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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Love how the EP tent-salvage guy sneaks this lyric past the Indo reporter who I'm guessing is too young to remember the Wombles.

Screenshot from Irish Independent article with quote from man who salvages abandoned tents after Electric Picnic music festival:
'He said the business was simply “making the most of the things that I find, the things that the everyday folks leave behind”.'

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I don't mean to brag, but I think my daughter (12) is a creative genius! This is my #fathersday card from her.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Would've had to put the seats down in the car for this trip. #bikesky #jousting

Longtail e-cargo bike with eight-foot lengths of wood lashed onto it. No van required.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Simply could *not* decide between this and the Hawing Tape.

Packet labeled 'Hemming Tape' - for adjusting the length of curtains. Because that's just how exciting my life is these days.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Of all my kids' milestones, is it bad that this is the one that delights me the most? #bikesky

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

From indie press to indie bookshop to the top of my TBR pile. Looking forward to this from @stuhennigan.bsky.social after some speedy ordering by Seanchai Books in Kildare. #speirgorm

The novel 'Keshed' by Stu Hennigan on top of a pile of books on a bedside locker.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

The five-year-old has unwittingly created the Stranger Things/Bluey crossover that we didn't know we wanted.

Bluey character figurine hangs from the side of coffee table, suspended in transparent slime from an alien toy

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Seems like the trimmings on the RadWagon cargo bike were perhaps not designed with the Irish climate in mind. #bikesky #speirgorm

Front basket of a RadPower Bikes RadWagon cargo bike. The wooden base of the basket has distorted and cracked from absorbing moisture.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Cannot wait to explain to my wife why I *had* to bid on this! www.sheppards.ie/lot/vintage-...

An old tandem bicycle with what seems to be a metal sidecar attached. Yes please!

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Iron-on transfer was a disaster so had to do the Taylor-style tee with markers... Nice relaxing Saturday!

Iron-on T-shirt transfer that didn't get work out and destroyed the tee.

Completed 'a lot going on at the moment ' t-shirt to emulate Taylor Swift - done with red and black markers.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Often wonder how successful I would be if I worked on *anything* as hard as I do on my daughter's party outfits.

Girl aged ten, dressed as Taylor Swift with home-made 'a lot going on at the moment' T-shirt, sunglasses and fedora. In front of a Tay-Tay poster, of course.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

With apologies to Matt Groening, a little something I made for the Indo on Martin's White House visit. Concept by Review editor Jon Smith, drawn in Procreate.

Taoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin drawn as Simpsons character. He's holding a bowl of shamrock and fading back into a hedge - as seen in Homer meme.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Not to design school, that's for sure.

Pamphlet that came though my door. Title: Eternity Where? If you died today, where would you go?
Terrible clip art representations of people on a forking road with fire on one side and pearly gates in the other - these are helpfully labelled 'heaven' and 'hell'.
Whole thing is yuk, tbh.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Never got around to using this illustration in the Sunday Independent, but that's OK. Really just needed to get this image out of my head for all the times I heard 'rotating Taoiseach'.

Mocked-up blueprint of a device featuring gears and cogs, purportedly to 'rotate' figures of Micheàl Martin and Simon Harris

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Gonna be stormy out there. Make sure you bring your cargo bike indoors tonight so it doesn't get scared.

Long-tail e-cargo bike in kitchen, behind a dog bed in which sleeps a greyhound. His name is Ozzie and, coincidentally, he also has a long tail.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Stop what you're doing and look at this Taylor Swift tribute my 10-year-old just made with her 3D pen.

3D pen sculpture of Taylor Swift in black and red bodysuit with red flames on each side like Eras tour stage set.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

So much to do on Christmas Eve. But at least I've got this, the most-important task, checked off my list.

Bicycle helmet with Santa Claus hat attached.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Longtail + fresh air = naptime

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

As this place starts to feel like it oughta, I'm feeling the pressure to post something. So here's an old illustration I did for the Sunday Independent that I think we can all relate to...

Close up of Elon Musk's mouth with blue feathers sticking out of it. He ate Twitter, y'all!

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

2/2 But that's not our style (not yet, anyway) so I made above one from stock images and screenshots. I did, however, wonder what my artificial rival would have created if given the chance. So here, too, is what Firefly proffered after much editing of prompts. Human or machine, who wore it better?

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Me versus #AI... When we wanted to illustrate Sam McBride's Sunday Independent piece on outsourcing personal tasks to AI, it would have been easy to do just that - get Midjourney or Firefly to do the heavy lifting. 1/2

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Back in the 80s, my dad would be away on union activities every other weekend. The upside for me was getting one of these books on his return. I managed not to wreck them and now I get to enjoy them all over again with my son.

Children's books series: 'The Twelve Tasks of Asterix'

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Our cover for Life magazine on Sunday, with stories from Ireland's LGBTQ+ community. Tattoo hand-drawn in Procreate and artwork finished in Photoshop. Pretty happy with this one, tbh. Happy Pride, y'all.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

A fine way to celebrate #worldbicycleday - exploring back roads of Kildare (with only minor complaints from the non-pedalling passengers)

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

This health app is rubbish. I was out on the bike *twice* today and it didn't record anything here!

Health app screenshot showing ’cycle tracking’ category.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

A little late for St Patrick's Day but happy with these illustrations for the Sunday Independent: the public figures who make us proud to be Irish. Icons one and all - hence the treatment.

Stained glass window of Roy Keane, Mary Robinson, Daniel O'Donnell and Katie Taylor. Photoshop illustration for Sunday Independent's Life magazine

Stained glass window of Bono. Photoshop illustration for Sunday Independent's Life magazine

Stained glass window of Paul McGrath, Twink, Enya and Brian Dobson. Photoshop illustration for Sunday Independent's Life magazine

Stained glass window of Michael D Higgins, Panti Bliss, Roy Keane, Saoirse Ronan, Ruth Negga and Jedward. Photoshop illustration for cover of Sunday Independent's Life magazine

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Amazon trying to lure me into an Audible subscription with exactly the kind of guff that @ifbookspod.bsky.social warned me about... I think not.

Screenshot of Amazon Audible promo email advertising books 'the subtle art of not giving a f*ck' and 'Atomic Habits'

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

One of these days, I hope to get to sit on my own couch.

Tan-coloured greyhound, Ozzie, sprawling on the couch. He's lying on his back with feet in the air - goading me!!!

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

The kids have given our new (to us) RadWagon cargo bike their enthusiastic seal of approval. Let's see how much they like it on a rain-battered school run though, eh?

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Made with these two hands, destroyed by one leaky shed! 💧

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

So much great work on this share. Here's a few of mine - photos re-marked and extended with various media and a sharp object. (I call them 'landscrapes')

Old railway tracks with distressed sleepers heading for the horizon. Watercolour fades to edge of page.

Tide out. Fishing boat sitting on silt in harbour. A green rope stretches from low boat to high harbour wall.

The remains of a small row boat that has disintegrated on beach by the harbour in Cobh, County Cork, Ireland. The small pieces of boat blend into the rough stones beneath it. The half-boat is still inexplicably tied to the harbour wall.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Thought it would feel worse to bring 20 years of #Drawing and #painting to the dump today. Especially after the damp vastly improved this piece!

Charcoal life drawing that's been decayed by damp from the bottom up

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Outsourced the #Halloween window decoration to Mimi (9) and her pals. I regret nothing.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

I'm told that this dock in #Cobh was trodden by passengers boarding the #Titanic Another older piece in this time of sparse production. 'All aboard' - Photo re-marked and extended with pens, w'colour and a pointy thingy. . #art #painting #drawing #psychogeography

Image of a gappy and rotten wooden dock extending out into the sea.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Have no new #art to post on here so how about some old stuff? 'Hometown Tumbledown' - photos re-marked and extended with pens, watercolour, acrylics and a sharp object.

An old brick farm building with rusted red corrugated iron roof. A large part of the wall has fallen, leaving a gaping hole to the inside. Weeds and ivy grow through the building's gaps.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

#thatsnotmycar THAT'S my 'car' It's fun, fume free and fighting climate change.

Children's book 'That's not my car' adjusted with snarky tagines. Final page has picture of a family bicycle with panniers and a child seat.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

In my dismay at how #carculture leeches into our three-year-old's life, I felt this book needed an edit.. I give you #thatsnotmycar – a thread (Shamelessly recycling this post from t'other place, sorry)

Children's book 'That's not my car' adjusted with snarky tagines.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Can't think of a better first post on here than this #illustration I made for the Sunday Independent some months back. For one reason or another, we never got to use it. RIP, bird site.

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