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Frank Brehany

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Activist/Campaigner: (Magdalene issues/Toxins/Cabin Air Quality). Author:('A Magdalene Rose' 2025, Gaspers (Cabin Air Quality) 2nd edition 2025) Interests: Justice, Equality, European, Politics, Music, Art. Media: Travel Expert, Media Contributor

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Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · May 18

#BookSky #WritingCommunity #Authors #BookLaunch

Here's a short film, highlighting all the different aspects contained within my book, 'A Magdalene Rose', launched yesterday in South Wales. The Journey Home has begun.. youtu.be/PL_Te2wVNRk?...

A Magdalene Rose The Global Book Launch

YouTube video by Frank Brehany

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 2d

An old #painting for you. 31 yrs ago I did a cycle tour by myself of the newly independent Czech Republic. Březnice was a town I stayed in and when leaving I enjoyed the view looking back at the church in the square where I stayed. A few months later I painted that view. #ArtYear #Scape #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in acrylics on heavy paper. Loosely painted blotchy marks everywhere. Under a grey and white sky with red underneath breaking through, we are looking up a curving street lined with 2 and 3-story houses, all rendered in panels of oranges and yellows. The house on the right has a black skirt as do two of the houses on the left. Slate roofs on the left are rendered in red, orange and violet. Antennas are attached to most of the houses at the front from by upper story windows. The windows of all levels in the houses and the church are dark purple and blue. The street is curving to the right to the side and back of a large church similarly coloured save for two dark onion domes at the top of towers either side of the front which is facing left so we can't see it but for the tops of the towers. The street surface is a dark grey and foothpaths both sides are purple with lilac kerbs. Signed top left, LIAM '95

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 3d

A photo from back in the days when I had a studio. And sometimes of an evening the sun would shine in through the loading doorway. Which was just a big hole with no door or window. And I liked it. This was a large painting for me, one that ultimately sold to a good Cork home. #painting #ArtYear

Landscape format photo of a panoramic painting hanging on a mesh wall, with an arch-topped spotlight on over half of the painting. The painting is about 30 cm x 100 cm and in a very loose style depicts a section of Dublin's Ormond Quay showing ten adjoining narrow buildings, all bar two of various warm orange red-brick, each of them 4 or 5 stories tall and wearing a blue hat of a slated roof with a chimney separating them from their neighbour. All of the them have a dark street level shop front bar 2 which have a Georgian door with columns and a fanlight. The river wall with the railings of the boardwalk runs across the bottom, just above the dark shadow of the underside of the boardwalk. Signed top left, Liam Daly on the sky which is yellow and like the buildings glows in the sunlight of the arched beam.

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Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 2d

#amnestymonmouth #AIUKAntiDeathP #WorldDayAgainstTheDeathPenalty #AnthonyBoyd #ToforestJohnson #RobertRoberson www.coe.int/en/web/aboli...

European and World Day against the death penalty, 10 October 2025 - Abolition of the death penalty - www.coe.int

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Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 2d

#amnestymonmouth #AIUKAntiDeathP #WorldDayAgainstTheDeathPenalty #AnthonyBoyd #ToforestJohnson #RobertRoberson

Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 2d

#amnestymonmouth #AIUKAntiDeathP #WorldDayAgainstTheDeathPenalty #AnthonyBoyd #ToforestJohnson #RobertRoberson

Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 2d

#amnestymonmouth #AIUKAntiDeathP #WorldDayAgainstTheDeathPenalty #AnthonyBoyd #ToforestJohnson #RobertRoberson

Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 2d

#amnestymonmouth #AIUKAntiDeathP #WorldDayAgainstTheDeathPenalty #AnthonyBoyd #ToforestJohnson #RobertRoberson

Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 2d

#amnestymonmouth #AIUKAntiDeathP #WorldDayAgainstTheDeathPenalty #AnthonyBoyd #ToforestJohnson #RobertRoberson

Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 2d

#amnestymonmouth #AIUKAntiDeathP #WorldDayAgainstTheDeathPenalty #AnthonyBoyd #ToforestJohnson #RobertRoberson

Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 2d

#amnestymonmouth #AIUKAntiDeathP #WorldDayAgainstTheDeathPenalty #AnthonyBoyd #ToforestJohnson #RobertRoberson

Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 2d

#bbcherefordandworcester #Elliottjwebb

Thnx4opp2talkabt #Travel & the new Entry/Exit System (EES) into #EU

🛂Starts 12/10/25
🛂EES replaces passport stamping
🛂Kiosks at entry: fingerprints, photo & Qs (Travel Ins, Money etc)
🛂Slow roll-out - fully op by Aug'26
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Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 2d

#amnestymonmouth #AIUKAntiDeathP #WorldDayAgainstTheDeathPenalty #AnthonyBoyd #ToforestJohnson #RobertRoberson

Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 2d

#amnestymonmouth #AIUKAntiDeathP #WorldDayAgainstTheDeathPenalty #AnthonyBoyd #ToforestJohnson #RobertRoberson

Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 6d

My first #Substack Travel Newsletter, providing a roundup of Travel Trends & News, from the Consumer perspective for the UK & EU: frankbrehany.substack.com/p/frank-breh...

Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 9d

Great article @unamullally.bsky.social abt speaking #Irish or Gaeilge. Exploring my family's history I've learnt abt wider family & my Dad, #Tuam home boy; he was a good Irish speaker. On that journey I now recognise/learnt some words/phrases: Go raibh maith agat www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una Mullally

Record numbers of pupils are seeking opt-outs from compulsory learning. This is misguided – Irish is a portal to a world of imagination, says journalist Una Mullally

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 10d

Ah here, have another #painting. "Ormond Quay" was done 3 years ago. I based it on a lifetime of loving Dublin City's quays. I like buildings, squares, rectangles, right angles, that sort of thing, and my head is full of them all the time. Sometimes they come out like this. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in ink lines, water media and white gel pen. Terrace of 6 narrow buildings, with the leftmost having 5 stories but each of the rest 4 stories and 2 bays wide with shop fronts at street level. They are all different shades of orange and pink with brick indicated sometimes, except one building in the middle which is white over a dark blue shop front of three narrow dark arches. The building at the left end has balconies at the corner windows on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors. Roofs are slate of blues and purples. The river stone wall runs across the bottom in purples and greens and greys with isolated stones highlighted by solid shape or outline in black or white. The river is purple brown green blue sort of. Roofs are blue or purple slate. Windows mostly black. The tops of cars and vans can be seen between the river wall and the shop fronts. Sky is left blank white. Signed bottom right Liam Daly

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Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 10d

My latest #Substack Article & Podcast. Mindful that Friday 10 October 2025 is World Day Against the Death Penalty, I comment on the issues from a personal perspective along with talking to UK & USA issues. frankbrehany.substack.com/p/the-death-...

Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 10d

#Travel #Holidays #Flights #Aircrew

Nothing new to me in this report b/c I still speak w/aircrew abt their work

For the vast majority of #Consumers, they do not u/stand the conditions #FlightCrews have to work in

It's all abt safety, not the duty free! www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

Europe’s air safety at risk amid cost-cutting and staff pressures, study warns

Researchers find profit chasing has ‘systematically weakened’ safety and workers feel unable to challenge decisions

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 10d

A #painting from way back now, from a time when my head was full of hopes and dreams. "Meath Street Shopping" came out of, well, liking one of Dublin's streets, one where I did a lot of shopping when I was a teenager. That's it really. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in loose painterly acrylics. Street scene showing two shops. On the left is a small shop with a red sign on the fascia in yellow: "Fruit & Vegetables". Two women are seen from behind about to walk in the door. The one closest to the door has fair hair, and a long red coat, while the woman behind her has short brown hair, and a mustard jacket over a blue skirt or dress, with a little red bag over her right shoulder. The shop window has colourful produce of reds and yellows and is not much wider than the narrow door to its left. Window and door frame is white, wall is red, and surround of sign above is purple blue. Shop on right has red & white striped canopy. A man and woman stand looking in the window, he in a generally indistinct dark brown that blends trousers, jacket and head with hat. His hands are in his pockets as he leans lightly into the woman who has brown hair, and a long blue coat, as she leans lightly back into him. A younger short-haired blonde woman in red trousers and short blue jacket wheels past a buggy with a child to the right edge of the painting. Path is grey, road is blue and red with yellow line. Kerb is an uneven black, and most of the shapes in the picture have a broken sketchy black outline. Signed bottom left: Liam Daly '94

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Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 11d

#BBCNottingham #BBCLeicester #BBCDerby #BBCRadioStoke
#BBCCWR #bbcwm #bbchw #BBCShropshire #CharlieBurley_

Thnx4opp2talkabt #Travel &...

✈️EES=EUs Entry/Exit Sys 12/10 onwards + 2026 ETIAS Visa!
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Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 14d

These are probably the clearest words we need to hear about the plight of #Palestinian people in #Gaza & the #WestBank to date youtu.be/g2L7kqNsfQA?...

MUST WATCH: “How Long?” – King Abdullah Erupts At UN General Assembly Over Gaza!

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 16d

Anyway, have a #painting "Golden Leaves III" is another in the series that came when I had my little American dog here in Dublin, and we would walk looking for autumnal leaves. After jumping into a pile of them she would look at me wondering why I had done that. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #ForestFriday

Landscape format in acrylics with textural marks, on canvas. Against a deep blue painterly sky is a messy network of small branches, the main ones which come out of the bottom left and centre, generally fanning out. They are a rough black with touches of yellow, pale blue, and red, most without any foliage but there are several autumnal leaves, curling and readying to drop, in a cluster in the top left and sparsely throughout the rest of the painting. Each leaf is a mixture of yellows, dark reds, and greens, with some almost white highlights and small very dark shadows, all fitting on a fish-bone pattern if mostly curled a bit. I took the photo before signing the painting.

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Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 16d

That was a breakfast overlooking the Bay of Biscay - not of my making. Whole poached salmon is one of my favourites which I prep from start to finish

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Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 16d

This is my latest #Substack article where I examine the Froth & the Fizz of the upcoming EU's Entry/Exit Border System; time for a better personal travel resilience? frankbrehany.substack.com/p/the-froth-...

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 20d

A new #painting. "Cill Chiaráin". Kilkieran if you prefer. One ridiculous perfect day in South Connemara I was painting by the side of a road. Everywhere I looked I saw more paintings I knew I'd paint later. This is later. I love this part of the world. Love it. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #MountainMonday

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Coastal scene with a bay of pale blue coming in from the right in the foreground to a stony shoreline of orange and dark magenta, almost black, seaweed and grey rocks. Further back, running across the centre line the rocks and seaweed are a paler magenta and peach, and the water a paler blue with a hint of teal. The land behind the rocky shoreline is a patchwork of lime green and olive green very small rough fields enclosed by dozens of undulating grey dry stone walls. Some bushes are in foreground behind a broken wall by the shore at the bottom of the picture. Further back about two-thirds of the way up the painting, just left of centre, is a small single story cottage of cream, with a grey roof, almost blending into the walls and fields around it. Some dark trees are dotted around in the far fields before the horizon where there are clumps of very dark blue-green pine trees contrasting with the pale field. Behind them is a wine narrow slope on the left, a large dark blue mountain sloping up to the right edge, a large paler turquoise pyramidal mountain behind it left of centre, and other steep mountains behind, receding in paler shades of blue. Sky is watery smokey white and pale blue of a sunny day with light indistinct clouds and very light touches of yellow and even green towards the left. Signed bottom right in magenta on the blue water, Liam Daly

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