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Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Jul 27

I was probably a teenager to be fair but good luck! #theshift

Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Jul 23

Will always remember how those in the 1940s fought the Nazis with physical force like idiots, as we now take down the latest genocide with Coldplay memes.

Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Jul 18

Which phone company is everyone using in #untamed ? They can get a signal anywhere.

Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Jan 23

Storm Watch - I saw a man with 6 x 2 Litres of milk of in his trolly. Behaviour I would only normally expect to see from Mr.T.

Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Jan 22

I take it back, I found this perfectly legitimate diagram after doing research online. Maybe there is something in it...

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Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Jan 21

"That there Hitler appears to be commiting genocide...no, wait, he's just a bit awkward or has autism or something." - Winston Churchill 1940

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Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Jan 1

The Boomtown Rats. A band that have somehow existed purely upon the power of insisting that they do exist. #hootenanny

Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Dec 31

Remember everybody that regardless of whatever kind of year you have had, positive, negative or inbetween, that it's all about what is ahead of you in 2025 and that tomorrow is...

*checks phone*

...Wednesday. #nye

Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Dec 7

*15 years later*

"...and what did those seeds grow into?"

"A rage. An unquenchable rage. To burn Orlando to the ground and salt the earth so nothing may grow there."

"Like the moon."

"Yes. Like the fucking moon." #LateLateToyShow

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Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Dec 6

Better than the real Mariah anyway AND she does stairs. #LateLateToyShow

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Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Dec 6

Did the #LateLateToyShow just buy a Cameo video from Mariah Carey?

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Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Dec 6

Smyths have a man with a rifle by the PS5s during that Trolly Dash with a T-Shirt that reads "Keep dashin'"

#LateLateToyShow

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Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Dec 6

"You're right Anna. It is every kids dream. You've peaked. It's all downhill from here."

If Tubridy still hosted.

#LateLateToyShow

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Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · Dec 6

Book corner #LateLateToyShow

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Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Dec 6

The 32 County Parade should happen everytime someone orders an Irish Passport. Upon delivery, at their front door. #LateLateToyShow

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Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Dec 6

*somewhere on a (probably floating) therapy couch in the year 2040*

"I never had a childhood"

"Why was that?"

"I was a weirdly adult sounding Culchie farmer child from Leitrim on the toy show for a laugh and it stuck *sobs*.... it stuck. I couldn't walk it off so I couldn't."

#LateLateToyShow

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Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Dec 6

"You'd be going there with at least one person you know, so like, you're going home with at LEAST two hampers."

My wife everybody.

#LateLateToyShow

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Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Dec 6

"Find me the Culchie-est child you can!"

"*sharp intake of breath*"

"Was that a yes?"

"You know nothing of our ways city boy."

#LateLateToyShow

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Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Dec 6

*currently back stage"

"I will swap you space seeds from space for Orlando tickets"

"What do they grow?"

"...erm...Space."

"No deal."

#LateLateToyShow

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Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Dec 6

This says more about me than him, but I believe at this stage Paddy has got changed more tonight than I have this week.
#LateLateToyShow

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Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Dec 6

*meanwhile somewhere in Tubridy Mansions*

"That's not how you do it. Pfft. You talk over kids, explode bottles of Fanta and say fuck, and rush past things to the next toilet break. Amateur."

*sobs* #LateLateToyShow

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Marcus Keeley @marcuskeeley.bsky.social · Dec 6

#LateLateToyShow

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Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Dec 6

Upon entry to studio for #LateLateToyShow this year -

"You have ticket?"

"Yes."

"And will you be shouting WOOO! every so often?"

"No."

"You may enter."

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Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Dec 6

Going to space are we now? Notions. #LateLateToyShow

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Rua @ruaward.bsky.social · Dec 6

And because Armagh won the All Ireland we must now watch Tyrone pretend they aren't interested in GAA and dominate the #LateLateToyShow

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