1/5 Bohs at Connolly Books 🟥 ⬛ 🇮🇪🚩
Delighted to announce that we’ve joined forces with @bfcdublin & are now the official retailer of their iconic jerseys in Dublin city centre. We launch the initiate on Saturday January 31st
Our ‘Belonging to a Fair City’ programme is returning again for 2026. Through the prism of sport, BFC aims to teach children about the importance of diversity, empathy and perspective. The programme is open to all 5th & 6th class students.
Due to high demand, spaces are limited. If you would like to register your class for the programme please email [email protected]
Belonging to a Fair City is in partnership with Junior Achievement Ireland and is supported by the Department of Justice Community Safety Fund.
🙌 | 𝘾𝙋 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙖𝙥𝙨 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙨!
What a fantastic night in the clubhouse on Saturday!
Congrats to all who earned caps and to Conor Halpin who plays on our U18 side who earned two. 🎉
CP Ireland it was a pleasure! 🤝
⚫️ #RUFC | ⚪️ #CmonTheParish
Rest in peace, Patricia Routledge 🙏🏻
In memory of her, I encourage everyone to read these words of hers from February last year.
Whether young or old, you're bound to get something out of it.
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"I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn’t live up to my mother’s hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude.
My life didn’t quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily — on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions — but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn’t quite found.
At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with — Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people’s living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks. It healed something in me.
At 60, I began learning Italian — not for work, but so I could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul.
At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage — something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being.
At 80, I took up watercolour painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible.
Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I’m learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter — though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever.
I’m writing this to tell you something simple:
Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter — if you let yourself bloom again.
Let these years ahead be your TREASURE YEARS.
You don’t need to be famous. You don’t need to be flawless.
You only need to show up — fully — for the life that is still yours.
With love and gentleness,
Patricia Routledge
*****
Once more, rest in peace. 🤍
Hi all, I'm doing an @alzheimersocirl Memory Walk to help people living with dementia - most of us know someone hurt by it & I'm walking for my Dad, John. That's him below. The ASI did a lot for him when he needed help. Please donate if you can. Thank you!
https://t.co/zpgoZnuXRv
@conor_pope I live about 250 metres from a shopping centre and it generates quite a lot of rubbish. People throw their empty drink cans etc on the ground. Then a ramdomer come along and pick them up, glance at the can and bring them into the centre to get the return money. So it's good imo.
Huge thanks to @Paddy_Barry1 who was 1st to sponsor my ASI Memory Walk, which I'm doing on Sept 21st in memory of my Dad, John (below) - if you'd like to help support vital services for people living with dementia, just click this link... and thank you!
https://t.co/zpgoZnuq1X
This September 21st, I’ll be doing the ASI Memory Walk in memory of my Dad, John. I don’t have a great reach on here, but for anyone I know (or don’t), if you could help me raise funds for people living with dementia, that’d be great.
https://t.co/zpgoZnuXRv
An Israeli bullet struck Mohammed Naeem Awad, player of Ittihad Beit Hanoun Club, causing paralysis in his left arm and leg, and shattering his dream of playing football.
رصاصة إسرائيلية أصابت محمد نعيم عوض، لاعب نادي اتحاد بيت حانون، فتعرض لشلل في النصف الأيسر من جسده، وتحطم حلمه في لعب كرة القدم.
🔴⚫️Bohemian FC is aware of a large volume of counterfeit club merchandise, specifically replica shirts, in circulation.
Some of these items have been the subject of seizures by Customs in recent weeks.
The club is receiving an increasing amount of queries regarding the legitimacy of merchandise from particular websites.
To clarify, official club merchandise is currently available only from:
- the online store at https://t.co/zPv4DACWQ9
- the club store on the Ballyboggan Road, Glasnevin
- the merchandise units inside Dalymount Park
- the Guinness Storehouse
The club does not sell official merchandise through any third-party websites/resellers.