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Aidan Curran
@aidancurran17.bsky.social
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Runner. Bookeater. Francophone. Kerryperson. Presentable (He/him) #SpéirGhorm Writing about every song to top the Irish charts at irishnumberones.com and @irishnumberones.bsky.social
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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 2d
⭐ NEW POST ⭐
9 December 1971
Tina and The Real McCoy – ‘I Don’t Know How To Love Him’: Jaysus irishnumberones.com/2025/10/06/t...
Tina and The Real McCoy – ‘I Don’t Know How To Love Him’
9 December 1971 This seems to be the first number one single anywhere for Andrew Lloyd Webber, although Jesus Christ Superstar had topped the US album charts the previous year. (Earlier in 1971, He…
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 2d
Not now, France, we're busy: www.france24.com/en/france/20...
France Live: New PM Lecornu resigns, far right calls for dissolution of National Assembly
French Prime Minister Sébastian Lecornu resigns hours after unveiling a cabinet full of familiar faces and less than a month after being appointed, failing to pull the country out of a political crisi...
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 2d
The reveal I want to see is that Jim Gavin's tenant was CMAT.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 12d
God, Roxy were fab #BBCFour
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 13d
I was hoping for the full handcuffed perp-walk but maybe they're saving that for when he rocks up to prison www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Nicolas Sarkozy given five-year prison sentence after Libya trial
Former French president found guilty of criminal conspiracy after being accused of pact with Gaddafi regime
www.theguardian.com
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 16d
Call My Bluff repeats (followed by that classical music quiz) are BACK on BBC Four at 9 pm tonight!
A man wearing a pink bow tie
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 18d
West Limerick is spiritually part of north Kerry.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 24d
Liverpool's away kit is green in honour of Ireland being the first team to play them after The Beatles split up #BURLIV
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 25d
If it were a bus to UCD it'd never arrive.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 26d
Penalties klaxon! Drogs v. Rovers on RTE2 right now.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 29d
#ARMIRL
Men with their heads in their hands
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · Sep 6
#IRLHUN
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · Sep 5
The 1991 #TOTP repeat on BBC Four tonight is a great reminder of how rave energised the UK pop charts. And Martika's 'Love... Thy Will Be Done' is great too.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · Aug 31
Hurrah for "poptimism" and "poptimist", not least because I kept seeing "Popist" there as "Papist".
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · Aug 31
'The Sensual World' by Kate Bush
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · Aug 31
Riccardo Calafiori is up there with Nicolás Tagliafico and Stina Blackstenius as the footballer with the coolest name #Analysis #LivArs
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · Aug 24
I fear we lucked out with Michael D and the two Marys.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · Aug 24
On the other hand, Bertie going for president would be great pratfall entertainment for us all. I'm already getting in cans for the TV debate.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · Aug 21
I still can't believe the present-day Van Der Valk reboot didn't reuse the classic theme. Even the modern versions of Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver and Magnum P.I. knew to do that!
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · Aug 21
Good news, everyone! There's a one-hour version of 'Pump It Up' www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm6d...
Endor - Pump It Up 🔴 [1 HOUR LOOP] ✔️
YouTube video by Megalong Background Music Loops
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · Aug 10
Next year, on 28 October 2026, will be the 300th anniversary of the publication of Gulliver's Travels. Are we doing anything for it?
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · Aug 10
The biggest-selling Irish novel of all time must surely be Gulliver's Travels.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · Aug 9
The children's hospital really is The Front Fell Off: The Movie
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Jennifer Bray @jenniferbray.bsky.social · Aug 9
New: Major doubts emerge about next summer’s opening of children’s hospital amid new row; threat of delay forces ­officials to examine if patients can be moved in winter, despite fears of “high clinical risk”. CHI yet to obtain vital early access to site

www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
Latest hospital delays may force winter transfer
New row erupts over missed deadlines at the new national children’s hospital amid concerns about moving young patients
www.thetimes.com
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · Aug 8
The Blue Nile. #notTOTP
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · Aug 7
I must say, that Port Vale retro jersey is fairly snazzy #PVLCAR