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Hi everyone, this is Jen, Barrie’s daughter. I’m very sorry to share the news that Barrie passed away yesterday. He loved interacting on X with you all and making the contacts that he has. He thought of many of you as friends. He asked me to let you know.

We’d have sold 4,903,504 Air Fryers by the time Rosenior’s Chelsea contract was up

Beavers have been successfully reintroduced to East Sussex for first time in 400 years Watch the full length report on ITVX now - itv.com/watch/news/bea…

Chelsea managers sacked by Toad Boehly and Co Thomas Tuchel: Dismissed for refusing to sign Cristiano Ronaldo. Now England manager at World Cup Graham Potter: Sacked after taking Chelsea to quarter finals of Champions League. Now Sweden manager at World Cup Frank Lampard: Interim manager, has just taken Coventry City to Premier League for first time since 2001. Maurichio Pochettino: Sacked after arguing with Chelsea’s 263 Directors of Football and a 6th place finish. Now USA manager at World Cup. Enzo Maresca: Sacked after winning Club World Cup, UEFA Conference League and top four finish. Currently enjoying his payoff and favourite to replace Pep if he leaves City this summer. Liam Rosenior; Sacked after four months. The common issue is that it’s Boehly (former Sporting Director of Soccerball at Chelsea) and Egbali making these decisions. Perhaps, just perhaps, turning Chelsea into a hedge fund experiment isn’t a good idea. Who wants to be the footballing equivalent of Married at First Sight?

why not buy a pizza for a Chelsea fan to Brighton their day

we’ve sold 28,244,736 pizzas since Chelsea scored a Premier League goal

if Chelsea ran a Domino's

why are the boxes square when the pizzas are round? makes you think

Today a Russian paper criticises the authorities over internet restrictions and for poor communication with citizens: “[It] causes the population to feel we are not respected, that strange games are being played with us.” Plus, an interview with Lenin's “spirit.” #ReadingRussia

I’m detecting more and more unease in the US and Europe about Pres Trump’s bewildering conduct in the war with Iran. ‘He doesn’t seem to have any idea how to get out of the trap Iran has set for him,’ says one US ex-diplomat.

5 years. 8 months. 16 days. That’s how long currently remains on Liam Rosenior’s Chelsea contract 📝

South Korea fighter jets collided due to pilots snapping pictures, report finds bbc.in/4cogvBw

If you want to avoid falling victim to the recent spate of Twitter account hacking do not engage with a DM of this nature. I almost fell for it but then realised @Rod_Studd never talks to me this courteously

DEAR CHELSEA Oh dear Chelsea One thing’s clear There’s an American investment fund That has no idea. Football should not be a commodity In which to invest Head back Stateside Is what I suggest. Football’s about community Social bonds Maybe you see things differently From across the pond. Stocks and shares? Return on investment? You have zero clue Is my assessment .

Would you jump on a grenade to save your comrades? Patrick "Bob" Gallagher was from Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, was the second eldest of nine kids. He emigrated to Long Island in 1962 at the age of 18. He found work in carpentry, took night classes in law, and canvassed votes for Robert Kennedy's Senate campaign. He enlisted in the U.S. Marines in November 1965, whilst not even an American citizen yet, and was sent to Vietnam. On the night of 18 July 1966, at a defensive position near Cam Lo close to the North Vietnamese border, his unit came under a grenade attack in the dark. Gallagher kicked the first grenade clear of his comrades before it exploded. When a second grenade landed between two of his fellow Marines, he threw himself on it without hesitation. The citation, signed off by General William Westmoreland himself, describes what happened next in the deadpan language of military commendation. "The grenade had a delayed fuse. It had not yet detonated. Gallagher was able to pull it out from under himself and hurl it into the nearby river, where it exploded on contact with the water. As the three other Marines ran to safety, two more grenades landed in the position and exploded, miraculously injuring nobody". He was awarded the Navy Cross, America's second highest military honour, presented to him personally by Westmoreland. And then, because fate has a brutal sense of irony, Corporal Patrick Gallagher was killed in action on 30 March 1967, shot during a patrol in Quang Nam Province. It was, his family later confirmed, effectively his last scheduled day in Vietnam. He was 23 years old. His body was flown home to Ballyhaunis and buried in the local cemetery, not yet a citizen of the country he died for. He is one of more than thirty Republic of Ireland citizens killed in the Vietnam War. The DTM will visit some of these fallen young warriors, who died for a pointless war, another day. In 2018, after years of campaigning from both sides of the Atlantic and a petition that garnered thousands of signatures, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy announced that the next Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer would be named the USS Patrick Gallagher. The ship was christened in Bath, Maine in July 2024, with the Irish flag flying overhead and his sisters on hand to smash the bottle against the bow. Ireland's minister of state attended. A Navy Rear Admiral pledged that when the destroyer is commissioned, it will sail to Ireland. May humanity someday view weapons with the disgust they deserve, and beat swords into ploughshares. Buy the Dublin Time Machine a pint and support the DTM Book ko-fi.com/buchanandublin…

Six points from Chelsea this season to go with the £262 million they have given Brighton over the past four years As always, a pleasure doing business with you #BHAFC

I hardly ever spend time these days getting sucked into reading the nonsense on Twitter/X, but this surreal exchange between ex-footballer Matt Le Tissier and Grok about aircraft contrails encapsulates perfectly why most normal people have better things to do with their time.

@RobLooseCannon I've read elsewhere that he went to Jersey in may 1940 and i wonder if the German invasion of France was already underway, as it sounds like a crazy decision to make if it was. I presume he had the option of evacuation back to England but he must have decided to stay.

An Irishman collaborated with the Nazi`s, broadcasting propoganda like an Irish Lord Haw Haw. John Francis O’Reilly was born 1916 in Kilkee, County Clare. His da was a sergeant in the Royal Irish Constabulary and had been involved in the arrest of Roger Casement on Banna Strand. So he was hardly off to a moral and patriotic start. Young O’Reilly had a talent for languages and attempted to join the Irish customs in 1936 but failed the exam. He then moved to England, attempted (briefly) to join the priesthood, before settling on Jersey in the Channel Islands, working variously as a farm labourer and that other job often associated with evil and betrayal, a hotel receptionist. When ze German occupation of the Channel Islands took place (June 1940) O’Reilly remained on Jersey. Using his knowledge of English and being fluent in German, the treacherous oppurtunist secured work as a translator and labour‐overseer for German military engineering and civilian units. Seeking to climb further up that slimey Nazi pole O’Reilly persuaded a German officer to allow him to travel to Germany and to recruit fellow Irishmen. He rounded up around 70 Irish labourers to go to Germany, although the venture proved chaotic due to drunkenness and misbehaviour. Thats how we know he wasnt talking scheiße! In September 1941, O’Reilly was invited to Berlin for a voice test and interview by the German Propaganda Ministry. He then joined the Irish-language section of the German radio service, the Irland‑Redaktion, broadcasting Irish-language programmes under the pseudonym “Pat O’Brien”. From Berlin he broadcast several times daily in Irish, writing political commentaries (from the German viewpoint) and receiving payment and extra rations like a good little quisling. By late 1942 O’Reilly sought a more active role, persuading the Abwehr (German military intelligence) and the Sicherheitdienst (SD, the SS security service) to train him as a spy. His training included radio‐communications, microphotography, Allied aircraft recognition, and infiltration work. Initial plans envisaged landing by U-boat on the west coast of Ireland to report on shipping movements. That plan was abandoned and instead an airborne insertion was arranged. Parachute landing in County Clare, capture and internment In the night of 15th of December 1943, O’Reilly parachuted from a Luftwaffe aircraft and landed near his home in Kilkee, County Clare. He was promptly apprehended by the Garda Síochána and Irish military intelligence and interned at the military detention barracks at Arbour Hill in Dublin. Scarlet. In July 1944 O’Reilly managed to escape from Arbour Hill and made his way back to his hometown of Kilkee. However, he was arrested “within three hours” by the authorities. Scarlet for his Ma. Hilariously the £500 reward offered for his capture was claimed by his father, Bernard O’Reilly, the retired RIC sergeant, who apparently “turned in” his own son and then later gave the money to him. Bernard reportedly stated that he did this because he believed his son would be safer under guard than drift in the outside world. Following his recapture, O’Reilly remained interned until the end of the war. After release he returned to civilian life and the rumour was he invested the reward money in purchasing the Esplanade Hotel on Dublin’s Parkgate Street. He later emigrated to Nigeria and died in 1971. Buy the Dublin Time Machine a pint and support the DTM Book ko-fi.com/buchanandublin…

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