@thomaspringle.bsky.social
Independent - Donegal (he/him)
Looking south down the Pacific Coast Highway on the coast of California. Somewhere between SF and SLO I believe. The road winds through grass hills next to the Pacific Ocean. Cloud whisps streak the sky
The cause of slave revolts is slavery - unknown
Pic of the day
#photography
Big news! 🏃♂️💙 Sanctuary Runners has received generous funding from the PTSB Community Fund 2025 to support our work bringing communities together through running, jogging, and walking! #SanctuaryRunners #RunAsOne #RunInSolidarity
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Hand written poster reads We are not radical - we just paid attention in History class.
‘We are not radical - we just paid attention in History class.’
04.02.2026 20:10 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
There is no issue more riddled with Experts than “defence”. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, we’ve listened to the same cabal of academics, all brandishing identical talking points about emerging threats and changing realities.
www.ontheditch.com/comment-the-...
Deal
24.01.2026 01:19 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0“This is a United Nations facility that has been invaded by a United Nations Member State, in full defiance of international law.” our Jonathan Fowler tells TRT.
UN facilities are protected under international law. Attacks on them undermine the UN system.
"They don't care" is an understatement. Media spin on the crisis they knew was gonna happen when they stopped building social housing and relied on the private rental sector - where the majority of homeless come from.. it's POLICY #speirgorm
17.01.2026 18:16 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
trump is a bully and this isn't a "standoff" (who writes these stupid headlines?). it's a new threat and abuse of power against some of america's closest allies.
17.01.2026 17:57 — 👍 122 🔁 33 💬 9 📌 3
X says No.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
Very well said @tupped.bsky.social. It’s all about the framing… how do we feel about having a child sex abuse material factory in Dublin 2?
(In Ireland of all places, where we have a long history of ignoring such places when they are run by ’respectable’ institutions)
#SpeirGorm #MustRead
Powerful vested interests and their allies in government just hate judicial review being available to the great unwashed.
Ireland's government is trying to cut people who are not rich out of Court by changing the law so that even if they win, their legal costs are not recovered. #JudicialReview
Happy Monday!
I added Saturday’s Parkrun to my page, though I’m leaving out my long daily walks:
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You heard the man - pay your taxes.
#TaxBillionaires
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...
54 Palestinian bodies previously held by Israeli forces show clear signs of torture.
29.10.2025 07:15 — 👍 84 🔁 32 💬 1 📌 0#Áras25
29.10.2025 03:53 — 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
PREMIUM I've never tried to capitalise on somebody's misfortune': Humphreys launches blistering attack on Connolly's work for UK banks
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…
19.10.2025 08:34 — 👍 112 🔁 49 💬 3 📌 2
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
19.10.2025 10:22 — 👍 111 🔁 30 💬 10 📌 8There 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
20.10.2025 07:54 — 👍 25 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0Fine 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.
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...
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
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.
Catherine Connolly TD with Síle Seoige
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
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...
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...
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
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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MD Higgins and Catherine Connolly (pushing a baby buggy) on a 2003 anti war march in Galway.
“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
"The chosen people of God is all humanity."
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