Mary McKenna
@mmarymckenna.bsky.social
Co-founder and Chair of @AwakenHub group, entrepreneur, pollinator, people collector, MC, connector, non exec, cheerleader, investor, mentor, Donegal border dweller
This is how civic Christmas decorations look when you live in an active fishing village … aww … fishtastic #Greencastle #Donegal 🐟🐠🍤🎏🎄🧑🎄🎅
December 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This is how civic Christmas decorations look when you live in an active fishing village … aww … fishtastic #Greencastle #Donegal 🐟🐠🍤🎏🎄🧑🎄🎅
This morning - San Francisco bound - 4th visit of 2025 - PSP looking good this morning 💚
December 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This morning - San Francisco bound - 4th visit of 2025 - PSP looking good this morning 💚
Full circle moment - I was back at Magee campus at @ulsteruni.bsky.social on Friday as the @royalsociety.org EIR attached to the UU Business School - our event was a couple of buildings over from where Learning Pool started out almost 20 years ago
October 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Full circle moment - I was back at Magee campus at @ulsteruni.bsky.social on Friday as the @royalsociety.org EIR attached to the UU Business School - our event was a couple of buildings over from where Learning Pool started out almost 20 years ago
For an instrument of war, the 17thC cannons really are very pretty
October 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
For an instrument of war, the 17thC cannons really are very pretty
Makes life worth living on a long bus journey 🙏
October 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Makes life worth living on a long bus journey 🙏
Great to catch up with Marty Neill yesterday at #BarCampBelfast as part of #BelfastTechWeek in Oh Yeah Music - love that casual talk format - stayed on to hear Tina Calder’s very interesting talk
September 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Great to catch up with Marty Neill yesterday at #BarCampBelfast as part of #BelfastTechWeek in Oh Yeah Music - love that casual talk format - stayed on to hear Tina Calder’s very interesting talk
14 Sept & that’s the first fire of the autumn lit … ah well … I guess we had 3 months or so off
September 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
14 Sept & that’s the first fire of the autumn lit … ah well … I guess we had 3 months or so off
I love these wee cottage ornaments that appear in many forms in Irish gardens across this island
September 13, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I love these wee cottage ornaments that appear in many forms in Irish gardens across this island
A tile museum with a QR code made out of … what else but tiles … and guess what - it actually works #TileMuseum #Lisbon
August 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A tile museum with a QR code made out of … what else but tiles … and guess what - it actually works #TileMuseum #Lisbon
When you think you couldn’t love azulejos any more than you do … & then you stumble across a kitchen tiled by Querubim Lapa
August 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
When you think you couldn’t love azulejos any more than you do … & then you stumble across a kitchen tiled by Querubim Lapa
August 24, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Most ingenious use I’ve seen yet of an @easyjethelpdesk.bsky.social sick bag 👍 #improvisation (LGW to LIS today - pure brilliant) #EasyJet
August 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Most ingenious use I’ve seen yet of an @easyjethelpdesk.bsky.social sick bag 👍 #improvisation (LGW to LIS today - pure brilliant) #EasyJet
We made it to the #EvieHone & #MainieJellett exhibition at the @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social today - there are still 5 more days to catch it - don’t miss out - it’s 100 years since they were last exhibited together in #Dublin
August 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We made it to the #EvieHone & #MainieJellett exhibition at the @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social today - there are still 5 more days to catch it - don’t miss out - it’s 100 years since they were last exhibited together in #Dublin
We’re accepting applications to pitch to the #AwakenAngels syndicate in Oct, Nov & Jan. Only for #womenfounders based on the island of Ireland. Upload your deck at this link & we’ll be back to you loom.ly/_oRm9qE
#angelinvesting #startups #ireland
#angelinvesting #startups #ireland
August 4, 2025 at 7:32 AM
We’re accepting applications to pitch to the #AwakenAngels syndicate in Oct, Nov & Jan. Only for #womenfounders based on the island of Ireland. Upload your deck at this link & we’ll be back to you loom.ly/_oRm9qE
#angelinvesting #startups #ireland
#angelinvesting #startups #ireland
Today we went to Beltany Stone Circle near Raphoe in #Donegal - it was magical & there was no-one else there - we were last there 30 years ago - guess what - nothing has changed 😂 - we have over 300 such stone circles in Ireland … which is your favourite one?
August 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Today we went to Beltany Stone Circle near Raphoe in #Donegal - it was magical & there was no-one else there - we were last there 30 years ago - guess what - nothing has changed 😂 - we have over 300 such stone circles in Ireland … which is your favourite one?
Bank Holiday weekend reading … not setting foot outside in that heat, that’s for sure … #PhilipKDick
July 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Bank Holiday weekend reading … not setting foot outside in that heat, that’s for sure … #PhilipKDick
July 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
#Donegal picture postcard perfect this evening & a very comfortable 14 degrees #Inishowen
July 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
#Donegal picture postcard perfect this evening & a very comfortable 14 degrees #Inishowen
It’s been quite a day … started off with Michael Collins & Kitty Kiernan in Dun Laoghaire & ended up in Malahide with a couple of 80 year olds …
June 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
It’s been quite a day … started off with Michael Collins & Kitty Kiernan in Dun Laoghaire & ended up in Malahide with a couple of 80 year olds …