Thomas Pringle
@thomaspringle.bsky.social
Independent - Donegal
(he/him)
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Grateful for this woman's emotion and clarity.
'Everyone deserves to have a safe home, no matter what country you come from.'
www.rte.ie/video/id/288...
'Everyone deserves to have a safe home, no matter what country you come from.'
www.rte.ie/video/id/288...
Drogheda resident: How can anyone just be so cruel?
www.rte.ie
November 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Grateful for this woman's emotion and clarity.
'Everyone deserves to have a safe home, no matter what country you come from.'
www.rte.ie/video/id/288...
'Everyone deserves to have a safe home, no matter what country you come from.'
www.rte.ie/video/id/288...
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54 Palestinian bodies previously held by Israeli forces show clear signs of torture.
October 29, 2025 at 7:15 AM
54 Palestinian bodies previously held by Israeli forces show clear signs of torture.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Imagine having voted for every policy that increased child homelessness by 100% in just 4yrs - and let’s not forget the lifting of the no-fault eviction ban that is the main driver of homelessness - and thinking that you have the high moral ground on the housing crisis…
October 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Imagine having voted for every policy that increased child homelessness by 100% in just 4yrs - and let’s not forget the lifting of the no-fault eviction ban that is the main driver of homelessness - and thinking that you have the high moral ground on the housing crisis…
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One thing this election seems to be showing is that the influence of the Indo, Mail etc has declined considerably. Nobody is listening anymore. #aras25
October 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
One thing this election seems to be showing is that the influence of the Indo, Mail etc has declined considerably. Nobody is listening anymore. #aras25
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There are four barristers in the cabinet, including Jim O'Callaghan. If they had an ounce of gumption they'd speak up about the nonsense FG are sprouting. #aras25
Fine Gael have attacked politician barristers for who they have represented in the course of their legal duties before.
Targetting Jim O’Callagahan in 2020:
www.newstalk.com/news/ffs-oca...
Targetting Jim O’Callagahan in 2020:
www.newstalk.com/news/ffs-oca...
FF's O'Callaghan says refusing to represent someone legally over politics would breach barristers' code | Newstalk
Fianna Fáil's Jim O'Callaghan says it would be a breach of his profession's code of conduct if h...
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October 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
There are four barristers in the cabinet, including Jim O'Callaghan. If they had an ounce of gumption they'd speak up about the nonsense FG are sprouting. #aras25
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Fine Gael know all this, but they think the Irish electorate is too thick to understand the nuance of it, so they attacked CC anyway.
Remember what they think of you when you go to the ballot box.
Remember what they think of you when you go to the ballot box.
RTE finally had a barrister on this morning who confirmed that barristers are 1) required to take clients in their area of expertise and 2) have a duty of confidentiality and shouldn't talk about their own cases.
FG is undermining the rule of law with their attacks.
#Aras25 #SpeirGorm
FG is undermining the rule of law with their attacks.
#Aras25 #SpeirGorm
www.lawlibrary.ie/statement-fr...
barristers should not be identified with their clients or their clients’ causes or suffer adverse consequences as a result of being so identified.
Cc Fiacha Gall
barristers should not be identified with their clients or their clients’ causes or suffer adverse consequences as a result of being so identified.
Cc Fiacha Gall
October 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Fine Gael know all this, but they think the Irish electorate is too thick to understand the nuance of it, so they attacked CC anyway.
Remember what they think of you when you go to the ballot box.
Remember what they think of you when you go to the ballot box.
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The Ditch x Village Magazine
Heather Humphreys honoured a disgraced ex-garda after he was accused of extreme domestic violence and found by a tribunal to have corruptly organised planting weapons and fabricated evidence.
An ‘exceptional award’ she said.
www.ontheditch.com/humphreys-ho...
Heather Humphreys honoured a disgraced ex-garda after he was accused of extreme domestic violence and found by a tribunal to have corruptly organised planting weapons and fabricated evidence.
An ‘exceptional award’ she said.
www.ontheditch.com/humphreys-ho...
Humphreys honoured disgraced garda
The garda was accused of extreme domestic violence.
www.ontheditch.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The Ditch x Village Magazine
Heather Humphreys honoured a disgraced ex-garda after he was accused of extreme domestic violence and found by a tribunal to have corruptly organised planting weapons and fabricated evidence.
An ‘exceptional award’ she said.
www.ontheditch.com/humphreys-ho...
Heather Humphreys honoured a disgraced ex-garda after he was accused of extreme domestic violence and found by a tribunal to have corruptly organised planting weapons and fabricated evidence.
An ‘exceptional award’ she said.
www.ontheditch.com/humphreys-ho...
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Simon Harris says a Catherine Connolly win in the presidential election next week "would not impact Government thinking on changes to the triple lock in any way," reports Irish Times political correspondent @ellenmcoyne.bsky.social
Dissolve the electorate and elect another.
- Brecht
#Áras25
Dissolve the electorate and elect another.
- Brecht
#Áras25
October 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Simon Harris says a Catherine Connolly win in the presidential election next week "would not impact Government thinking on changes to the triple lock in any way," reports Irish Times political correspondent @ellenmcoyne.bsky.social
Dissolve the electorate and elect another.
- Brecht
#Áras25
Dissolve the electorate and elect another.
- Brecht
#Áras25
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If the tiny circle of political journalists that dominate our broadsheets and airwaves left their bubble for a moment, they'd find 14,000 signed up volunteers knocking on doors, holding fundraisers, and talking to people about why
@catherinegalway.bsky.social is the only candidate.
@catherinegalway.bsky.social is the only candidate.
October 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
If the tiny circle of political journalists that dominate our broadsheets and airwaves left their bubble for a moment, they'd find 14,000 signed up volunteers knocking on doors, holding fundraisers, and talking to people about why
@catherinegalway.bsky.social is the only candidate.
@catherinegalway.bsky.social is the only candidate.
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Both FG and FF had planned to run candidates supporting their moves to integrate Ireland into EU defence arrangements.
One or other would win.
They would then claim to have a popular mandate.
That looks set to backfire spectacularly.
#TripleLock #Áras25 #PlanYourVote
One or other would win.
They would then claim to have a popular mandate.
That looks set to backfire spectacularly.
#TripleLock #Áras25 #PlanYourVote
October 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Both FG and FF had planned to run candidates supporting their moves to integrate Ireland into EU defence arrangements.
One or other would win.
They would then claim to have a popular mandate.
That looks set to backfire spectacularly.
#TripleLock #Áras25 #PlanYourVote
One or other would win.
They would then claim to have a popular mandate.
That looks set to backfire spectacularly.
#TripleLock #Áras25 #PlanYourVote
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A company under garda investigation was incorporated just a month before Heather Humphreys was the star attraction at its February “charity” event.
www.ontheditch.com/humphreys-wa...
www.ontheditch.com/humphreys-wa...
Humphreys was star attraction at event under investigation
The company was incorporated just a year before.
www.ontheditch.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A company under garda investigation was incorporated just a month before Heather Humphreys was the star attraction at its February “charity” event.
www.ontheditch.com/humphreys-wa...
www.ontheditch.com/humphreys-wa...
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The ballot paper for Ireland’s presidential election is unlawful – and gives an unfair advantage to Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil’s candidates.
The legislation is clear.
The Ditch is challenging – in the High Court if necessary.
Our letter in full: www.ontheditch.com/presidential...
The legislation is clear.
The Ditch is challenging – in the High Court if necessary.
Our letter in full: www.ontheditch.com/presidential...
Unlawful election ballot gives FG, FF undue advantage
Why weren't small, legally required efforts made with the presidential election ballot?
www.ontheditch.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The ballot paper for Ireland’s presidential election is unlawful – and gives an unfair advantage to Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil’s candidates.
The legislation is clear.
The Ditch is challenging – in the High Court if necessary.
Our letter in full: www.ontheditch.com/presidential...
The legislation is clear.
The Ditch is challenging – in the High Court if necessary.
Our letter in full: www.ontheditch.com/presidential...
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Having a flashback to when a senior Garda contacted my college in Oxford to try to get me expelled because of my conviction
Then head of the college former DPP Ken McDonald told me about it in a slightly embarrassed tone
Funnily enough, he also had a conviction for drug dealing
Then head of the college former DPP Ken McDonald told me about it in a slightly embarrassed tone
Funnily enough, he also had a conviction for drug dealing
Counter-terrorism gardaí intervened to stop Catherine Connolly from hiring a woman convicted of a gun crime to work in Leinster House, The Journal has learned.
http://jrnl.ie/6830299t
http://jrnl.ie/6830299t
Gardaí blocked Catherine Connolly from hiring woman convicted of gun crime
The presidential candidate sought to hire Ursula Ní Shionnáin, a former Éirigí member who was sentenced to six years in jail by the Special Criminal Court.
jrnl.ie
October 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Having a flashback to when a senior Garda contacted my college in Oxford to try to get me expelled because of my conviction
Then head of the college former DPP Ken McDonald told me about it in a slightly embarrassed tone
Funnily enough, he also had a conviction for drug dealing
Then head of the college former DPP Ken McDonald told me about it in a slightly embarrassed tone
Funnily enough, he also had a conviction for drug dealing
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Comment: The British state these men, which is to say colonialism killed them. Their GAA membership was their commitment to republican ideals. It also marked them as targets of the same structural forces our flag sided with in Croke Park on Sunday.
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Comment: Sunday's game in Croke Park betrayed
I don’t know why this stayed with me. Three years ago and it’s halftime of Newcastle United against Manchester City at St James’s Park. I’m in the East Stand, cigarette smoked, queuing for burgers.
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October 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Comment: The British state these men, which is to say colonialism killed them. Their GAA membership was their commitment to republican ideals. It also marked them as targets of the same structural forces our flag sided with in Croke Park on Sunday.
www.ontheditch.com/comment-the-...
www.ontheditch.com/comment-the-...
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“She is a person of principle. When she speaks you know that it is honest and from the heart. I think that she would make a fantastic president.”
- John MacDonagh, Labour Party, Galway.
#Spéirghorm #IrishNeutrality @catherinegalway.bsky.social
- John MacDonagh, Labour Party, Galway.
#Spéirghorm #IrishNeutrality @catherinegalway.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“She is a person of principle. When she speaks you know that it is honest and from the heart. I think that she would make a fantastic president.”
- John MacDonagh, Labour Party, Galway.
#Spéirghorm #IrishNeutrality @catherinegalway.bsky.social
- John MacDonagh, Labour Party, Galway.
#Spéirghorm #IrishNeutrality @catherinegalway.bsky.social
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"The chosen people of God is all humanity."
September 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"The chosen people of God is all humanity."
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You do *not* resolve conflicts, and the NI conflict wasn't resolved, by outside powers dictating who can and who can't speak for one party.
Especially if those outside powers have been actively assisting ethnic cleansing and mass war crimes in that conflict for 75 years, and now genocide.
Especially if those outside powers have been actively assisting ethnic cleansing and mass war crimes in that conflict for 75 years, and now genocide.
September 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
You do *not* resolve conflicts, and the NI conflict wasn't resolved, by outside powers dictating who can and who can't speak for one party.
Especially if those outside powers have been actively assisting ethnic cleansing and mass war crimes in that conflict for 75 years, and now genocide.
Especially if those outside powers have been actively assisting ethnic cleansing and mass war crimes in that conflict for 75 years, and now genocide.
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She's right, for good or bad, as the IRA were part of the fabric of Ireland.
That doesn't equate to Ireland = IRA, same as Palestine ≠ Hamas, but part of the fabric nonetheless, people getting their grundies all shitty need to look at the GFA or learn how to read.
PART of the fabric.
Fuckin hell.
That doesn't equate to Ireland = IRA, same as Palestine ≠ Hamas, but part of the fabric nonetheless, people getting their grundies all shitty need to look at the GFA or learn how to read.
PART of the fabric.
Fuckin hell.
Catherine Connolly has criticised British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for saying Hamas should be excluded from any future Palestinian government, arguing that the group is "part of the fabric of the Palestinian people"
jrnl.ie/6823626
jrnl.ie/6823626
Connolly claims Hamas is 'part of the fabric' of Palestinian people
Her comments drew criticism from Taoiseach Micheál Martin, who said people should be “clear-eyed in viewing Hamas”.
jrnl.ie
September 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
She's right, for good or bad, as the IRA were part of the fabric of Ireland.
That doesn't equate to Ireland = IRA, same as Palestine ≠ Hamas, but part of the fabric nonetheless, people getting their grundies all shitty need to look at the GFA or learn how to read.
PART of the fabric.
Fuckin hell.
That doesn't equate to Ireland = IRA, same as Palestine ≠ Hamas, but part of the fabric nonetheless, people getting their grundies all shitty need to look at the GFA or learn how to read.
PART of the fabric.
Fuckin hell.
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An Irish airline illegally transported munitions to Israel – despite just months before taking part in a Microsoft Teams call with Department of Transport officials after reports of its munitions flights to Israel.
www.ontheditch.com/department-o...
www.ontheditch.com/department-o...
Airline's illegal flight months after call with state
The department's Microsoft Teams call hasn't stopped illegal flights.
www.ontheditch.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
An Irish airline illegally transported munitions to Israel – despite just months before taking part in a Microsoft Teams call with Department of Transport officials after reports of its munitions flights to Israel.
www.ontheditch.com/department-o...
www.ontheditch.com/department-o...
Canvassed Donegal with Catherine on Thursday and Friday. Hectic few days but a pleasure to see the esteem this woman is held in. We should all be proud to have her as president.
September 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Canvassed Donegal with Catherine on Thursday and Friday. Hectic few days but a pleasure to see the esteem this woman is held in. We should all be proud to have her as president.
I'm listening to Clonan refutes Humphreys' portrayal of their meeting on disability payment changes on RTÉ Radio 1. Pretty damning interview, I know who I’d believe
September 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I'm listening to Clonan refutes Humphreys' portrayal of their meeting on disability payment changes on RTÉ Radio 1. Pretty damning interview, I know who I’d believe
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Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czechia and Italy blindly side with Israel.
Others wring their hands.
Defying declared values, the EU is rendered complicit in the daily slaughter of innocents.
Others wring their hands.
Defying declared values, the EU is rendered complicit in the daily slaughter of innocents.
August 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czechia and Italy blindly side with Israel.
Others wring their hands.
Defying declared values, the EU is rendered complicit in the daily slaughter of innocents.
Others wring their hands.
Defying declared values, the EU is rendered complicit in the daily slaughter of innocents.
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🔵 Such a lovely positive story here about three wonderful guys from our Letterkenny group who took silver in last weekend's Donegal Half Marathon relay race!
@annapr.bsky.social @cathalmaccoille.bsky.social @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social @thomaspringle.bsky.social
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@annapr.bsky.social @cathalmaccoille.bsky.social @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social @thomaspringle.bsky.social
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Sanctuary Runner trio take silver medal in Donegal relay race | Sanctuary Runners
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August 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🔵 Such a lovely positive story here about three wonderful guys from our Letterkenny group who took silver in last weekend's Donegal Half Marathon relay race!
@annapr.bsky.social @cathalmaccoille.bsky.social @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social @thomaspringle.bsky.social
sanctuaryrunners.ie/2025/08/28/s...
@annapr.bsky.social @cathalmaccoille.bsky.social @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social @thomaspringle.bsky.social
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Some news from me, thanks to a team of super activists who have been working for months, the biggest flotilla to try and break the siege on Gaza is leaving on Aug 31st. I'm proud to be going on it and obviously nervous. We'd love if you'd follow globalsumudflotilla.org #FromEveryRiverToEverySea
August 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Some news from me, thanks to a team of super activists who have been working for months, the biggest flotilla to try and break the siege on Gaza is leaving on Aug 31st. I'm proud to be going on it and obviously nervous. We'd love if you'd follow globalsumudflotilla.org #FromEveryRiverToEverySea