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Go on then.

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Still can’t believe you are gone. You are the most amazing beautiful person I know. I love you and miss you so much. Heartbroken 💔

[Lemon @Lemonbryz]

🚨🎙️ Jürgen Klopp on Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell stakes in the FIFA World Cup;

🗣️"Look, I try to stay out of the politics, I really do. But at some point, you just have to ask: who is actually thinking about the game here?

"Gianni Infantino comes out with this idea to sell twenty percent of the World Cup to private equity investors, and I just shake my head. It’s always about more money, more games, more commercialization. They want to hand out twenty million dollars to every federation to buy votes, but what about the actual sport? The World Cup isn't a tech startup you can sell stakes in to the highest bidder on Wall Street. It belongs to the players and the fans. But as usual, the people making these decisions are sitting in air-conditioned offices, miles away from a football pitch, treating a hundred years of history like an investment portfolio.

"And then UEFA comes out and says, 'Oh, football has a soul, we will boycott!' Come on. Give me a break.
"I’ve been criticizing UEFA for years about the Nations League, the bloated Champions League formats, and squeezing the players until they break. Now suddenly they want to act like the guardians of traditional football? It’s laughable. UEFA isn't angry because football is being commercialized—they’ve been doing that themselves for a decade. They’re just angry that FIFA found a bigger bag of money and didn't leave a cut for them.

"It’s two giants fighting over who gets to keep the wallet, while the players and supporters are left in the middle, completely ignored. We keep adding tournaments, adding money, adding investors—and nobody stops to ask if the product on the pitch will even survive it."

[U2 @U2]

Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed….

Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence…
A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces...

Of course, Glen was the shining star of the Christmas Eve busk… sometimes the only one reminding the rest of us that Christmas began with a refugee born in a manger, which is hardly a step from living on the street.

To be utterly yourself by being more interested in others - a clue for any of us trying out different personas. He really was who you thought he was. He could never walk by a person living rough without checking they were OK… and more than that, he worked very hard so that less people had to live on the streets in the first place.

When the crowds got bigger and for safety’s sake Glen had to agree to move the busk to a stage kindly provided outside The Gaiety Theatre, he would say 'we’ll give it our best but it’s not a busk if we’re not on the street!’ …because that’s who he was - a performer at eye level in any situation. The stage was a separation he wouldn’t recognize. Of all the grand and gigantic venues he and The Frames played, you sensed the street was his most favoured place to perform. And street people, his favourite audience.

Voice of the streets. A choir of angels in one man. The rest of us blessed to stand there beside our very own and very earthed Angel Gabriel… All of us welcome in his choir, whatever shape or form.

….and I’m telling myself this morning that if he never existed, then he can never cease to exist. For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case.

May you rest in the peace you gave to so many.

Bono

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No way, very sad 😔

[NewstalkFM @NewstalkFM]

Glen Hansard has died at 56 years old.

The 56-year-old singer-songwriter passed away in a crash in Lucan, Dublin in the early hours of this morning.

[Daniel Hussey @DanielHussey2]

75 years of Hurt.

The GAA story of a generation

Fair play to Mayo.

What a team.

[DUBSTEVO @Dubstevo]

@RoryGreenfield I’m sure I still have it somewhere. Must root it out and take a walk back through it. Haven’t switched on the PS in years, and this is as good excuse as any. Uncharted were always enjoyable games.

[jack @Jbcfc45]

Credit: @SouthamptonFC

[Dublin Airport @DublinAirport]

Lost on penalties. Obviously he is English after all.

[Dublin Airport @DublinAirport]

What's your favourite gate to depart from?

#Pep #Guardiola

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@LFCZA 4th?

[Sponge @monkeysponge]

@indykaila They won't begin next season with Slot in charge

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So much space in behind, get Isak on

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Any chance of someone sticking a boot in? Running around without pressures is useless.

[Sam McGuire @SamMcGuire90]

Glad we're seeing such high standards on the pitch and not just in the gym

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Fucking awful.

[DUBSTEVO @Dubstevo]

And off to the match we go

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Lovely day for it. 🔴

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@GegenImpressive 🤣🤣 Will do. Cheers

[Daniel Storey @danielstorey85]

Morgan Gibbs-White on Instagram. Horrendous injury and probably also lucky that it wasn't his eye

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Happy Easter

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@dublin_damo That looks worth coming home for Damian.