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Brendan

@brenkinse.bsky.social
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Trade unionist, Leftist. He/They ADHD PBP 🇵🇸

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Radical Unreasonable Communist Unions Demand Wages That Match The Job waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/09/3…
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 30/09/2026
Oireachtas committee hears the Ireland WNT (on Nations League trip in 2023) were stalked in Budapest, to extent that a man wearing only a towel walked into a room where a player was due to receive a massage. FAI's Aoife Rafferty says she has no recollection of the FAI being contacted over this.
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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
'To make the government look like the good guy, Harris has to make it seem like there’s some malevolent cohort of lazy, gadabout ne’er-do-wells out there, and the budget will finally rescue us from them. The only problem is that no such cohort exists in any meaningful way." Surrealing:
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We can never get up early enough to truly satisfy them
This week’s targets include poor children, imaginary lazy people and, of course, immigrants.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It is though. It's entirely based in the mistrust of people perceived as different.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
His tenure as Justice Minister has been, cruel, racist, and utterly contemptible.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Was able to do a little artwork last week and finally got this one out of my head and on the screen. A 'pints around the world' piece to celebrate the Choctaw people. Aithniítear cara i gcruatán - a friend is recognised in hardship. #Choctaw #Ireland #Pints #Stout www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1834...
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
For any newspaper columnists and opinion sheets editors who might be listening: you know don't have to publish something about that Channel 4 show that suggests beating kids is better than treating them for ADHD?
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Think data centres use a lot of water? But these two useful industries use way more water than the CSAM generation machines!
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"Ireland for the Irish" lot copying their worldview, behaviours and ideology wholesale from the Americans again. It's what Pádraig Pearse would have wanted...
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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"What is striking is not just that deprived areas host some data centres: it is that they host almost all of them. Nearly 90% of Dublin’s data centres are located in economically-deprived areas."
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Nearly 90% of Dublin’s data centres are in economically-deprived areas
In March, global data centre and colocation provider Equinix announced construction of a new data centre in Dublin’s Blanchardstown neighbourhood (Equinix, 2026).
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Trading with the Occupied Territories is illegal under international law. He's not only refusing to sanction Israel, he's refusing to uphold our basic responsibilities as a nation.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
You would think that at some point while you're ironing out the GDPR implications of discrimination your conscience would kick in and you'd give up on the whole thing.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
They killed him. They knelt on his throat. There is no way to sell that other than intending to do serious harm. There needs to be prosecutions and Arnott's needs to explain what kind of training their security is getting.
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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 16/05/2026
In its case for leaving Wood Quay for new HQ, the council is ignoring a government retrofit grant, says councillor. The Department of Environment has said it will fund up to 50 percent of the costs of retrofitting projects for public buildings.
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In its case for leaving Wood Quay for new HQ, council is ignoring retrofit grant, says councillor
The Department of Environment has said it will fund up to 50 percent of the costs of retrofitting projects for public buildings.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Hard to argue with him here.
Graph showing explosion of homelessness in Ireland. Brief improvement around covid and sharp increase following Fine Fáil entering government.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Watching the British local elections results come in and really regretting wishing on a monkey paw for Starmer out.
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Monkeys Paw Grabs
ALT: Monkeys Paw Grabs
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The Stephens Green redevelopment is just another in a long list of developers attempts to ruin the city, and it demonstrates a need for greater public oversight in the planning process. There's something broken with the management of the city when things that make it unique are cast aside so easily.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I hope to never meet the kind of pathetic egotist this vision of AI appeals to.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I am convinced the number of times car alarms have prevented theft is infinitesimally smaller than the number of times they've been set off for no reason. If it was even 100:1 I would be shocked.
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Ballroom Grift. By all accounts, super lax security at last night's WHCD, gunman gets in, gets neutralized, Felonious Pedolf calls a presser to push his ballroom grift, and BOOM, right wing Twitter immediately goes to work in chorus. What a crock of shit
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Having had to walk by these protests to get to work, we shouldn't touch them with a ten-foot bargepole. I'll just say I was unsurprised when I heard there was an incident with people related to the protest abusing the MSoE and leave it at that.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
No other group in the country could block O'Connell Street all day like the IFA has. The fact they can get away with it shows they have the political clout to have their demands met without ruining everyone else's day.
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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 01/04/2026
Documents say asylum law centre was in “unprecedented crisis”. The Legal Aid Board tried to hide it with redactions. A technical fail made it easy to reveal what sat behind the black rectangles. The board said it redacted accounts that weren’t “evidence-based”. www.dublininquirer.com/documents-sa...
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Documents say asylum law centre was in “unprecedented crisis”. The Legal Aid Board tried to hide this with redactions.
A spokesperson for the board said it redacted accounts that weren’t “evidence-based” and had not tried to “hide or trivialise the scale of any crisis”.
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 25/03/2026
I cannot tell you how much the requirement to advertise jobs before applying for work permits is a pointless exercise aimed at placating racists, which does nothing but delay and prevent jobs from being filled with people qualified for them who happen to be non-EEA citizens
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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
As ICE apprehends more children every day, it raises a simple question that’s also one of grave moral concern: What does detention do to a child’s health? "I see a regression of developmental milestones. They don’t want to eat. They have problems sleeping. They wake up screaming,” one doctor said.
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What ICE Detention Does to a Child
Stunted growth. Nightmares. Bed-wetting. These are just a few of the symptoms of children held in immigration custody.
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Pat Leahy: "The Irish people do not want the Taoiseach to criticise Trump to his face and never will vote for anyone who will" Meanwhile, in the real world:
RedC poll from February 2026 showing a 55-24 split in favour of "Micheál Martin publicly challenging Donald Trump on American policies that don’t align with Irish values while in the White House on St. Patrick’s Day?"
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
In my capacity as a communications professional I would advise against making an argument on the character of others after you've hired Peter Mandelson.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
That a vast swathe of our commentariat feel emboldened to complain about our President having called out war crimes as war crimes is a sign of social and moral decay. Too many have bought into the idea that pragmatism is the same as being callow and callous.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Merz joining Trump's attacks on Spain typifies Germany's attitude to the EU. They prioritise their own short term interests over the integrity of the EU. We need to deepen our ties with Spain and form a bloc to be a counterweight to german power within the EU before their stupidity tears it apart.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I honestly think taxing the super-rich out of existence is for their own good. That amount of money seems to do something deeply unpleasant to human brains.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
It is shocking how competent they've made the Bush administration look.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Anyone who thinks positive regime change is possible in Iran should remember the US-Israel axis replaced Bashar al-Assad with an Islamic State remnant in Syria.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Interesting to see what the current EU regime will do. Do they prioritise their neo-colonial ambitions or protect the integrity of the union by backing up an uncooperative member state. One of their greatest foreign policy goals is now completely at odds with the continued existence of the union.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Quite probably the most despicable person in Irish politics that never identified as a citizen journalist.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I'm not surprised, but I'm still disgusted by the eagerness of western powers to repeat the Iraq War with Iran knowing exactly what happened last time, and knowing it will be far worse this time if the US and Israel are allowed to continue to escalate.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Those who fail turn learn from history (Israelis attacking French fans in the Stade de France a little over a year ago) are doomed to repeat it.
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Bernie Linnane @berlinnaeus.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Sunday Independent...
Reading reports that last week's dreadful shooting in Canada had been carried out by a transgender teenager, my heart sank, as I knew there were some in the media who would weaponise this tragedy against trans people in general. As I read Brenda Power's first column for your paper today, I scanned for even the smallest expression of sympathy for the families bereaved by such a senseless act, but none was forthcoming. Instead, it seems, Ms Power used the shooting as a pretext to shoehorn in as much anti-trans sentiment as her word-count would allow. Is this a taste of things to come? 

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Dromahair, Co. Leitrim.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The next time you hear some politician blaming pearl mussels or the Habitats Directive for flooding disasters, might be a good time to point this out to to them.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
It's one of the greatest failings of the age that extreme incompetence is generally accepted as a decent defence from the people running the world. "I didn't know what the lads cooking the burgers were up to" would get an assistant manager fired from McDonalds, but it's fine for world leaders.
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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
'Granted, if our problem were orcs or the Dark Lord Sauron or something, then it would be easier to sympathise with Martin’s insistence that he is not Gandalf. Until then, it seems fair enough to ask for some semblance of a real, timely solution.' This week's column is about Magic Wand Micheál.
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Surrealing in the Years: Oh good, something else that Magic Wand Micheál is powerless to solve
We’re not talking about orcs here, man.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
As anyone who has tried to get neurodiversity support from the state can tell you, our mental health care system is inadequate. I would still be waiting for ADHD treatment if I hadn't been able to put together the money to go private, and I would still be suffering from constant, crushing anxiety.
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 28/01/2026
I analysed the DoJ’s immigration chatbot for @iccl.bsky.social and the amount of seriously wrong information it gave was shocking even to me. The idea that people fleeing persecution would be expected to rely on a chatbot in lieu of actual legal advice is 😱😱😱 www.dublininquirer.com/chatbots-con...
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Chatbots considered for providing legal counselling to people seeking asylum, documents suggest
The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission doesn’t believe chatbots are suitable “in provision of legal counselling”, a spokesperson said.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
God, he's filleting out the most cruel and incompetent of the Conservative Party. I give it two years of a Reform government until even the DUP want to leave Britain.
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 21/01/2026
CC exercising homeric levels of self-restraint to not just shout "I Told You So" at everyone..
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Dept wants to put limits on recoverable costs, leaving people facing six-figure bills even when they win. That would be the end of public-interest environmental litigation, favouring wealthy and commercial interests, and undermining environmental protection. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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When councils won’t act, communities turn to nature to get justice
Environmental law has become the last line of defence against unauthorised quarrying, writes Eugene Farrell
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Note who was defending Harris here.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You wouldn't have high expectations of the live animal crib culture war minister, but even by his subterranean standards this is abysmal.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
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Brendan @brenkinse.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
If I were Christian I would be very upset by the fact you rarely see politicians follow the words "my Christian faith shows me" with something positive.
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