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Chris McCann

@canntoya.bsky.social
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County Derry man, used to write for newspapers in Ireland. Worked in Central Govt for a few years at Dept for Business and Cabinet Office now Chief Exec at Healthwatch England. Based in Belfast

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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 8h
TNT’s fawning coverage of El Cheatico is nauseating.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Oh no! I do hope no one has stolen their intellectual property to use it without their permission.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Baths of Glory
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Put Witherspoon on Evans please
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The whole thing is farcical. Then we have to listen to Mark Chapman say we ‘have to separate the performance’ from the cheating. When the performance is the specific output that the cheating was designed to deliver.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And Mark Chapman you absolutely do not have ‘to separate the performance’ from the industrial scale cheating. The performance is an outworking of the cheating.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What a farce.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The sooner they are dispatched out of the league the better because this just feels meaningless
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The sooner these cheating shits are banished to League 2 the better.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You’ve left out rapacious imperialism.
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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This all (Drumcree) boils down to not doing your very important job, properly because you’re detached from the consequences.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What a wholly unnecessary episode this has all been.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Some nuclear scale bullshit takes in this.
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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Me for The Irish News on the Garvaghy Road standoff www.irishnews.com/opinion/sara...
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Sarah Creighton: Drumcree is a f*** you to nationalism. Is this really what victory looks like for unionism?
If the Drumcree parade is forced down the Garvaghy Road, our peace process will lie in tatters on the tarmac
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And some of those players were stolen directly by City; Nasri, Adebayor, Clichy, Touré.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Almost as impressive as this alignment on my timeline
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It remains insane to me that we're watching the PSNI and Parades Commission entertain the prospect of sending riot police in because they refuse to admit they fucked up
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There is no cloud just reams and reams of sliver lining
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Premier Sports 1 in Ireland has today’s game.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ha, ha, ha, Pauric must be a Jedi to have got through that round table without a single vote. #TraitorsIRL
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Pear Jam
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Afraid I profoundly disagree with this paper, the theory of performance management when turned into reality becomes one of the most divisive morale-ruining events in the calendar, an opportunity to let bullying run amok particularly with the fallacies of distribution curves.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Roberto De Zerbi the most stressed out anyone’s been about managing a Kinsky since Werner Herzog directed Fitzcarraldo
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Roberto De Zerbi the most stressed out anyone’s been about managing a Kinsky since Werner Herzog #Spurs
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I think a lot depends on what your day to day environment is - we lived in London for ten years my accent barely changed apart from a little slowing of the cadence. My wife is a Primary School teacher and her accent softened a lot as the kids just couldn’t understand the glory of a full Derry accent
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
👌
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You couldn’t not love Julian Alaphilippe.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
From this distance the club’s treatment of Martinelli feels pretty shitty.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Gwan the Dublin man
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Gwan the Newry woman
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Gwan the Dublin woman
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Gwan the Donegal man
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Some of the worst travel infrastructure in England as well.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Finns gave them all they could handle in 1939 as well
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Friends worry that at the age of 53 he might have gotten another tattoo
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The Wran, like getting to see Horslips before they made a record #Fleadh
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
What a player. RIP Franco Baresi
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Farm Labourers, Domestic Service and a Train Driver, I think I’m opting for the latter.
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 26/07/2026
“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I can only imagine how Mayo people feel right now. It would take a heart of stone not be delighted for them #GAA
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Went to Glastonbury in 2014 and he wiped the floor with every other act I saw that weekend.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Went to Wild Ireland to see the Wolves today. They were amazing, I could have sat and watched the for hours. Started to read about the history of wolves in Ireland. Turns out Cromwell’s regime was largely responsible for wiping them out. That figures.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
You an online tout now
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Man I’m glad Argentina lost that game.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Definitely An Grianán www.discoverireland.ie/donegal/gria...
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Visit Grianán of Aileach with Discover Ireland
Plan your visit to Grianán of Aileach. Don’t miss all the great things to see and do in Co. Donegal on your short break.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Apparently the VAR check was for mistaken identity.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Raya saves that
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
‘What a terrible penalty you are useless’ says I from a hotel sofa supping the dregs of my eighth Strawberry daiquiri while three stone overweight.
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Chris McCann @canntoya.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
For the fully devout, tonight represents the waning, this is the last night where we get two games. It’s the controlled decline from here on in.
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 07/07/2026
If you read one thing today, this week, this year, read this. ht @samueljohnson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/has-americ...
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Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?
Civilizations can carry a surprising number of parasites and live. But there’s a line — Rome crossed it, the Gilded Age toed it, and for the first time in history, we can measure it.
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