Damien O'Meara
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Radio producer and asker of questions with @rtesport . The views expressed do not express those of RTÉ. Rarely check DMs so contact: mail @damienomeara .com
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“Don’t listen to criticism from someone
you wouldn’t seek advice from” – Melissa Bolton
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Loris Karius is 24 years of age, what he needs tonight is someone to put their arm around his shoulder and give him a few words of support not people tagging him in abusive tweets.
#UCLfinal
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U2 are the band the world thinks represents the Northside of Dublin.
Aslan were the band that many Northsiders who lived through Dublin of the 80s might say truly represented them more.
Sleep well Christy.
#ChristyDignam
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There’s two girls gone into my daughter’s school dressed as avocados. That is peak Clontarf.
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I thought the only thing that would make Peter O’Mahony cry would be his grass getting burnt or his flower beds dug up.
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Thank you
@taylorswift13
for a night of pure unadulterated joy for my six year old. Emily’s first ever concert is one she won’t forget. She said on the bus home, “Dad it was all women doing the singing and dancing, the men only did the boring stuff”
#repTourDublin
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Last line of the opening paragraph. The greatest sentence
@IrishTimes
may ever print.
I’ve laughed so hard I may not be able to read the rest of
@RossOCK
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Parents...before you start into the Christmas madness, remember to empty the kids school lunchboxes, you’ll thank me on January 5th.
#PublicServiceTweet
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Mick McCarthy to be named
@FAIreland
manager & the country losing their shit over the
@spicegirls
, All I need now is someone to land a Junior Cert paper in front of me and I have 1996 bingo done. If I close my eyes I can already hear “Léigh anois go cúramach, ar do scrúdpháipéar”
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I know it’s not the fashionable thing to bring up but changing facilities for fathers with kids are a joke in Ireland. Already this morning my young lad had to be changed on the floor of a gents because facilities were all in the ladies toilets
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I'm really close to shutting down my Twitter account today.
A cesspool full of too many Jordan Peterson wannabes who'd do well to remember a family and community in mourning before spouting some of the shite circulating today.
It's not a day for an ill-informed gender debate
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In a world where these statues rarely resemble the person they are actually meant to be honouring, it’s fair to say the people responsible for the new statue of Jack Charlton in his home town of Ashington have nailed it.
A stunning tribute
📷
@markymarkkoast
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“You have man boobs Dad...” Adam O’Meara, 7:38am, 26/8/19.
His sister is getting the house.
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Made a decision long ago not to tweet about someone who plenty of people over invested in but if there’s a side you were forced to choose and
@pjgallagher
and
@Paulmcgrath5
are one side of the barricade, then it’s a side I’d be proud to be on.
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Mildly horrified at some making a joke of the Marler/Alun Wyn incident.
If you did it in a workplace you would most likely & rightly be sacked. Do it in public you would most likely & rightly face punishment.
Do it on the field of play and some see it as a bit of craic
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On behalf of the nation I am demanding an official retraction and correction from
@TMZ
for suggesting that ‘Da’ refers to one’s uncle and not their father as is the case.
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When you think about all he must have been facing privately it puts an even greater context on the level of professionalism he’s brought to steering Ireland through
#COVID19
. We owe him and his family a great debt
Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan says he is taking time out from work commitments to be with his family. A plan has been put in place for others to take over responsibility for different aspects of his role. Dr Ronan Glynn will take over as acting Chief Medical Officer
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Serious
#LineOfDuty
smugness around those of us who forensically watched since Season 1 and didn’t need the Jackie Laverty angle explained....
Everyone else 👇🏻
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9 years married, 17 years on the go, you think you know your wife and then you arrive home from work to discover she's put reindeer antlers and a red nose on her car.
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I’m in a heap after watching this.
Often the greatest gift you can bestow on people is the gift of your time and genuine human decency.
An emotional way to start your Christmas 🥹
Here’s Dáire’s story… and a special day he’ll never forget ❤️
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10 years ago a midwife handed me a baby…I had never actually held a baby before that…remarkably I’ve managed to somehow conspire to keep that child alive for a decade!
Happy Birthday to “the girl who changed your life Dad”
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We should check in on that family and see that they survived Halloween.
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Sitting in Cardiff where 10 years ago
@RonanOGara10
provided me one of the greatest days of my professional career, never thought I’d be here a decade on and him being the man who provided the best articulation of what Christchurch is feeling.
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If you have an issue with residency rules in rugby, take it up with the authorities, don't tweet negativity about the players themselves. Rant over.
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Promised myself I would avoid purchasing old football jerseys...and then I thought of
@Paulmcgrath5
at
#USA94
and how in awe a 13 year old in Clontarf was watching him....
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Did you ever think that simply looking at a photograph could give you a twinge in your hamstring
David Clifford kicks a point as Kerry advance to the All Ireland final
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Some fecker has upset
@MarianKeyes
on Christmas Eve. I’ve never met Marian nor read one of her books but I think she’s a remarkable person and enjoy my Twitter interactions with her. Bah humbug to you Marian Keyes Upsetter
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18 month old's lying on my bedroom floor singing The Bing Bong song at 23:19
#Parenting
#NeverHaveKids
#UseProtection
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You could read or listen to a thousand interviews with male sports people and never hear this asked I’d imagine.
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“Dad, I have to draw a picture of someone I hear on the TV or radio for my Irish homework….”
There I stood in the kitchen, my ego expanding, waiting to see this beautiful representation of myself
“…..so I drew
@MartyM_RTE
with a blue microphone like your one”
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A lovely touch from
@FAIreland
and
@AVIVAStadium
who have left a spot reserved in memory of our late colleague
#PatMcAuliffe
amongst the
@RTEsport
seats in the broadcast section of the press box. He’s also remembered in tonight’s match programme.
#IRLGIB
#Euro2020Qualifiers
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Have hit peak middle age.
NAILED a dinner in the slow cooker, currently sitting in the sitting room repeatedly asking the family how much they enjoyed it and canvassing repeated opinion on how well it turned out.
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Hard to fully explain to people who didn’t live through it, the impact that he and on football and in turn the collective mindset in Ireland when he was manager . A true legend.
#JackCharlton
#RIP
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I feel at this stage that I must be the only person in Ireland not to have...
Baked banana bread ❌
Joined Tik Tok ❌
Watched Tiger King ❌
Had a Zoom/HouseParty ❌
I am a
#SelfIsolation
failure.
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I’m not sure that’s his mother
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The ‘dominant’ is meant to represent the performance rather than the name her parents gave her. Someone taking the
@RTEsport
headine little too literally.
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Do the decent thing and don't be one of the idiots tweeting videos of the Coleman injury. The man deserves more respect than that.
#IRLWAL
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Amazing photo of
@JacobStockdale
’s try for
@IrishRugby
from
@TommyDD97
of
@Inphosports
, if this doesn’t win an award of some kind I might have to create one for him myself.
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That’s Joe Schmidt who is actually an Irish citizen already.
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My wife and I have reached a landmark day in our parenting journey. Our eldest has just made her first ever cup of tea and coffee and delivered them to us with great pride.
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She thinks we’re celebrating her 8th birthday, I’m celebrating 10 years until she’s legally off the payroll.
How do you go from having a newborn to an 8 year old in the blink of an eye?
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I cannot see a justifiable reason not to allow the teams wear the Dillon Quirke shirts today. You’d nearly have loved to have seen them defy the instruction and do it anyway.
The only benefit is that the Foundation has got loads of coverage out of a badly judged edict
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Big day, Child Number 1 crowned u7 Leinster Champion for her Irish dancing. This will undoubtedly lead to Daddy getting hit in the pocket over the weekend.
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It’s remarkable how, despite knowing you shouldn’t let it get to you, one anonymous troll with toxic and targeted negativity can have more impact on ya that a multitude of positivity.
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Felt this save didn’t get near the credit it deserved during the Sky coverage yesterday.
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Another donation to help
#SeanCox
with his rehab from
@FAIreland
captain Seamus Coleman. A class act.
#SupportSean
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If you were my three year old son where would you have put my iPad?
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Only the fourth time a Republic Of Ireland international has scored an English Premier League hat-trick
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New career chapter starts today...no sport to produce or report on so greatly looking forward to joining the production team on
@RTEArena
for the next few weeks.
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When you wake up tomorrow and discover that the country has been hit with snow the like of which has never been seen before, you will know it is my fault because I just bought and assembled a BBQ
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.
@edsheeran
always comes across as a class act. Zero net benefit to him trekking over from the UK, but here he is for the second time all the same.
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T -4 days to
@Tokyo2020
The start of the journey in
@DublinAirport
.
Equally odd and comforting to be back here for the first time since March of last year.
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Free gaff for the O’Meara boys, his choice of takeaway eaten, jellies at 8:15 and his pick of the night’s films.
“Will we watch another film after his one Dad and then go to bed?”
“We will son, we will….”
#BoysNightIn
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Slight last minute change of plan for tomorrow. London calling instead of Ballybofey. Coverage of
@irishhockey
vs
@oranjehockey
in
#HWC2018
final on
@RTE2
TV &
@RTE2fm
on Radio. Whatever the next chapter delivers the
#GreenArmy
are the success story of the Irish sporting year.
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Can you imagine the stinker of an email the PA who did the seating plan will get off Ronaldo’s people in the morning.
UNREAL SCENES! 🤩
"Who's winning this one?!"
Conor McGregor chops it up with Cristiano Ronaldo and compares watches ⌚ 😅
Watch
#DayOfReckoning
LIVE on TNT Sports Box Office ▶️
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This, for me, is up there with Del Boy falling through the bar as one of Britain’s great comedic moments.
Danny Ings and Kieran Trippier are both fit for England tonight despite a nasty clash in training on Monday 🤕
More:
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Facebook has reminded me that it’s 3 years since I frantically and repeatedly pressed the ‘hooter’ button at a GAA intercounty ground thinking it was the heater. Thankfully it was many hours before the game and the place was virtually empty
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✅First time in 18 months using her season ticket
✅ New “
@jamestalbot197
” jersey from
@thebohsstore
✅A picture with the man of the night
@Georgiekelly161
I’m peeling her off the ceiling. Great to see the impact of what we considered routine pre-Covid returning
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I’ll let ya in on a surprise...Rachel Blackmore will be the
@RTESportAwards
Sport Person Of The Year for 2021.
What an athlete and ambassador for Ireland.
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Hey
@Eoin16
, your moment has come
“A dhaoine uaisle, tá an-áthas orm an corn seo a ghlacadh ar son foireann Shasana.....”
#CWC19Final
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Having forcibly removed her from the bed all week for school, my daughter is haranguing me since 6:15 to watch High School Musical
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Love is...a homemade card from your daughter and a note to explain why your one is the smallest.
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They say romance is dead. A man arrived into the The RDS early to set up a surprise for his other half. 25 years on the go and he brings her to see
@leinsterrugby
. Updates on the
@GlasgowWarriors
match and her reaction to come on
@SatSportRTE
on
@RTERadio1
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A mother of 3, I’d imagine much loved by her family & friends has passed away suddenly. Don’t be one of the people speculating about the cause of her death. Have some respect and compassion.
#ripdolores
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Sometimes you can be having a real crap day, feeling hard done by and then you hear a bit of messing and turn around to be greeted by this and you remember that there’s always a spot of unadulterated goodness in the world.
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Am I the only white Irish 30s male who had never heard of Jordan Peterson? How in the name of all that is sane has he managed to sell out The Point?
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After years of talking about sports books,
@RTERadio1
have given me a show...about sports books
Joined by
@SineadOCarroll
, Liam Hayes (
@HerobooksD
),
@sueanstiss
&
@SprtBookReviews
for More Than A Game; The Art Of The Sports Book.
Tomorrow at 2pm
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In a world of takeaway pints, be brave enough to be the takeaway slushy guy
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We are going to massively regret this move as a society. Have we not learnt from both the UK & US the social impact of the dilution of history in education. I’ll be pushing my two to embrace history
History review recommends no change to optional status
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If you were struggling to comprehend how over 65m Americans and counting had voted for
@realDonaldTrump
,
@ChrisCuomo
clarifying that
@CNN
have been discussing ‘m-a-i-l’, not ‘m-a-l-e’ votes and neither at the expense of ‘female’ votes tells ya some of what you’re dealing with
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Where else in the world could you go to a game, see your team hammered & see the joy on your daughter's (painted) face meeting her president
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In other news. I stumbled upon an
#Atlantic252
tribute station online and I swear to God it hasn’t played one bad tune in the last two and a half hours.
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It’s not 8am yet and I’m having the ear bent off me by my 7 year old asking why women are expected to change their name when they get married and men aren’t.
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People who work in sport and get “have a good weekend” on a Friday.
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Stephen Bradley is a good man, his son is a tremendously brave boy by all accounts. Their family has endured, in a spotlight, something none would want to experience. This was arguably the
#LOI
image of 22, a moment of happiness and hope. Sickening to hear what happened in Cork
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Humbled that the
@RTERadio1
doc
@gregallenRTE
,
@CiaranDSound
and I made on
@ShaneLowryGolf
’s
@TheOpen
win in
@royalportrush
has been included amongst the illustrious
@NYFRadioAwards
finalists. A great honour.
@RTEsport
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So after my wife posted a pic of Emily dressed as Mary Poppins at
#MaryPoppinsReturns
this arrived in the post this morning. Emily’s screams of joy and excitement have shattered every glass in the house. You forget the novelty for kids up get any letter. Thanks
@ODEONCinemas
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Started the day winning the U9 Connemara Championship in Castlebar.
Ended it screaming like a woman possessed at a referee to blow the full time whistle in Phibsboro
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Well this is a new experience. Daddy/Daughter date night at
@taylorswift13
. Emily’s first concert.
#repTourDublin
#reputationtour
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He may not appreciate it now but I had my then 11 month old in Chicago when
@IrishRugby
made history against New Zealand, I finally got the winning coach and captain to sign his jersey.
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We lost our friend Alan McQuillan suddenly this week. We first worked together in FM104 around 1999 before separately ending up in RTÉ. I loved his company, I enjoyed his humour, I valued his friendship. It’s hard to process his passing.
#ripAl
#AlanMcQuillanRIP
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This is not news.
Pregnant Vogue Williams has hospital check-up after passing due date
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I bought an air fryer today and it is the single most exciting thing to happen in the house for weeks.
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Two things...
Parents sore from
#PEwithJoe
...we get a two day break after today!
He might have his knockers but
@thebodycoach
had my daughter up, dressed and counting the minutes down from 7:40am.
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Emily crowned All Scotland Under 6 Champion in Glasgow this morning. Very proud. I’d asked her in advance if she was bringing me back a present from her travels, I suspect her success will hit me in the pocket for something instead.
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Have to say this is one bill I have absolutely no issue paying. Brilliant care this week for a very unwell boy. The frontline staff at
@TempleStreetHos
don’t get paid a fraction of what they should for what they do. Lucky to have them.
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‘Hon the parish…
6 All Irelands, multiple Player Of The Year awards and an Under 13 North Dublin ‘B’ Championship between us.
📸Ciaran Kilkenny
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I’m not sure I caught the full emotion of
#BlankSpace
, she captures the essence of
@taylorswift13
’s angst.
#repTourDublin
#reputationStadiumTour
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