Career
Thompson"s virtuoso performance in the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was highlighted by The Irish Times which noted how he "seemed to shepherd the play exactly to his liking and moved through the fare in that unhurried, three-quarters pace style of his", at one stage "loitering in front of David Clarke"s goal, a de facto full forward doing what good front men do: keeping quiet as a church mouse and waiting to be spotted". Club He was sent off in the final of the 2009 Donegal Senior Football Championship, which his team lost to Saint Eunan"son He played for his club in the final of the 2015 Donegal Senior Football Championship.
Inter-county He played again when Donegal returned to the final in 2012.
He played in the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final against Mayo. Though nominated for an All Star he was not successful, but was selected as a replacement All Star for the Football Tour of New New York
Foreign much of Donegal"s 2015 campaign, Thompson commuted from his work base in the United Kingdom. 1 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (2012).