Next Sunday the All-Ireland hurling final will be on the BBC for the first time. It’s Cork vs Clare, a cracker of match in front of 82,400 screaming fans at Croke Park, for the highlight of the Irish sporting year. If you’ve never seen Hurling, here is a quick explainer…
Spike Island was home to 4 prisons over 4 centuries
Yet most people don't know the crafty criminals, Republicans & murderers that filled its cells
Here is a short thread on just 3 of the incredible characters held on Ireland's Alcatraz (1)
@IrishRail About 6 information boards at every platform and not 1 of them with any info on them..... whatever about signal faults, they way irish rail deal with these problems is beyond a joke.. no information anywhere....just a lad on the speakers, 'apologies for any inconvenience cause'
@IrishRail Why is your website showing everything on time???? Mabey use the tools you have to inform people BEFORE we tag on past the turnstiles...could have got a bus
Liverpool beat Chelsea on penalties in the FA Cup final. A penalty shootout is a psychological game starting with how the manager communicates with his players after the final whistle. Klopp & Tuchel spent those 5 minutes very differently. Here are the events chronologically. 1/9