@ShaunPinnerUA @Kasparov63 82% of statistics are made up on the spot. Fact.
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@CarlowWeather I was in my private plane over that area earlier today. I told my valet to put some ice in a tall thin glass.
He came back and said "Done Sir". But no ice!
He misheard what I said.
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Large lump of ice fell from sky onto Stratford Grangecon pitch near Baltinglass Wicklow today. I’m guessing from plane?
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RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'"
Trump: "Right"
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No greater metaphor for this entire week than Pete Hegseth quoting a fake Bible verse from the movie Pulp Fiction to Pentagon staff.
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@doubleosullivan @AdamCSharp No no no.
Woman walks into a bar and asks for an entendre.
Single or double? says the barman.
Double she replies
So he gives her a large stiff one.
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A cat walks into a saloon...
BARTENDER: what will you have?
CAT: shot of whisky
BARTENDER, AFTER POURING THE SHOT: there you go
CAT, AFTER PUSHING THE SHOT OFF THE TABLE: give me another
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@DikenaClinton 100% agree. I have a friend with a son with similar. He’s a great fella - aged 23 or so and getting on with life. Sending love 🥰
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Born without legs and arms. Most people would’ve aborted him. Calling him “inconvenient.” He’s not a clump of cells. He’s a human being worthy of life.🥹❤️🙏🫶
Say a prayer for him.🙏🫶
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Justin Rose is going to be offered so much money to be the lead color guy for NBC ... Selfishly, he should accept, because I could listen to him talk golf ALL DAY! 🤓🔥
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@RyanIsAWood @J_Ballesteros1 ah we all miss him terribly- so happy I still have wonderful memories watching him in person here in Ireland at the @IrishOpen_ . Love from #Ireland xx
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Feliz cumpleaños papá 🎂
Should’ve been 69 today ❤️
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“They Looked Iranian”: Security Footage Shows Trump Negotiating With White House Patio Umbrellas for Six Hours
theshovel.com.au/2026/03/25/the…
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@WorkElizab Just beautiful- she’s super talented. Much love from #Ireland 🇮🇪 xx
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My 10-year-old daughter is nonverbal… but her art speaks louder than words. 🤍
She drew this all by herself. I see joy, freedom, and a beautiful soul.
Would you encourage her to keep going? 🥹✨
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@TahiraS13553 Happy birthday lovely lady xx sending love from
#Ireland
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My beautiful daughter Natalie who turns 6 years old tomorrow! let's wish her a Happy Birthday 🎂
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We lost a legend this week. Olympic Gold medalist Ron Delany passed away at 91.
The summer before the 1956 Olympics, Delany ran a 4:20 mile at a meet in Dublin. Then, he got spiked badly in Paris and could barely race the rest of the season.
The press said he was burnt out.
The Olympic Council only confirmed his selection at the last possible moment.
As he was struggling with his form, John Landy pulled him aside.
He told him he looked strained, that his shoulders were too tense and he needed to relax.
Landy was the Olympic favorite, the 2nd man under 4.
The man he'd have to beat in Melbourne gave him the technical cue that would help unlock the run of his life.
Arriving at the Melbourne Olympics as an afterthought, he meets the British trio of 1500m stars in the village.
They want to do a friendly breakdown of the field. Who's going to do well?
Delany: "I'm going to win."
They looked at him like he was out of his mind.
Why was he so sure?
In his last training session before Melbourne, coach Brutus Hamilton pulled a piece of twine out of his pocket. Strung it across the track and had Delany run through it, arms spread wide, like a finish line celebration.
Then he said: "Now, son, we have practised everything."
They'd rehearsed winning, including winning.
In an era where there were no sports psychologist, Delany had a pre-race protocol.
Two hours out, he'd deliberately turn on the nerves. He'd let the anxiety build, get the adrenaline flowing.
Then an hour before, he flipped the switch.
Become what he called "the cold, calculated, tactician."
It was a threat-to-challenge conversion decades before we had a name for it.
On December 1st, 1956, there were 120,000 people at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with a field that was one of the best in history.
At the bell, Delany was tenth. Six meters off the lead.
Then he started to move. He passed Landy with 180 to go. And closed his final 200 in 25.6, to break the Olympic record by four seconds.
"There is no pain...Into the home stretch and I feel the strength, as if running on air... legs flowing so easily, breathing so consistent and effortless, my mind so relaxed and concentrated."
After he crossed the line, Delany dropped to his knees in prayer.
Landy, the favorite who'd helped fix his form months earlier and just lost, "was the first over me — which is a great tribute to the closeness of sportsmanship. He thought I'd collapsed, sees my face, and sees I'm not even winded."
After the race, Delany sent a telegram to his first coach, Jack Sweeney, back in Dublin.
Three words: "We did it Jack."
He was 21, 10,000 miles from home, had just won the Olympic gold medal.
And his first instinct was to credit the man who taught him to race.
RIP Ronnie.
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