Helena Byrne

A librarian that works in #WebArchiving, personal interest in football history and occasionally tweets from @SLIPIreland All views are my own.

[Helena Byrne @HBee2015]

Hopefully the @FAIWomen can get another goal tonight against France. In this article I look back at the first time these sides met in Ireland in 1978.
#COYGIG #IRLFRA #WomensFootball #FootballHistory @RTEBrainstorm

https://t.co/Ao0AFmy397

[90s Football @90sfootball]

On this day in 1997, Roberto Carlos scored one of the greatest free-kick of all time!

[Kevin Egan @lonesharkoy]

I don't say this to criticise volunteers looking for cost-effective designs, but GAA clubs, community groups etc, need to stop using AI for their posters/ads etc. Badly done MS paint would be vastly preferable to the shiver people get down their spine at the sight of that font.

[Jacob N. Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh]

Mamdani's World Cup promotional video features, among other players, Morad Fareed, a member of the first Palestinian national team to attempt World Cup qualification and a Bronx native.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Mark Bonnick gave 22 years to Arsenal. They sacked him for speaking out about Palestine. Sign the petition to get his job back 👇  https://t.co/uNAOtOYaBM

[Katie Whyatt @KatieWhyatt]

Is this how it will always be from now on? Katie McCabe’s move to Chelsea reflects new ground for WSL fan culture - free to read

https://t.co/cBFbhlocIo

[Lionesses @Lionesses]

#OnThisDay in 1984 we played in our first ever European final 🥹

We played the second leg at Kenilworth Road against Sweden, losing on penalties, but it was the start of a special journey 🤩

[RTÉ Brainstorm @RTEBrainstorm]

Why it's OK to say soccer instead of football at World Cup 2026. It makes perfect sense to use the term soccer in Australia, Ireland and North America given the popularity of other codes, writes Connell Vaughan @WeAreTUDublin https://t.co/pWI4BD2g98

[RTE History Show @RTEHistoryShow]

Tonight: The life of an agricultural innovator, Harry Ferguson. How a farmer’s son from County Down became a global industrial pioneer, & made a handshake deal with Henry Ford that transformed farming.

Colm Flynn speaks to John Barron about his new book on Ferguson's life & work

[RTE History Show @RTEHistoryShow]

On tonight's show: 40 years after the Giotto mission reached Halley’s Comet, Professor Susan McKenna-Lawlor recalls Ireland’s role in one of the great space missions of the 20th century.

Ian Kenneally and Flor MacCarthy talk to Susan about the Irish experiment on board Giotto.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved.

Today, many publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk.

Tell publishers: don’t block the Wayback Machine. Sign the petition ➡️ https://t.co/m1l2K4swKI

#WaybackMachine

[neilB ⚫️⚪️⚫️⚪️ @neilTheMagpie]

#SouthamptonFC 😂

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

Join us in welcoming Internet Archive Switzerland!🇨🇭

This independent non profit foundation in St. Gallen, Switzerland, is a mission-aligned organization with the Internet Archive, Internet Archive Canada and Internet Archive Europe, with the common goal of Universal Access to All Knowledge.

Visit their website and learn about their mission and projects.
https://t.co/bPriXa74Re

[Arsenal Women @ArsenalWFC]

Raising the bar 👏

All the best stats from our 50 games at Emirates Stadium 🏟️

[Dr Gary James @GaryJamesWriter]

A radio interview: https://t.co/Vpk1zYIuvI Thanks @LewisConnell14 @tamesideradio

[𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙝 ✨ @DumornaySZN]

May 24th 2025: Arsenal lift the UWCL
May 24th 2026: Arsenal will lift the Premier league

I love The 24th of May 😭❤️

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

ARSENAL ARE PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 🏆

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Liverpool FC is top of the table, but not of a league to be proud of.

A 4-2 pasting at the hands of Aston Villa on Friday night affirmed the Reds’ mediocre season on the pitch. But, according to campaigners, Liverpool is number one in complicity in the Gaza genocide.

War on Want have published a league table of Premier League clubs’ ties to Israeli actions in Palestine.

Liverpool are ahead of north London rivals Arsenal and Spurs in joint second place.

Man United and Man City are tied in third place while the fourth spot is shared by Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Everton and Fulham.

The league table is part of a report entitled Red Card: English Premier League Complicity in Israel’s Atrocities Against the Palestinians. The report says at least 15 Premier League sponsors have connections to the military assault on Gaza, the construction of illegal settlements and the wider system of apartheid.

Liverpool’s shirt sponsor, Standard Chartered, provided $15.4bn (£11.5bn) to 24 complicit businesses between January and August 2025.

The Premier League itself is sponsored by Barclays bank, which the report says has provided billions to 49 complicit companies.

Neil Sammonds, senior campaigner on Palestine at War on Want, said: “These clubs speak proudly about equality, inclusion and community. Yet behind the branding, some are using ‘sportswashing’ to sanitise corporations connected to some of the gravest crimes and humanitarian catastrophes of our time.

“Palestinian footballers are being killed. Stadiums are turned into detention camps. Child players are buried beneath rubble.

“The Premier League has shown before that it can act when sponsorship becomes morally toxic. The question is why Palestinian lives appear to count for less.”

[James Curry @JamesCurryHist]

On Saturday, I gave a lecture at the Ilac Central Library about the first men’s floodlit soccer match to take place in Dublin (1953)

During the event, I also discussed the first women’s floodlit soccer match (1970)

A story told in this short recording:

https://t.co/4uZeHFKr8M

[Arsenal Women @ArsenalWFC]

A trophy-laden eleven years ✨

A Gunner for life, thank you Katie ❤️

[RTÉ Sport @RTEsport]

The natives of Crumlin held a surprise goodbye party for @ShamrockRovers footballer Roberto Lopes as he prepares to travel to the World Cup with Cape Verde.