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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 · 15/10/2026
🌟 NEW POST 🌟 18 July 1974 Charles Aznavour - 'She': Bloody elle irishnumberones.com/2026/10/15/c...
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Charles Aznavour – ‘She’
18 July 1974 I once stood behind Charles Aznavour in a queue at the bank in Paris. He was courteous to the teller and got his business done quickly. That, I’m sorry to say, is my best celebri…
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Wait 'til you see our book group:
The Birmingham Six on their release
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"I spent 14 years in a British jail! For a book I never read!"
An Irish person being freed by a British court for a crime he didn't commit.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I miss Yes, That's The Joke from the old place:
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Here's an episode of RTE's early-'00s Celtic Tiger drama-comedy series The Big Bow Wow. Enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i_1...
youtube.com
The Big Bow Wow (Complete Episode)
YouTube video by VHS Archiever
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The stuff they never teach us in school:
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yeats's "grave" in France may just have been his for a few years, as was the practice then in France, so Yeats's "grave" in Sligo may actually contain the random French person who took his place - because YEATS KILLED HIM and YEATS IS NOT DEAD. #Analysis #Proof #Facts
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Not yet, nor mine!
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sherlock, though even the 'good' first two series seem a bit silly now.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"I said I liked Breakfast At Tiffany's? Never happened!"
A woman and a man in an office
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wonder if its similarity to the vibe and setting of Friends was what made it a hit.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🎶 Playing the hits you love - Iran FM 📻 www.rte.ie/news/middle-...
Iran FM tells US there is no military solution to their conflict
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Never too early for a Halloween tune set to classic horror movies: youtu.be/l2PoSljk8cE?...
youtu.be
Monster Mash
YouTube video by Tamara Baum
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This I've got to hear!
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Italy looked decent against France tonight, and their jerseys are still absolute class #Analysis #FRAITA
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The font on posters made with AI always seems the same too.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As you could probably have guessed, I got the good biscuits out for this one:
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I like this interpolation-remix-whatever of 'Big Hoops' from 2021 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsAS...
youtube.com
Rain Radio, DJ Craig Gorman - Talk About (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by RainRadioVEVO
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The remixed 'Roses' by Saint Jhn was a decent UK number one too IMO.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Discourse for the cool kids is here:
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You know the new U2 single is bad when they have to do other stuff and play the oldies to distract from it: www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
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U2 play to packed Grafton Street crowd from Bewley's
U2 have played a surprise gig from the balcony of Bewley's on Dublin's Grafton Street as the band marked 50 years together.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Big news for a chemist's shop in Clonmel:
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Recording the old #totp and I gather it's one with Darryl Pandy living his best life.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They're showing the Foster & Allen leprechaun episode again, I guess #totp
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not that I'm a football hipster, but I'm watching Italy v Belgium with a matching Italian wine:
Two footballers in a tackle
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Maybe it'll be a big hit in men's sheds.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Another new U2 single passes unnoticed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mCN...
youtube.com
U2 - Silencio
YouTube video by U2VEVO
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Checks out 👍
Sneaky Snake from Wanderly Wagon
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ah, forgive my lack of coddle knowledge. I've only ever seen it splattered in doorways on Saturday nights.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Scaling the cod" sounds like the the origin story of coddle. #Dubs
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Typical: didn't qualify, probably blew it against the Prague tramway in a playoff.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Before I disappear down that livestream black hole, is there a Dublin LUAS driver in it?
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
[Cold open] - Captain! Suspect spotted 40 yards away in a slight crosswind with a suspicious device shaped like a Golden Delicious balanced on their head! - Christ! [looks wearily to camera] Get Tell. Now.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Remember the William Tell TV series? Every episode they had to contrive the plot so that at the end he had to shoot an apple off someone's head: www.imdb.com/title/tt0140...
TV series Crossbow: The Legend of William Tell
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ah, just heard Catherine Ringer has died. One for all the francophiles and francophones: youtu.be/1zWlnzFXcKY?...
youtu.be
Les Rita Mitsouko - Marcia Baïla (Clip Officiel)
YouTube video by Les Rita Mitsouko
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Things I was frightened of as a child: Electricity pylons The intro to Scooby Doo & Scrappy Doo The chance of a car bomb exploding and blowing my legs off as I walked past a random parked car Cap guns
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oh well. Still looking forward to Tiafoe v Shelton, though. #USOpen
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I doubt anyone is surprised by which Irish TV pundit decided to try this on: www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...
irishtimes.com
Kenny Cunningham: ‘It would be a good thing to see the Israeli team come on to the pitch in Dublin’
‘It would be a good thing to see the Israeli anthem respected inside the Aviva, it would send a signal from the Irish people to the Israeli people who have suffered as well in this conflict’
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Tiafoe v Medvedev: what a match! Looks like a possible Tiafoe v Alcaraz semi-final on Friday: can't wait! #USOpen
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Literally the same government on the same day:
Collage of newspaper articles:
Government cannot 'fund everything together': Bus and rail fare hikes of up to 35% confirmed
Ryder Cup spectator transport ‘could cost €1m a day’
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Getting cans in before I look at this, maybe a whole slab.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Is the 1985 Wham! tour of China the last time George Michael has no facial hair?
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Taylor Parkes's review of ITV's World Cup coverage is always a highlight of every When Saturday Comes post-tournament edition: "Roy Keane, Gary Neville and Ian Wright, in slacks and short-sleeved leisure tops, like a child's painting of Sean Connery."
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I was about to say I hope we get another one this week, but you know what I mean.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A total legend holding up a Kerry jersey
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Two nights at the 3 Arena would even have been a push!
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The Weeknd concert at Croke Park can be heard here on the southside. Must be some kind of echoing effect from a half-empty stadium.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I like to think at least one person's going to see and hear this for the very first time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq1C...
youtube.com
Body's In Trouble - Mary Margaret O'Hara (1988)
YouTube video by clotho98
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
He blames you and your swimming pool filled with free water in the back garden.
Some of that imbalance is undoubtedly due to leaks, but it is also due to wasteful consumption by careless consumers or those who are wealthy enough to have every bedroom en suite or a swimming pool filled with free water in the back garden.
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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Topical:
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