• A MEASURE OF QUALITY TIME

  The best and most meaningful family interactions happen by the fire. It’s where stories are told, conversations happen, decisions are made, relationships deepen and movies are watched together.

  The peat briquette has had pride of place at the centre of the Irish home for 75 years, and has always borne witness to those real family moments that trigger the long night in by the fire. Some of them surprises, some of them the comfort of the familiar but all of them important in their own way.

  It takes only a moment to share a confidence, to laugh and reminisce - that's when you know this night is going to be special. It's going to be a long night. And your peat briquette fire will last as long as it takes to make another happy memory - a true measure of quality time.

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Twitter book in aid of Focus Ireland – Short Stories for a Long Night

Having spent last Winter asking you – our customers, followers and fans – to share your fireside tales with us, we gathered together 140 of our favourites and compiled them in this book, Short Stories for a Long Night.

These stories reflect the lives of Irish people today, and their own memories of a life lived around the warmth of the fireplace. Illustrated by Red Dog, with photographs from Jeanette Lowe, and of course featuring the good people of Twitter & Facebook, the book is sure to make you feel almost as warm and cosy as a peat briquette fire.

Buy the book and support homeless services for those most in need:

Look out for the book at an Easons store near you, and don’t forget that you can also buy it on FocusIreland.ie, or you can order it here with us too.

Priced at just €9.99, at least €4 from each sale will go to Focus Ireland, supporting their essential services for people at risk of homelessness around Ireland.