I will always think of @Glen_Hansard busking on Grafton Street each Christmas Eve for the Simon community and the homeless - the Big Busk, which he started (and which inevitably also involved Bono and Sinéad O'Connor), was a huge part of returning to Dublin for the holidays, for me and many like me, living away.
It made sense to someone who was himself a former Dublin busker - he quit school in Ballymun at 13 to play on his city's streets. He even played an Irish busker on a Simpsons episode ("In the Name of the Grandfather"). The Commitments, The Frames, the Swell Season came after, and so did an Oscar and an Emmy. And still every Christmas he was out busking for the homeless, and getting every other Irish musician to, too.
And Once was both the perfect romantic comedy - the right amount bittersweet, no happy endings but we can value the moments of closeness we get, as long as they last - and the perfect Dublin film. I danced to Falling Slowly at my wedding.
We're all Broken Hearted Hoover Fixer Sucker Guys today. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
We are not alone 👽
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Devin Vassell's message to the Spurs fans:
"Thank you guys so much for supporting us, especially my journey being here 6 years. From where we started, from the 20 wins that we were at, to being in the Finals.
They've been loyal and I just wanna say thank you to them. Because without them and the noise, and them having our backs, we're not in this situation, we're not in this position. So just thank you to them."
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#GoSpursGo #PorVida
@SportsCenter@malika_andrews thank you for representing our community and showing the impact you sisters have done for the Westside and the city of San Antonio! #Porvida