Tom Griffin

[Craic Of The Ash @CraicOfTheAsh]

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

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Published in the Irish Times six years ago. I always think of this letter at this time of year. So moving.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article (https://t.co/HsWFThQ5wF) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.

Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations.

[Fotos del Fútbol Irlandés @irish_pics]

This is Oscar worthy from @RTEsport

I am still so shook

[Tom Griffin @tomkildimo]

@TommyKennedy93 Was there yesterday, great atmosphere. Proper festival buzz

[The Masters @TheMasters]

Poised to make eagle. Rory McIlroy goes for glory on No. 15. #themasters

[Lakeland Dairies @LakelandDairies]

2024 Lakeland Dairies Annual Report

Key figures:

Turnover: €1.75bn

Operating Profit of €42.2m

Profits before Tax of €21.3m.

EBITDA: €73.3m

€998m paid to farm families

The strong performance was driven by an added-value focus and operational excellence.

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[Tom Griffin @tomkildimo]

Compliment

[Tom Griffin @tomkildimo]

After watching a lot of tv, no country's language does moaning and complaining better than south Korea

[ramonpang @RamonPang]

new greatest boiler room of all time just dropped

[Sean @SeanJHayes]

Never thought I’d be praising a football post by a Liverpool fan but this is f*cking brilliant. 😂

#MCFC #Oasis

[Jamie Kennedy @jamierkennedy]

What is the best shot in major history that no one talks about?

I’ll start….

[Tom Griffin @tomkildimo]

@bailemg Well done to both of ye

[Conor McKenna @conormckenna98]

No player who won an All Ireland hurling or football medal this year has ever won a provincial championship medal.

First time it has happened since the provincial championships were introduced in 1888.

[Tom Griffin @tomkildimo]

@bailemg Was there for them. Tmo should have spotted the knock on surely

[Adam Moynihan @AdamMoynihan]

It would be cool if they flashed up graphics with player headshots during the hurling.

Granted I'm only a passive hurling fan but the Clare team could pass me on the street and I wouldn't know 90% of them because of the helmets.

Just a quick mock-up but something like this:

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

GAA President Jarlath Burns with a message more important than ever after the All-Ireland Final.

“For those who are our diaspora, who left this country because of war and famine, whose ancestors had to leave…and we thank the country’s who took you in and gave you jobs”

👏👏

[Tom Griffin @tomkildimo]

@bailemg 🫣

[Cuimhnigh ar Luimneach : Limerick Supporters Group @LimerickFanPage]

ON THIS DAY: 11 YEARS AGO
If Carlsberg did pitch invasions.........
The final whistle at the Gaelic Grounds signals Limerick's first Munster hurling title in 17 years on July 14th 2013