Ryan Kelly

My friend Tom Backora died this week. I thought he’d live forever. In a way, he will. His presence is in me and the many others he helped during his Odyssean life. ryandelarge.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/tom…

@CahairOKane1 The fact they were 21 points up on Kerry with 10/15 minutes to go in a league final is hard to get the head around.

Donegal win a second National League Division One title in their history, 19 years after the first. On that occasion, they did a lap of honour after beating Mayo. There's no such fanfare here as Hills of Donegal blares out. But make no mistake, this was very important for them

Donegal are putting on a clinic here. Outstanding.

Michael Murphy lucky not to get a red in the first half, but the real story is surely Donegal limiting Kerry to just three scores (1-02).

A 10-year-old boy is dead because he was driven to suicide by constant bullying he received at school. Sammy Teusch of Greenfield, Indiana was bullied up until the night he took his own life according to his family. Bullied over his glasses. Bullied over his teeth. Day after day. His parents didn’t ignore it. They didn’t stay quiet. They went to the school 20 times asking for help, that’s 20 TIMES! Nothing changed. He was mocked. He was hurt. He was even attacked on a school bus. And still… nothing was done. Until it was too late. His dad said: “I held him in my arms… something no father should ever have to do.” I can’t get that out of my head. This isn’t “kids being kids.” It’s cruelty. And it’s failure from the adults who were meant to protect him. Bullying has no place in any school. None. And yet here we are. How many more kids have to be pushed to this point before something actually changes? PLEASE SHARE AND MAKE SAMMY’S STORY VIRAL SO NO ONE HAS TO SUFFER LIKE HE DID. 🙏 END BULLYING, BECAUSE IT KILLS!

Richard Keys goes full Partridge in a deliciously cringe interview in today's Telegraph. This is the best of many quotes.

@ConanDoherty Indeed and a decline in general publishing standards has been evident for years, unfortunately. Some of the AI guff that has been waved through globally in the last year by even the most well regarded outlets is just staggering.

@ryandelarge Exactly - I blame the prompter and the checker and the poster here before AI

Half man, half hurl. The pervasive use (abuse?) of AI tools simply exposes how little those who are inclined towards it actually pay attention to its actual output. It's pathetic.

Can we please ban the use of AI to design GAA match posters asap!

Go on, wake up your Sunday morning, play it loud.

@DannyEdoBrien @IFBMedia 100 per cent.

@ryandelarge @IFBMedia I mean why not practice them Using the logic of "can't replicate the pressure of a 20000 crowd in a stadium" doesn't make much sense when so much of the game is practiced repeatedly

Andy Reid is absolutely correct here. Repetition and routine can definitely help when it comes to penalties.

"In March, a North Carolina man pleaded guilty to fraud after he generated hundreds of thousands of AI songs and then used bots to stream those songs billions of times, pocketing more than $8 million in royalty payments." time.com/article/2026/0…

Vincent Hogan has written a beautiful piece on his friend Michael Lyster. Well worth your time. irishtimes.com/sport/2026/03/…

Is the “Made with AI” thing actually a deliberate attempt from AI providers to blur the lines more between genuine graphic design and slop, eventually making it impossible to distinguish what was actually made with effort and what was made with AI?

"Newspapers that survived the onslaught of the internet have benefited from the shared assumption that they can be trusted. The stakes of a broken social contract could not be higher, and they go far beyond the risk of a smooth-brained writing style." theatlantic.com/culture/2026/0…

"Groups of people actually produce fewer ideas when using LLMs compared to when they are simply tasked with collaborating and bouncing ideas off of each other." gizmodo.com/researchers-sa…

Sorry, no you're still not 'doing the work'

43y 344d - When Roy Hodgson takes charge of Bristol City on Good Friday, it will be his first game as manager of the Robins in almost 44 years (since April 1982), the longest ever gap between stints with the same club in Football League history. Resurrection.

So it remains.

Marie Keane, mother of Ireland and Manchester United legend Roy Keane, has died irishexaminer.com/news/munster/a…