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Boo! Did we scare you? Halloween is almost here and Christmas is just around the corner (😱 now that’s terrifying).👻Get r...
30/09/2025

Boo! Did we scare you? Halloween is almost here and Christmas is just around the corner (😱 now that’s terrifying).

👻Get ready for spooky season in Ireland. October is time to enjoy the harvest, kick up fallen leaves and break out the pumpkin spice and cosy sweaters. It's also the month of Bullying Prevention, Global Diversity Awareness and Domestic Violence Awareness. Positive Ageing Week runs from Sep 30–Oct 6.

Frightfully fun ideas for your Irish content in October 2025:
🎃1st: Oct 1st is a bit busy, it’s International Music Day hashtag , hashtag , and the Day of Older Persons hashtag
😱3rd: hashtag
🎃4th: World Animal Day
😱5th: International Teachers Day
🎃10th: hashtag
😱11th: hashtag
🎃16th: hashtag
😱22nd: Got something you want to shout about? It’s hashtag
🎃24th: United Nations Day hashtag
😱hashtag with an extra hour’s sleep – the clocks go back overnight on Oct 25/26th (technically the 26th at 2am). What will you do with that extra hour?
🎃The 27th is a public holiday here in Ireland.
🍬31st: No tricks, only treats – after a full month of spooky season, it’s finally Halloween.

Events in Ireland in October 2025 include:
🎃Di**le Food Festival – 3-5 Oct
😱Belfast International Arts Festival hashtag – 14 Oct – 9 Nov
🎃hashtag – 17 Oct – 1 Nov
😱Cork Jazz Festival – 23-27 Oct
🎃Sligo Live Music Festival – 23 Oct- 2 Nov
😱Bram Stoker Festival – 31 Oct – 3 Nov
🎃Dublin City Marathon – 26 Oct
😱hashtag Parade (Galway) – 26 Oct
🎃Derry Hallowe’en Festival – 28-31 Oct – Welcome in the spirit of Samhain at Europe’s biggest Halloween festival, hashtag

What comes after October? It’s starting to look a lot like… the busiest time of the year! If you have big plans for Halloween, Black Friday and Christmas, now is the time to get them moving.

With less 65 days to Dec 1st (sorry to remind you!) it's time to get cracking on planning those end-of-year campaigns.

01/09/2025

🍂🍲September is here and it's time to snuggle into autumn - here's some content ideas for your Irish business in September 2025.

Back to school and back to business! September is all autumn festivals and colours, and harvest foods to warm the body and soul. Summer is officially over but the evenings are still bright and mild, so ideas on how to stay warm outdoors will shine.

September is a month with plenty to celebrate, including on Friday 19th. It’s also Alzheimer’s month and National Heart month.

Major events in Ireland for September 2025 include the Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival (all month), the Dublin Fringe Festival (Sept 6–21), Sounds from a Safe Harbour in Cork (Sept 11–14), the National Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska (Sept 16–18), and the Galway Oyster Festival (Sept 26–28).

Here's some specific dates for your Irish content calendar:
🍂5th: International Day of Charity – tell a charity’s story or talk up your favourite NFP this
🍲6th: – what’s have you enjoyed or what's on your reading list for the rest of the year? Get recommendations.
🍂10th: Swap Ideas Day – share your aha moments or ask for tips.
🍲19th: Culture Night (Ire)
🍂21st: Alzheimer’s Day
🍲22nd:
🍂25th: One Hit Wonder Day – never gonna give this one up! What do you love and why?
🍲26th: EU Day of Languages
🍂30th: International Podcast Day – recommend a great podcast – or record your own!

Looking for more 2025 content ideas for your Irish business? Most social media calendars focus on US holidays and events: we've got one for everyone in Ireland on our website at redrock.ie/blog/

27/06/2025

🍦Grab an ice-cream and celebrate - your Irish summer social media content is sorted.

📅 July starts the second half of the year, so share your thoughts – what have you done already and what have you planned?

📅 August is about about staying cool, back to school, and making the most of the last days of sunshine.

July is a great month for sports and outdoor events generally. It usually has the All Ireland finals (hurling on the 20th, football on the 27th), Galway Arts Festival (14-27th), Longitude (5-6th), and Forest Fest (Emo Village, Laois). The Tour De France and Wimbledon will take over the TVs too! Cork LGBT and Pride starts on 30th July and goes until Aug 6th.

August keeps the heat on: Puck Fair (always on the 10th-12th), Rose of Tralee (15th-19th), Dublin Horse Show (14th-18th), All Together Now (July 31st – Aug 3rd), Fleadh Cheoil (4th-11th) and National Heritage Week (16th-24th). Electric Picnic from the 29th to 31st.

Some other hot dates for the diary:

😆Jul 1st: Share a joke or funny picture on
🍫Jul 7th:
💛Jul 30th: International Day of Friendship – boost a friend’s content or do a “tag-a-friend” giveaway
🌾Aug 1: Lughnasadh/Lúnasa – Irish harvest season
🍦Aug 4th is a public holiday (yay!)
📷Aug 19th: show off your pics on
🐱Love animals? Aug 8th is International Cat Day and Aug 26th is International Dog Day.🐶

🏖️Jumpstart your June: content ideas for Ireland in June 2025June is time for holidays and happy days! We’re in the mood...
28/05/2025

🏖️Jumpstart your June: content ideas for Ireland in June 2025

June is time for holidays and happy days! We’re in the mood for rainbows and Pride, BBQs and picnics, travel and outdoor fun. Schools are closing – what to do with the kids? – and summer festivals are starting.

🌈 It’s Pride month – celebrate with a rainbow flag or theme. Dublin Pride parade takes place on June 28th, marking ten years since the marriage equality vote.

🌅Grand stretch anyone? The 21st is Summer Solstice. Share plans for the summer or the second half of your year.

🪩Concerts galore as well: Dublin will be dancing with Justin Timberlake and Dua Lipa, and Cork gets loud(er) as Live at The Marquee opens (Picture This and The Coronas) and Musgrave Park (Macklemore, Madness and more) running most of the month, Limerick is welcoming big acts including Amble and The Darkness to King John's Castle.

Other events include: Forbidden Fruit (Dublin), Galway Folk Festival, Cork Midsummer Festival, Beyond the Pale (Wicklow), Body and Soul (Westmeath), Sea Sessions Bundoran, and West Cork Chamber Music Festival.

- 1st: International Childrens’ Day
- 2nd: June Bank holiday (Irl)
- Get outside! The 3rd is World Bicycle Day and the 4th is Global Running Day.
- 8th: World Ocean Day
- 15th: Fathers’ Day (Irl, USA, Can, UK)
- 16th: Bloomsday (Irl)
- 20th: Go the dogs! It’s – and
- 21st: World Music Day and the summer Solstice
- 30th is – share links to yours and encourage people to follow and interact.

18/04/2025

Happy Easter, everyone! We are closed for the long weekend and reopen on Tuesday April 22nd.

25/03/2025

Stop fooling around and get your content done! Here's some Irish content ideas for April 2025.

🃏 Start the month with some fun food or a joke; Monday April 1st is April Fools.
🐰 Easter is the main event in Ireland this month; think sweet treats, egg hunts, and school holidays. (Don’t forget to tell people your holiday hours.)
🥗 It’s time to get outside – the weather is improving (we hope), picnic season has started & salad leaves are coming into season.

There's lots of month-long themes in April: Celebrate Diversity Month, with the Irish Heart Association, National Poetry Month, and

- 1st: April Fool’s Day
- 2nd: World Autism Awareness Day
- 4th: Walk to Work day
- 7th: World Health Day
- 11th: National Pet Day
- 12th-20th: Passover
- 16th: National Librarian Day
- 18th-21st: Are you egg-cited? It’s Easter – Good Friday on the 18th to Easter Sunday (20th) and Easter Monday (the 21st is a public holiday)
- 20th: World Bee Day 🐝
- 22nd: Earth Day
- 23rd: World Book Day
- 25th: National Penguin Day 🐧
- 26th: Independent Book Store Day
- 29th: International Dance Day

25/02/2025

2025 is marching on: ☘️Here are some Irish content ideas for March 2025.

🌸Spring has definitely sprung, there are daffodils everywhere and the clocks are going forward.
🌻Big themes include: Women’s History Month, Mother’s Day, and, of course, St Patrick’s Day!
🩷Show your grá for the mná: it’s Women’s History Month, and the 8th is International Women’s Day with the theme . And don’t forget Mother’s Day on the 30th!
🏢Grow your business! Local Enterprise Week runs from 3rd - 7th March: check your closest Local Enterprise Offices for details on what’s happening near you.

Other dates include:

- 1st-17th: Seachtain na Gaeilge - show off your cúpla focal agus níos mó!
- 3rd: World Wildlife Day
- 4th: Pancake/Shrove Tuesday - Irish social media goes flipping mad for this. Get in on it!
- 6th: World Book Day - what are you reading or what business book do you recommend?
- 8th: International Women’s Day - Looking for local events? Check your local Ireland Chamber of Commerce
- 14th: Pi day
- ☘️ 7th: Celebrate all things Irish for ! (Remember it’s .)
- 20th: Spring Equinox / International Day of Happiness
- 21st: World Poetry Day
- 22nd: World Water Day - The theme of World Water Day 2025 is 'Glacier Preservation'
- 22nd : Earth Hour Day
- 28th: Daffodil Day
- 29th: Ramadan is expected to end — Eid Mubarak is a popular greeting for Eid al-Fitr, the Festival of Breaking the Fast.
- 30th: The clocks go forward on Ireland so into the .
- Mother’s Day is also on the 30th – which means they get one hour less in the day!
- 31st: Transgender Day of Visibility

These and more content ideas for Ireland in 2025 at https://redrock.ie/content-calendar-2025-for-ireland/

‘tis the season of kindness, charity, and stressed-out marketing! No need to put yourself on the naughty list, here's so...
29/10/2024

‘tis the season of kindness, charity, and stressed-out marketing! No need to put yourself on the naughty list, here's some inspiration for Irish content in November and December.

It’s time to get social with pre-Christmas sales, gifts – including corporate gifting – and parties galore. Show off your sparkling ideas for gifts, celebrate the party season with sumptuous clothes and food, and share your festive planning and survival tips.

⛄Winter is really here so embrace the cold – check out and .

🥶Not a winter person? Us neither. You can talk up the from the 21st when the days start to get longer again.

🏷️November starts with men’s health (Movember) and ends with the big sales bonanza that is Black Friday on the 29th and Cyber Monday on Dec 2nd.

🌳Not feeling the Black Friday vibe? is a more sustainable option, growing in popularity in recent years, encouraging people buy local and support Irish where possible.

🎅December is about goodwill, great eating – and getting though the festive season in one piece. It really is the happy holidays – December has Hannukah, Yule & a Krampus as well as Santa!

Winter 2024 events in Ireland include, in November:
🎁1st – (all month),
🌲5th – American Presidential Election
🎁6th – Stress Awareness Day
🌲7th – International Stout Day
🎁8th – STEM/STEAM Day
🌲13th – World Kindness Day – share the stories behind your business – the charities that matter to you or thanking people for their kindness.
🎁19th –
🌲20th –
🌲29th – Thanksgiving (USA)
🎁30th – Small Business Saturday

And December:
🌲1st – Human Right’s Month / World Aids Day
🎁3rd – International Day of People with Disabilities
🎁6th – The Late Late Toy Show
🌲18th – International Migrants Day
🎁21st – Winter Solstice
🌲24th, 25th, 26th – Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, St Stephen’s Day
🎁31st – New Years’ Eve

24/09/2024

Boo! 👻 Did we scare you? Halloween is almost here and Christmas is just around the corner (that’s actually terrifying). Here are some frightfully fun content ideas for October 2024.

October is time to enjoy the harvest, kick up those fallen leaves and break out the pumpkin spice and cosy sweaters. October is also the month of Bullying Prevention, Global Diversity Awareness and Domestic Violence Awareness.

Events in Ireland in October include:

- Di**le Food Festival – 4-6 Oct
- Belfast International Arts Festival – 16 Oct-2 Nov
- Wexford Festival Opera – 18 Oct-2 Nov
- Cork Jazz Festival – 24-28 Oct
- Sligo Live Music Festival – 24 Oct- 3 Nov
- Bram Stoker Festival – 25-28 Oct
- Dublin City Marathon – 27 Oct
- Macnas Parade (Galway) – 27 Oct
- Derry Hallowe’en Festival – 28-31 Oct – Europe’s biggest Halloween festival

Dates to dies for!😱

🎃1st – Oct 1st is a busy one, it’s International Music Day , , and the Day of Older Persons
4th –
👻4th – International Animal Day
🎃5th – International Teachers Day
👻10th –
🎃11th –
👻16th –
🎃22nd – Got something you want to shout about? It’s
👻24th – United Nations Day
with an extra hour’s sleep – the clocks go back on Oct 27th.
🎃The 28th is a public holiday here in Ireland.
🍬31st – No tricks, only treats – it’s finally Halloween

🎃What comes after October?👻

It’s starting to look a lot like… well, time for planning Christmas, anyway! If you have big plans for Halloween, Black Friday and Christmas, now is the time to get them moving. With less 65 days to Dec 1st (we know, we know, we’re sorry to remind you!) most digital marketers are already planning lots of end-of-year campaigns by Oct 1st.

26/08/2024

Back to school and back to business! Here's some inspiration for your Irish Content calendar this September.

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Time for autumn festivals and colours, and harvest foods that warm the body and soul.🍂

Summer may be over but the evenings are still bright and mild. September is a month with plenty to celebrate and do, including Culture Night on the 20th. It’s Alzheimer’s month and National Heart month too.

Events in Ireland in September 2024 include: the Waterford Harvest Festival, Dublin Fringe, 7–22nd and the National Ploughing Championships (Ratheniska), 17-19th.

🍂5th: International Day of Charity – tell a charity’s story or talk up your favourite NFP this
🍂6th: – what’s on your reading list for the rest of the year? Get recommendations.
🍂10th: Swap Ideas Day – share your good ideas or ask for tips.
🍂22nd:
🍂25th: One Hit Wonder Day – never gonna give this one up! What do you love and why?
🍂26th: EU Day of Languages
🍂30th: International Podcast Day – recommend a great podcast – or record your own!

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