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Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 5d

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 · 7d

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 · 6d

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-...

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Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 6d

#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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 10d

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 · 12d

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 · 12d

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 · 12d

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 · 16d

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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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 17d

A #painting "Portrush Harbour came after cycling from Derry around Binevenagh and on to north Antrim where after sleeping off a sickness for 24 hours in Portrush I walked to the harbour the next day. When I finished painting this scene I cycled off around the Causeway Coast. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in very loose painterly acrylics on unstretched canvas. Under a teal sky on a sunny day we look across a harbour back in at a town from a pier. The town is two rows of buildings running in a band across the painting, the far one virtually on top of the slightly nearer one. Buildings are narrow and three or four stories high in bright pastel colours of mainly orange, pink, yellow, white, cream and green, with window and door details in incomplete sketchy white lines around dark suggestive shapes. Roofs are slate rendered in dark blue, many with dormer windows. A band of a green grass bank drops from the street down to the harbour where a grey-blue harbour wall curves around the water of light blue rippling away from its centre with dark blue and, in the foreground, red strokes. About two dozen small boats are in the harbour, mostly in the centre. While white dominates they are in variations of white with dark blue, orange, light blue and red, with several suggestions of masts and ropes. Signed top left in dark blue: Liam Daly

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Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 16d

My press release on my recent #book launches in #Ireland www.frankbrehany.shop/post/diverse...

Author of 'A Magdalene Rose' reflects upon his Irish Book Launches

Frank Brehany recently embarked on a series of book launches in the Republic of Ireland.....

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Dr Claire McGettrick Born Lorraine Hughes @cmcgettrick.bsky.social · 17d

Lest anyone think that the work on the headstones was an indication of a Road to Damascus moment…

Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 17d

I can confirm that despite the fact that I have been in correspondence with the order since 2019, along with the fact that they know I am seeking pertinent information, they have not contacted me. I shall reflect on their Press Release and provide comment in the coming days

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Dr Claire McGettrick Born Lorraine Hughes @cmcgettrick.bsky.social · 17d

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Dr Claire McGettrick Born Lorraine Hughes @cmcgettrick.bsky.social · 17d

9) In essence, the OLC press release raises more questions than answers & despite issuing a PR, the order remains as opaque as ever about its activities, which is of no assistance to families seeking truth & justice.

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Dr Claire McGettrick Born Lorraine Hughes @cmcgettrick.bsky.social · 17d

8) Additionally, I note that the 1993 exhumations are conspicuous in their absence from OLC’s press release. Furthermore, the order does not specify whether their ‘review’ has examined the State mandated eye-witness record of the exhumations, or whether they’ve accounted for all 155 women.

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Dr Claire McGettrick Born Lorraine Hughes @cmcgettrick.bsky.social · 17d

7) For a start, while OLC say they’ve identified ‘three more gravesites’, we’re aware of at least 9 further unmarked plots at Glasnevin where women from High Park & Sean McDermott St are buried.

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Dr Claire McGettrick Born Lorraine Hughes @cmcgettrick.bsky.social · 17d

6) It will take time to examine the new inscriptions/headstones & compare them to the data in the Magdalene Names Project databases (jfmresearch.com/home/magdale...)

But on the face of it, I’m not hopeful that this is the end of the matter.

Magdalene Names Project

ABOUT THE MAGDALENE NAMES PROJECT The Magdalene Names Project (MNP) is a JFM Research initiative which was established in 2003 in the context of the exhumations at High Park Magdalene Laundry. The …

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Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 17d

In the absence of candour & good methodology, I will support any initiative to secure an Irish Government independent inquiry (or a Coroner-led inquiry) into all matters relating to the circs of the HP exhumations and all their consequences up to the present day

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Dr Claire McGettrick Born Lorraine Hughes @cmcgettrick.bsky.social · 17d

4) Our analysis is impeded by the fact that the order refuses to open its records. An exception is Jacinta Prunty, whose flawed research on HP’s records was used by the McAleese Ctte to wrongly conclude that all 155 women exhumed in 1993 are accounted for. See Ch8 of: jfmresearch.com/books/irelan...

Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice

This book was written in response to Magdalene survivors’ appeal that the public know and learn from the abuses they experienced so that what happened to them can never be forgotten. It provides a …

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Dr Claire McGettrick Born Lorraine Hughes @cmcgettrick.bsky.social · 17d

3) 🚨Whether the rectifications are accurate/adequate remains to be seen. It will take time to establish to what extent the issues we’ve been highlighting over the past 2 decades are resolved. This is slow, careful work. Accuracy & ethical considerations take priority over speed.

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Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 17d

I can confirm that despite the fact that I have been in correspondence with the order since 2019, along with the fact that they know I am seeking pertinent information, they have not contacted me. I shall reflect on their Press Release and provide comment in the coming days

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Dr Claire McGettrick Born Lorraine Hughes @cmcgettrick.bsky.social · 17d

1) We founded JFM in 2003 when we learned about anomalies at the High Park graves, exposed by Mary Raftery. 22 yrs later, the Srs of Our Lady of Charity (OLC) say they’ve rectified errors & omissions at their Glasnevin graves. A few initial observations:

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Press Release – Good Shepherd Sisters

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