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Mark O’Brien

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Executive / Co-Director of the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s National Theatre. Like a bit of Theatre, Music, Books, Film, TV, Football, Hurling, Man Utd and a bit of whatever you’re having yourself. All views my own… I think.

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Jesus this news has knocked me sideways. The man made and played the bass lines of my youth.
Rest in music Mani ✌️

20.11.2025 19:09 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Career change? 🤔🤣

19.11.2025 23:09 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Having been in Croke Park on that famous day in 1982 when Offaly beat Kerry, stopped their Five in a row and won the All Ireland with a last minute goal, this version of Troy Parrott’s goal hits the spot. Beautiful. #coybig

19.11.2025 00:07 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Career change? 🤔🤣

19.11.2025 23:09 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Having been in Croke Park on that famous day in 1982 when Offaly beat Kerry, stopped their Five in a row and won the All Ireland with a last minute goal, this version of Troy Parrott’s goal hits the spot. Beautiful. #coybig

19.11.2025 00:07 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Great conversation @trinitycollege.bsky.social tonight @roughmagictheatre.bsky.social hosted by @tommytiernan.bsky.social with Professor Margaret Heffernan and Professor Roy Foster

18.11.2025 22:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WTF Happened: The legacy and impact of #WakingTheFeminists Great theatre changes how we see our lives. Great campaigning changes how we see our future.

Great theatre changes how we see our lives. Great campaigning changes how we see our future. When the Abbey Theatre's 2016 centenary programme announced just a handful of women artists, it triggered something extraordinary: a nationwide movement for gender equality in Irish theatre.

17.11.2025 16:17 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

well done, Ireland! 🇮🇪

17.11.2025 00:31 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Beautiful summation of a great night that means so much to so many.

And, w/far-wrong activists now targeting this great nation of Ireland, I think it's all the sweeter that greedy fascistic authoritarian Orbán's Hungarian team took this one right on the chin!

Éirinn go brách!

17.11.2025 18:53 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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What an outburst of joy, of pride.
Ireland are into the play offs for World Cup Qualification.
Our football team has always had a deep connection to communities all over this island and beyond. Tonight is no different. Young men pulling on the green jersey #COYBIG 1/ 🧵 #Speirgorm

16.11.2025 19:53 — 👍 95    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 4

Word ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

16.11.2025 20:16 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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16.11.2025 20:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Truthful thread. The far right flag-shaggers should stfu!🇮🇪

16.11.2025 20:00 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Tonight as we celebrate let us remember you don’t get to cheer for this team and then try to divide the country and people they are and represent. That is not who we are. #COYBIG 🧵/ End #Speirgorm

16.11.2025 19:54 — 👍 43    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

This is what this republic means and what this team represents. This is also what our flag represents. Inclusivity, welcome, heritage, peace and pride.
It is not a symbol to minimise our nation, to cause division, to stoke hatred. #COYBIG 3/ 🧵

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and representing their country. Representing generations of people, those who have lived here all their lives, those who have had to leave this island for adventure or due to poverty, shame and danger and those who have come here and called this island their home #COYBIG 2/ 🧵

16.11.2025 19:53 — 👍 20    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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What an outburst of joy, of pride.
Ireland are into the play offs for World Cup Qualification.
Our football team has always had a deep connection to communities all over this island and beyond. Tonight is no different. Young men pulling on the green jersey #COYBIG 1/ 🧵 #Speirgorm

16.11.2025 19:53 — 👍 95    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 4

This is what this republic means and what this team represents. This is also what our flag represents. Inclusivity, welcome, heritage, peace and pride.
It is not a symbol to minimise our nation, to cause division, to stoke hatred. #COYBIG 3/ 🧵

16.11.2025 19:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When your time wasting doesn’t give you time to come back. Walk on indeed 😉 #coybig #Szoboszlai #mufc

16.11.2025 16:29 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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D1. Dublin Won. Capital
#coybig #worldcup

16.11.2025 16:21 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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I’ld say Hungary are sick as a Parrott 😉 #coybig

16.11.2025 16:08 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BREAKING: The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) says Israeli soldiers have fired at its peacekeepers from a tank near an army position in southern Lebanon.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/bbojcn

16.11.2025 13:12 — 👍 196    🔁 148    💬 16    📌 17

Heard Budapest is nice of a Sunday

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👏👏👏

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That’s some performance Troy Parrott.
Take a bow. Only number 7 worth talking about tonight #COYBIG

13.11.2025 21:50 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Born liar

13.11.2025 21:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ronaldo is a…
#coybig

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