Martin Ryan

Man of land, commanding 6'3 handsome statistician,modest to a fault and all things to mankind.

[Tipperary GAA @TipperaryGAA]

Throwback Thursday🔙

With our Minor hurlers facing Cork in the All Ireland Semi Final this Saturday - we take a look back at the 2007 All Ireland Minor Final. Tipperary emerged victorious 3-14 to 2-11 with Sean Carey (2) and Michael Heffernan raising the green flags.

[Martin Ryan @mmmmglebe]

@CraicOfTheAsh He'd have a history with opposition flags alright

[Martin Ryan @mmmmglebe]

@c_backpocket With Tom O Meara in the middle of the park they'd bate the pick of them

[Laura Perrins BL @LPerrins]

The Deposit Return Scheme is quite possibly the most ridiculous scheme ever imposed on the good people of Ireland. It is a tax on your time, your dignity, your kitchen space and a clear and present danger to your health.
https://t.co/plwkUH4jx1

[Róisín @Roisin_Garden]

"White menace spreading pestilince and violence"
Anyone speaking like this is inoctrinated or mentally unstable surely🤷‍♀️

[Martin Ryan @mmmmglebe]

@TomasJHeneghan You are quite obsessed with teenage girls going to the bathroom the last few days. Worrying behaviour

[Denis Hurley @Denis_Hurley]

OTD in 1994, Paul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan won the Eurovision with Rock 'n' Roll Kids

The song opens with, "I remember '62," harking wistfully back to a long-gone golden era, 32 years previously

Now the song is 32 years old. Have a great day, everyone

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

Never change, Ireland

[Martin Ryan @mmmmglebe]

@TadhgHickey @john_mcguirk I don't you're in any position to ask people about employment

[Martin Ryan @mmmmglebe]

@lessangrysodge @GAAjuggernaut Tis exactly what the ape would do

[Martin Ryan @mmmmglebe]

@DaloAnto

[Tommy Kavanagh ™ @tomokav]

Good to see Johnny Murphy fuck up another match! 😆😆✍️

[Martin Ryan @mmmmglebe]

@EwanMacKenna How many rubles did you get for that post?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

1800s Argentina: British writer William Henry Hudson visits the Pampas, encounters gauchos. Documents their diet with horrified fascination.

"The gaucho eats nothing but beef. Flesh morning, noon, and night. Never bread, never vegetables, rarely salt."

Hudson expects malnutrition and disease. Finds "men of extraordinary stamina and strength, capable of riding 12-14 hours without rest, then dancing all night."

The diet: beef, mate tea, occasionally grilled kidney fat (delicacy). Nothing else.

Darwin visits 1832-1833, observes gaucho life: "I was surprised at the difficulty persuading gauchos to eat anything but beef. I brought biscuits and found them thrown away. They'd rather go hungry than eat bread if beef was available tomorrow."

Typical meals: Morning - beef roasted over fire, fattier cuts. Afternoon - grilled ribs. Evening - beef again, tougher cuts slow-cooked.

Zero vegetables. Zero grains. Zero variety. Just beef and tea.

Hudson documents outcomes: "The gauchos suffer none of the ailments common to civilised man. No digestive troubles, no obesity, no tooth decay I could observe. Their teeth were uniformly excellent despite never cleaning them and consuming nothing but meat. Physical endurance such that they could ride for days with minimal rest, fight when necessary, resume riding without apparent fatigue."

French physician Dr. Jules Crevaux, 1850s-1870s: "These men live exclusively on animal flesh and appear healthier than our European peasantry who eat varied diet of grains and vegetables."

When asked why they don't eat bread or vegetables, common response: "That's food for horses and cattle. We eat cattle."

They understood hierarchy. Cattle eat grass, convert to meat. Humans eat meat. Eating what cattle eat makes you perform like cattle.

Into early 1900s, traditional gauchos maintained beef-exclusive diet. Then European immigration brought wheat cultivation.

Health transformation documented by Argentine physicians. Traditional gauchos: healthy into old age. Urbanised former gauchos on European diets: diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, dental decay.

Modern Argentina: 28% obesity, cardiovascular disease leading cause of death, diabetes nearly 10%.

The gauchos who ate nothing but beef had none of these. They rode horses 12 hours daily into their 60s, maintained teeth without dental care, died from accidents or old age, not chronic disease.

Same beef. Different context. When you eat beef with grains, seed oils, sugar: modern disease. Beef alone: You have the health of a 19th century gaucho.

[Tipperary Hurling Club New York @tipphurlingny]

✨ Save the Date ✨

Tipperary NY Hurling Club is proud to announce our Annual Dinner Dance 🎶💃🕺

📅 Saturday, December 6th, 2025
📍 @mulinoslakeisle

💙💛 #TipperaryNY #DinnerDance #SaveTheDate #TippAbú

[Martin Ryan @mmmmglebe]

@1truthserum @Gill_i_bix I feel like Jimmy today

[Martin Ryan @mmmmglebe]

@Gill_i_bix Not like @ShaneSaint with his two All Ireland medals for "hurling". Though I think you have to strike the ball in a match to qualify for a medal

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

14 August 1995. Blur and Oasis began what was called “The Battle of Britpop” by releasing singles on the same day: Blur with Country House and Oasis with Roll With It. It was Blur’s single that reached No 1.

[Frank Dempsey @Kildareman2]

But they told us reducing the Irish national herd would save the world.......