Dermot Looney
@dlooney
🔴⚪️ St Patrick’s Athletic Fan and Historian 📕📖 Author, ‘Saints Rising: The Early History of St Patrick’s Athletic FC’ 👨🏫🍎 HSCL Teacher 💜⬅️ Socialist - former SDCC Cllr and Mayor
It seems @darach.bsky.social wasn’t impressed either, according to my timeline.
Irish football fan? Read about the 7 men capped for the Republic of Ireland’s senior team when at St Patrick’s Athletic - lots of yarns and stories here from Archbishop McQuaid to Eamonn Dunphy and beyond. 🔴⚪️🇮🇪
Big Pro Evolution Soccer vibes off Viber. The World Championship! Get ready for some soccer! Who are you up for? Teutonia? The Anglian Whites? The Maple Leafs?
Post a poster you used to have in your room, apartment, or house. (Flawed film, great poster)
RTE are gas all the same. At no stage tonight did Sligo go down to ten men. Not through a sending off nor an injury. The match report is by an experienced journo and makes no reference to it. An AI hallucination? Still up 90 mins later! www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
Saw this book online and, yes, it is by the same fella who presented Going For Gold. “You’re playing catchup.”
Loving the cover of the new InTouch @intonews.bsky.social magazine! Nice tribute to the foclóir cáiliúil!
Happy World Book day to all! I wrote a book a couple of years ago and it’s gone down a treat among history lovers and sports fans. You can order it online at historystpats.myshopify.com (DM me and I’ll get you some money off).
I wrote a book. It may surprise you that it’s popular with general sports fans and history buffs as well as Pat’s supporters! A working-class rocket built in the Inchicore railway works that took Irish football by storm. Usual price €25 but get it for €18.50 at historystpats.myshopify.com 🔴⚪️
History St Pat’s started as a Twitter project in 2018. We got huge engagement, learned loads & spread the word before the site’s demise. We exited Twitter today (not before time) but a lot of the work has gone to waste. I’ve registered @historystpats.bsky.social but most of the work is now on Insta
To start 2026, we are offering 26% off art prints and books. Use the code SAINTS26 at the checkout for the discount on our Home Kit art prints, All-Time Saints XI lineup prints, and copies of Saints Rising. Offer expires Jan 13th. 🔴⚪️ historystpats.myshopify.com
Last minute gifts for a Pat’s fan or yourself? Go to historystpats.myshopify.com and order for delivery (Dublin and surrounds) or collection. Snap up a piece of Pat’s history in time for Xmas.
Now’s the time to get your Christmas orders in. Our lovingly-made A2 art prints showing every Pat’s home kit ever are available for collection or delivery. So are our new ‘All-Time Saints XI’ A3 prints featuring club legends and copies of ‘Saints Rising.’ historystpats.myshopify.com
Home kit A2 art prints, copies of Saints Rising and our new All-Time Saints XI A3 prints are all available now at historystpats.myshopify.com Collection and delivery options available. Great Xmas presents for the Pat’s fans in your life - or yourself! 🔴⚪️
Brand new! Our All-Time Saints XI was chosen by more than 4000 votes of Pat’s fans. Now you can get yourself a lineup print featuring one of four Saints legends. The A3 size card prints are available for just €12 each or €30 for the full set. 🔴⚪️ historystpats.myshopify.com
Happy birthday Paul McGrath - voted for by the fans in our All-Time Saints XI. One of our greatest ever. 🔴⚪️🇮🇪
The people of #SpéirGorm have been very supportive of our new History St Pat’s art prints and our not-so-new Saints Rising book. Please keep on supporting us! 🔴⚪️ historystpats.myshopify.com