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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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Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 1h

And this is also true in the field of #Consumer politics across Europe; the voices have withered away. There are very few voices left.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2h

The same thing has happened to the Labour Party and the BBC. It's as if some vitiating mist has crept across the political landscape, sucking the courage out of all the institutions it touches. Perhaps it's neoliberalism. Perhaps it's the growing wealth and power of the very rich.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 19h

#painting "Clontarf Shelter" came out of a cycle one morning from Howth harbour home to Dublin west, when I stopped a few times along the promenade at Clontarf to enjoy the architecture of the wind shelters, resolving to paint one when I got home. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #WindowsOnWednesday

Landscape format in acrylic, loosely painted and textured with a palette knife. A narrow horizontal strip of grey running across the centre is a promenade with a low dark brown wall on the far edge, a pale blue river on the other side of the wall, a narrow lilac band of land, and the top third being blue sky. The near side of the promenade is a lawn of various greens. In the centre at the promenade facing the river is a very pale green concrete shelter in 5 vertical segments, with two of them having a port hole through which we can see the river. The top is a brighter shade of green into yellow as the shelter curves into a roof. To the left of the shelter is a straight ornate lamp-post. Signed bottom right: Liam Daly

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Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 2d

#Gaza

If you read nothing else today....
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 2d

#U105radio #frank_broadcast

Thnx4opp2talkabt: #EU's #EES & UK Passports

🛂Started 12/10/25
🛂CountsU in/out, no passport stamps
🛂Scan's: passport, f/prints (not/u12), photo
🛂Delays? Possibly. Long-run in w/slippage
🛂Irish Passports? (tinyurl.com/2cewmksd)
🛂Be informed. Be Prepared. Be Resilient

Frank Brehany @consumerfrank.bsky.social · 2d

In my latest #Substack article, I discuss the current crop of media commentary about the EU's Entry/Exit System:
frankbrehany.substack.com/p/the-lament...

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 5d

#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 · 5d