Kieran Cunningham
@KCsixtyseven
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Write on sport, dabble in current affairs, podcast and broadcast sometimes
Joined October 2010
Put a bit of work into this. Interviews with a host of Dublin players from the last 50 years as well as Jim Gavin and people from the worlds of film, music, literature, education and politics. Broken up into short stories so you can dip in and out.
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Roy Keane posing for selfies is my new favourite thing.
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This is the Ireland I love. Great pic from Morgan Treacy, Inpho.
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Convinced he won an All-Ireland with one of the Ulster counties in the early '90s.
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Do storms take Monday to Friday off and just work weekends?.
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Do Declan Rice next.
The Ireland women's team apologise for singing a song referencing the IRA following their world cup qualification win against Scotland last night.
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Despite the questions, despite the complaints to the Gardaí, despite the words of the Tánaiste, there was a feeling that McGregor was untouchable. Thanks to an incredibly brave woman called Nikita Hand, that is no longer the case.
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Hard to get your head around the mentality that thinks there's a need to pin a poppy on Cookie Monster.
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Fair play, Tony. Lot of good people in Irish sport standing up for what's right.
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Well done, Sky. Now put a few hard questions to your pundit who set up a company with Daniel Kinahan.
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The two most admired people in Irish sport are two female boxers. Remarkable.
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Dublin's north inner city is one of the most neglected and damaged parts of Ireland - and that arsehole in Dubai contributed to a lot of the damage. It needs heroes and role models. It has one of the best in Kellie Harrington - the real face of a sport full of decent people here.
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Donegal has the highest Covid rate in Ireland but there's an anti-mask protest in Letterkenny today. Wankers.
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Remembering when there were people making the case that he was Ireland's greatest sportsperson. Good times.
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There is no way Conor McGregor's sponsorship of Katie Taylor fight should go ahead.
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Obsession with the Late Late is strange. Tommy Tiernan brilliant where he is in a format that suits him. Why move him? Maybe he doesn't want to ask rugby players about their books.
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Tim Martin of Wetherspoons looks like one of those German managers who always pops up at World Cups, in charge of his seventh national team.
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England's best footballer scrapes into the England squad.
BREAKING: Trent Alexander-Arnold is set to be included in England’s final squad for #EURO2020.
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Imagine being an FAI employee who lost job or had wage cut looking at pic of John Delaney in one of the best seats at a European Championship final.
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Newly qualified nurses in Ireland are paid €24,850 a year. The FAI paid John Delaney's annual rent of €36,000. Think about that for a while. #decentskins.
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30 years ago, Eloka Asokuh won the Under-17 World Cup for Nigeria alongside Jay Jay Okocha and Nwankwo Kanu. He ended up playing for Finn Harps, settled in Donegal, and his daughter, Abigail, is now an Ulster winner in GAA. Nice piece by @FrankCraig13.
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Against Georgia four years ago, Ireland made just 79 passes in the first half. There were 38 passes in the build-up to Callum Robinson's third goal tonight.
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Don't like putting anything personal on here, so deep breath. We lost little Paddy, who had Down Syndrome, in 2007. Two of our favourite people are Lucy and Jacob, who have Down Syndrome, and remind us of what Paddy could have become. Please support #WorldDownSyndromeDay. Ta.
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Women on minimum wage in a Dublin supermarket who went on strike rather than handle fruit from a murderous apartheid regime. If you want heroes, look no further.
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@ScottEaglen She mixed up her words when talking on live TV. Anyone who's ever broadcast live has done it.
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This guy is automatic.He's systematic.He's hydromatic.Why, he's Rhys lightning 🥇
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Public humiliation is one of the toughest punishments anyone could endure. Gordon Elliott must be going through torture. He messed up really badly and a suspension is only right. But to mess up is human, and second chances are important.
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Roy Keane was a great footballer. What he said about Jon Walters last night is further proof that he's far from a great man.
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Marking Kate Bush's birthday in Fairview Park. For Women's Aid.
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Can't wait until he finds out what being a councillor actually involves.
Within hours of being elected Malachy Steenson makes it clear that he wants to remove access to abortion to people living in Ireland. Turns out your bodies need to be controlled for nationalists to 'take back our nation'
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I know we rightly go on about Skibb but Grange in Sligo - population 586 - has two Olympic finalists. Mona McSharry in swimming and Chris O'Donnell in athletics.
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Salary for Taoiseach last year was €207,590. Salary for new FAI CEO will be a maximum of €207,590. How can a sports body that had to be bailed out justify these wages?.
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One of the worst things about the past year was the weaponisation of mental health.
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Rhasidat Adeleke's time of 49.07 last night would have won gold at the 2016, 2012, 2008, 2004 and 2000 Olympics and silver at the last Games in Tokyo.
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Moaning that people from a different country don't support your national team is weird.
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Efrem fled Eritrea with his family at 16, spending six months in a refugee camp in Calais, before coming to Ireland. Best of luck to him.
‘I’m not too happy,’ says Efrem Gidey, who had hoped for a top-six finish in the 10,000m final, while still finishing best of the Irish contingent in 12th.
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Virgil van Dijk will have to move out of his house because Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who owns it, will now be moving his family from Norway to live there. That's hilarious.
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Deliighted that Sean Cox's brothers were at Anfield to see that.
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England would have a five-a-side team without immigration.
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Stephen Kenny learning the first rule of managing Ireland - you have to deal with shite and dickheads.
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UK and Ireland, not British Isles. It's really not that hard.
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Conor McGregor has deleted more tweets this week than he's had fights in the last 10 years.
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A week to remember Cavan footballer and British soldier Bill Doonan, who went missing during a lull in the Battle of Monte Casino in 1943. He was found up a tree with a radio tuned into commentary on the Cavan/Roscommon All-Ireland final.
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Uncomfortable with getting into anything personal online so, deep breath. I was diagnosed with cancer last Friday and go under the knife on Monday. So many people are doing brilliant work in this field. If you can, help the Irish Cancer Society at Thanks.
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If I was going to appeal the judgement of a high profile case, I'd be very careful about what I post on social media. But I have a working brain.
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We had a baby boy, Paddy, who was stillborn. Today would be his 15th birthday. For all sorts of reasons, especially the complications of family stories, the time capsule section on the census form is a great idea.
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This is great. Limerick are the All-Ireland champions but kids come on to the field to join in their warm down.
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Among those charged over last night's riot are people from Longford, Celbridge, Dun Laoghaire, Swords, Santry, Ranelagh, Churchtown and Beaumont. All a long way from the inner city.
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What a way to end RTÉ's coverage of England v Germany at Euro '96. Never knew about this. Fair play to Bill.
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Why don't Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher just text each other?.
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There are plenty out there in both politics and the media who have courted those who've left Rhasidat Adeleke rattled by online abuse after what should be the greatest week of her life. They should be utterly ashamed.
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Kieran Donaghy's wedding to Hilary Stephenson produced one of the great Kerry statistics. There were 300 guests, with 105 All-Ireland medals between them.
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1. I wasn't at Katie Taylor's press conference. 2. Sean McGoldrick asked the question about Conor McGregor. 3. Sean was right to do so. The current Garda investigation makes that clear. 4. The notion that hard questions can't be asked in front of KT is daft. She's 37, not a child.
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After all the toxicity of the past month, Shane MacGowan's funeral is a reminder of the real Ireland. Decent, kind, empathetic. Human.
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To those tweeting BBC viewers that the hurlers will all be back at work this week, will they fuck.
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Ipswich Town, Derby County and Nottingham Forest were English champions more recently than Tottenham. Can they sign up for the European Super League too?.
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If only Daniel Kinahan had sat on a dead animal, there might have been a move to push him out of sport.
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The last couple of days have made it clear that so many men hate women. When does that start? Where does it come from?.
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Recognising the fact that what happened on Bloody Sunday was murder and an atrocity - and that the relatives deserve proper justice - doesn't mean you support the IRA. Does that really still need to be stated?.
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Many in Sinn Féin very vocal about the Zappone affair. I sent questions to SF nearly a year ago concerning possible links to MTK Global and Daniel Kinahan. There was no response. Try a bit of that transparency, lads.
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Hey @mrsamjones88, just noticed your tweets from the last couple of years supporting Daniel Kinahan have disappeared. Think you've been hacked, mate.
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Didi Hamann is a Champions League winner who has played in a World Cup final. Does he ever question his life choices when he finds himself analysing Ireland v Gibraltar?.
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One year today since open heart surgery. Eternally grateful to the great staff in the Mater from all over the world.
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Batman.
Thinning out my friends list. who wears a mask while driving?.
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Something infuriating about politics is the belief that you can never back down. Phone pouches idea is daft and ridiculously expensive. It's a mistake. Own it, bin it, and move on.
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Michael Conlan, one of the most prominent Irish boxers of the last 20 years, has a world title fight next Saturday. There is no coverage at all in some of today's Sunday papers. That was unthinkable with Irish world title bids in the past. Thanks, Dan.
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Have been dealing with depression for decades. Not many would know this, but the weaponisation of mental health for selfish and political reasons means I felt the need to write about it. @IsFearrAnStar.
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Have been working on this for a while. Four part podcast series. Coming soon.
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Michel Platini (pictured with unidentified fan) has been arrested.
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Paul O'Donovan completed his degree in physiotherapy in 2017, then he started a medicine one. Since then, he's won five world golds and an Olympic gold in rowing. And he qualified as a doctor earlier this year. A remarkable man.
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It honestly seems like some flutes who've been elected as councillors think they've been appointed King of Ireland with infinite powers.
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Roy Keane talking on Sky today about watching Diego Maradona train in Seville. This is what Maradona made of Keane at the time.
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It's been so refreshing to see the tricolour tonight and on Friday night in a positive setting. Not abused by gobshites.
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Ireland have never had three different Olympic champions at one Games before. Remarkable.
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Five years on, still one of the great tweets.
After scoring 2-2 Ryan McHugh was very tired physically & emotionally but Jim was there to support him http://t.co/FNeX44zVtO.
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One of the sports stories of the year. Efrem Gidey, originally from Eritrea, was in a refugee camp in France two years ago. Has just won bronze at the European Cross-Country Championships for Ireland.
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Why would anyone want to read a PDF of a book? Miserable experience. Buy an actual book.
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Paul O'Donovan is world champion for the fourth year in a row, and has an Olympic silver medal. But he's never mentioned in debates for Ireland's greatest sportsperson. He's definitely up there.
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Isn't it fantastic to see the real, positive side of Irish boxing? Ireland's sport.
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A month in the life of Ireland. JP McManus: Doesn't pay tax in Ireland. "A great man, what a hero.".Travellers: Most don't pay tax in Ireland. "Spongers, Want everything for nothing.".Peter Casey: Doesn't pay tax in Ireland. "Tells it like it is. What a man.".
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New Kerry jersey looks like something you'd get in O'Carroll's Irish Gifts. Awful.
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