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]

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.

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

I love how that the worst possible punishment that Odin can think of for his son, Thor, is to make him think he is a medical student.

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

“It’s not that Irish women are bossy, it’s that Irish men need direction”. My wife, January 2026

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

Either they’re invading Antarctica or he thinks penguins live in Greenland. Both scenarios are worrying.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Embrace the penguin.

[Nobel Peace Center @NobelPeaceOslo]

The #NobelPeacePrize medal.

It measures 6.6 cm in diameter, weighs 196 grams and is struck in gold. On its face, a portrait of Alfred Nobel and on its reverse, three naked men holding around each other’s shoulders as a sign of brotherhood. A design unchanged for 120 years.

Did you know that some Nobel Peace Prize medals have been passed on after the award was given? A well‑known case is Dmitry Muratov’s medal, which was auctioned for over USD 100 million to support refugees from the war in Ukraine.

And the medal displayed at the Nobel Peace Center is actually on loan and originally belonged to Christian Lous Lange, Norway’s first Peace Prize laureate.

But one truth remains. As the Norwegian Nobel Committee states: “Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others. The decision is final and stands for all time.”

A medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot.

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

I am always amazed at some of the free stuff that people put on our neighbourhood whatsapp group. Then I am equally amazed when someone takes it.

"Would anyone like this bird cage? The door is broken and there's a hole in it"

"YES! I'll take it, exactly what I was looking for".

[Granit | 🇦🇱 @FB_granit]

@WiktorSZN 13 January 2026: Xabi alonso has been sacked by Real Madrid

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

@susie_dent @hayfestival When I was a kid, a boutique was a boot-ee-queue.

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

Want to know what >10 years of marriage & 3 kids looks like?

I’m putting up the Christmas lights and my wife says to me: “if you die, the first thing I’m doing is buying a stepladder”.

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

@m_millsey https://t.co/yTQBMEZ5lz

[Adrian Bott @Cavalorn]

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

[Ciarán Halpin @cihalpin]

“No you can’t bring your favourite stick to bed”.

Add this to the list of #ThingsBoyDadsHaveToSay