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About
About Tommy
Tommy Collison is an award-winning 15 year old blogger from Limerick, Ireland.
*switches to first person*
:)
Hello, I’m Tommy! *waves*
When I’m not blogging, I fill the remaining hour of the day sleeping, drumming, reading and playing one of the two songs I know on piano :)
Trust Tommy is my home on the internet for practicing the dark arts . Started in March 2008 to keep my brothers, who don’t live at home, up to speed on the goings-on back at Chez Collison in Limerick.
Soon after though, it evolved into something more. I began blogging less because my brothers had asked, and more because I enjoyed crafting together blogposts for the community I found myself in.
My sporadic blogging came to an end in August 2008 when the relationship between myself and the blog began to get serious. In October 2008, I attended the Irish Web Awards where I got to meet many of the friends I’d met though blogging and (in my eyes) the sister project, Twitter.
I began using Twitter, you see, the same time I began this blog, so the two have always been intertwined in my mind. Over on Twitter, my noise ranges from 4-7 if we were on a scale of 10. Most days I don’t get overly excited, but some days, like the 2009 Blog Awards or that time we tried to get #hullabaloo trending on Twitter.
In January, I won the Best Communicator award, as well as my category (Social and Behavioral Sciences) at the ESAT BT Young Scientist 2009 for my project, entitled ‘What are the issues faced by Children with Cerebral Palsy in Mainstream Education?’.
In February, Trust Tommy was voted ‘Best Newcomer’ to the Irish blog scene at the 2009 Irish Blog Awards.
Where does the name Trust Tommy come from? You know the toy company ‘Tomy’? One of their slogans was ‘Trust Tomy’. Add an ‘M’ in there… :)
November 28th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
[...] Collision is a 14 year old student from Limerick. A lot of people seem to be posting about him [...]
November 28th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
[...] Tommy must be Ireland’s youngest blogger. [...]
November 28th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Greetings for another Limerickman. I’m exiled in Cork. I found you via
Head Rambles because I’m as old as he is and there’s talk of competition to become your virtual great great grandfather. I wouldn’t bother with him: he’s likely to go off being an author like Twenty Major.
November 28th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
@Omaniblog Haha, thanks. Don’t you usually have two sets of grandparents? :)
I think it’s fantastic that people older than 21 can embrace the internet as you do
November 29th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
That’s because people older than 21 invented the internet, Tommy.
November 29th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Very true, but the person who invented Facebook wasn’t!
And anyway, these people are contesting being my “grandparents”, we have to make them feel young again!
November 29th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
jaypers yeah, wheres my zimmerframe again?….
December 1st, 2008 at 4:37 pm
[...] this is such a short post, I would like to jump on the band waggon and say I trust Tommy If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! This entry [...]
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:24 am
welcome to the madness!
December 15th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Thanks Tommy. Actually I think it’s the internet that’s embraced me. I don’t know where I’d be without it.
February 4th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
[...] thanks goes to Tommy Collison for this weeks Five Things. Five things you should know about [...]
March 18th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo everybody!
May 14th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Hey Tommy guess who! (I’m the tall blonde one)! xx
May 14th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Hey there! :)
May 14th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Hello!
May 14th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Hey all :)
May 20th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
I’m amazed at how much you have achieved already and by the time your finished school at how much more you probally will have done.
I’m from Ireland too (well northern Ireland) and found it quite limiting but I suppose the Internet gives freedom to us all.
October 12th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Hi Tommy. I’d just like to say that it’s been painful watching youth discussion get shriveled and cast away. It was a good idea, even if it wasn’t youth only. I’d like to see it revived, but in its current state, that’s quite a project.
January 24th, 2010 at 8:55 am
tommy is not irelands yuongest bloger iam i 11 a
January 24th, 2010 at 9:01 am
but he’s still the best blogger in the world go tommmy!