Damian Cullen

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#COYGIG

Ireland 7
Munster 31
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#SUAF #LeivMun

My follow-up to Dirty Linen is a collection of interviews with Irish writers spanning 35 years - 1991-2025 - out next year from Lilliput. It includes interviews with Sally Rooney, Colum McCann and PJ Kavanagh, the writer and poet who also played a Nazi priest in Father Ted. Everything connects.

Life as a rail commuter: my 24 hours per week on trains between Thurles and Dublin One full day, each week, simply travelling to or from work

I wrote this piece before getting the train this morning - which was late.
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Birthdays are treated very seriously in this house, as Bailey is currently finding out with her dog-friendly cake baked by the youngest.

The emails you get on a Friday . . .

What else would you be doing on Monday?
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There won't be a cow milked in Stillorgan tonight.
Amazing win by Dublin hurlers.
#GAA

Thanks!

Leaving Cert parent: It is cruel and unusual punishment - but sometimes you have to laugh My Dad jokes have been an important mood breaker recently - or so I like to think

Same pic, different words!
#leavingcert
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A walk down memory lane in front of the TV took a darker turn Jen Hogan: A family viewing of Housewife of the Year proved to be an eye-opening experience

A walk down memory lane in front of the TV took a darker turn

Leaving Cert parent: ‘Is there any chance we can have the kitchen table back?’ Whatever happens to in the next few weeks, we know our daughter will meet this challenge like all others. We couldn’t be prouder of her

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a group of puppets are standing around a bag of summer camp snacks ALT: a group of puppets are standing around a bag of summer camp snacks

Every year the @irishtimes.com guide to the best Summer Camps in Ireland gets bigger & bigger.
If anyone wants to send me info for this year's guide, you need to send me details by this evening.
damian.cullen@irishtimes.com

Thurles
#DarknessIntoLight
#DIL2025

Hyrox, the soaring fitness trend: ‘You meet so many different people, all shapes, all sizes’ There is nothing like a bit of self-inflicted suffering to bond strangers

Hyrox, the soaring fitness trend: ‘You meet so many different people, all shapes, all sizes’

Best half of rugby I've seen by the Ireland women in so long. Loving the attitude and commitment.
#IrevEng #COYGIG

Three sporting events to watch this week: Your handy guide to sport on television Your guide to the best sport on television

Includes the #ChampionsCup Quarter-finals.
#Rugby
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Three sporting events to watch this week: Your handy guide to sport on television Your guide to sport on television (Monday–Sunday, March 17th–23rd)

Have we mentioned lately what a great tv channel TG4 is?
Some amount of GAA matches on this week. 👏
@sporttg4.bsky.social
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Dessert by the 14-year-old. This is not an orange, it's jelly!

Róisín Ingle was laughing the other day when she saw how many small containers I have on shelves. Love a labelled box.
You just can't beat it.

What the hell is going on with this weather? This morning the trees were horizontal, now it's snowing in Tipp!
#Sneachta

Good to see no one is panicking before #StormEowyn. Here is the bread aisle in the local Dunnes. 🤷‍♂️

No. 😂

Sick of the freezing weather the past week in Tipp so made a break for Denmark.

Sick as a small hospital with whatever bug is going around, so youngest has baked me cookies. Amazingly, feel way better already.

Róisín Ingle: My profound, challenging, surprisingly joyful, life-changing year I haven’t written a personal column for around a year. There have been difficult days. I’ve also had one of the best day’s of my life

A beautiful column from my brilliant friend Roisin Ingle on a turbulent but life affirming year

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I might never mention that! I value my life. 😂

Youngest takes Christmas dinner seriously.
There's even a menu . . .
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How come every time I go into Dunnes or Lidl at least one elderly person (usually several!) will presume I work there and ask me a question?

Also, you'll find mayonnaise on aisle 9 and, yes, that Gillette razor pack does come with 7 blades.

One of those kind of Sundays . . .