User Overview
Pádraig Belton 
Journalist. BBC, and a few other places. Buys nappies on eBay.
London, Dublin, and Oxford
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Analysed 11,253 tweets, tweets from the last 262 weeks.
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| Tweet | 4,547 | 40.4% |
| Reply | 3,874 | 34.4% |
| Retweet | 2,011 | 17.9% |
| Quote | 1,137 | 10.1% |
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| Photo | 3,727 | 33.1% |
| URL | 1,928 | 17.1% |
| Video | 181 | 1.6% |
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| dublin | 399 | 3.5% |
| ireland | 386 | 3.4% |
| carlotta | 319 | 2.8% |
| because | 260 | 2.3% |
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Tweets
No need to brag🥹
Here is a hotel in Ireland, in the Burren, putting the people with the greatest need first even during the summer tourist season. 🇮🇪🇺🇦💚
You should’ve seen how I ‘Slashed’ my time…
Because of the beauty that is Dublin in summer, I am doing shuttle runs and burpees immediately outside a Guns and Roses concert.
Because of the beauty that is Dublin in summer, I am doing shuttle runs and burpees immediately outside a Guns and Roses concert.
After a hugely successful #StJohnsDay2022, we’re looking forward to our next @stjohngateway event: “Royal Weddings and a Funeral” 🤴🏻👸🏻. Come and hear the Dean talk about his time as Dean of @wabbey, followed by🍷. Tickets available here 🎟 🎟:
stjohngateway.org.uk/events-1/a-tal… pic.twitter.com/MdSLqHUYUx
stjohngateway.org.uk/events-1/a-tal… pic.twitter.com/MdSLqHUYUx
After a hugely successful #StJohnsDay2022, we’re looking forward to our next @stjohngateway event: “Royal Weddings and a Funeral” 🤴🏻👸🏻. Come and hear the Dean talk about his time as Dean of @wabbey, followed by🍷. Tickets available here 🎟 🎟:
stjohngateway.org.uk/events-1/a-tal…
stjohngateway.org.uk/events-1/a-tal…
Yesterday, I felt like a total badass for submitting lengthy forensic reports before the deadline. This morning, I spent 30 minutes trying to find my keys before discovering them next to the veggies in the fridge. Sadly, not the first time I've done this!😁😂 pic.twitter.com/TunCkZk1Wn
If it's K. D. Lang's "Constant Craving", then they used to live downstairs from me and that was what they'd play on repeat to help offset the sounds of their lovemaking. It didn't work. Please tell them that I still haven't forgiven them.
My upstairs neighbours are very lovely. Also, they only possess one track of music. Can I go upstairs and offer them ... MP3s?
Who’s the cutie pie?
My mother actually was late to her own funeral. Bit of a story behind that one...
I still treasure this picture from May 2018, after my daughter helped me cast a vote for women’s bodily autonomy in Ireland.
(After birthday cake, I wrote about it that eve in Prospect: prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/this-…)
(After birthday cake, I wrote about it that eve in Prospect: prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/this-…)
At midnight in the rain, I set up cones to do a sprint workout atop Killiney Hill. I slipped on my bottom six times and never felt so alive all week. pic.twitter.com/x4cH9Id8M5
Birth of a classicist: Carlotta opening a present from her hugely lovely professorial godfather @G_BoysStones.
At midnight in the rain, I set up cones to do a sprint workout atop Killiney Hill. I slipped on my bottom six times and never felt so alive all week.
My good friend in Dublin and London, Stephen Desmond came down to give me a penne for my thoughts.
I was interviewing Alona Shevchenko @cryptodrftng (and her magnificent dog Sasha), who is doing hugely interesting things to help Ukraine through tech, when she asked if she could turn the tables, and interview me. This was the result.
youtu.be/Rua5mPROkuQ
youtu.be/Rua5mPROkuQ
You’re lucky to have such fine kids, and they’re lucky to have such a fine Da!It was a real pleasure to meet, work and eat with you on Monday.
Dublin. For breakfast in bed, we are having chocolates I brought home in the middle of the night from London.
London mid #tubestrike feels faintly broken. You can’t even get network to figure out your bus or walking route, because everyone else is doing the same. I can’t even send this tweet.
Off at 5 am to run to my psychopath personal trainer in Clapham. Must find a closer psychopath next #tubestrike.
It was by video chat from Dublin to London, but … I got this amazing card from the little girl who made me a father! #FathersDay
It was such a pleasure to attend (and not chair) this! With Major General Celia Harvey coming to speak, @WestminsterSSG handed over the gavel to its women members to run the evening. Not for the last time.
Fantastic after dinner from @SikhChampion Maj Gen Celia Harvey OBE at the @WestminsterSSG #SavileClub @PadraigBelton pic.twitter.com/9r0bxIxAbA
Lego funded a professor of play at Cambridge in 2019, currently held by child mental health specialist Paul Ramchandani.
High quality play boosts later mental health. Great research from @VickyYiranZhao out today: theguardian.com/society/2022/j… - congratulations!
Bloomsday in Blackrock 🥂🤣 @PadraigBelton pic.twitter.com/ofOIYkO3HT
My wife, writing from Dublin: ‘Sandycove was buzzing yesterday - lots of men dressed like you; a red Routemaster to Piccadilly & Green park was out and about’ #Bloomsday2022
Happy #Bloomsday, to all you lovely Stephens, Blooms, and Mollys. ❤️
Tiny podcast I did on reading Ulysses in lockdown. And James Joyce keeping me sane(ish).
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fat… pic.twitter.com/YxPG1TjVH0
Tiny podcast I did on reading Ulysses in lockdown. And James Joyce keeping me sane(ish).
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fat… pic.twitter.com/YxPG1TjVH0
Happy #Bloomsday, to all you lovely Stephens, Blooms, and Mollys. ❤️
Tiny podcast I did on reading Ulysses in lockdown. And James Joyce keeping me sane(ish).
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fat…
Tiny podcast I did on reading Ulysses in lockdown. And James Joyce keeping me sane(ish).
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fat…
Finally after Covid meeting these two NYC lovebirds’ little kiddos. This is the best best manning.
Had to swerve twitter for a while owing to tweet exploding for reasons I can’t quite make out. It’s always the ones you barely paid attention to posting. pic.twitter.com/WcifLIA96w
Always time for getting a little naches from the children
A little girl who not long ago was graduating from a nursery in Dulwich, is doing so again from the pre-prep division of her school in Dublin.
Excuse me while I go bawl for a bit. pic.twitter.com/6YOPt79ir8
Excuse me while I go bawl for a bit. pic.twitter.com/6YOPt79ir8
A little girl who not long ago was graduating from a nursery in Dulwich, is doing so again from the pre-prep division of her school in Dublin.
Excuse me while I go bawl for a bit.
Excuse me while I go bawl for a bit.
Carlotta and I were practising advanced time telling with my watch, setting it to different times and basically … now here we are at the school gates three hours early.
St Johns station does not have a dot after the ‘St’ and is located in Lewisham, the opposite side of town to its woody counterpart. Will you be dealing with this when you’re king?
You could swap North and South Parade in Oxford while you’re at it!
Was behind you in the queue for the passport machines…. Which stopped working.. All the cases in the arrivals hall…
Dublin airport arrivals at midnight looks like Mogadishu except Mogadishu was surprisingly well organised and orderly
Even though I lived there for a year I'm still never sure about St(.) Jame(')s(')(s?) Park.
Too right. And it gets worse (or, at least, more inconsistent). Earl’s Court tube station has an apostrophe. And 90% of the time keeps that apostrophe on signage. But if you take a walk to Earls Court Road, there isn’t an apostrophe in sight on the signage.
North Harrow, West Harrow. East Finchley and the other Finchleys. Little Walsingham is bigger than Great Walsingham
Earl’s Court has an apostrophe; Barons Court to doesn’t. (Shepherd’s Bush has, Parsons Green lacks.) There is a dot in St. John’s Wood - US, not UK usage. Northfields is 13 km away from its twin Southfields. This is a short list of things that will change when I am in charge.
I was in County Kerry where I ate the best chowder ever in all of recorded history. Made by a Polish chef. Ireland is paradise. Except for the weather.
