Thanks Jason,
I had a fundamental misunderstanding of how to use the Flirc, I thought it had to be configured on the machine you intended to use it with. I was able to set it up on my MBP running Yosemite and use it on my Mini running 10.6.8. I would note for anyone else who stumbles across this post that it would not have been possible for me to set this up using only the Mac Mini running 10.6.8.