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The Irish Sun
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
‘We tried rubbing it off' – Tipp comedian Pat Shortt bumps into fan with ‘Cork Champions 2025' tattoo
TIPPERARY comedian Pat Shortt bumped into Michael John Murphy, possessor of the most infamous tattoo in the country at the moment. Pat and Michael John stumbled across each other by O'Connell's bridge in Dublin's city centre following 2 The 'Jumbo Breakfast Roll' singer alongside the Cork season ticket holder in Dublin Credit: @PAT_SHORTT 2 The Cork fan's infamous tattoo which has split opinions across the country Credit: Skint tattoo studio The 37-year-old He got it as a part of a free flash deal in a tattoo studio in Cork who offered the tattoo to anyone who dared in the run up to the Tipperary clash. Shortt took a selfie with the now hilarious tattoo and shared it to social media. The Killinaskully star said: "We tried rubbing it off last night. Read more on GAA "Condolences to all Cork Fans especially this one. But fair play to him, he was great craic." The Skint Tattoo Studio - the studio in which the tattoo was created - just outside Cork city had said at the time of completing the tattoo: "Confidence is key. "The 2025 is an easy fix to 2026 for next year anyway in case anything goes pear shaped Sunday, but I doubt it." Unfortunately for Michael John and the county Cork, things did go fairly pair shaped for the Rebels in the second half. Most read in GAA Hurling Cork lost their second consecutive All-Ireland final after losing their six point half-time lead to lose by 15 points to the Premier county. The tattoo studio has since reacted to the result saying: "The better team won, Tipperary's win was well deserved. RTE GAA pundit embrace Tipperary captain Ronan Maher after his epic display toppled Cork in All-Ireland final "Two points in the second half for Cork, I've never seen the likes of it. The better team on the day won, tipperary will be hard to stop in the future years, great young team. "I'll be doing a GAA themed flash tattoo fundraiser before September for the Dillon Quirke Foundation. "All money raised will be going to the foundation. I'm looking for people to come on board. Congratulations Tipperary, see ye again soon."
Irish Daily Mirror
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Mirror
Tipperary fan Pat Shortt meets Cork supporter who got All-Ireland champs tattoo
Pat Shortt couldn't resist getting a selfie with the Cork fan who was so confident his county would win the All-Ireland that he got a tattoo crowning them champions before Sunday's final. Tipperary produced a stunning second half display at Croke Park to run out winners by 3-27 to 1-18 to bring the Liam MacCarthy Cup to the Premier County for the first time since 2019. Prior to the decider, Cork fan Michael John Murphy, uber confident that his beloved county would win, got a tattoo that read: "Cork All-Ireland Senior Hurling Champions 2025." 'We're 20 years without an All-Ireland title so I was always going to get something to commemorate the win this year,' he told The Irish Examiner ahead of Sunday's game. 'I already have four or five other tattoos, including one of a hurler on my left shoulder, with a flash of red going through the helmet, for Cork, along with the names of my son, daughter and grandson, so it's only natural I'd get this one.' Comedian and Tipperary native Pat Shortt bumped into Michael over the weekend and got a selfie with him, writing online: "We tried rubbing it off last night. Condolences to all Cork Fans especially this one. But fair play to him he was great craic." The Rebels' wait for All-Ireland glory will now at least stretch to 21 years, with a scheduled homecoming for the players at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Monday evening cancelled following their defeat.
Extra.ie
21-07-2025
- Sport
- Extra.ie
Cork fan's premature ink now a painful reminder
A Cork man 'took the chance' last week in getting an ink forecasting Cork to win the All Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, but will have to change a digit or two following their 15 point loss to Tipperary. The Rebel county were red hot favourites entering Croke Park on Sunday, and with a six-point lead at half-time it looked all but a certainty they would lift the Liam McCarthy cup for the first time in 20 years. Tipperary dominated the second half of the match, with the final score a resounding 3-27 to Tipp versus Cork's 1-18 — a winning margin of 15 points. Comedian Pat Shortt with Cork fan Michael John Murphy. Pic: Pat Shortt/X Among the uber confident Cork supporters was Michael John who even got an ink to commemorate a week before the final. The tattoo, which is placed on the GAA fans arm, reads: 'Cork All Ireland Senior Hurling Champions 2025.' Skint Tattoo Studio took to Facebook to share pictures of the ink, which was done by business owner Darragh Murphy. 'Confidence is key, the 2025 is an easy fix to 2026 for next year anyway incase anything goes pear shaped Sunday,' the tattoo studio wrote alongside the post, 'But I doubt it.' Unfortunately, things did in fact go pear-shaped for the Rebel County, and the Liam McCarthy is heading to Tipperary this year. The tattoo studio, based in Passage West, followed up on Sunday evening noting that the 'better team won' and predicting that 'Tipperary will be hard to stop in the future years.' They added that they will be doing a GAA themed flash tattoo fundraiser before September with all proceeds raised going to the Dillon Quirke Foundation. The foundation was set up in memory of an up and coming Tipperary hurler, Dillon Quirke, who passed away after collapsing during a game in Semple Stadium in 2022. Dillon died of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS), which takes the lives of 100 young people in Ireland annually. The foundation, set up by Dillon's parents and sisters, to raise awareness and save lives by screening every GAA player both male and female from the age of 12 years old.
Extra.ie
19-07-2025
- Sport
- Extra.ie
Pat Shortt only recently found out about dad's major achievement
Pat Shortt has revealed that his dad won an All-Ireland medal with Tipperary, with his son only finding out a few years before he died. Parents like to keep secrets for whatever reason; perhaps because they don't want to worry their kids, or perhaps because they need to wait until they're older to tell more sordid tales from their youth. But sometimes, if you won something as big as an All-Ireland, you'd want to scream it from the rooftops — unless if you're Pat Shortt's dad Christy, where end up keeping it under wraps for decades, with your sons only finding out that you won an All-Ireland minor hurling medal in the 1940s after a fella in the pub reveals his granddad played with your dad. Pat Shortt has revealed that his dad won an All-Ireland medal with Tipperary, with his son only finding out a few years before he died. Pic: RTÉ 'We only found out a few years before he died,' Pat told Off the Ball ahead of this Sunday's final between his beloved Tipp and Cork. 'He died last year and we found out about two years before he died! 'One of my brothers was on holiday in Wexford, and he met a fella at a bar, and he says 'where are you from yourself?' He said Thurles [and that his name was] Shortt,' with the lad in the pub saying ''oh yes, my grandfather's from Thurles, and he won an All Ireland with your father.'' Pat was relayed the information by his brother, with one of his other brothers — whom he referred to as 'the son who's usually closest with the dad' to ask if the story was true; and their father Christy confirmed that he had in fact won a medal in the 1947 minor championship, albeit in typical Irish dad fashion. @otbgaa 🗣️ 'He died last year, and we only found out about two years before he died!' 🗣️ 'I rang him… did you win an All Ireland medal?' 🗣️ 'I did, yeah! What about it?' 😂 Tipperary icon Pat Shortt never knew his father was an All Ireland winner! | 🤯 ♬ original sound – OTB GAA '[My brother] rang and said 'daddy, did you win an All-Ireland?' He said 'I did yeah. What about it?'' Pat laughed. 'That's the way they are in Tipperary ya see. Everyone wins so many.' Pat revealed that his father had played every game in the minor championship as a left forward before having what he described as 'a crap day' in the semi final when he was moved to the centre midfield, and despite him winning the medal Pat reckons he felt he didn't deserve it as he didn't play in the final. 'So he never told anyone he had it. And before he died we brought it back to him. That's what killed him, he died of a broken heart,' he joked. Pat's father Christy passed away in 2023, aged 92. Pic: As for why he never went senior, Pat learned of his dad's hurling ability during a charity gig that he hosted when the All-Ireland senior winning captain Pat Stankelum, who played with Christy two years prior in the minors. 'He came up to me and said 'yeah I played with your dad, and he should've been on the 49 senior team but he had a cruciate ligament operation' — back in those days that was it, your career was over — and that's what finished him off.' 'But [Pat said] 'he was a great hurler.' It was 47 he won the All-Ireland with the minor team and your man who played with the minor team and went on to captain the senior team in 49.' Pat's father Christy passed away in 2023 at the age of 92, with his daughter Faye, who's also a comedian, paying tribute to her granddad on social media. Sharing a photo of her as a child alongside her granddad, she simply wrote 'You can rest in peace now Grandad, we will always love you.'
Irish Independent
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Meet the Limerick farmer ‘who loves the craic' making millions laugh online
Fin Walsh explains how he gets millions of views for his TikTok videos, how he deals with online abuse – including death threats – and why he anticipates 'a massive change' in Irish farming over the next decade Today at 00:30 He's been compared to the likes of Pat Shortt and Jon Kenny, but Fin Walsh describes himself as 'an Irish farmer who loves the craic'. The dairy farmer (25) from near Patrickswell, Co Limerick, says he 'wouldn't put myself in the same category as them – they're legends in comedy,' but adds he was raised listening to them.
