#outout # diamanté themed gals night for Christmas … and I’m wearing the dress …. Normally I bottle it and go for black but what the heck… it’s that time of year for sparkles and there’s nothing better than a girls night out to celebrate another year of great friendship, laughter and fun #champrschristmasnight @lottieb72 @rachel.supple @val.quinn @michael_spillane1 @rachel.supple @carmel_breheny @emmacoppola67 @jeananntm #quorum 😂🙌 ✨
My boy is a quarter of a century today 😅 how did that happen! Happiest of birthdays @dara_casey … looking forward to all those exciting adventures in the chapters ahead #theworldsyouroyster #happy25thbirthday 💚
Happy New Year all … me and @dara_casey have decided it’s the Year of Fun… hope all good things happen for the year ahead. Blessed to be starting another go around the sun 🥳🤩🙌 #heresto2024🥂🎉 celebrating @rusticstone_ with #dublinfireworks
Of course as we go through life Christmas also reminds us of absences, the family and loved ones we miss, those who have gone and those who can’t be with us. Like many people I have certainly been through difficult Christmases and it takes time to rediscover the wonderfulness.
And I’m always late putting up the tree… but I get there eventually 😅
When I was growing up the tree didn’t go up until Christmas week.
It was all about the excitement and anticipation. And thankfully the pre-Christmas flutters were mercifully short, starting when the school bell signalled the start of the holidays and we raced home to help put up the tree, just days before the big day. My dad brought down the biscuit tin filled with tinsel and home made decorations by the Casey kids. It also held a very important list… and it wasn’t Santy’s! My dad #harrycasey wrote down the price of the pint every Christmas and he ceremoniously filled in the cost bemoaning the tragedy of Guinness inflation while we fought over who would place the star on the top of the tree. Mostly our home was filled with holly and fir from the Phoenix Park and we had our own reindeer waiting patiently on those frosty days for Santy to collect them on Christmas Eve. What could be more magical.
I like reusing those lovely treasured pieces from over the years that remind me of Dara’s first Christmas, the trip to London when myself and a great friend bought some (far too high-priced) baubles in Harrods, the now very chipped, but rich with memories, crib and bits and bobs that we collected on holidays. I take them all up from the basement and mix them up a bit so every year the house looks different. Last year I splashed out on some green tree decorations to mix in with the mainly white and gold that I have collected for decades. It is always beautiful to me and yours will be the same, however you choose to transform your home for the festive season… Christmas Trees are #memorytrees🎄 💚
Of course as we go through life Christmas also reminds us of absences, the family and loved ones we miss, those who have gone and those who can’t be with us. Like many people I have certainly been through difficult Christmases and it takes time to rediscover the wonderfulness.
And I’m always late putting up the tree… but I get there eventually 😅
When I was growing up the tree didn’t go up until Christmas week.
It was all about the excitement and anticipation. And thankfully the pre-Christmas flutters were mercifully short, starting when the school bell signalled the start of the holidays and we raced home to help put up the tree, just days before the big day. My dad brought down the biscuit tin filled with tinsel and home made decorations by the Casey kids. It also held a very important list… and it wasn’t Santy’s! My dad #harrycasey wrote down the price of the pint every Christmas and he ceremoniously filled in the cost bemoaning the tragedy of Guinness inflation while we fought over who would place the star on the top of the tree. Mostly our home was filled with holly and fir from the Phoenix Park and we had our own reindeer waiting patiently on those frosty days for Santy to collect them on Christmas Eve. What could be more magical.
I like reusing those lovely treasured pieces from over the years that remind me of Dara’s first Christmas, the trip to London when myself and a great friend bought some (far too high-priced) baubles in Harrods, the now very chipped, but rich with memories, crib and bits and bobs that we collected on holidays. I take them all up from the basement and mix them up a bit so every year the house looks different. Last year I splashed out on some green tree decorations to mix in with the mainly white and gold that I have collected for decades. It is always beautiful to me and yours will be the same, however you choose to transform your home for the festive season… Christmas Trees are #memorytrees🎄 💚
Of course as we go through life Christmas also reminds us of absences, the family and loved ones we miss, those who have gone and those who can’t be with us. Like many people I have certainly been through difficult Christmases and it takes time to rediscover the wonderfulness.
And I’m always late putting up the tree… but I get there eventually 😅
When I was growing up the tree didn’t go up until Christmas week.
It was all about the excitement and anticipation. And thankfully the pre-Christmas flutters were mercifully short, starting when the school bell signalled the start of the holidays and we raced home to help put up the tree, just days before the big day. My dad brought down the biscuit tin filled with tinsel and home made decorations by the Casey kids. It also held a very important list… and it wasn’t Santy’s! My dad #harrycasey wrote down the price of the pint every Christmas and he ceremoniously filled in the cost bemoaning the tragedy of Guinness inflation while we fought over who would place the star on the top of the tree. Mostly our home was filled with holly and fir from the Phoenix Park and we had our own reindeer waiting patiently on those frosty days for Santy to collect them on Christmas Eve. What could be more magical.
I like reusing those lovely treasured pieces from over the years that remind me of Dara’s first Christmas, the trip to London when myself and a great friend bought some (far too high-priced) baubles in Harrods, the now very chipped, but rich with memories, crib and bits and bobs that we collected on holidays. I take them all up from the basement and mix them up a bit so every year the house looks different. Last year I splashed out on some green tree decorations to mix in with the mainly white and gold that I have collected for decades. It is always beautiful to me and yours will be the same, however you choose to transform your home for the festive season… Christmas Trees are #memorytrees🎄 💚
Of course as we go through life Christmas also reminds us of absences, the family and loved ones we miss, those who have gone and those who can’t be with us. Like many people I have certainly been through difficult Christmases and it takes time to rediscover the wonderfulness.
And I’m always late putting up the tree… but I get there eventually 😅
When I was growing up the tree didn’t go up until Christmas week.
It was all about the excitement and anticipation. And thankfully the pre-Christmas flutters were mercifully short, starting when the school bell signalled the start of the holidays and we raced home to help put up the tree, just days before the big day. My dad brought down the biscuit tin filled with tinsel and home made decorations by the Casey kids. It also held a very important list… and it wasn’t Santy’s! My dad #harrycasey wrote down the price of the pint every Christmas and he ceremoniously filled in the cost bemoaning the tragedy of Guinness inflation while we fought over who would place the star on the top of the tree. Mostly our home was filled with holly and fir from the Phoenix Park and we had our own reindeer waiting patiently on those frosty days for Santy to collect them on Christmas Eve. What could be more magical.
I like reusing those lovely treasured pieces from over the years that remind me of Dara’s first Christmas, the trip to London when myself and a great friend bought some (far too high-priced) baubles in Harrods, the now very chipped, but rich with memories, crib and bits and bobs that we collected on holidays. I take them all up from the basement and mix them up a bit so every year the house looks different. Last year I splashed out on some green tree decorations to mix in with the mainly white and gold that I have collected for decades. It is always beautiful to me and yours will be the same, however you choose to transform your home for the festive season… Christmas Trees are #memorytrees🎄 💚
Of course as we go through life Christmas also reminds us of absences, the family and loved ones we miss, those who have gone and those who can’t be with us. Like many people I have certainly been through difficult Christmases and it takes time to rediscover the wonderfulness.
And I’m always late putting up the tree… but I get there eventually 😅
When I was growing up the tree didn’t go up until Christmas week.
It was all about the excitement and anticipation. And thankfully the pre-Christmas flutters were mercifully short, starting when the school bell signalled the start of the holidays and we raced home to help put up the tree, just days before the big day. My dad brought down the biscuit tin filled with tinsel and home made decorations by the Casey kids. It also held a very important list… and it wasn’t Santy’s! My dad #harrycasey wrote down the price of the pint every Christmas and he ceremoniously filled in the cost bemoaning the tragedy of Guinness inflation while we fought over who would place the star on the top of the tree. Mostly our home was filled with holly and fir from the Phoenix Park and we had our own reindeer waiting patiently on those frosty days for Santy to collect them on Christmas Eve. What could be more magical.
I like reusing those lovely treasured pieces from over the years that remind me of Dara’s first Christmas, the trip to London when myself and a great friend bought some (far too high-priced) baubles in Harrods, the now very chipped, but rich with memories, crib and bits and bobs that we collected on holidays. I take them all up from the basement and mix them up a bit so every year the house looks different. Last year I splashed out on some green tree decorations to mix in with the mainly white and gold that I have collected for decades. It is always beautiful to me and yours will be the same, however you choose to transform your home for the festive season… Christmas Trees are #memorytrees🎄 💚
Well… maybe it’s the jet lag… but today was a very emotional day. Like so many people I have lost someone I loved a great deal to cancer. So the herculean work of @mariekeatingfoundation who support people who live with and beyond cancer is a charity close to my heart … and the hero of that charity has always been @lkeatingmkf – who as a daughter, dealing with loss, took on the challenge on behalf of her beautiful family to do something meaningful and lasting as part of her mum’s legacy – and so many people have joined her on that journey, and the foundation has gone from strength to strength but the lynchpin, the spark, the tornado that drove so many of us to help and support @mariekeatingfoundation is Linda – today is her last official event at the helm of the phenomenal fundraising programme – she’s not only an amazing person, kind, empathetic and passionate – she has represented the Keating family and honoured their incredible mother in ways few of us daughters will ever be able to do… these are the before pics…. Cause there was a lot less mascara in the after pics… she’s inspirational and too humble to take a bow… so we all stood for a long time to recognise all she has achieved over those years and I’m proud to know her and play a tiny infinitesimal part in helping her #lindakeating #mywomanoftheyeareveryyear ❤️
@garykeating21 @rokeating 🙌 The Shelbourne, Autograph Collection
Well… maybe it’s the jet lag… but today was a very emotional day. Like so many people I have lost someone I loved a great deal to cancer. So the herculean work of @mariekeatingfoundation who support people who live with and beyond cancer is a charity close to my heart … and the hero of that charity has always been @lkeatingmkf – who as a daughter, dealing with loss, took on the challenge on behalf of her beautiful family to do something meaningful and lasting as part of her mum’s legacy – and so many people have joined her on that journey, and the foundation has gone from strength to strength but the lynchpin, the spark, the tornado that drove so many of us to help and support @mariekeatingfoundation is Linda – today is her last official event at the helm of the phenomenal fundraising programme – she’s not only an amazing person, kind, empathetic and passionate – she has represented the Keating family and honoured their incredible mother in ways few of us daughters will ever be able to do… these are the before pics…. Cause there was a lot less mascara in the after pics… she’s inspirational and too humble to take a bow… so we all stood for a long time to recognise all she has achieved over those years and I’m proud to know her and play a tiny infinitesimal part in helping her #lindakeating #mywomanoftheyeareveryyear ❤️
@garykeating21 @rokeating 🙌 The Shelbourne, Autograph Collection
Well… maybe it’s the jet lag… but today was a very emotional day. Like so many people I have lost someone I loved a great deal to cancer. So the herculean work of @mariekeatingfoundation who support people who live with and beyond cancer is a charity close to my heart … and the hero of that charity has always been @lkeatingmkf – who as a daughter, dealing with loss, took on the challenge on behalf of her beautiful family to do something meaningful and lasting as part of her mum’s legacy – and so many people have joined her on that journey, and the foundation has gone from strength to strength but the lynchpin, the spark, the tornado that drove so many of us to help and support @mariekeatingfoundation is Linda – today is her last official event at the helm of the phenomenal fundraising programme – she’s not only an amazing person, kind, empathetic and passionate – she has represented the Keating family and honoured their incredible mother in ways few of us daughters will ever be able to do… these are the before pics…. Cause there was a lot less mascara in the after pics… she’s inspirational and too humble to take a bow… so we all stood for a long time to recognise all she has achieved over those years and I’m proud to know her and play a tiny infinitesimal part in helping her #lindakeating #mywomanoftheyeareveryyear ❤️
@garykeating21 @rokeating 🙌 The Shelbourne, Autograph Collection
A sprinkling of lovely festive sparkles from me and @dara_casey to you – our Christmas will be white until it runs dry 🍷 😂🥳
You might already have guessed that I am in love with my @august_night.ie red bag… so beautiful – everything else played second fiddle to it except the incredible food @theredbankrestaurant last night with a great #frontofhouseteam – particular thanks @rooney.catherine50 who minded us so well #loveleitrim❤️ #carrickonshannon
You might already have guessed that I am in love with my @august_night.ie red bag… so beautiful – everything else played second fiddle to it except the incredible food @theredbankrestaurant last night with a great #frontofhouseteam – particular thanks @rooney.catherine50 who minded us so well #loveleitrim❤️ #carrickonshannon
You might already have guessed that I am in love with my @august_night.ie red bag… so beautiful – everything else played second fiddle to it except the incredible food @theredbankrestaurant last night with a great #frontofhouseteam – particular thanks @rooney.catherine50 who minded us so well #loveleitrim❤️ #carrickonshannon
You might already have guessed that I am in love with my @august_night.ie red bag… so beautiful – everything else played second fiddle to it except the incredible food @theredbankrestaurant last night with a great #frontofhouseteam – particular thanks @rooney.catherine50 who minded us so well #loveleitrim❤️ #carrickonshannon
Fizz, Santa hats and #miracleof34thstreet with @dara_casey @the_johnstown_estate #familytime #maynooth #straffan #dunboyne – half Dublin – half Leitrim and a little drop of Meath and Kildare #globalirish #christmastime Johnstown House Hotel Enfield
Fizz, Santa hats and #miracleof34thstreet with @dara_casey @the_johnstown_estate #familytime #maynooth #straffan #dunboyne – half Dublin – half Leitrim and a little drop of Meath and Kildare #globalirish #christmastime Johnstown House Hotel Enfield
Celebrating some great women who are living with and beyond breast cancer at the annual @breastcancerireland #christmaslunch @very.ireland @mpw_donnybrook #uplifting #emotional #survivors ❤️ Marco Pierre White Donnybrook
Celebrating some great women who are living with and beyond breast cancer at the annual @breastcancerireland #christmaslunch @very.ireland @mpw_donnybrook #uplifting #emotional #survivors ❤️ Marco Pierre White Donnybrook
Celebrating some great women who are living with and beyond breast cancer at the annual @breastcancerireland #christmaslunch @very.ireland @mpw_donnybrook #uplifting #emotional #survivors ❤️ Marco Pierre White Donnybrook
My adorable horse lover niece #aria #borntorideforcedtogotoschool … Christmas with all the special little people in my life #jojiohalloran and the slightly bigger ones @dara_casey and #elijahlannigan #santaclausiscomingtotown 🥳😃
The best thing about Christmas (apart from all the lovely family stuff) is catching up with all those amazing global Irish pals home for Christmas.. great to catch up @blaine_doyle #frommexicotodublin @thevineearth @westburydublin 💚
Thankfully no mascara on… listening to all those mammies, and daddies @morningireland waiting @DublinAirport to welcome home sons and daughters for Christmas.. some for the first time in two or three years 😢.. had to pull over for a tissue – I was one of those #welcomehome 💚