Mark Cummins

News and sports reporter and sub editor.

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

I have cleaned-up this fascinating Autochrome portrait of the author Mark Twain (1835-1910). He is shown in bed with his book and pipe at the age of 73, and the shot was taken in colour 118 years ago at his home in Redding, Connecticut, by American photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn.
Twain (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens) is famous for such literary works as 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), 'The Prince and the Pauper' (1881), 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (1884), and 'A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' (1889).
The photo was taken in 1908 using an early colour glass-plate process and isn't colourised.

[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

On this day in 1978, Larry Grayson taped an unaired Generation Game pilot. Fenella Fielding, Richard Greene and Johnny Vyvyan were amongst the familiar faces popping up.

[L'Équipe @lequipe]

Via un communiqué ce lundi, l'ancien patron de l'UEFA Michel Platini a annoncé avoir déposé une plainte visant le président de la FIFA Gianni Infantino
➡️ https://t.co/KeLWp0l8iB

[St Patrick's Athletic FC @stpatsfc]

ℹ️ We’ll face Doncaster Rovers in a friendly on Tuesday July 14th at 7.30pm Richmond Park as we welcome 2023 FAI Cup winner Jay McGrath & former Saint Darren Robinson back to Inchicore as part of @drfc_official‘s pre-season preparations for the new EFL League 1 campaign

Ticket details & pricing will be announced in due course

#StPatsFC 🔴⚪️

📸 CM Photography

[Politics Global @PolitlcsGlobal]

🚨🇸🇴 NEW: Somali referee Omar Artan, who was scheduled to referee at this summer’s World Cup, has been denied entry into the US

Artan was elected the best African referee of 2025 at the CAF awards

[@Romain_Molina]

[Irish Examiner Sport @ExaminerSport]

Former IRFU chief executive Philip Browne dies aged 66 https://t.co/SUIHyFFpqa

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

BAN ISRAEL FROM FIFA!

[Mark Cummins @markcummins1]

Surely it would make better sense to play this game in Oriel Park and switch the game in August to Galway...

[League of Ireland @LeagueofIreland]

Fixture updates for @GalwayUnitedFC in the SSE Airtricity Men's Premier Division.

Read here - https://t.co/vrc7Q0MLPZ

[Romain Molina @Romain_Molina]

Nommé par la FIFA pour officier durant la Coupe du Monde, l'arbitre somalien 🇸🇴 Omar Artan s'est vu refuser l'entrée sur le territoire américain

Vu ses difficultés pour obtenir un visa, il avait bénéficié du soutien de l'ambassade somalienne de Nairobi qui lui a notamment permis d'avoir un passeport diplomatique

Insuffisant pour les autorités américaines qui l'ont immédiatement renvoyé...

Pour rappel, Artan a dirigé la finale retour de Ligue des Champions de l'an dernier entre Pyramids FC et Mamelodi Sundowns tout en étant élu meilleur arbitre africain 2025 par la CAF

[Dundalk FC @DundalkFC]

The League of Ireland have confirmed that Galway United v Dundalk, originally scheduled to take place at Eamonn Deacy Park on Friday, 12 June at 19:45, will now take place at Munster FA Turner’s Cross Stadium, Cork, on the same time and date.

📸 Sportsfile

#CMonTheTown

[🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @Classicbritcom]

Millicent Martin is 92 today, Happy Birthday Millicent 🎁🎂

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

He was just playing football in Gaza city, then the israelis killed him, says the bereft father of Palestinian boy Abbas Mohammed Abu Jabal

[Susan Shalabi @SusanShalabiMol]

Stadiums on occupied land. Pathways to UEFA. FIFA broadcasts the illegal settlement games. Is football meant to unite people or help erase them? #FIFA #Palestine #Football https://t.co/1wc42gODTU

[Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان @Marwa__Osman]

Keep in mind, that while all this is happening, not once did Israel stop bombing Gaza.
NOT ONCE.
Massacres are happening as we speak.
The genocide is still ongoing.

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

Death toll from 7.8-magnitude earthquake in the southern Philippines rises to 15.

The quake caused buildings to collapse and sparked tsunami warnings across the region, with the authorities urging people in affected coastal regions to move to higher ground

https://t.co/H8mTptuIZa

[🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @Classicbritcom]

Fred Dinenage is 84 today, Happy Birthday Fred 🎁🎂

[Dante Raimundo 🇻🇪 @RaimundoDante]

Vcs já pararam pra pensar que o atleta negro americano Jesse Owens entrou mais fácil na Alemanha Nazista para disputar as Olimpíadas de 1936 do que o atacante iraquiano Aymen Hussein para disputar a Copa de 2026 nos EUA?

[RTÉ Archives @RTEArchives]

WATCH: The final episode of RTÉ's first soap opera 'Tolka Row' was broadcast #OnThisDay in 1968
https://t.co/gdalHfEbJo

[Fútbol y Política @FutboliPolitica]

🇮🇷 Los jugadores de Irán aterrizaron hoy en México con una insignia en su traje con el número 168, en recuerdo de las víctimas de la escuela de Minab, bombardeada por Estados Unidos el pasado 28 de febrero.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

BREAKING: IRANIAN GATHER AND CHEER ON BALLISTIC MISSILE LAUNCHES TO NORTHERN ISRAEL AFTER BEIRUT WAS BOMBED EARLIER TODAY