Nach bronntanas iontach é! #speirgorm ❤️🎄 Here's to the in-between days, the absolute best days x

Have yourselves a fascist little Christmas ...

@steviebear.bsky.social Thank you so much for the gorgeous Christmas card , have just looked at it on Phil's phone! Have a wonderful restful Christmas and happy and healthy New Year x 🎄 @a-guy-on-here-too.bsky.social

I absolutely love #WinterSolstice a reminder to resist the forced chaos and shopping and seasonal mayhem. It will be a slow and cosy day today for me. 🎄🔥

Good morning 🌄 #WinterSolstice

Ewww, first page I opened of the Christmas RTE Guide and it's this yoke looking back at me. 🤮 #speirgorm

Best Christmas song ever! Just saying! Also the cheekiest song title ever! #zigandzag #christmasno1

200 pages in and there has already been enough drama to last a lifetime. I'm coming out with genuine gasps of astonishment on a regular basis, I absolutely love it! Tbc...😲✨ #Booksky #Booksky📚💙

Imagine being Irish and being anti immigration??? Make it make sense! How’s your uncle getting on there in Sydney? How’s your nephew doing in Dubai? I heard the American cousins were over for a visit last month?

These two stories are 24 hours apart and not connected in any way: New data centres will consume as much energy as the rest of the country combined 🤝🏼 Household users will pay more to contribute to investments in the electricity grid

I'm going in! #Booksky #Booksky📚💙

I'm really really really looking forward to getting back out on the water again. 🌊

It ys a such challenging, turbulent, scarye tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum small moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.

This just arrived in the post, i'd completely forgotten I ordered it. I was listening to the Last Exit to Brooklyn ep of @backlisted.bsky.social in the middle of a night of insomnia and was immediately sold on this book so just bought it there and then. Happy Christmas to me! 🎄📚 #Booksky #Booksky📚💙

Perfect timing as this arrived today, looking forward to a lovely Christmas read. 📚🎄 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social Super service from Bookshop of the year! 💚 #Booksky #Booksky📚💙

Talk about relatable! I'm in a semi lockdown sort of situation at the moment and this book , written about the early COVID times is really speaking to me! I didn't know that's what it was about, I guess I just opened it at exactly the right time for me x #Booksky📚💙

What an emotional 24 hours this has been, it has unlocked another level of this experience but an incredibly positive one and a sort of a 'levelling up' of coping. I have a phenomenal group of people around me and that truly gets me through. Go raibh míle maith again go léir❤️

Just realized I should have put a more obvious trigger warning, I talk about my recent breast cancer diagnosis in this conversation so skip that bit if you prefer. Otherwise it's a fun lighthearted chat. ❤️🙏🏻

I had the honour of being asked to the Say No to the Stress podcast , hosted by Mags ,owner of Mizzrio ,where I got my stunning wedding dress. We had a wonderful chat and I got to talk about a pretty big spanner in the works. Here' s link if you fancy it! 🌻❤️ open.spotify.com/episode/2HnR...

Completely wired and can't sleep so I'm going to start a new book and see which way that sends me! 🤷🏻‍♀️ #Booksky📚💙 #Booksky

29 years since diabetes diagnosis, still hanging on in there! 🩵 Might even have some cake to mark the occasion. 🌻 #typeonediabetes

Today's #QOTD comes from #SenseAndSensibility by #JaneAusten! "If a book is well written, I always find it too short."

From Charles Dickens to Maggie O'Farrell in one night, what a weekend this is shaping up to be! #Booksky📚💙

FIFA giving its "peace prize" to a man bombing fishermen to cover up for his presence in the Epstein files. This has to be the beginning of the end for Infantino.

I want everyone to know that if we don't stop the rich from destroying this planet, a shimmering life filled treasure, your children will have nothing left. Nothing is more important. And yes, they will consume it all until it is gone. I don't care how nice they seem.

Ireland will not participate in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast by RTÉ, after the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part

Amazing how books can fling us down memory lane, it's been 25 whole years since I did my BA in Galway and had the pleasure of getting my books at #CharlieByrnes Still have the original bookmark and everything! 📚😅 #Booksky💙📚 #Booksky

What an incredible read but it's those footnotes that will keep me awake at night. 😕 #Booksky #Booksky💙📚

First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

Keep your town in business by keeping your business in town #Christmasshopping #speirgorm

Táim ag tnúth leis seo. Hurray Nollaí !🦌🎄

November was a good reading month, I finally feel like my attention span is returning! Space was my main theme but I also read my 1st Agatha Christie too and loved it (apart from the very last lines🥴). December will be more of a mixed bag I think... #Booksky #Booksky💙📚

I have no idea what to expect but I absolutely love when chapters have titles so I'm all in already! #Booksky #Booksky💙📚

Out for some air today and this little cutie kept us company! 🌳 #Robin

Now that was a wild science-fiction ride, i really didn't expect it to be so emotional and funny! Thoroughly enjoyed it. 🌠🚀☄️🌌 #Booksky #Booksky💙📚 #ProjectHailMary

Ready to march for Palestine? For International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people, let's make this the biggest demonstration yet! There is no ceasefire. Our government must sanction apartheid Israel to make it end its genocidal crimes in Gaza and the West Bank. All out! #FreePalestine

They call it Black Friday — a day for rushing, grabbing, and taking. We love the quiet — the table, the laughter, the pieces made by hand for years of memory, not minutes of chaos. Our pieces are shaped by hands, not hysteria. We choose warmth over waste. 🖤🇮🇪✨ #SLATED #speirgorm Slated.ie

Fantastic news for a fantastic shop, absolutely delighted for them! Brilliant selection, the shop itself is gorgeous, so browsable, and the customer service is excellent. Woohoo! 🎉 The comeback kids! @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social #Booksky #Booksky💙📚

The opening page of 'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens is always a treat.

I started this last night and I woke up thinking about it, can't wait to jump back in! #Booksky #Booksky💙📚 #ProjectHailMary

It's definitely the season for extended edition watching! #LOTR #FellowshipOfTheRing 🧝🏻‍♀️

Lemass wasn’t the absolute worst (as FF Taoisigh go) but he did introduce the 1935 Conditions of Employment Act which restricted women’s access to the workplace. His biographer says he was sexist & regarded women’s employment as ‘contrary to the Irish way of life’, so that’s a no from me. #speirgorm

I really really love stuff like this, it has just scratched some part of my brain in such a satisfying way. I feel I need to watch The Big Snooze now! 👏🏻🐰

It's great to always have somewhere to go. #Booksky #Booksky💙📚

Public health warning! ⚠️ Have a look at your hot water bottles and make sure they are not getting too worn. Mine split on me this evening and I now have a scaldy big burny blister on my leg. Not fun but could have been a lot worse. 🫣😬

Not quite a winter read but who am I to control what decides to leap off the shelf at me at any given time, it's been waiting long enough! 🌞💚🍷#Booksky #Booksky💙📚 #AgathaChristie

One of many sentences I'm thoroughly enjoying... 'Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?' #HitchhikersGuidetotheGalaxy #Booksky💙📚 #Booksky

Saturday afternoon, North Co. Dublin. Not what a lot of people expect to see when I say I live in Dublin, we are very grateful to live in this corner of the world 🙏🏼. The Brummie husband can't believe his luck having the coast so close! 💚 @a-guy-on-here-too.bsky.social

Christmas pressie ideas!! A wide range of #zigandzag tees and mugs at www.hairybaby.com/zig-and-zag