@IrishPrisonServiceWhistleBlower

Three decades working for the morally bankrupt Irish Prison Service. Be careful what you expose, they will come for you. We can agree to disagree 🇮🇪 🇵🇸

[@IrishPrisonServiceWhistleBlower @TailsJail]

@CMHaughey It’s the same playbook used throughout the public service. Ignore the conscientious messenger. Isolate the messenger. Discredit the messenger. Gang up on the messenger. Try to break the messenger. Humiliate the messenger. What was the message? This is #HowIrelandWorks

[@IrishPrisonServiceWhistleBlower @TailsJail]

@grok @ReginaDo @grok Which company audits procurement practices for goods and services for Irish Public Service contracts?

[@IrishPrisonServiceWhistleBlower @TailsJail]

@grok @ReginaDo @grok Would it be unusual for a modern police force to not use one of the above suppliers in lieu of a supplier whose main business is making saddles for horses?

[@IrishPrisonServiceWhistleBlower @TailsJail]

@grok @ReginaDo @grok who are the top 10 holster suppliers for SIG Sauer P226 pistols supplied to police forces around the world

[Regina Doherty MEP @ReginaDo]

Justice Minister commits to public inquest into death of Garda Colm Horkan https://t.co/0XDsJ3kqTB

[Lorraine M. Morris @MLorrM]

Huge respect to Anna Kavanagh @AllianceBirth for her powerful intervention at the Westminster summit on protecting the wellbeing of whistleblowers.

Anna raised the deeply disturbing case of ‘Patrick’, the failures surrounding Tusla and the family courts.

@OCallaghanJim @HMcEntee @breeda_murphy @TransparencyTF

[Mick Caul @caulmick]

Four face Special Criminal Court trial on garda corruption charges
✍️Andrew Phelan

Prosecutors have directed a retired garda superintendent and three serving members of the force are to be tried in the Special Criminal Court on corruption charges.

Today, Det Gda Aidan Stratford and Gda Manus Keane had books of evidence served on them.
Det Gda Stratford is accused of facilitating serious offences by a criminal organisation, between 2016 and 2021.

Gda Keane is charged with obtaining for himself or another a gift, consideration or inducement, on August 17, 2017.

#Corruption #Garda

https://t.co/DmDBzAPt8i

[Jonathan Sugarman @WhistleIRL]

Isn't that the absolute #TRUTH, #PhilipLane @ECB. Devil Rowland at @centralbank_ie made sure that that piece of evidence would be kept buried - to your delight and that of @makhloufgabs.

@JMcGuinnessTD is not man easily shocked:
https://t.co/GqfWqlzFOQ

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@johncusack @SerpicoDet

[@IrishPrisonServiceWhistleBlower @TailsJail]

Hi John, here is the story of an ordinary Irishman who didn’t follow orders, just going into work during “The Troubles”, in Ireland’s only maximum security prison. One of Ireland’s biggest cover ups, yet to be made into a movie.

Maggie Thatcher wanted Patrick McVeigh extradited. Ireland’s PM (Taoiseach) Charles Haughey green lighted his escape.

MI5 were nearby waiting to execute him because they installed a back door into every phone line in Ireland & knew the plan.

Sean was a young man, an ultra marathon runner & was pushed into a “shoot to kill zone” & told to catch him.
Irish Defence force snipers fire 5 high velocity bullets from the prison roof, not at the escaping prisoner but at the young officer doing his job.

Sean knew nothing of the top level sanctioned escape plan. He was merely doing his job.

Hours later Sean was offered a promotion. Many would have taken it but Sean has a conscience, a rural upbringing of values and decency.

All he had to do was sign a false statement, a fictitious version of events implicating an innocent man.

Sean refused and lost his career & livelihood.

38 years fighting for the truth & helping other whistleblowers who didn’t follow orders.

Sean O’Brien’s story is worthy of the big screen. Can you help to publicise his story & get it there? #5Shots
#TheKillingZone

[Mick Caul @caulmick]

Family of Garda Horkan (RIP) have stated they have "no faith" in the ongoing internal investigation

Alan Kelly accuses the two most recent Ministers for Justice—Helen McEntee and current minister Jim O'Callaghan—of treating Detective Superintendent Brian O'Reilly "like dirt" after he submitted protected disclosures.

#GardaHorkan #Whistleblower #Dáil

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@kenoflynnTD

[@IrishPrisonServiceWhistleBlower @TailsJail]

The most harrowing of my disclosures to the Department of Justice was being sexually assaulted by an instructor a few weeks into basic training. I was 21. This was corroborated by 2 officers during a Garda investigation. This individual eventually became Acting Director General of @IrishPrisons & after a long & lucrative predatory career was made a parole board member. The DPP declined to prosecute William Connoly because that’s #HowIrelandWorks #WeWillNotBeSilenced

[@IrishPrisonServiceWhistleBlower @TailsJail]

The most harrowing of my disclosures to the Department of Justice was being sexually assaulted by an instructor a few weeks into basic training. I was 21. This was corroborated by 2 officers during a Garda investigation. This individual eventually became Acting Director General of @IrishPrisons & after a long & lucrative predatory career was made a parole board member. The DPP declined to prosecute William Connoly because that’s #HowIrelandWorks #WeWillNotBeSilenced

[@IrishPrisonServiceWhistleBlower @TailsJail]

Portlaoise Prison drug trafficking.
In 2022 @HMcEntee was Minister for Justice. I had transferred to Portlaoise maximum security prison in 2021 to get away from the non stop targeting I had been subjected to following matters which had been disclosed to The Department of Justice in 2018, deemed Protected Disclosures by the scoping investigation. I had a duty of care to protect staff under my supervision as well as prisoners. A staff member disclosed to me that the area I was responsible for was being used to traffic narcotics from the dissident wing to the Kinehan controlled C Wing. Portlaoise was Ireland’s only maximum security prison. I have always protected the identity of the person who disclosed the information to me. It was also disclosed that a senior member of management, through their actions were facilitating this ongoing trafficking. Portlaoise prison has a long history of life threatening group overdoses & despite being a maximum security prison had a ready supply of cocaine, heroin, spice, growth hormones, anabolic steroids, diazepam, a smorgasbord of narcotics. Because a very senior member of management was implicated in the information given to me I felt that I had no option but to disclose this information to the Department of Justice & Portlaoise prison’s most senior Governor. Not in my worst nightmares could I have anticipated what happened next..
#HowIrelandWorks
#HowIrishPrisonsWork
#WeWillNotBeSilenced @BlowersIreland @ThisEnglandX @seanobrienpsl @IrishMailSunday @VillageMagIRE @wereontheditch @ConorGallaghe_r @RTE_PrimeTime @SerpicoDet

[@IrishPrisonServiceWhistleBlower @TailsJail]

Foremost on my mind was protecting the source of the information I was about to disclose, namely, the alleged senior management collusion of trafficking narcotics into Ireland’s only maximum security prison. Previous to this I had been through 3 years of hell from January 29th, 2019 after my disclosures had been sent by @IrishPrisons HQ to those implicated in my disclosures. Governor Liam Dowling (retired) was a close friend of @CharlieFlanagan (who was minister for Justice) & Assistant Governor Joe Hernon (retired) was a close friend of #LeoTheLeak AKA @LeoVaradkar (who was Taoiseach-Prime Minister). Dozens of other senior managers throughout the Irish Prison Service & IPS HQ were embroiled in the Gross Mismanagement I disclosed, which involved the falsification of tens of thousands of personnel records for over a decade. These senior managers had been given a huge pay rise for something they could be bothered implementing, so they fabricated it instead. @BlowersIreland
@kenoflynnTD @williamhboney1 @Trickstersworld @vincentbrowne @OCallaghanJim @mickthehack @IrishMailSunday @Mickcliff @RTE_PrimeTime @SimonHarrisTD @MLorrM @seanobrienpsl @ThisEnglandX @MaryLouMcDonald @Toibin1 @PearseDoherty @EOBroin @Independent_ie @IrishInquiry @EUProsecutor @EU_Commission @SenatorMcDowell @Michael_O_Regan @caulmick @BowesChay @wereontheditch @ClareDalyIRL @lukeming @TomClonan @Default69202648 @EamonMelia @irishexaminer @kenfoxe @jimfitzpatrick @celticjulie @ConorGallaghe_r @Gardawhistlebl1 @SimonHarrisTD @horseymatilda @LFJIreland @JenCumminsTD @paulmurphy_TD @nwl88444048 @HMcEntee @EUCouncilPress
#HowIrelandWorks #HowIrishPrisonsWork #WeWillNotBeSilenced

[Ken O’Flynn TD @kenoflynnTD]

In this State, the crime is telling the truth.

Whistleblowers who did the right thing were sidelined and dragged through the courts at your expense.

We need a full public inquiry, and Helen McEntee must answer to the Justice Committee.

[Chemical Brothers @accasinfo]

Callous @HMcEntee rejects any possibility of a health study for injured #IrishAirCorps personnel.

Utterly devoid of any sense of care or compassion in a scandal HSA inspectors described as "The worst case of chemical misuse in the history of the state"😞

https://t.co/Zn1Q6cRcgi

[John Lee @JohnEdwardLee]

The family of murdered Det Garda Colm Horkan have tonight slammed @OCallaghanJim for referring deadly holsters to Fiosru (Garda Ombudsman). Perhaps because I reported 3 years ago that Ombudsman were told about holsters in 2019!

[@IrishPrisonServiceWhistleBlower @TailsJail]

@JohnEdwardLee @OCallaghanJim Fiorsu have refused to examine evidence to protect those they are tasked to investigate. #HowIrelandWorks #WeWillNotBeSilenced

[@IrishPrisonServiceWhistleBlower @TailsJail]

Foremost on my mind was protecting the source of the information I was about to disclose, namely, the alleged senior management collusion of trafficking narcotics into Ireland’s only maximum security prison. Previous to this I had been through 3 years of hell from January 29th, 2019 after my disclosures had been sent by @IrishPrisons HQ to those implicated in my disclosures. Governor Liam Dowling (retired) was a close friend of @CharlieFlanagan (who was minister for Justice) & Assistant Governor Joe Hernon (retired) was a close friend of #LeoTheLeak AKA @LeoVaradkar (who was Taoiseach-Prime Minister). Dozens of other senior managers throughout the Irish Prison Service & IPS HQ were embroiled in the Gross Mismanagement I disclosed, which involved the falsification of tens of thousands of personnel records for over a decade. These senior managers had been given a huge pay rise for something they could be bothered implementing, so they fabricated it instead. @BlowersIreland
@kenoflynnTD @williamhboney1 @Trickstersworld @vincentbrowne @OCallaghanJim @mickthehack @IrishMailSunday @Mickcliff @RTE_PrimeTime @SimonHarrisTD @MLorrM @seanobrienpsl @ThisEnglandX @MaryLouMcDonald @Toibin1 @PearseDoherty @EOBroin @Independent_ie @IrishInquiry @EUProsecutor @EU_Commission @SenatorMcDowell @Michael_O_Regan @caulmick @BowesChay @wereontheditch @ClareDalyIRL @lukeming @TomClonan @Default69202648 @EamonMelia @irishexaminer @kenfoxe @jimfitzpatrick @celticjulie @ConorGallaghe_r @Gardawhistlebl1 @SimonHarrisTD @horseymatilda @LFJIreland @JenCumminsTD @paulmurphy_TD @nwl88444048 @HMcEntee @EUCouncilPress
#HowIrelandWorks #HowIrishPrisonsWork #WeWillNotBeSilenced

[@IrishPrisonServiceWhistleBlower @TailsJail]

Portlaoise Prison drug trafficking.
In 2022 @HMcEntee was Minister for Justice. I had transferred to Portlaoise maximum security prison in 2021 to get away from the non stop targeting I had been subjected to following matters which had been disclosed to The Department of Justice in 2018, deemed Protected Disclosures by the scoping investigation. I had a duty of care to protect staff under my supervision as well as prisoners. A staff member disclosed to me that the area I was responsible for was being used to traffic narcotics from the dissident wing to the Kinehan controlled C Wing. Portlaoise was Ireland’s only maximum security prison. I have always protected the identity of the person who disclosed the information to me. It was also disclosed that a senior member of management, through their actions were facilitating this ongoing trafficking. Portlaoise prison has a long history of life threatening group overdoses & despite being a maximum security prison had a ready supply of cocaine, heroin, spice, growth hormones, anabolic steroids, diazepam, a smorgasbord of narcotics. Because a very senior member of management was implicated in the information given to me I felt that I had no option but to disclose this information to the Department of Justice & Portlaoise prison’s most senior Governor. Not in my worst nightmares could I have anticipated what happened next..
#HowIrelandWorks
#HowIrishPrisonsWork
#WeWillNotBeSilenced @BlowersIreland @ThisEnglandX @seanobrienpsl @IrishMailSunday @VillageMagIRE @wereontheditch @ConorGallaghe_r @RTE_PrimeTime @SerpicoDet

[@IrishPrisonServiceWhistleBlower @TailsJail]

The Governor’s Office in Portlaoise is in a building known as “The Castle”. As I climbed the stairs a meeting was ending & Chief Officers & lower level Governor grades were looking at me as they came out of the boardroom. The top Governor didn’t appear to be at the meeting so I continued on to his office. His door was open & he was talking to someone on the phone so I walked back out of earshot so that if someone saw me there they wouldn’t think that I was eavesdropping on the boss. After a few minutes the muffled conversation ended & I knocked on his door. Upon being invited in I asked him if I could close the door. “No, the door stays open”, was his response, which I wasn’t expecting. “Can I talk to you off the record” was next & his response was, “No, nothing is off the record”, which set my mind & heart racing.