Thomas Barry is the face behind Thomas's Trendy Socks, an online store spreading love through fun socks. Given the way the world is at the moment, this is just what we need.
Thomas is an Irish entrepreneur with Down Syndrome who has always wanted to work. And he's putting that ambition to good use by selling these wonderfully happy socks online.
His father Finbar explains, "When he reached the age of about 14 years old he was constantly telling me he was going to get himself a job and to make a lunch for him. I suppose he got the idea of going to work from watching his older brothers and myself going out to work, so he thought he would do the same. His mother and I would humour him each time he brought up the subject by saying ‘Oh yes Thomas, you will get a job maybe next year’.
"In reality, Thomas could never hold down a regular type of job due to his intellectual and physical disabilities, but this had no effect on his creative desire to express his inner self. Those who know Thomas will know when he makes up his mind about something, he is very determined to see it through."
Thomas's online store has a range of joy-inducing socks where you'll be able to find something for pretty much everyone in your life.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFxI6Jznfca/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CEZzdXXnsZm/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDd11F1ndXL/
Right now on the website, there are also 'Mental Health Socks' available. For every pair of 'It's Okay Not To Be Okay' socks purchased, €2 will be donated to Pieta House.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CE8zXGBHYXh/
And if you simply can't get enough of Thomas' lovely socks, you can sign up for a 'sockscription', where you'll be surprised with a cool pair of fun socks delivered to your door each month for €9.99.
Thomas's socks are available online at thomp2.com.
READ NEXT: Local dumpling restaurant creates tasty recipe book to fundraise for frontline staff
Sylvanian Drama creator wins (sort of) as Japanese toymaker drops US lawsuit
Like it or not, it’s time to get excited for Halloween. Now, you may be thinking it’s a little early yet to be thinking about pumpkin patches but given that several spots have already started selling tickets, and even have sold out dates on their hands, we think this is the exact right time. And […]
According to reports from The Irish Times, RTE and more, the Japanese company behind the Sylvanian Families toy line has dropped its high-profile lawsuit against a Kildare woman whose soap-opera-style videos of the cutesy figurines turned into a viral sensation. Epoch Company Ltd., which first launched Sylvanian Families in 1985 and sells them in the […]
How did an edit to CMAT’s song blow up into a BBC controversy? “It was not my decision to have the Irish language edited out of the first-ever play of EURO-COUNTRY on radio,” CMAT said on social media this week. This was the clip that launched 1000 TikToks. The edit shook the BBC to its […]
