Jesus this news has knocked me sideways. The man made and played the bass lines of my youth.
Rest in music Mani ✌️
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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 ✌️
Career change? 🤔🤣
19.11.2025 23:09 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Having 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 📌 0Career change? 🤔🤣
19.11.2025 23:09 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Having 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 📌 0Great 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 📌 0Great 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 📌 0well done, Ireland! 🇮🇪
17.11.2025 00:31 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Beautiful 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!
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
Word ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
16.11.2025 20:16 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0bsky.app/profile/obri...
16.11.2025 20:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Truthful thread. The far right flag-shaggers should stfu!🇮🇪
16.11.2025 20:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Tonight 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 📌 1This 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/ 🧵
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 📌 0What 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
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/ 🧵
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 📌 0D1. Dublin Won. Capital
#coybig #worldcup
I’ld say Hungary are sick as a Parrott 😉 #coybig
16.11.2025 16:08 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0BREAKING: 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
Heard Budapest is nice of a Sunday
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14.11.2025 04:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That’s some performance Troy Parrott.
Take a bow. Only number 7 worth talking about tonight #COYBIG
Born liar
13.11.2025 21:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ronaldo is a…
#coybig
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