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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.
🍂🍲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/
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.
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
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