Patrick Bresnihan
@pbresnihan.bsky.social
Lecturer Geography // climate, land + energy // political ecology, environmental justice // From the Bog to the Cloud (2025)
The EU is implementing an emergency plan for 'Military Mobility' that would effectively mean Ireland waiving checks on munitions or military equipment moving through our territory.
A wartime measure pushed through without any clear public scrutiny, undermining our neutrality.
A wartime measure pushed through without any clear public scrutiny, undermining our neutrality.
November 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The EU is implementing an emergency plan for 'Military Mobility' that would effectively mean Ireland waiving checks on munitions or military equipment moving through our territory.
A wartime measure pushed through without any clear public scrutiny, undermining our neutrality.
A wartime measure pushed through without any clear public scrutiny, undermining our neutrality.
This Friday in the County Museum Dundalk.
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This Friday in the County Museum Dundalk.
30 years ago this month Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9 were executed for protesting oil extraction by Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta.
This poem written for Sister Majella McCarron connecting the anti-colonial 'hunger for justice and peace' from Ireland to Nigeria.
This poem written for Sister Majella McCarron connecting the anti-colonial 'hunger for justice and peace' from Ireland to Nigeria.
November 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
30 years ago this month Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9 were executed for protesting oil extraction by Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta.
This poem written for Sister Majella McCarron connecting the anti-colonial 'hunger for justice and peace' from Ireland to Nigeria.
This poem written for Sister Majella McCarron connecting the anti-colonial 'hunger for justice and peace' from Ireland to Nigeria.
Article with @dondeniamh.bsky.social & Rory Rowan in today's Irish Times - a response to the relentless media commentary deriding Ireland's neutrality.
As Catherine Connolly, and the movement behind her, has shown, neutrality remains popular. Something to build on, not abandon.
As Catherine Connolly, and the movement behind her, has shown, neutrality remains popular. Something to build on, not abandon.
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Article with @dondeniamh.bsky.social & Rory Rowan in today's Irish Times - a response to the relentless media commentary deriding Ireland's neutrality.
As Catherine Connolly, and the movement behind her, has shown, neutrality remains popular. Something to build on, not abandon.
As Catherine Connolly, and the movement behind her, has shown, neutrality remains popular. Something to build on, not abandon.
I really hope so.
'The book is a key tool in the struggle for environmental justice framed by a vision of a better, fairer Ireland in a better, fairer world.’
Robbie McVeigh
www.connollybooks.org/product/from...
'The book is a key tool in the struggle for environmental justice framed by a vision of a better, fairer Ireland in a better, fairer world.’
Robbie McVeigh
www.connollybooks.org/product/from...
November 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I really hope so.
'The book is a key tool in the struggle for environmental justice framed by a vision of a better, fairer Ireland in a better, fairer world.’
Robbie McVeigh
www.connollybooks.org/product/from...
'The book is a key tool in the struggle for environmental justice framed by a vision of a better, fairer Ireland in a better, fairer world.’
Robbie McVeigh
www.connollybooks.org/product/from...
Eoin Drea, senior researcher with the official think-tank of the European People’s Party (EPP) of which Fine Gael is a member, writing in today's Irish Times that the normalisation of genocide and the end of neutrality are 'necessary' for us to align with the EU.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Eoin Drea, senior researcher with the official think-tank of the European People’s Party (EPP) of which Fine Gael is a member, writing in today's Irish Times that the normalisation of genocide and the end of neutrality are 'necessary' for us to align with the EU.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1968, Frank Aiken said it was 'a practical & vital step away from war and towards a peaceful and cooperative world that all people desire.'
Today, Fianna Fail are removing the Triple Lock so Irish troops can fight in EU/NATO wars.
Today, Fianna Fail are removing the Triple Lock so Irish troops can fight in EU/NATO wars.
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1968, Frank Aiken said it was 'a practical & vital step away from war and towards a peaceful and cooperative world that all people desire.'
Today, Fianna Fail are removing the Triple Lock so Irish troops can fight in EU/NATO wars.
Today, Fianna Fail are removing the Triple Lock so Irish troops can fight in EU/NATO wars.
Book Launch for 'From The Bog To The Cloud' is in Connolly Books on Wednesday, November 26th.
Pat and I will be in conversation with Conor McCabe and Eugenia Siapera. Should be good!
www.connollybooks.org/product/from...
Pat and I will be in conversation with Conor McCabe and Eugenia Siapera. Should be good!
www.connollybooks.org/product/from...
November 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Book Launch for 'From The Bog To The Cloud' is in Connolly Books on Wednesday, November 26th.
Pat and I will be in conversation with Conor McCabe and Eugenia Siapera. Should be good!
www.connollybooks.org/product/from...
Pat and I will be in conversation with Conor McCabe and Eugenia Siapera. Should be good!
www.connollybooks.org/product/from...
De Valera, speaking to us from 1945.
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
De Valera, speaking to us from 1945.
This Wednesday in Sligo - the 'peacemongers' are out again fighting to preserve Irish neutrality.
12.30-2pm in ATU.
12.30-2pm in ATU.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This Wednesday in Sligo - the 'peacemongers' are out again fighting to preserve Irish neutrality.
12.30-2pm in ATU.
12.30-2pm in ATU.
Meanwhile, venture capital is flowing into the arms industry because the it is a profitable sector with massive political and financial backing by the EU. We need to be downscaling this kind of anti-social, ecologically destructive investment, not facilitating it. 3/4
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Meanwhile, venture capital is flowing into the arms industry because the it is a profitable sector with massive political and financial backing by the EU. We need to be downscaling this kind of anti-social, ecologically destructive investment, not facilitating it. 3/4
We don't have warships because we don't engage in war.
The greatest risk to our security is the continuing slide away from active neutrality that FF/FG are intent on pursuing.
The greatest risk to our security is the continuing slide away from active neutrality that FF/FG are intent on pursuing.
November 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
We don't have warships because we don't engage in war.
The greatest risk to our security is the continuing slide away from active neutrality that FF/FG are intent on pursuing.
The greatest risk to our security is the continuing slide away from active neutrality that FF/FG are intent on pursuing.
Worth acknowledging the fundamentally anti-democratic posture of so much of the mainstream commentariat in Ireland - far more concerned with what the US, UK and EU political elite think, than with what Irish people value and support.
November 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Worth acknowledging the fundamentally anti-democratic posture of so much of the mainstream commentariat in Ireland - far more concerned with what the US, UK and EU political elite think, than with what Irish people value and support.
We actually have quite a few socially owned shops in Ireland already. We just need more of them, better supported by the state.
November 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
We actually have quite a few socially owned shops in Ireland already. We just need more of them, better supported by the state.
Stephen Collins actually wrote the exact same piece in February. Aren't we lucky to have such sharp and rigorous journalists.
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Stephen Collins actually wrote the exact same piece in February. Aren't we lucky to have such sharp and rigorous journalists.
Since Catherine Connolly's election, the anti-democratic rhetoric from UK and EU commentators concerning Irish foreign policy has spiked.
Today the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, think tank for the centre-right European People’s Party.
www.politico.eu/article/angl...
Today the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, think tank for the centre-right European People’s Party.
www.politico.eu/article/angl...
October 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Since Catherine Connolly's election, the anti-democratic rhetoric from UK and EU commentators concerning Irish foreign policy has spiked.
Today the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, think tank for the centre-right European People’s Party.
www.politico.eu/article/angl...
Today the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, think tank for the centre-right European People’s Party.
www.politico.eu/article/angl...
By removing the Triple Lock, the Irish Govnt will not only erode our neutrality but also undermine the UN at a time of escalating militarism and conflict.
This short book by a former UN diplomat and MEP is good for explaining why this is wrong.
ipb.org/new-publicat...
This short book by a former UN diplomat and MEP is good for explaining why this is wrong.
ipb.org/new-publicat...
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
By removing the Triple Lock, the Irish Govnt will not only erode our neutrality but also undermine the UN at a time of escalating militarism and conflict.
This short book by a former UN diplomat and MEP is good for explaining why this is wrong.
ipb.org/new-publicat...
This short book by a former UN diplomat and MEP is good for explaining why this is wrong.
ipb.org/new-publicat...
@catherinegalway.bsky.social won the election because she expresses values held by the majority of Irish people which have been ignored by the Government. Neutrality is central to that.
Follow this link and email FF TDs telling them this. It takes 2 mins.
action.uplift.ie/campaigns/ff...
Follow this link and email FF TDs telling them this. It takes 2 mins.
action.uplift.ie/campaigns/ff...
October 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
@catherinegalway.bsky.social won the election because she expresses values held by the majority of Irish people which have been ignored by the Government. Neutrality is central to that.
Follow this link and email FF TDs telling them this. It takes 2 mins.
action.uplift.ie/campaigns/ff...
Follow this link and email FF TDs telling them this. It takes 2 mins.
action.uplift.ie/campaigns/ff...
Two days after @catherinegalway.bsky.social landslide Presidential victory, this article is published by RUSI, a UK defence and security think tank, advising Brussels and UK to 'accelerate planning for a SF-led Government' and then concludes with this chilling line.
www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
October 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Two days after @catherinegalway.bsky.social landslide Presidential victory, this article is published by RUSI, a UK defence and security think tank, advising Brussels and UK to 'accelerate planning for a SF-led Government' and then concludes with this chilling line.
www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
V useful interactive map showing the extent of Chinese energy projects across Africa - main takeaway being that the vast majority are wind, solar, hydro and biomass.
africaenergy.chinaglobalsouth.com
africaenergy.chinaglobalsouth.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
V useful interactive map showing the extent of Chinese energy projects across Africa - main takeaway being that the vast majority are wind, solar, hydro and biomass.
africaenergy.chinaglobalsouth.com
africaenergy.chinaglobalsouth.com
Paulie Doyle, Pat Brodie and me have written a report for @uplift.ie for their Neutrality Files project.
In it, we explain why there is such a gap between consistent public support for Palestine and the absence of any material actions taken by the Irish Government against Israel? 🧵
In it, we explain why there is such a gap between consistent public support for Palestine and the absence of any material actions taken by the Irish Government against Israel? 🧵
October 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Paulie Doyle, Pat Brodie and me have written a report for @uplift.ie for their Neutrality Files project.
In it, we explain why there is such a gap between consistent public support for Palestine and the absence of any material actions taken by the Irish Government against Israel? 🧵
In it, we explain why there is such a gap between consistent public support for Palestine and the absence of any material actions taken by the Irish Government against Israel? 🧵
This headline is from The Guardian and it repeats a tired line we've seen in our own broadsheets.
If any of these journalists had been at the Ceol for Connolly last night they'd have found a packed Vicar St made up of a young, diverse audience hopeful for a new Republic.
If any of these journalists had been at the Ceol for Connolly last night they'd have found a packed Vicar St made up of a young, diverse audience hopeful for a new Republic.
October 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This headline is from The Guardian and it repeats a tired line we've seen in our own broadsheets.
If any of these journalists had been at the Ceol for Connolly last night they'd have found a packed Vicar St made up of a young, diverse audience hopeful for a new Republic.
If any of these journalists had been at the Ceol for Connolly last night they'd have found a packed Vicar St made up of a young, diverse audience hopeful for a new Republic.
This report published by Amnesty in 2002 already highlighted the role that Ireland played in the arms industry through the export of 'dual use' technology - including through trade w/ Israel. We are much more embedded in this war economy today and the Govnt only wants to advance that.
October 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This report published by Amnesty in 2002 already highlighted the role that Ireland played in the arms industry through the export of 'dual use' technology - including through trade w/ Israel. We are much more embedded in this war economy today and the Govnt only wants to advance that.