Reposted by Thomas PringleAnna Pringle @annapr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026What values??? Some Irish values that spring to mind: homelessness, hypocrisy, bankrupting the country, slieveenism , gombeenism, cute hoorism, alcoholism , ignoring child abuse, misogyny… #SpeirGorm 4367
Reposted by Thomas PringleIreland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Unless the FAI gets onto the right side of history, reflects Irish solidarity with the Palestinian people and boycotts the Nations League fixtures against apartheid Israel, we will be at the Aviva Stadium for the Austria match. Join us. They must #StopTheGame 02110
Reposted by Thomas PringleAbilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 26/08/20265 lies oil companies want you to believe in 2026 🧵 1. It's your fault 2. Gas is "clean" 3. Renewables are too expensive 4. Africa needs fossil fuels to develop 5. It's too late to act All false. 462197833
Reposted by Thomas PringleJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Latvia: Members of Ireland’s Defence Forces have taken part in EU Defence Agency training on battlefield scenarios involving drone attacks. 012
Reposted by Thomas PringleThe Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 02/06/2026The Ditch has learnt that a civil servant at Jim O’Callaghan’s Department of Justice has admitted to passing confidential staff data to a foreign intelligence agency. www.ontheditch.com/civil-servan...ontheditch.comO’Callaghan civil servant allegedly passed staff data to spyThey’re suspected of sharing data from the department’s personnel files. 12017
Reposted by Thomas PringleJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 18/02/2026"French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot deleted a post that falsely quoted Francesca Albanense. German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul left his online. Over 100 artists are now supporting the UN Special Rapporteur. "buff.ly 144
Reposted by Thomas PringleTheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 04/02/2026The cause of slave revolts is slavery - unknown Pic of the day #photography 704515513
Reposted by Thomas PringleSanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Big 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 0206
Reposted by Thomas PringleJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026‘We are not radical - we just paid attention in History class.’ 0123
Reposted by Thomas PringleThe Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 30/01/2026There 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-...ontheditch.comComment: The trouble with ExpertsWhatever the topic, however serious or frivolous, an Expert is available. 11412
Reposted by Thomas PringleUNRWA @unrwa.org · 21/01/2026“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. 35634
Reposted by Thomas PringleH 🍉🌿 @helendublin.bsky.social · 17/01/2026"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 096
Reposted by Thomas PringleJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026X says No. www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...irishexaminer.comGrok nudification scandal: X turns down request to appear before Oireachtas committeeAI minister Niamh Smyth says concerns persist over Grok’s use and regulation, despite X disabling its nudification feature 1106
Reposted by Thomas PringleAnna Pringle @annapr.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Very 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 0328
Reposted by Thomas PringleJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Powerful 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 11813
Reposted by Thomas PringleLisa Grimm Grinning Ghosts Come Out to Socialise @lisagrimm.com · 01/12/2025Happy Monday! I added Saturday’s Parkrun to my page, though I’m leaving out my long daily walks: eventmaster.ie/fundraising/...eventmaster.ieFundraising page of Lisa GrimmThank you for visiting my fundraising page. Your support is really appreciated. If you can help me to promote this page I would greatly appreciate it. You can share my page on any social media using t... 032
Reposted by Thomas PringleThe Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 24/11/2025You heard the man - pay your taxes. #TaxBillionaires 11464157
Reposted by Thomas PringlePatrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Grateful 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...rte.ieDrogheda resident: How can anyone just be so cruel? 07224
Reposted by Thomas PringleProgressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 29/10/202554 Palestinian bodies previously held by Israeli forces show clear signs of torture. 18331
Reposted by Thomas PringleTony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Imagine 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… 310948
Reposted by Thomas PringleAlan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 19/10/2025One thing this election seems to be showing is that the influence of the Indo, Mail etc has declined considerably. Nobody is listening anymore. #aras25 1010830
Reposted by Thomas PringleKatherine Nolan @dochara.com · 20/10/2025There 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 2244
Reposted by Thomas PringlePhilip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Fine 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. 1308
Reposted by Thomas PringleThe Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 20/10/2025The 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...ontheditch.comHumphreys honoured disgraced gardaThe garda was accused of extreme domestic violence. 45131
Reposted by Thomas PringleJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Simon 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 012
Reposted by Thomas PringlePatrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 16/10/2025If 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. 096
Reposted by Thomas PringleJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Both 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 23412
Reposted by Thomas PringleThe Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 15/10/2025A 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...ontheditch.comHumphreys was star attraction at event under investigationThe company was incorporated just a year before. 0138
Reposted by Thomas PringleThe Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 03/10/2025The 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...ontheditch.comUnlawful election ballot gives FG, FF undue advantageWhy weren't small, legally required efforts made with the presidential election ballot? 37041
Reposted by Thomas PringleCian Ó Concubhair @cianoconcubhair.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Having 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 12412
Reposted by Thomas PringleThe Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Comment: 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-...ontheditch.comComment: Sunday's game in Croke Park betrayedI 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. 0178
Reposted by Thomas PringleJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025“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 14814
Reposted by Thomas PringleJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025"The chosen people of God is all humanity." 12916
Reposted by Thomas PringleEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 22/09/2025You 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. 1112
Reposted by Thomas PringleLoki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 22/09/2025She'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. 44715
Reposted by Thomas PringleThe Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 17/09/2025An 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...ontheditch.comAirline's illegal flight months after call with stateThe department's Microsoft Teams call hasn't stopped illegal flights. 13840
Thomas Pringle @thomaspringle.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Canvassed 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. 030
Thomas Pringle @thomaspringle.bsky.social · 04/09/2025I'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 083
Reposted by Thomas PringleJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Germany, 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. 195
Reposted by Thomas PringleSanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · 29/08/2025🔵 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...sanctuaryrunners.ieSanctuary Runner trio take silver medal in Donegal relay race | Sanctuary Runners 083
Reposted by Thomas PringleSarah Clancy @sarahmaintains.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Some 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 1213345
Reposted by Thomas PringleJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 20/08/2025It remains unclear how and why Ireland suddenly declared it was adopting this definition. 21912
Thomas Pringle @thomaspringle.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Catherine won’t need this lift to top the pole. Great visit to Ballyshannon show today. 050
Reposted by Thomas PringleThe Journal @thejournal.ie · 09/08/2025According to international law experts who spoke to The Journal, powerful Western countries and their leaders could, at least in theory, find themselves facing charges in The Hague. jrnl.ie/6779851jrnl.ieLegality vs Reality: Could Western leaders face consequences for complicity in genocide?A growing number of genocide scholars have accused Israel of committing the crime of crimes in Gaza. 53220
Reposted by Thomas PringleJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Cork says Abolish Frontex. 1134
