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The author, Séamas O'Reilly

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The author, Séamas O'Reilly

@shockproofbeats

Former drinks-dispenser to Mary McAleese. Get Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? now at mammybook.com

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The author, Séamas O'Reilly
@shockproofbeats
Jul 5, 2022
So you feel like buying my excellent and very good memoir, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died but aren't sure if it's as good as I keep saying. So here's a few pieces from and about the book, which might entice you to buy a copy right now from mammybook.com
The author, Séamas O'Reilly
@shockproofbeats
May 17, 2022
When I was 7, my teacher told us to write an article about “world cultures” for school over the weekend. I remembered it late on Sunday so in a panic I made up something called the "Icelandic Fish Festival", figuring said teacher wouldn’t know either way.
The author, Séamas O'Reilly
@shockproofbeats
Oct 18, 2024
If I ever had to admit to doing something this profoundly weird and embarrassing, I'd simply have no choice but to set myself on fire.
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The author, Séamas O'Reilly
@shockproofbeats
Jul 26, 2023
Joe Pesci opened the next episode of SNL saying he wanted to smack her in the mouth. Sinatra said she needed "her ass kicked". Her records were pulled from airplay and burned and bulldozed in protest. She was more brave, and more right, than she ever got credit for.
Dr Robert Bohan
@RobertBohan
Jul 26, 2023
By the time Sinéad O’Connor sang this (1992) some 70,000 children had been sexually abused by Catholic priests & brothers in Ireland. The state, media, bishops, cardinals & pope had covered it up. She was scorned.
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Wasn't That Special?
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The author, Séamas O'Reilly
@shockproofbeats
May 3, 2018
Got my days wrong and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine.
The author, Séamas O'Reilly
@shockproofbeats
Aug 31, 2024
In college, Chevy Chase played drums in a jazz-rock trio called Leather Canary. Seeing no future in it, he quit to go off and become a globally successful comic actor. The remaining members decided to keep going as a duo, but changed their name to Steely Dan.
Pop Base
@PopBase
Aug 27, 2024
Name your favorite celebrity fact.
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The author, Séamas O'Reilly
@shockproofbeats
Sep 4, 2024
wow sounds pretty slick but why were the police trying to get into your house andrew
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The author, Séamas O'Reilly
@shockproofbeats
Nov 6, 2024
From 2017
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The author, Séamas O'Reilly
@shockproofbeats
May 17, 2024
some Irish primary school kids made a tune and there is zero legitimate reason for it to go this hard holy shit
RTÉ
@rte
May 16, 2024
✨🎵 “I searched for my spark and I found it” ✨🎵 Cruinniú na nÓg, Europe’s only national free day of creativity for young people is back, with over 1,000 free activities, taking place on Saturday, June 15. 🎉 #CruinniuNaNog - an initiative of @creativeirl, supported by @rte
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The author, Séamas O'Reilly
@shockproofbeats
Sep 1, 2021
It's 24 years since my all-time favourite press apology/correction. If any of you can beat it, I'm all ears.
The author, Séamas O'Reilly
@shockproofbeats
May 17, 2022
Replying to @shockproofbeats
The second – in fact the literal, atomic instant – that I handed it to her, I realised she’d not asked us to write this at all. I'd dreamed that she had. So I’d just written, and presented, this breezy 8-page memorandum on the Icelandic Fish Festival for absolutely no reason.
The author, Séamas O'Reilly
@shockproofbeats
Jan 3, 2024
Very funny that the Epstein flight logs are like ˢᵐʳᵍˡʸ ᵖᶠᶠⁿᵃⁿˢ ᵇʳᵃᵛᶦˡ ᵇˡʳᵍⁿ PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON ᵐᵃᵇˡᵒ ᵖʳᶠⁿᶜᶻˡᵐ ʰᵘᵖ ᵇʳᶦᶠᶜᵃʳᵗ ᵖᵃᵇˡʸ ʰᵒᵇⁿᵃʳⁿˢ ALAN DERSHOWITZ
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The author, Séamas O'Reilly
@shockproofbeats
Mar 11, 2024
Can't express how much they shat the bed by pretending Kate is secretly into photo-editing software. Fatal. Insane. Nothing less believable than a royal having a computer hobby. It's 95% of monarchy's appeal: you know these freaks have never learned a password in their lives.
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The author, Séamas O'Reilly
@shockproofbeats
Feb 7, 2024
we don't talk enough about how this paranoid freak released virtual insanity in 1996. years before the average person in the uk had even sent a text message, he was dancing like a maniac in his big moving gaff, enraged to the point of song by faxes, teletext and encarta 95.
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