlikely but magnificent ELVIS PRESLEY Reply if you think you got one as good as these. If I agree I'll retweet. If I don't, I won't 😎

I’ll Be Your Baby written by Bob Dylan @johncreedon

@johncreedon great tunes as always. Did you know that Robert Palmer duetted with UB40 on I’ll be your baby and On The Other Hand ?

@RobLooseCannon Thanks, never knew the origins. I remember singing it in front of some English colleagues years ago and they were horrified!

"Weela Weela Walya," a lively folk song popularised by The Dubliners, tells the chilling story of an old woman who lives in the woods and murders a baby with a penknife. Released in 1967 on the album *A Drop of the Hard Stuff*, this dark ballad about infanticide paradoxically became a favourite among Irish children of a certain generation. Despite its disturbing content, the song’s catchy melody and upbeat rhythm mask the grim tale it narrates. In schools, children often learned the song, complete with playful gestures, adding to its ironic charm. "Weela Weela Walya" is not an original composition but rather an Irish adaptation of the older murder ballad trope "The Cruel Mother." Clues that our Dublin version is a variation include the curious detail of an "old" woman with a three-month-old baby. In both versions, the story unfolds with a woman stabbing her infant in the heart with a penknife, leading to her arrest and execution. The ballad likely served as a moral warning, a kind of cautionary tale aimed at women, conveying a harsh lesson in a veiled manner. The River Saile, named after the Irish word for "dirty" (salach), was a nickname for the River Poddle, which now runs beneath Dublin. The chorus "Weile Weile Waile" is derived from "wellaway!", an expression of lamentation in Middle English. Written versions of the lyrics date back to the late 19th century. One theory about the song's origin suggests it reflects the desperation of starving mothers during the Great Famine, who might have been forced to kill their youngest child to conserve food for the others, or to end a suffering child's misery. That this macabre tale transformed into a cheerful nursery rhyme isn’t as strange as it seems. Such songs often served as a means of passing down warnings and wisdom orally to future generations.

@dublin_damo Pontevedra, Cambarro and Cambados are nice little places

In Ferrol today, historic naval and ship building port, birthplace of a chap called Franco, and starting point of the Camino Inglés, which I shall begin tomorrow morning.

@RareIrishStuff Good to see Peter Beardsley toggling out in the Ireland tracksuit too.

16 year old Noel Gallagher lines out in Croke Park, 1983. Noel and Liam Gallagher played GAA for Manchester club Oisín's. This game was an exhibition game against Kilmacud Crokes. #Oasis

@TadhgHickey 🤣 plenty of echo chamber responses here

Bono is the worst thing to have ever happened to Ireland, including the plantations. u2.com/news/title/on-…

@dlLambo Give it a rest Daniel, what did you expect them to do?

"We are not experts in the politics of the region" is their excuse.... Pathetic

@dublin_damo Elland Road not far from city centre worth a visit, possibly the last chance to see one of the grand old stadiums before they renovate.

Morning stroll around Leeds, known for these lovely, Victorian-style shopping arcades.

@sportsdes How many Cork fans where in Croker when they played the Dubs in football @sportsdes ?

Fair play to the #Cork hurling fans-incredible support today. I’ve never seen anything like it! A great team to follow. But I was disappointed for the #Dublin hurlers - they deserved much bigger support. I also felt they battled to the end with great honesty and determination. 👏