Brendan Minish
@b_minish
Company director, Linux sysadmin, Amateur Radio Enthusiast, Drugs policy reform advocate. #CADrugsUse @[email protected]
Yesterday the minister @ColmBurkeTD went on RTE R1 drivetime to make excuses for our grave policy failures. By comparing our EU leading Death rate with Scotland (now not in the EU) Shocking complicit stuff from the 3rd minister in 4 years. From 1:45:25 rte.ie/radio/radio1/d…

Garda Lorcan Muphy (32, sorry no pic) from Pearse Street Garda Station has been found guilty by a jury of assaulting a teenager in 2021. Garda Murphy had pleaded 'not guilty'. Sentencing later in 2025, Murphy released on bail, faces up to 5 years in prison.
Another Dublin garda before the courts for assaulting a teenager. Garda Lorcan Murphy (32) of Pearse Street Garda Station pleading 'not guilty'. Sorry, no pic. The alleged assault on the 17-year old was in June 2021. Trial continues.
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What do the far wiser folk garner from the new 2025 to 2040 "National Plan" revision, given it sets in place Housing + Economic #'s for next 20 years? @davidmcw @Keyes @joehas More wealth for some. Less + less homes for young. Ireland civil servants can't still grasp growth?
I signed up to @optery to remove my personal information from data brokers. Instead, they gave it to them. Here's an email from @Meltwater - from whose database I had previously worked very hard to remove my information.
I'm drawing the line that it's possible to be anti-semitic to fucking arms dealers
I am appalled by the outrageous and antisemitic incident at the international arms exhibition in Paris, where the booths of Israeli companies were concealed behind black walls. This discriminatory act singled out Israel while representatives of other countries were freely allowed…
This speaker at Limerick anti-migrant demo asked the assembled crowd if they were 'proud of the people they descended from.' The demo was literally called by Gerard McNamara, in a green cap beside him. McNamara bludgeoned his own father to death. A true patriot of Ireland
In the last 7 days you've bombed Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, the West Bank and Iran and yet you're the victim....
Israeli civilians are currently being targeted by the Iranian regime. The world cannot stay silent.
For anyone interested in documentary photography. Derry 1981… from my old negatives #35mmfilm #documentary #photography #35mm #leica #Derry #Ireland
Unhoused people don't make me feel unsafe , It's living in a world where people are against housing them that makes me feel unsafe.
Simon Harris in late April authorised a US military plane to land at Shannon Airport It was bringing US general Michael Kurilla to Tel Aviv to meet senior Israeli officials to discuss military action against Iran
Today (24 April) Foreign affairs minister Simon Harris authorised a US military plane to land at Shannon Airport – even though it was bringing general Michael Kurilla to Tel Aviv to meet senior Israeli defence officials for discussions on Gaza and military action against Iran
Dave Fanning will be setting up a service where he'll turn up at your funeral and tell everyone the deceased is an arsehole.
Dave Fanning descring Brian Wilson as being "not all there" on Newstalk just now is insensitive at best given he surely knows the background story of what happened to the Wilson brothers
Cannabis does not CAUSE psychosis The Lancet "Most reports examining associations between cannabis and psychosis have been unable to adjust for confounding that arises from correlated genetic and environmental individual differences."... "By not acknowledging the alternative,…
“The agencies said that harm reduction measures, such as drug-checking services, are “crucial” to reduce the harm from taking MDMA, the chemical name for ecstasy” @CormacJOKeeffe irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4160…
Not only is the password on Hegseth's Russian email address the same as his verified personal Gmail account but the phone verification number for the Russian email is a +7 country code (Russia). Why does Hegseth have a Russian phone number?
The email is linked to a russian phone number (+7) and a Proton inbox. Concerning. Looking into this
It is five years since the Government announced that it was working on a new national security strategy but the new Programme for Government, instead of committing to producing the strategy commits to a review. Read more here: jrnl.ie/6596865t
The Programme for Government commits to giving Gardaí controversial live Facial Recognition Technology (FRT). This represents a deeply troubling u-turn: in June 2023, the Minister for Justice vowed that this would not happen. breakingnews.ie/ireland/mcente…