Ronan Gingles [ex-Mr_Ro_Jangles🐦]
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Ronan Gingles [ex-Mr_Ro_Jangles🐦]
@ronangingles.bsky.social
Echo chamber yodeller.
Raised on a diet of cheap 1980s RTE Czechoslovakian cartoons.
"A smorgasbord of sustainability, urban development & innovation" [LinkedIn blah].
Warning: Our lived experiences may differ.
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#Cork via Brussels & Meath
Pinned
VINCENT [discussing Europe]:
You know what they call a prosecco with crème de cassis de Dijon?
JULES:
They don't call it a prosecco🍾 with crème de cassis de Dijon?
V:
No, man! They got the metric system there.
J:
What do they call it?
V:
They call it...a Royale with Kir
J (repeats):
Royale with Kir
Friday's weather forecast is looking pretty rough for most of the island of Ireland. Still, nice to see that our friends in the North seemingly won't face the full Status Red ravages of #StormEowyn.
[No 🍊 political comments please.]
#SpeirGorm
#SpeirGhorm
January 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Has the ear of the US president, knows about rocketry and satellites, prone to letting the arm off the leash.
January 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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i'm losing it
January 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Too cold, eh?
I reckon Greenland ❄️ is safe from MAGA after all.
January 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
#Everton are riddled with contradictions. Their team tonight includes Young, who is ancient, and Gueye, who has previously avoided matches where he would have had to wear an LGBT 🌈symbol. Plus Keane whose eagerness mustn't have impressed his new boss much on the training ground as he's on the bench.
January 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This public engagement is part of #CorkCityCouncil involvement in the 🇪🇺 #INTERREG North-West Europe project GreenDense - working with Dordrecht, Bremen, Stuttgart, Brest, Brugge & Mechelen plus other partners to explore new and multi-dimensional approaches to greening city centres.
#Cork #EU
January 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
What elevates this cartoon is that the red faction of a fractured US also truly believes it lives on the north shore.
Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does
January 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Even in this 🥶 weather I can hear the🍦van with the 'Match of the Day' theme tune driving around Mahon.
🤔
January 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One week into 2025 means I have now invoked the personal statute of limitations on "Happy New Year!" as a greeting or conversation opener. Applications reopen in 51 weeks.
January 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
By the end of the week I expect there to be 'Cork people have 123 different words for snow' pieces running in the media.
January 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
This NCT 🚘car test waiting room is one of the most anxious-looking places I've ever been as ashen-faced drivers await the worst of the diagnosis from the man with the clipboard 📋. They should have a roaming therapy cat for people to stroke.
January 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
And with that, me not having reciprocated with the follow-back her/their lovebomb campaign of attention-seeking desired, she/they 🤖 and her/their multiple ways of spelling her/their names had disappeared from my Bluesky account and seemingly my life.

Aleex/Alexxx/Alexxia etc., I hardly knew ya/ye.
January 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Some very variable attempts to pronounce the word "Ferencvaros" in Irish sports bulletins today.
January 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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imo a car horn should be able to make both a mean sound and a thumbs up sound
January 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Drove back to Cork this afternoon and think we may have stumbled upon the source of all that #sneachta, off the motorway before Portlaoise. Presumably Met Eireann have issued the chimney stack in question with a license.
#speirgorm
January 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
More dramatic #sneachta ❄️ empty shelves today. This time genuine and from Kells, Co Meath, where the locals have stockpiled personal care and, intriguingly, hair colour products.
#SpeirGorm
January 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
❄️☃️Panic-buying leaves local shops all out of frankincense and myrrh on the eve of the Epihany.
#sneachta
#spéirgorm #spéirbán
January 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
There needs to be a collage of clips of the few seconds in each episode of Columbo where the villain who thought he'd gotten away with literal murder realises "this pesky bumbling scruffy🥼detective is actually onto and reeling me in!". The moment their faces go from confident smarm to sudden alarm.
January 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Two feet of snow here today
January 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Am delaying 2025 to date, International Year of the Sandwich.
January 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Is not having your suitcase emerge on the 🛬Arrivals luggage carousel the polar opposite of the "unexpected item in baggage area" recorded warning at a supermarket self-checkout?
January 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Am transferring through Schiphol Airport, in a snowless land of milk & honey & bread and wondering should I unpatriotically be importing Dutch arán 🍞agus báinne🥛 to avoid empty shop shelves back home. #sneachta #SpeirGorm
FOR SALE: One Brennans Sliced Bread Loaf. Willing to swap for a 3-bedroom-apartment in Dublin.
January 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Img 1: A pic from this morning by Maha Hussaini in Gaza of an abandoned kids hopscotch board etched in the sand.
Img 2. Oh Rascal Children of Gaza by Khaled Juma. Written during the Israeli bombardment of 2014, that killed 547 children.
(it always breaks my heart)
January 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Travelling home after long Christmas break in 🇫🇷 and marking fifth anniversary of catching first (light) dose of what was surely, in retrospect, COVID, straight out of Wuhan, before it was fashionable or widely discussed beyond epidemiologist circles.
January 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
My timeline is currently all "#darts" this and "#traitors" that and I am abroad and haven't a clue what's what anyway so am presuming everyone is talking about people in places like Dalkey and Clontarf who insist on speaking with artificial accents.
#SpeirGorm 🇮🇪
January 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM