Matthew Plunkett

father husband researcher with long standing hazardous sport obsession; occasional views on ptfc dcfc

[Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien]

This is incredible

[Matthew Plunkett @plunkett_matt]

https://t.co/QxRnjxuIyJ

[Mark @lebatardshowfan]

My favorite clip of Dolly.

[Craic Of The Ash @CraicOfTheAsh]

MidWest Radio meltdown during the last minutes of the Mayo match. Volume DOWN 🤣

[Matthew Plunkett @plunkett_matt]

@GuillemBalague @MikeBalo86 Mainoo, Wharton, Garner... For some reason Guillem Tuchel did not confidence that they could offer a solution.....

[Huggy Bear @HebrideanYoon]

Nicola Sturgeon on Newsround in 2022 talking to school kids about the cost of living crisis

‘My husband does most of the shopping in my household but he notices the way things are going up in the supermarkets’

Yeah right 😆😅

[LTA @the_LTA]

Proud brother 💙

Enjoy retirement, @jamie_murray

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

On January 28 Mandelson was denied developed vetting clearance for his post as our man in DC
On January 30 the formal Foreign Office offer hiring him said ‘your [developed vetting — DV] security clearance has been confirmed by the Vetting Unit.’
We now know this not to be correct. He had failed DV status.
So who in these two days decided to overrule the vetters?
What possible motive could Robbins have for taking such a huge decision on his own, without reference to No 10 or the cabinet office or even the Foreign Sec (then Lammy)?

[Bronwyn Twizell @WitchesKitchen]

@PippaCrerar @Harryb22

[JEFF @jeffisrael25]

let me get this straight

a team will not be playing in the FIFA World Cup because they are currently being bombed by the FIFA Peace Prize winner

[. @jdpoc]

In a Turkish barber, in #Glasgow.

[Oli Dugmore @OliDugmore]

Some facts about Peter Mandelson’s appointment.

[David @belfastDGM]

'When I got Fred West to lay my patio, I asked him if he'd ever killed and buried anyone under his own patio. He told me he hadn't and that was good enough for me.'

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

What a series of #TheTraitors. Here's my favourite bits.

[Truth Matters @politicsusa46]

For anyone who would like to hear Mark Carney’s outstanding Davos speech in full here it is. This is what true global leadership looks like.

Canada should be immensely proud today, because they are leading the fight back when others dare not.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/BExGV2YIDq

[Markos Mom @Markos_mom]

The Station Nightclub fire happened in 2003. No smartphones. No Instagram.

100 people still died because they stood watching the flames, thinking it was part of the show.

I've retrofitted fire safety for some of the largest property portfolios in the UK post-grenfell.

You are confusing stupidity with biology, physics, and catastrophic design failures.

Here is the actual science of what you are watching:

1. When the music keeps playing and staff don't panic, the human brain overrides flight instincts to fit the threat into a normal context. This is called normalcy bias. These kids froze to process conflicting social cues, not to post for likes. They were likely already filming. They were also likely drunk.

2. We explicitly design buildings to account for this hesitation (pre-movement time). Fire safety codes assume people will wait before running. In a compliant building, you can assume up to a minute or two before egress commences. Sprinklers and detection systems are designed specifically to buy that time.

3. The reason the time buffer didn't exist here is the material. That ceiling is polyurethane foam. It doesn't burn linearly; it hits flashover (1,100°F) in under 90 seconds. It's essentially solid gasoline. The room would have exploded for all intents and purposes. Way before anyone could reasonably evacuate.

4. We calculate exit widths based on how many people can physically pass through a door per minute (flow rate) versus how fast a fire spreads. With foam fires, the available safe egress time drops to almost zero. Even if they had reacted instantly, the crowd density would have choked the exits before the room cleared.

5. In any normal building fire, especially one that starts off small, you expect a responsible adult to put it out, or sprinklers to do the same. When there's a pan fire in a restaurant, you don't run out in case the entire building suddenly explodes. No reasonable person should have expected this unless they were the owner and knew how the building was designed.

Those poor teenagers likely passed out from smoke inhalation soon after this video. If they didn't, they would have been caught in a catastrophic explosion as they crammed into the single tiny exit.

They didn't die because of Instagram.

They died because the physics of the fire moved faster than human bodies can physically squeeze through a door, and a catastrophic disregard of safe design principles meant they never stood a chance.

[Nottingham Forest @NFFC]

John Robertson defined an era and inspired generations at Nottingham Forest.

From European nights to domestic glory, his legacy will forever be cherished.

[Tom English @TEnglishSport]

Not sure there’s a country in the world that loves football more than Scotland. It’s in the bones of the people. Twenty-seven year wait is now over. Sixty-one nations have played in the World Cup since Scotland last played in it. Scotland earned this - and it’s majestic

[Liam McIlvanney @LiamMcIlvanney]

The two goals that are burned into my consciousness are Dalglish vs Wales and Gemmill vs the Netherlands. At least three of tonight’s goals are in that memorable class…

[Balls.ie @ballsdotie]

Reactions to Troy Parrott's winner.

1. Dublin airport