Yikes! Coming up on the news now. Youāll be glad to know Iām happily unconcerned.
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I wonder can you bar people out of coffeeshops like it was a rural Irish pub?
I think thatās a parody account bruv
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Surely he wasnāt caught by another spoof Twitter account this week 
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100% happened mate - it was actually in November though. Was shortly after the 2004 US election. For some reason I had mentally dated it as December 1st, 2004 but this is not correct. It happened at this door.
I turned up about 20 minutes before the Most Rev. Jackson was due to speak but the door had just shut and the house was deemed full. Myself and a couple of females with high pitched voices decided to hang around in the hope the situation might change, a bit like ticketless fans at Gillsās at 3:20pm on Sunday September 17th, 2017.
And indeed it did change. One of the stuck up bigwigs from the something society exited the building in his suit, presumably to go and get a pinch of snuff. As the door opened who was in there and visible but the Most Rev. Jackson himself, hanging around in the lobby area just inside the door talking to some other bigwigs from the something society. He heard the high pitched screams of āJesse, Jesseā of the two females beside me, and no sooner had the door closed than it opened again - opened by none other than the very man himself who had a lovely welcoming smile, he beckoned us - well mainly them, in, and I sheepishly shuffled in on the coattails of my two female companions.
I also saw Tommy Lyons speaking in the same room on a separate night around about this time but Tommy did not let me in. However Tommyās speech was about letting other people in - specifically Garrison games into Croke Park. I can still mentally picture Tommy making an impassioned plea to open Croke Parkās doors and this was how I imagined Henry Grattan would have spoke some years previously. The gravitas was only dripping off Tommy that night.
Iām sure I read Jackson didnāt like Obama due to him getting the push he felt he should have gotten from the Democratic party.
Former INTERNETTER @Mulcair holding a lone protest outside surely?
Tommy Lyons would have been a better presidential candidate than Jim Gavin.
The confident waffler has a broader appeal than charisma free zones.
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Would Tommy get all the votes in his own house?
Tommy has been recognised as a total spoofer about 15 years agoā¦
Tommy would capture both the Roy Curtis, daycint auld Dub market and the Rorys Stories, 2 Johnnies liking culchie simpleton market.
Tommy Lyons won an All-Ireland club championship and then took a Division 4 team to win the Leinster championship when the Leinster championship was the strongest provincial championship in the country. He then won the NFL the following year. He also has another Leinster title with a team experiencing a famine (seven years) and an All-Ireland under-21 title.
Itās a fairly impressive CV and you donāt get it by being a total spoofer.
Tommy Lyons was the Kevin Keegan of the GAA - a relentless motivator whose power of motivation was such that he could get teams to do extraordinary things - until he couldnāt. And then the players immediately decided they disliked his personality and gave up on him.
