Thomas Creamer
@thomascreamer.bsky.social
Leitrim native with notions.
Very much a personal account, looking for a lesser evil in terms of managing the social media addiction. @tmcreamer on the other site. #speirgorm
(He/Him)
Very much a personal account, looking for a lesser evil in terms of managing the social media addiction. @tmcreamer on the other site. #speirgorm
(He/Him)
Pinned
Hi folk - if you now follow me as a result of one of the starter packs, I mostly post about;
- politics (of the lefty/soc dem variety)
-ocassionally on other interests (daily life, books/video games, or whatever else you'd expect from an Irish guy in his late 20's).
Take that as you will.
- politics (of the lefty/soc dem variety)
-ocassionally on other interests (daily life, books/video games, or whatever else you'd expect from an Irish guy in his late 20's).
Take that as you will.
Reposted by Thomas Creamer
This is the "mature debate" they keep banging on about btw. What level of cruelty we should aspire to, with the claimed fear of being seen as less cruel than a country rapidly sliding towards fascism. An ivory tower scumbag
Justice and Migration Minister Jim O'Callaghan said he's committed to ensuring Ireland is 'not viewed more favourably than the UK by those seeking to claim asylum'.
His statement comes following proposed reforms to the UK's asylum practices
jrnl.ie/6877693
His statement comes following proposed reforms to the UK's asylum practices
jrnl.ie/6877693
O'Callaghan 'committed' to ensuring Ireland not viewed 'more favourably' than the UK by asylum seekers
A new International Protection Bill to reform Ireland’s asylum system will be published later this year.
jrnl.ie
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is the "mature debate" they keep banging on about btw. What level of cruelty we should aspire to, with the claimed fear of being seen as less cruel than a country rapidly sliding towards fascism. An ivory tower scumbag
I am ashamed to confess immeasurable disappointment when I glanced at the name of this coffee chain in Guangzhou and realised that I had mistaken the "L" as an "F".
November 12, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I am ashamed to confess immeasurable disappointment when I glanced at the name of this coffee chain in Guangzhou and realised that I had mistaken the "L" as an "F".
I can't celebrate the inauguration of my President Catherine Connolly with my usual Bulmers today, sadly, but this Chinese apple cider vinegar drink will have to do. 😤
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I can't celebrate the inauguration of my President Catherine Connolly with my usual Bulmers today, sadly, but this Chinese apple cider vinegar drink will have to do. 😤
Reposted by Thomas Creamer
Gardaí are investigating after a 13-year-old boy was attacked in Tuam while returning home from school last month.
The boy’s father condemned the 'violent' attack on his son, adding that his family 'do not feel safe' following the incident
jrnl.ie/6869280
The boy’s father condemned the 'violent' attack on his son, adding that his family 'do not feel safe' following the incident
jrnl.ie/6869280
Garda investigation after 13-year-old boy from Bangladeshi community attacked in Tuam
Two individuals – apparently older male teenagers – can be seen taunting and physically attacking the younger boy and hitting him in the face multiple times.
jrnl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Gardaí are investigating after a 13-year-old boy was attacked in Tuam while returning home from school last month.
The boy’s father condemned the 'violent' attack on his son, adding that his family 'do not feel safe' following the incident
jrnl.ie/6869280
The boy’s father condemned the 'violent' attack on his son, adding that his family 'do not feel safe' following the incident
jrnl.ie/6869280
Came across the first Popeyes in my life just there - granted, this *is* at an airport, but I did not have the impression that Popeyes was some sort of premium restaurant chain, because this is making Dublin look downright reasonable.
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Came across the first Popeyes in my life just there - granted, this *is* at an airport, but I did not have the impression that Popeyes was some sort of premium restaurant chain, because this is making Dublin look downright reasonable.
Came across the first Popeyes in my life just there - granted, this *is* at an airport, but I did not have the impression that Popeyes was some sort of premium restaurant chain, because this is making Dublin look downright reasonable.
November 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Came across the first Popeyes in my life just there - granted, this *is* at an airport, but I did not have the impression that Popeyes was some sort of premium restaurant chain, because this is making Dublin look downright reasonable.
Reposted by Thomas Creamer
actually our media are extremely reticent to describe politicians as far right, but David lives in Plato's cave and spends all his time making up guys to be mad at
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
actually our media are extremely reticent to describe politicians as far right, but David lives in Plato's cave and spends all his time making up guys to be mad at
Reposted by Thomas Creamer
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
Reposted by Thomas Creamer
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
FFS, "debate" isn't just you getting to say whatever you like without being challenged.
Simon Harris has the right to make an ass of himself with ill-considered comments that will provide grist to the mill of racists, as he has done.
But the left also has the right to call him out for doing so.
Simon Harris has the right to make an ass of himself with ill-considered comments that will provide grist to the mill of racists, as he has done.
But the left also has the right to call him out for doing so.
Listening to Tánaiste Simon Harris's comments on the way into Cabinet this morning - accusing parties on the left of the 'extraordinary' move of 'trying to shut down debate' on immigration.
(1/2)
(1/2)
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
FFS, "debate" isn't just you getting to say whatever you like without being challenged.
Simon Harris has the right to make an ass of himself with ill-considered comments that will provide grist to the mill of racists, as he has done.
But the left also has the right to call him out for doing so.
Simon Harris has the right to make an ass of himself with ill-considered comments that will provide grist to the mill of racists, as he has done.
But the left also has the right to call him out for doing so.
Almost forgot I wrote this letter responding to Fergus Finlay.
I wouldn't have picked that title myself, but I do think it is a bit of a slippery slope to argue that a threshold sufficient for Michael D. Higgins or FFG is not sufficient for Catherine Connolly.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/your...
I wouldn't have picked that title myself, but I do think it is a bit of a slippery slope to argue that a threshold sufficient for Michael D. Higgins or FFG is not sufficient for Catherine Connolly.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/your...
November 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Almost forgot I wrote this letter responding to Fergus Finlay.
I wouldn't have picked that title myself, but I do think it is a bit of a slippery slope to argue that a threshold sufficient for Michael D. Higgins or FFG is not sufficient for Catherine Connolly.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/your...
I wouldn't have picked that title myself, but I do think it is a bit of a slippery slope to argue that a threshold sufficient for Michael D. Higgins or FFG is not sufficient for Catherine Connolly.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/your...
Reposted by Thomas Creamer
“I haven’t seen violence like this since Rwanda. The velocity and ferocity of the RSF killing civilians since Sunday is unlike anything I’ve seen in 26 years of doing this work, and HRL [Yale Humanitarian Research Lab] has been reporting on the RSF and the Sudanese war for a while.”
Incredibly grim
Incredibly grim
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
“I haven’t seen violence like this since Rwanda. The velocity and ferocity of the RSF killing civilians since Sunday is unlike anything I’ve seen in 26 years of doing this work, and HRL [Yale Humanitarian Research Lab] has been reporting on the RSF and the Sudanese war for a while.”
Incredibly grim
Incredibly grim
Harris would be on stronger grounds to claim he is treating the subject of migration sensitively if he also didn't fail to conflate aslyum seekers with migration in general.
Like, yes, it is a "point of consideration" elsewhere, yet you haven't learnt anything!
www.thejournal.ie/simon-harris...
Like, yes, it is a "point of consideration" elsewhere, yet you haven't learnt anything!
www.thejournal.ie/simon-harris...
October 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Harris would be on stronger grounds to claim he is treating the subject of migration sensitively if he also didn't fail to conflate aslyum seekers with migration in general.
Like, yes, it is a "point of consideration" elsewhere, yet you haven't learnt anything!
www.thejournal.ie/simon-harris...
Like, yes, it is a "point of consideration" elsewhere, yet you haven't learnt anything!
www.thejournal.ie/simon-harris...
Reposted by Thomas Creamer
Gary Gannon TD: “What he could have also said was their numbers this year have also decreased by 40 per cent on last year. He could have talked about the absolute failures in the system that he’s presided over for 10 years and how he was going to address them.
/..
@garygannontd.bsky.social
/..
@garygannontd.bsky.social
Immigration numbers are too high. We have to listen to the people in this country. The increase is too high.
- Simon Harris, via @news.rte.ie
Welcomed by Aontu.
Matt Carty says SF has been saying this for some time.
- Simon Harris, via @news.rte.ie
Welcomed by Aontu.
Matt Carty says SF has been saying this for some time.
October 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Gary Gannon TD: “What he could have also said was their numbers this year have also decreased by 40 per cent on last year. He could have talked about the absolute failures in the system that he’s presided over for 10 years and how he was going to address them.
/..
@garygannontd.bsky.social
/..
@garygannontd.bsky.social
Reposted by Thomas Creamer
“Once you [went] in those doors to those institutions, you [didn’t] come out the same.”
Mary Donovan's mother Margaret Mary spent most of her life detained in Irish psychiatric institutions.
She is now calling for an apology over how her mother was treated.
@investigates.thejournal.ie
Mary Donovan's mother Margaret Mary spent most of her life detained in Irish psychiatric institutions.
She is now calling for an apology over how her mother was treated.
@investigates.thejournal.ie
October 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“Once you [went] in those doors to those institutions, you [didn’t] come out the same.”
Mary Donovan's mother Margaret Mary spent most of her life detained in Irish psychiatric institutions.
She is now calling for an apology over how her mother was treated.
@investigates.thejournal.ie
Mary Donovan's mother Margaret Mary spent most of her life detained in Irish psychiatric institutions.
She is now calling for an apology over how her mother was treated.
@investigates.thejournal.ie
Catherine Connolly won literally the biggest personal mandate (both in terms of percentage, but also by the raw number of first preference votes) in the history of the state.
Doesn't stop some incredibly sore losers from ignoring the existance of those 914k+ voters. #Aras25
Doesn't stop some incredibly sore losers from ignoring the existance of those 914k+ voters. #Aras25
October 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Catherine Connolly won literally the biggest personal mandate (both in terms of percentage, but also by the raw number of first preference votes) in the history of the state.
Doesn't stop some incredibly sore losers from ignoring the existance of those 914k+ voters. #Aras25
Doesn't stop some incredibly sore losers from ignoring the existance of those 914k+ voters. #Aras25
A lot of things to ponder about after this election - the potential of a broad left alliance, as well as the fallout of those spoiled votes.
But today? I'm savouring having done my part in a campaign that has elected Catherine Connolly to president by the widest margin in Irish electoral history.
But today? I'm savouring having done my part in a campaign that has elected Catherine Connolly to president by the widest margin in Irish electoral history.
October 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A lot of things to ponder about after this election - the potential of a broad left alliance, as well as the fallout of those spoiled votes.
But today? I'm savouring having done my part in a campaign that has elected Catherine Connolly to president by the widest margin in Irish electoral history.
But today? I'm savouring having done my part in a campaign that has elected Catherine Connolly to president by the widest margin in Irish electoral history.
Reposted by Thomas Creamer
We are a f***ing class country, let it be said.
The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324
October 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
We are a f***ing class country, let it be said.
Reposted by Thomas Creamer
Hey, your name is Creamer and Uachtarán is "the cream" of our democracy. No wonder you're so into it - nominative determinism!
October 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Hey, your name is Creamer and Uachtarán is "the cream" of our democracy. No wonder you're so into it - nominative determinism!
Reposted by Thomas Creamer
Don’t flake on voting just because the result is in the bag! Margin matters. Remember how awful it felt seeing Peter Casey jump from 2% polls to 23% after his attacks on travellers. A low turnout/high number of spoiled votes will be seized on by the fash. Every vote for Connolly undermines them
October 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Don’t flake on voting just because the result is in the bag! Margin matters. Remember how awful it felt seeing Peter Casey jump from 2% polls to 23% after his attacks on travellers. A low turnout/high number of spoiled votes will be seized on by the fash. Every vote for Connolly undermines them
Reposted by Thomas Creamer
If Jim Gavin gets 12.5% or more, Fianna Fáil gets €250,000 in expenses refunded. Bear that in mind if you're voting for Jim Gavin as a joke.
October 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If Jim Gavin gets 12.5% or more, Fianna Fáil gets €250,000 in expenses refunded. Bear that in mind if you're voting for Jim Gavin as a joke.
Not that I have not made it blatantly obvious, but I am voting for Catherine Connolly tommorrow.
For a candidate with the legal and language skills perfect for the role of scrutinising legislation in need of constitutional review.
For a candidate with the legal and language skills perfect for the role of scrutinising legislation in need of constitutional review.
October 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Not that I have not made it blatantly obvious, but I am voting for Catherine Connolly tommorrow.
For a candidate with the legal and language skills perfect for the role of scrutinising legislation in need of constitutional review.
For a candidate with the legal and language skills perfect for the role of scrutinising legislation in need of constitutional review.
Reposted by Thomas Creamer
As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
October 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
New Poll - wasn't expecting this tbh.
Catherine Connolly - 40%
Heather Humphreys - 25%
Jim Gavin - 7%
According to Ireland Thinks, with the Irish Independent.
m.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
Catherine Connolly - 40%
Heather Humphreys - 25%
Jim Gavin - 7%
According to Ireland Thinks, with the Irish Independent.
m.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
Catherine Connolly on course to win presidential election on first count – new Irish Independent/Ireland Thinks poll
Follow the latest developments in our live blog:
m.independent.ie
October 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
New Poll - wasn't expecting this tbh.
Catherine Connolly - 40%
Heather Humphreys - 25%
Jim Gavin - 7%
According to Ireland Thinks, with the Irish Independent.
m.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
Catherine Connolly - 40%
Heather Humphreys - 25%
Jim Gavin - 7%
According to Ireland Thinks, with the Irish Independent.
m.independent.ie/irish-news/p...