RobRuaRyan

Small businesses!
Cut through the #BlackFriday & #BlackWeek noise.
Reply to this post & I'll amplify what you're doing to the VERY fine people who follow me.
Gonna start by recommending artists @ciaraioch.bsky.social & @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social & bookshop @kennysbookshop.bsky.social
#SpeirGorm

Support The Rick O'Shea Book Club Xmas Appeal on iDonate.ie The Rick O'Shea Book Club Xmas Appeal 2025 for DSPCA, My Lovely Horse Rescue and Children's Books Ireland, created by Rick O'Shea | iDonate.ie

... at Christmas, children experiencing homelessness, living in Direct Provision, children in hospital, domestic abuse shelters and many other routes.

I hope you can find a way to make whatever donation you can between now and Christmas Eve. Shares are great too!

Thank you x

www.idonate.ie/rick

This year we have two charities we have supported before:

The NSPCA (the new name for the combined DSPCA and ISPCA), and My Lovely Horse Rescue.

Our new charity this year is the wonderful @childrensbooksireland.ie - among so much other work, they gift thousands of new books to children in need...

*** MY XMAS APPEAL 2025 ***

Every year at Christmas I run an appeal asking you to donate the price of a book (or whatever you can!) to some incredibly worthy charities who need funds at this time of year. So far, in 8 years I've raised over €250,000...

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(link at bottom)

We are delighted to be one of the charities supported by this years Rick O'Shea Book Club Xmas Appeal. A donation to this campaign goes not only to us, but also towards brilliant organisations such as My Lovely Horse Rescue, and the NSPCA.

Donate below ⬇️
www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/r...

📚 Children's Books Ireland have released a new Loss & Grief Reading List. We loved connecting with Ruth, Emma and the team ahead of BCAW.

👉 List: childrensbooksireland.ie/our-recommendations/loss-and-grief

#BCAW #ChildrenGrieveToo #ChildrensBooks

There goes the only government minister known to read serious works of literature

(Disclaimer this is not a political post, well not that sort of political post, no need to take this as an opportunity to tell me how much you hate the minister thanks very much)

Calvin & Hobbes walking along a tree trunk laid across a river as a bridge.

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

Dear every Author,
Do it.
Thanks & Regards

😆🤣
So fucking apt

We believe that every child, no matter their circumstance, deserves to access to the transformative power of reading.

This Christmas, you can help us to change children’s lives, one book at a time by supporting our Gift A Book Appeal🎁.

To learn more and donate ➡️ childrensbooksireland.ie/giftabook

#Jaguars win 35-6 vs. Chargers. First time Liam Coen’s team has not allowed a touchdown. Also the most points his team has scored. Complete game. No punts.

Can we not just be either very bad, or very good? This see sawing makes for very stressful Sunday nights

a man is standing in front of a window and says just when i thought i was out they pull me back in ALT: a man is standing in front of a window and says just when i thought i was out they pull me back in

Caught up on The Jags game.

#DUUUVAL #TealSky

Life moves pretty fast

We had an opertunity to place a Berlin style license agreement on short term lets, you can’t put a property on the site or similar, without the number being approved by local council. Placing the onus on the landlord and Airbnb to self police. Under intense lobbying from Airbnb this idea was dropped

The phrase "left his wife for a youngone" in the style of Zohran Mamdani's election poster

37 years ago
Fugazi, also known as the EP 7 Songs, is the debut eponymous release by the American post-hardcore band Fugazi, released in November 1988 on vinyl.

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #fugazi #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Back in my day, a touchdown wins the game in overtime

We're really good at roasting coffee but our business is meant to be about more than that. In 2025 we'll give up 4% of all our revenue. 1% to staff on top of salary/bonus. 3% to good causes.

Our model shows what's accepted as necessary for globocorps to survive is nonsense
imbibe.ie/pages/shop

Better than eggs I suppose. Wonder do the seagulls like fruit 🍊

They literally ruin everything they touch

To all the healthcare workers, the fire brigades, bar and hospitality staff, taxi and bus drivers, chipper, deliveroo and take away staff, may the gods be on your side for the next few days. Take care of yourselves.
#Samhain #Halloween #Ireland #Speirgorm

100% worth it! Warning songs be damned

Fuck me!! The political journos are today bending over backwards in their post election analysis to convince us there's a massive conservative/right voice being silenced.

They didn't get 1 TD elected in the GE...
They got 5/949 local seats - 0.5% of seats available.

STFUP!!
#Aras25 #speirgorm

What we’ve seen across marriage equality, repeal, and this election is there’s about 60% of those who vote who want a progressive, inclusive Ireland. We need to focus on this 60% an not give oxygen to the 6% who have been slowly been sinking toward brain washing since Covid

When will the first exit poll be out? Apple or rhubarb, the public must know.

If you eat liver before you drink, the alcohol won’t know which one to go for and you have a 50/50 chance #science