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Thomas Creamer

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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)

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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · Nov 7

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.

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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 1d

Hi folk - just a PSA that today is the LAST day for checking and fixing your voter registration if you wish to vote on 24th October in the Presidential Election. Just head to checktheregister.ie - it'll only take a few minutes to see if your voter registration is up to snuff.

Check the Register

checktheregister.ie

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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, would it kill FFers, when they're expressing sympathy for Jim Gavin, to even pretend to extend that sympathy to the tenant that their presidential candidate ripped off?

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Jack "Skeletons" Fennell @jfennellauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely vile.

Not that I want to overload the fine people at @booksupstairs.bsky.social with work at this fraught moment, but consider sending some business their way to show support.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 2d

‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack

Books Upstairs manager hopes to partially open the D’Olier Street store later on Monday

www.irishtimes.com

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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 2d

And tbf, it is possible that maybe he knew that *more* would come out, and he decided to quit while he was ahead?

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 2d

Of all Jim Gavin’s gaffes, it turns out it was his spare one that took him down.

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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 2d

Not saying that being a Landlord, especially a shitty one, harms a politician as much as it should - but in this case, he could have tried arguing the toss about whether it is right to say Gavin "stole" €3.3k from the tenant, but that was never going to be winnable in the public areana.

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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, wasn't that kind of what killed Deirdre Conroy's candidacy in the DBS bye-election a few years ago?

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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 2d

What I will be curious about is how many will still vote for Jim Gavin on the ballot paper on the 24th?

Because it will definitely be more than zero.

Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, but landlords are a single digit percentage of the population, and even then, basically pocketing thousands of someone else's money is not something you can openly condone in nearly any social context in Ireland.

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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 2d

Like, tbf, I do think Jim Gavin stiffing a tenant of €3.3k was going to be genuinely fatal to his campaign.

The Presidential election is a campaign about personal character even more so than most elections (given the lack of powers the President has), and that was not going to fly.

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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 3d

I have to say, the recent Presidential Opinion poll does make this front page Sindo headline from a few weeks ago pretty funny in hindsight...

m.independent.ie/irish-news/i...

‘It’s hardly a game changer’ – Relief in Government as Sinn Féin opts to back Catherine Connolly

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are breathing a sigh of relief after Sinn Féin announced yesterday that it was backing Catherine Connolly, rather than running its own candidate.

m.independent.ie

Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 3d

Thing is, this poll was conducted *before* that story about Gavin allegedly stiffing a tenant out of €3,300 was published.

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Colm O’Gorman @colm.bsky.social · 4d

Well, well, well.

Connelly 32
Humphreys 23
Gavin 15

#aras25

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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 4d

That's tight.... if the don't knows, don't vote...

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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 4d

*which

Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 4d

If this was Connolly, the headline would be "Connolly accused of stealing €3k by a former tenant", whuch would just as accurately apply to this situation, but they buried those details well into the article.

Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly, this article is just written in such a weird way, almost as if it is excusing his behaviour.

Like, a "rent refund dispute" is a pretty soft way to frame a former tenant having €3,300 of their own money outright pocketed by someone running to be our head of state.

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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 4d

My earlier tweet about Catherine Connolly hiring a former prisoner, in the form of a letter to the Indo.

m.independent.ie/opinion/lett...

Title: "Ní Shionnáin served her sentence - surely she is allowed to rebuild her life?"

I want to clarify something – is it the view of the Taoiseach, and of commentators, that former prisoners should be denied opportunities to rebuild their lives away from violence or criminality, even after they have served their sentence?

Given her qualifications, Ursula Ní Shionnáin was perfectly suited for the role of administrative support for a TD working on the Oireachtas Committee for the Irish language, and Catherine Connolly was in the right to give her a chance.

I think it is much more concerning if our Government thinks that prisoners such as Ní Shionnáin should not be given the opportunity to rehabilitate when they demonstrate a willingness to do so.

As a former employee of the Irish Prison Service, that seems to go against everything that I was told during my training.

Tomás M Creamer, Ballinamore, Co Leitrim

Published 4th October, 2025, on the letter section of the Irish Indepedent.

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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 4d

Weird framing of this article aside, Jim Gavin ran an unregistered tenancy where he apparently never refunded an accidental overpayment of €3,300.

...it's fine for a potential future president to stiff a renter out of thousands of euro, apparently?

m.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

Jim Gavin, the Celtic Tiger apartment he lost in the crash and a rent refund dispute

It’s always busy on North Brunswick Street. The road links the busy north inner-city Dublin suburbs of Smithfield, Stoneybatter and Grangegorman.

m.independent.ie

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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 5d

Did he?

Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 6d

Also have to give some kudos to Ó Cuív here tbh.

m.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

Éamon Ó Cuív hits out at Taoiseach’s criticism of Connolly job for gun convict

Follow the latest developments in our live blog:

m.independent.ie

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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 6d

Honestly, I find it pretty distasteful that prisoner rehabilitation - a very bog standard liberal value, not even an especially radical one - can be very easily thrown out the window by the likes of Michéal Martin for the sake of cheap politicial point-scoring. www.thejournal.ie/catherine-co...

Connolly defends trying to hire woman convicted of gun crimes after Taoiseach attacks judgement

As revealed by The Journal yesterday Catherine Connolly sought to hire a woman sentenced to six years in jail by the Special Criminal Court.

www.thejournal.ie

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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 7d

Plus, a good track record actually lends credibility - Connolly is believable when she talks about housing, because she has been consistent about it for years.

It's a bit less crediable coming from a former minister, or from someone who never used their public role to broach the topics previously.

Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 7d

Funnily enough, Connolly also has Barrister training and no party line. 😅

Granted, she has a track record, but as we have seen with Gavin, having no public track record cuts both ways; it gives less ammo to opponents, but then no-one really knows what you are about or what they are getting with you

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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 7d

*universe