Ciarán Halpin

Dad, accountant, married to a medic

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

My wife started working as a doctor last month. Things I’ve learned so far:
1) interns are obsessed with learning how to “put in a line”. I am very veiny and my wife now stares at my hands like a rabid dog and says “I could get a grey in there”.

More news as it comes in

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

@timwhite_ie 100%!

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

Does anyone proofread anything anymore? #fewer

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

The comments here 🥹. Proves my point about the comfort of supportive comments at a time like this.

For all of you kind people asking, it was our Dad who passed away suddenly on Thursday 💙. He will get a wonderful send off tomorrow.

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

I never put a comment on https://t.co/zTUjj2E0mM. I prefer to send a private note to people. After going through a bereavement last Thursday am, I cannot tell you much the https://t.co/zTUjj2E0mM comments have meant to us. Be in no doubt that families will read & cherish them.

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

On Thursday night, after not eating all day, I went to the local Romayos (Carpenterstown). The woman at the til said to me when leaving, “you look really sad today, I hope you’re ok, I dropped a curry sauce in there for you, I know you like them”. That kindness was priceless.

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

There are few topics for a historical podcast that are more polarising than the Troubles. Harder still for the presenters to remain objective if they’re British or Irish. Kudos to @holland_tom & @dcsandbrook for their attempt to deliver a balanced summary over four episodes.

[Real Betis Balompié @RealBetis_en]

To all our new Irish fans:

Fáilte chuig an teaghlach Betis! 💚🤍

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

The 4 year old got a Frozen Lego set as a birthday present from his grandparents. It’s a beautiful Elsa castle, but he has 2 brothers, so it was destroyed in an attack by Thanos, and a giant snake ate Elsa and Anna. A death ray melted Olaf. Emotional scenes

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

For the first time in 75 years, the Sam Mcguire Cup comes home to Mayo, Ireland.

I said it three years ago when I was in Ballina: Mayo for Sam!

And I meant it.

I said it because I know what it means not just the county of Mayo but to my own family’s story.

Today, the dream becomes reality.

Congratulations to my friends in Mayo. You earned this victory. Enjoy every minute. Sam is coming home ☘️

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

Nope! I always say there is no such thing as self-made. It’s a myth.

It took millions of people - from my parents to mentors to friends to competitors to fans and voters - to write my success story. I did not write it alone.

That’s the American Dream - not a lie about going it alone - but the truth that none of us do, and there is always someone with their hand out to lift us up.

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

I'm reminded why I've barely tweeted in a while:

Me: the Gardai did a good thing.
Random fools: you must live in Ballsbridge (I don't), they didn't stop a murder, they're slow elsewhere, "you have time to post drivel" - from an idiot posting drivel.

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

Attempted break in at home tonight. Called @gardainfo at 120am. Patrol car here in less than 2 mins, did a patrol of the estate. Gardai then in the house taking statements and checking that everyone is safe a few minutes later. Outstanding stuff.

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

@gegan1987 @gardainfo Local station is Blanchardstown, the Gardai there were great.

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

Attempted break in at home tonight. Called @gardainfo at 120am. Patrol car here in less than 2 mins, did a patrol of the estate. Gardai then in the house taking statements and checking that everyone is safe a few minutes later. Outstanding stuff.

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

3yo: “Daddy, what did Bono lose?”
Me: “what do you mean?”
3yo: “the song, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - what did he lose?”
Me: “I don’t know”
3yo: “I think it’s sellotape”

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

Sunday night, 1015pm…..

Me: 8 loads of washing done this weekend.
Wife: I assume you washed the school uniform?
Me: 😱

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

Always felt @davidmcw was so informed & reliable but he said on his podcast that Johannesburg feels like Gotham, “out of a Marvel comic”. That level of DC vs Marvel inaccuracy is unbecoming of the man. I’m halfway through “Money” & now I don’t believe a word of it 😉

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

Half of Ireland googling this tonight. #COYBIG

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

@RestPoliticsUS @KattyKay_ @Scaramucci At this stage, considering there’s so much happening, can we just have you guys on a 24 hour live stream? Like a Truman Show type thing. Trump is probably giving us enough content. We’d learn more about skiing, and would get to see Anthony’s Lamborghini more often. Everyone wins

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

What an utterly disgraceful decision. Yet again, two fingers to doctors, two fingers to the babies in their care.

[Business Post @businessposthq]

Rotunda Hospital ‘bitterly disappointed’ after €100m critical care extension blocked https://t.co/dKNe9I195N

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

This is what happens when you buy the card for your wife at 955pm on the night before Valentine’s Day, and there is either this card or a “boyfriend” one.

I think I’ve done a good job though, she mightn’t even notice.