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Gar Heffernan ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ต๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ง retweeted
"I didn't grow up playing camogie to get boxed in."
RIP Ciara Mageean.
Gar Heffernan ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ต๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ง retweeted
Please Share-#Referendum Needed to Defend Triple Lock -Proposed EU โSupport Missionโ to Lebanon-Confirmed by Minister McEntee-Is Peace Enforcement Mission Designed to Assist Leb Army Forcibly Disarm Hezbollah at USA/Israels Behest-A Non UN Mission Effectively Ending #Neutrality๐๏ธ
Gar Heffernan ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ต๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ง retweeted
Interesting comments made two years ago by Catherine Connolly (TD at the time) in relation to the triple lock back in 2024. I seriously hope this has severely damaged Fianna Fรกil and Fine Gael further.
Gar Heffernan ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ต๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ง retweeted
This is Jennifer Gerber. She was @AndyBurnhamโs principal adviser during his 3 ministerial roles from 2007-10
After Labour lost the 2010 election, she became executive director of Israeli embassy front group "Labour Friends of Israel" (LFI). She would stay in the role for a decade, playing a leading role in the campaign to destroy pro-Palestinian Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn from 2015-19
Gerber is still listed as a director of LFI on Companies House
Andy Burnham was funded by LFI and Israeli Foreign Ministry in 2004 to go on a propaganda tour of Israel. The then chair of LFI was James Purnell. Burnham recently appointed Purnell as his chief of staff in No 10
At the LFI leadership hustings in 2015, Burnham said that Israel would be the first place he visited if he won the Labour leadership race. The year after, Burnham joined LFI
The lobby has the whole political class sewn up
Gar Heffernan ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ต๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ง retweeted
Was this what they meant when they said Sinn Fรฉin was over? ๐ค
Scenes from Garvaghy Road as Sinn Fรฉin leadership arrived earlier today.
What a welcome!
Gar Heffernan ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ต๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ง retweeted
When a plane does a 14,000ft plunge in 32 seconds, the cabin is zero-g, the people would be floating around like astronauts in space ๐คก๐ฎ๐ฑ
#WATCH: Israeli passengers rush the cockpit to rescue their Flydubai flight after the copilot attempted to hijack it.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The video shows the aftermath of the cockpit incident, not the moment of the descent. Reporting confirms the flight plunged nearly 14,000 feet during a struggle before passengers and crew subdued the attacker and stabilized the aircraft. reuters.com/world/pilot-brโฆ
Gar Heffernan ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ต๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ง retweeted
Remember these 3 kids would have been grown adults probably with their own kids today if it wasn't for Drumcree.
Gar Heffernan ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ต๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ง retweeted
My name is David Courell.
I'm on โฌ280,000 a year and I don't give a flying one about genocide.
#stopthegame
Gar Heffernan ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ต๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ง retweeted
Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช is scheduled to play ๐ฎ๐ฑ on the 27th September
Irish ๐ฎ๐ช speak as one:
โI know the difference between right or wrongโ
โ6 points or 75,000 livesโ
โI have a heartโ
โIreland ๐ฎ๐ช must stand up for whatโs rightโ
โDo not sportswash genocideโ
Stop the game โฝ๏ธ
๐ฎ๐ช ๐ ๐ต๐ธ
Gar Heffernan ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ต๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ง retweeted
Yes you will, Helen.
When you interfere in a protected disclosure, expose the person who made it, and then hide behind โI followed the lawโ while the RTร programme gets pulledโฆ resignation isnโt optional.
Itโs inevitable.
#McEnteeMustResign #EndCorruption #Whistleblowers
Gar Heffernan ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ต๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ง retweeted
๐จIpswich head coach Gary OโNeil on Arsenalโs devastating 4-2 victory over Ipswich in the Carabao Cup:
๐ฃ๏ธ Gary OโNeil: โTonight, our problem wasnโt whether we could hold the ball, move the ball or control the game.
And it wasnโt Mikel Arteta or Arsenalโs style of play either.
Our problem was a 16-year-old called Max Dowman.
When he got the ball for that first goal, I saw the confidence immediately. He wasnโt looking at who was standing in front of him. He wasnโt thinking, โThatโs a 29-year-old defender, heโs 6โ5, maybe I should pass.โ
He just took the ball, went at him, danced through him and sent our goalkeeper the wrong way.
Youโre sitting there thinking, โThis is a 16-year-old playing against grown men.โ
And he did it again.
Not once. Twice.
He didnโt just score two goals either. He ran the game. He kept getting on the ball, turning, driving at us and making our players uncomfortable. Every time he received it, something looked like it could happen.
Thatโs what surprised me most.
He played without fear.
It reminded me of watching a young Cristiano Ronaldo when he first arrived in England. That same feeling of, โGive me the ball, I want to take you on, I want to show you what I can do.โ
Tonight, we didnโt just lose to Arsenal.
We got outplayed by a 16-year-old.
And as a coach, that is probably the most frustrating part.
Because you prepare for Arteta. You prepare for Arsenal. You prepare for their system.
You donโt prepare for a kid to walk onto the pitch and make your experienced players look like theyโre the ones learning the game.
Max Dowman is 16.
If that is what he looks like now, I donโt think the frightening question is how good he is today.
Itโs how good he could become when heโs 20.โ
Gar Heffernan ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ต๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ง retweeted
In all fairness, now, he's probably the first orangeman to ever say that
Gar Heffernan ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ต๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ง retweeted
"Here I am sitting in front of you six years later, saying: Who the FUCK do you think you were to do that?
It is a total disgrace what you did to this country."
About time someone told Fauci off like this.
Gar Heffernan ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ต๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ง retweeted
๐จ Roy Keane Doesn't Hold Back After Iran's Controversial VAR Heartbreak:
๐ฃ๏ธ โI don't want to hear anyone telling me VAR is making football better after watching that. If that's the standard at a World Cup, we're in trouble.
The whole point of the technology is to stop obvious mistakes. Instead, it's become another way to create them. That goal should never have been taken away if the decision wasn't absolutely clear.
I feel for the Iranian players. They thought they'd produced one of the biggest moments in their country's football history, only for it to be wiped out by people sitting in a room watching television screens.
When you're making decisions that can send one team through and knock another out, you have to get them right. 'Almost right' isn't good enough. Not on this stage.
Football is about players deciding matches, not officials becoming the biggest talking point afterwards. Yet here we are again, discussing referees instead of the football.
Someone has to explain how that decision was reached because supporters deserve answers. If VAR can't provide fairness in moments like these, then it's failing at the one job it was brought into the game to do.โ
