Gavin Colton 🇮🇪

Irish in America. Writer. Broadcast ESPN. Recent work in The Honest Ulsterman, Hippocampus, The Wax Paper, Appalachian Review.

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Jan. 21 2017, Show 2008: a punk rock reminder that the world is good; that people can come… https://t.co/1ptLAd4WgM

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Pickleball is topgolf in disguise. Won’t see it in five years

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@KySportsRadio It was Kentucky’s game to lose. Even before the red card, they sat back and invited SLU into waves of attacks. Unlucky for Miller’s goal not to stand—would have clinched it! Altogether a strong bounceback season after two below-standard seasons.

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@MrAlpeshPatelJr @KySportsRadio Should’ve dealt with it better. A rare and costly mistake for Conlon.

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Thanks to Nathan Collins for dropping Cristiano Ronaldo up to the airport this morning.

Ronaldo was released from his pocket just after 10am and was through security and onto the plane back to Portugal by 10.15.

Sent off in style. For the second time on the trip. 👋

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Good to chat with the lads at @KySportsRadio today ahead of @UKMensSoccer and @UCF_MSoccer @SunBelt semi final. 7pm tonight in Lexington!

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@SunBelt Conference Tournament quarter finals under the belt with @UKMensSoccer and @UCF_MSoccer through to Wednesday’s semi-final. 7pm in Lexington and on ESPN+

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@KySportsRadio Scottie on the way to the first tee

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I remember the essay in The Audacity—can’t wait to read!!

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It’s real!

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@AustynGaffney @nytimes Congratulations!!

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Major breakthrough! Several passages have been read from within the 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scrolls.

More on the discovery and the 20-year journey that started with a @ukyengineering professor → https://t.co/bXsLJupg03

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@elonmusk Hey, @elonmusk, we found this incredibly fitting quote. And we agree. 😉

Learn more about the @universityofky lab behind the science, and the 20-year journey to do the impossible, here: 
https://t.co/dke6s8zVWZ

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Arsenal vs Manchester Utd was different back in the day! 😅

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@melissachadburn Have always loved my corkboards—bigger the better!

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We hope you can make it back to Kearney Hill again soon!

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@FinishedPlayers I’ll score one these at indoor soon

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Thank You For Everything Snoop - You Were My Superhero 💔

After over 11 wonderful years of tremendous company I am starting a week without my best friend. Snoop died last Friday morning and it feels like I have lost a part of my very being, such was his importance to me. He was as kind and gentle a creature as you could ever meet and was the best listener with soft wisdom in his beautiful eyes. Snoop was a rescue from Ireland who died peacefully at about 14 years of age.

A Dog Who Had A Big Impact

You’ll hear people say that somebody left a huge impression on their lives. For me it was a dog. It’s no exaggeration to say I wouldn’t be here today were it not for Snoop. He’s been with me through depression, binges, anxiety attacks and every other major event in my recent life.

When I ended up in hospital after nearly drinking myself to death 2.5 years ago the thing that brought me to my senses was Snoop. Laying there in ICU at absolute rock bottom the thing that got me to finally change everything was the thought of Snoop and how he had devoted his life to me. I couldn’t leave him alone. He’d never understand. He’d never recover from that. Snoop saved my life and I will be forever grateful for that.

I'm also that in the last couple of years he's finally seen me at my happiest helping his friends. Snoop had a huge part in that transition.

We Did Everything Together 🏃✈️ 🎾

Anyone who knows me will tell you Snoop was never far away. We’d run 5kms around Dublin. He’d come with me on hikes around Ireland and England. All my old work colleagues knew and loved Snoop from the offices. He came to Manchester and then Thailand with me. We swam in the cold Atlantic and the warm water here in his older years. We also hid under the covers when I had depression. He comforted me in the shame of coming down, with the curtains closed. He never judged me once.

This was us reuniting in Thailand after his long journey over. He took it all in his stride.

Resting With His Friend 🥥❤️🌴

Snoop is buried in the most idyllic spot I could think for him. In the middle of the jungle beside the beautiful Tina. Just like her, he adored chasing tennis balls in his youth. They provided great comfort to each other in the last 3 months as their health declined rapidly. They might both have been sick but they provided me with so much love and we shared many laughs and magical moments.

The wind has been taken out of my sails. I feel flat. I’m not afraid to say I’m exhausted from losing 2 special dogs within a week of each other.

My biggest worry in life had always been what I’d do if Snoop died. I had it triple underlined as a huge red flag day for me relapsing.

I’ve been preparing for this moment for nearly a year as his health declined. That is why I kept It to myself and a handful of friends for the last few days. It’s so much to process. The best thing I can say is that as I write that Im drinking orange juice and eating fruit and more determined than ever to change the fate of dogs around the world.

Snoop was quiet and understated as a dog. A gentle soul. His purpose in life was to keep me going at a hard time and to set me on a path to help his friends in need.

My job now is to keep my word to him and stay sober and get everything I told him about in our quiet moments together recently accomplished.

Thanks Snoop. You truly were my superhero.

Niall

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Bellingham is the closest player I’ve seen to Zidane since Zidane..

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A dating show where women compete to win the love of Dracula, called “Down for the Count”

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A little thread about Christy Dignam. I worked on S1 of @Tommedian's chat show. Part of my job was picking guests. Another part was arranging for them to come to RTE and making sure Tommy didn't see them, as he is not allowed know the guests...

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Thousands of Aslan fans sing This Is as Christy Dignams family pause to watch a video tribute to him in Finglas as part of his funeral procession @rtenews