Mark Murphy

Freelance writer, national newspaper sub-editor and Kingstonian, Celtic and Roscommon (GAA) follower. Can get sunburnt indoors

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

@henrywinter Emma Hayes (correctly) called it "a victory for immigration," on ITV just now. That sound you hear is heads metaphorically exploding across the UK. Tee-hee.

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

Emma Hayes, @itvfootball 's best idea at this World Cup, correctly calls Cape Verde's 0-0 draw with Spain "a victory for immigration," to the sound of heads metaphorically exploding across the land. Tee-hee.

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

@redoctoberirp Dunno, say Roscommon fans everywhere...

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

@Global_GAA @1892eamonn Hundreds and hundreds. But none visible to anyone except Tony Bloom...

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

@johnmadden2706 I've said it elsewhere but it bears repeating. The quality gap between Cavanagh and Brian Fenton on punditry duty yesterday was enormous...

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

Ahem...
I refer you all to words 20-23 of this post...

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

The @TheSundayGame Round 3 draw graphic looked like a wish list. Reading from left to right, it was Donegal/Monaghan, Armagh/Kerry (which seems inevitable), Westmeath/Meath and Mayo/Dublin. For neutrals anyway, could that be bettered? (Brian Fenton would certainly be happy...)

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

@Rolandlandro @SmallerFishGAA I'd say there's a fair few Roscommon fans thinking the exact same thing just now...

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

@PeterMayo51 @aretrocut You'd beat Dublin, I'd say...

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

@aretrocut Hey, listen. Beating Tyrone isn't as easy as it looks. And, as a Roscommon fan, I should know...

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

I think Brian Fenton is a breath of fresh @TheSundayGame punditry air, anyway. But VERY especially so when stood in-between Lee Keegan and Sean Cavanagh.

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

@SeamusDuke @RoscommonGAA @RoscommonPeople And there's been a few of them (says a veteran of Drogheda 2005). But next year golds genuine promise, despite what others may think. Metaphorically, see you next year #hontherossies

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

The @TheSundayGame Round 3 draw graphic looked like a wish list. Reading from left to right, it was Donegal/Monaghan, Armagh/Kerry (which seems inevitable), Westmeath/Meath and Mayo/Dublin. For neutrals anyway, could that be bettered? (Brian Fenton would certainly be happy...)

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

@lukeming It will. And it will be very sweet when it does. #hontherossies

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

@RefComeOn Yep. I was there. 10th August. There'll be another one along soon. Honest... 🙃

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

@cooney_ian At underage too, it seems. Psychological problem? I'm tired of saying "we're better than that," after a bad championship exit (going back to Drogheda in '05...I was there). And we ARE better than THAT. But people will be laughing at us now. Again. Rightly so. And I'm sick of THAT

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

@flendermanc @AaronMaher95 No. That was a good Galway side they beat.

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

@cooney_ian All very nervous. This team have the comeback in them, unlike many Rossie sides in previous years. But they have to make it happen, otherwise we'll be laughed at again.

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

That sound you hear, as Bryson talks out of his interface area, is the sound of irony meters exploding...

[Jamie Bryson @JamieBrysonLLB]

Sinn Fein bringing people onto the streets close to an interface area.

Highly irresponsible, but of course: nationalist protests are good; unionist protests are bad.

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

@JohnCleese So, responding to a vile crime by a Sudanese man by attacking ANYONE with dark skin is NOT racism? You used to be, as the phrase goes, "Funny ha-ha." Superbly so, too. Now you're just funny pathetic.

[Mark Murphy @MarkMurphy66]

@marsh_ross Weird. This exact conversation has now "happened" three times on three different flights. Although this recollection seems to lack the sentence telling us who or what "he" was.