Three Red Kings
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Analysing Munster & Irish Rugby. News, Analysis & Opinion but not always in that order.
Joined September 2015
Keith Earls retiring with immediate effect. What a player, what a man. A genuine inspiration to me. He'll be missed. One of the best wingers ever to come out of this country. The Man will be remembered forever. #SUAF.
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Tadhg dreaming of a time when he can take a nice rest for a bit, a mug of tea and a bun while Peter O'Mahony is casting dark, blood magic in the background
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Had a few too many glasses of wine and beer at this point but I just want to say, I love Munster. This club took me from being penniless to where I am now with a family. Eight years I've been doing this. Today was the first trophy. Here's to many more. #SUAF.
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Peter O'Mahony wasn't crying, he was just expressing liquid anger through his eyeballs. #NZLvIRE.
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His 100th try for Munster and Ireland on his 100th cap for Ireland in his 302nd professional appearance for both combined. A try every three games over 16 years. The Moyross Express. The Pride of Limerick City. The Man.
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Interesting Ireland team but tbh I've spent the last few hours staring at my new born daughter so it's all the one to me. 2-2-23.
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I think Peter O'Mahony showed why he's such a core member of this Irish squad with his work today. A little bit of everything. #SCOvIRE.
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Jamison Gibson Park is an Irish citizen. James Lowe has been here for years now and is firmly embedded in Leinster. Bundee Aki's whole life is here and he's raising his kids in Galway for the last 10 years. All good guys. Real people know this. Terminally online losers obsess.
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Out for 12 weeks. Comes back and plays three KO games cold and wins a trophy. The last time he won a league medal was with the Scarlets in 2017. Glasgow away. W .Leinster away. W.Away final. W. Tadhg Beirne is elite. #SUAF
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Eight years ago today, I set up Three Red Kings with €20 out of my last €50 in a hostel in Harold's Cross during the 2015 World Cup. I couldn't have seen that this would be my job right as the 2023 World Cup kicks off. Rugby gave me that. You gave me that. Thank you.
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Bundee Aki was great yesterday. 12 carries. 8 tackles. 1 bit of fried chicken poached clean out of the box. #NZLvIRE.
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Everyone's heard the ANDREW. CONWAY line from that try against Toulon in Thomond Park but real ballers know the actual superior footage comes when you mix the video with Michael Corcoran's commentary from RTE . #SUAF #BomberConway
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When Peter O'Mahony is "on" like today he is literally unplayable. An outstanding, all-timer of a performance. #NZLvIRE.
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Ireland rugby fans singing about a song that glorifies meeting a loved one by "the Gasworks wall" at a time when fossil fuels are damaging our climate is a disgrace and it's sticking two fingers up at the entire planet.
@threeredkings Ah for God's sake irish rugby fans can sing whatever they wish and more . I hope your statements are tongue in cheek.
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Bad mental health can sneak up on you when you’re not careful. There shouldn’t be a stigma about it. Mine has flared up again so I’ll be gone for a few days while I reset and go again. See you all in a while for the Lions tour and the Irish games.
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100 Ireland caps for Peter O'Mahony if he starts as scheduled on Saturday. What an achievement. The most capped Irish backrow player of all time. #WarGod
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CJ STANDER’S SIT DOWN EMPORIUM HAS REOPENED FOR BUSINESS WITH STRICT SOCIAL DISTANCING PROTOCOLS . #WALvIRE
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URC = Best League.
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The Munster Man from George, South Africa . CJ Stander will retire at the end of the season and I’ve banged some words out in the last 40 minutes to try and put what he means to Munster into words. It’s free to read. #SUAF
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When anyone, anywhere asks aloud "who's the man?" it's your duty to tell them . It's Keith Earls. #SUAF
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Five on one? Not very fair is it?. Probably could do with adding a few more Scottish guys to make this a fair fight.
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When I think of Graham Rowntree it'll be of this moment. Broke the streak. Gave me a silent moment jumping around a mobile home in Kerry so I wouldn't wake my infant daughter. I'll always be grateful for that, as will everyone with Munster in their head and heart. #SUAF
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There is a man suffering underneath these shades. You can feel it.
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Jack Crowley winning a Six Nations in his first full year as the starting Irish #10. You just love to see it.
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I know you've seen it a hundred times by this point but this crossfield kick to Earls is astounding. The balls to take it on, the technique to execute it and then Earls unreal action to claim the ball before making massive ground. Superb stuff.
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This is pretty cool. Great jump by O'Mahony and Ronan Kelleher makes very clear that he is, indeed, a Big Strong Boy . #IREvARG
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Seeing the War God and The Man lift the trophy at the end. Perfect. Sometimes the story plays out exactly as you'd hoped. #SUAF
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Tell you what, Hugo Keenan doesn't bottle games. He was outstanding in every facet. Ringrose too. #IREvNZL.
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This is a head melter tbh. 11 years later he'd kick the conversion that broke the trophy-less streak that had started the year before but nobody in the picture knew that at the time.
Incredible photo here, as 12-year-old Jack Crowley met @Munsterrugby stars - his future team-mates - Peter O'Mahony & @SimonZebo at @bandonrfc end-of-season awards in 2012. Now look where Jack is, heading to World Cup alongside O'Mahony. 📸 Thanks to Damien Healy of Bandon RFC
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Eight years since Anthony Foley passed away but he'll be remembered for a lot longer than that. #SUAF
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Peter O'Mahony's career is an all-timer. Captain of Munster for 10 years. Over 100 Ireland caps as an abrasive flanker. Lions test captain. And now Ireland captain. #SUAF.
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The Springboks are rugby's great bullshit detectors. Talk about "playing rugby the right way" 'til the cows come home. If that Right Way doesn't stack up against the Boks in KO rugby, that Right Way is bullshit.
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The lads look like they're about to drop the hottest mixtape of 1998 right here.
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I've seen a lot of things with this rugby club but I've never seen ANYTHING like that. Absolutely UNBELIEVABLE. #ASMvMUN.
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Someone shared this in the TRK Secret Club and it's too good not to re-share here; the winning try for CBC against Pres today. Outstanding stuff.
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Denis Leamy is ice cold boy I'll tell you that much for nothing
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He'll leave as the best Irish head coach I've ever seen. The changes he's brought in to Irish rugby in the last 8 years will last long after he's gone. Look at his CV. Heineken Cups, Six Nations, Slams, wins in the SH, 2 wins over NZ. Joe Schmidt is a great of Irish rugby.
Breaking News: Joe Schmidt to finish coaching after RWC2019. Andy Farrell will become head coach after that tournament. #IrishRugby #ShoulderToShoulder #TeamOfUs
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The biggest kick of his life and he drains it from the 5m tram to put Stormers out of penalty range. Stones. #STOvMUN
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I could never have imagined Ireland beating New Zealand three times in five years when I was younger. We hadn't done it in 100 years. Joey Carbery has played New Zealand four times and only lost once? . Like, can you imagine that 10 years ago? . Insane. #IREvNZL.
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Mack Hansen was eligible to play for Ireland on the day he was born. Box yourself in the jaw if you've a problem with that.
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Du Toit just tackled me as I went to the kitchen for a bun. He really is everywhere. #NZLvRSA.
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Yes, Saracens are unlikeable. Yes, the love in for them on BT Sports is nauseating. But one thing you can’t take away from them is that they are systemic cheats.
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Don't fuck over Italian rugby. I could see how the Springboks playing in the same timezone would be huge but not at the expense of the Italians. Their only sin is not improving at a larger pace of those around them as the game has jumped forward.
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Munster drew 41k fans to a GAA stadium on a test weekend for a friendly against a Super Rugby side on a preseason tour.
Great pic from @kensutz here of the Clash of Champions game between @Munsterrugby and @crusadersrugby taking place in @PaircUiCha0imh tonight!
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Absolutely buzzing for the lads back in Italy who've been breaking their bollocks for years improving lads, developing them with every goofball going saying they should be thrown out. Fucking superb. Forza ragazzi . #WALvITA.
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What a performance. What a game. My god. That's as good as I've seen an Irish team play. Ever #IREvNZL.
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I loved that. haha fucking outstanding. You have to admire that test match. Two brilliant moments from Frawley at the end. Hats off to him. Zillion to one shot and he nails it.
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Proud of them. Not in a gallant losers kind of way, but in that they left it all out there against a champion side. Exhausted emotionally, very tough to take but we've got a lot left to play for and build towards.
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Hugo Keenan would tackle an asteroid. They should have sent him into space instead of Bruce Willis in Armageddon.
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The past two performances I've seen from Hugo Keenan are probably the highest level fullback play I've seen at test level in some time. Arguably the best in the world at the moment.
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That maul at the end is causing a bit of a debate and when you look at this still image, I think you can see that there was some untoward stuff going on. #RSAvIRE
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Conor Murray is Ireland's best ever scrumhalf imo. He's a three time Lions tourist and was right up there in the discussion of being the best in the world in his position between 2015/2018. He more than deserves that 100th cap. #SUAF.
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Tough luck Leinster. Great game. One of the better finals. Delighted for Ronan O'Gara and Donnacha Ryan.
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Ronan O'Gara was one of the most important players of the last 20 years for Munster and Ireland. Be mad about it if you want, it won't change reality.
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The Stormers didn't realise it at the time but this is where they fucked up.
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Last night, Irish Rugby fans sang "Dirty Old Town" after the game. How dare they. Singing about dirty towns? Glorifying them, even, in the modern public funding crisis for local councils? . Despicable.
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Peter O'Mahony has an innovative solution to Andrew Porter's "elbow down" issues in the scrum. Elbow up
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Murray is the best scrum half ever produced in this country. Others might get there in the future but they'll have to do it as well and as long as Murray has to get close.
Good luck to @IrishRugby against France today!. A special mention to @ConorMurray_9 who has been doing Munster proud on the international stage for almost 12 years & earns his 102nd Ireland cap today. We wish his father Gerry well & a speedy recovery. #IREvFRA #SUAF 🔴
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Zebo is so good on the RTE panel. Contemporary, knows exactly what he's talking about and he's current with today's game. More Zeebs, please.
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Simon Zebo is a Munster legend—one of the best to ever play here. A charismatic icon with a scoring record that very few will get anywhere near. One of the greats. #SUAF.
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A little something to get you in the mood for Saturday. Andrew Conway X @MichaelC_RTE = Magic . #SUAF #MUNvTOU #TeamOfBus
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An excellent performance from Jack Crowley. His first start in a game of this scale, away from home as the guy leading the week and he nailed it. He's a #10 who tries things. Those players will make mistakes, especially early in their careers, but that's all part of the.
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Billy Holland will go out a bonafide Munster legend at the end of this season. 241+ caps, countless hard roads walked - Billy Holland is a guy that's universally respected and rightly so. Hopefully, we can send him out the right way this season. What a player. #SUAF.
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To give you an idea of how this game went for Scott Buckley, he just made Midi Olympique's Team of the Weekend
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RG Snyman holding regular sized objects will never not be fun.
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RG Snyman played in and won a World Cup final in 2019. He's had a series of injuries since but 10 games after that World Cup final he played in and won a URC title for Munster. The guts and character that man has to come back from those injuries is something else - game changer.
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That time Toulon got Munstered in the last five minutes in Thomond Park with the iconic @MichaelC_RTE commentary. #SUAF.
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