Mary Robinson 2025 : The next president of Ireland?

Leven Lustful · 07-11-2023 10:14am #1

Mary Robinson is entitled to nominate herself to run for president to serve a second term in 2025, considering that climate change is her thing and a big thing in the 2020s, it would make sense for her to return to the Aras on a climate change platform which would appeal to young people, also most people over 45 would vote for her due to nostalgia for her first term in the 90s, Age might be mentioned as an issue but she is younger than Joe Biden

Jim_Hodge · 07-11-2023 10:16am

She made it clear in the past that she's not interested and sees herself doing more good elsewhere.

SEPT 23 1989 · 07-11-2023 9:40pm

is that fruitcake still involved with "The Elders"

google it

the arrogance of it

Atlantic Dawn · 07-11-2023 9:41pm

Travelling around the world putting up more emissions than Finglas and then waffling to us about climate change, no thanks.

StevenToast · 07-11-2023 9:47pm

I prefer David McSavages version of Mary Robinson....

https://youtu.be/BBLR8rSRSkw?si=Hl5o0wqWO5wYD2Sy

ednwireland · 07-11-2023 9:50pm

lord no, couldn't be bothered to serve out her term last time, should disqualify her

alias no.9 · 07-11-2023 9:53pm

Haven't we had enough of Mary's in the Aras?

jmcc · 08-11-2023 12:06pm

Hadn't the decency to finish her term. The Irish Times and RTE would love her to run. Don't think that Labour and the Stickies will have enough council or Dail seats to nominate her this time round.

Regards...jmcc

Jim_Hodge · 08-11-2023 12:15pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121340718#Comment_121340718

She can nominate herself. But she won't.

jmcc · 08-11-2023 12:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121340773#Comment_121340773

Are you sure that she can? Is it only a sitting president that can self-nominate?

Regards...jmcc

Podge_irl · 08-11-2023 1:42pm

4 1° Every citizen who has reached his thirty-fifth year of age is eligible for election to the office of President.

2° Every candidate for election, not a former or retiring President, must be nominated either by

i not less than twenty persons, each of whom is at the time a member of one of the Houses of the Oireachtas, or

ii by the Councils of not less than four administrative Counties (including County Boroughs) as defined by law.

3° No person and no such Council shall be entitled to subscribe to the nomination of more than one candidate in respect of the same election.

4° Former or retiring Presidents may become candidates on their own nomination.

Nah, she could nominate herself if she wanted. It's not going to happen though.

Strumms · 08-11-2023 2:17pm

She is an odious individual.

her behaviour during her term as in the manner she left the office was despicable.

she obviously had while as President been in long talks with the UN about her leaving and joining them and what role she’d encompass. Months and months of talks you’d have to envision having taken place…extremely underhanded…all that going on while being paid by the Irish taxpayers…

She was elected to the presidency to see out a full term by the Irish citizens, to only serve the Irish citizens and because a more lucrative and suitable offer was made to her, she jumped ship early…..that aside I genuinely have never liked the cut of her jib…disrespecting the highest office in the country and by proxy the country and its citizens… quite simply unless you get ill, you should never seek to leave the office which you actively volunteered for and were elected to by the citizens.

saying that I’d say she might hook in a lot of 18-35 year olds, her campaign if she does run will be focused on getting the woke 🤮 vote so…

that demographic will have little to no memory of her indiscretion..but a lot of those dweebs would be thinking…” OMG, yeah she resigned because she wanted to help people in the UN “ 🤪

Odhinn · 08-11-2023 2:29pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058321492/mary-robinson-2025-the-next-president-of-ireland

Her ego is so grown by now theres no way she'd fit in the aras.

Marcos · 09-11-2023 2:31pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121341375#Comment_121341375

Don't forget the greed and entitlement too. Princess Latifa might also disagree with her actions in trying to persuade the world that she was happy at being returned to Dubai when she tried to do a runner.

L.Ball · 09-11-2023 7:57pm

I genuinely think they try to make the office of President seem farcical at every opportunity so they can eventually table scrapping it along with the Seanad

Strumms · 09-11-2023 9:17pm

Look at her ‘ Labour ‘ record. She was 20 years a senator never once running as a TD…. 😏

also on getting into the Aras, one of her first projects….she sacked a number of staff… looking back now it was 8….so much for Labour 🙄

she’d have never got into the Aras if it wasn’t for Brian Lenihans scandal & a huge amount of transfers from Austin Curry… Lenihan was multiple points ahead in the opinion polls and still won the general vote….despite the negative media attention.

‘Labour’ was only ever a stage for her ego, activism etc and she wanted the title of President to further both herself and her aspirations…Labour was then jettisoned when it suited her. A successful masterplan you have to say.

When people look back in time at the presidential greats, or just good presidents … her name won’t be amongst them…

little to no relatability, little to no gravitas, arrogance in spades and much of her interests just self serving and focused on issues and people outside of the state… and cashing in on the fact she was a woman which Mary McAleese never thought she had the need to do… yet McAleese was an incredibly popular two term president. She had an approval rating of over 90%…people just very much liked her.

Robinson, she hasn’t changed…. If she is elected she’ll just be almost permanently globetrotting and shooting her mouth off…marketing herself as an elected spokesperson for Ireland…. And doing even more politicking than Michael D… you’ll never hear the end of her….7 years of that ? Ehhh no thanks !

Marcos · 10-11-2023 12:24pm

Strumms she already is permanently globetrotting and telling the peasants of the world i.e. you and me what to do. She's part of the elders, which seems to be a body where ex presidents and others are shuffled off to, in order to make themselves feel relevant. I bet it's all expenses paid, and tax free too!

I had forgotten that one of her first acts was to sack staff in the Áras. Compare that with Mary MacAleese, one of her first acts was to invite those poor Holy Cross girls that had to make their way to school through baying mobs of loyalists who threw urine and explosives at them, and threatened their parents with death for daring to bring their kids to school via the main road.

curioser · 10-11-2023 8:38pm

She was never meant to be elected President - the plan was that she would come a good second to the popular Brian Lenihan (Fine Gael was in disarray and wouldn't be able to find a credible candidate) in order to provide a springboard for the next general election after which Labour hoped that she could become Minister for Justice. However Lenihan's campaign imploded and her Poloness found herself trapped in the Aras. She blamed Dick Spring for this and promptly dispatched him to New York in order to have her installed as General Secretary of the U.N. in place of Boutros Boutros Ghali (she wasn't willing to wait until his term expired). However despite the efforts of Team Robbo the mission was doomed to failure as China reminded our Foreign Minister of Mary's repeated utterings in the Seanad on the subject of Tibet which had not impressed the powers that be in Beijing. So she had to wait and stew in the Park until she was eventually offered a consolation prize in the U.N which led to her premature departure and her giving the two fingers to Mna na hEireann and the others who had put her there in the first place.

10-11-2023 9:01pm

She's awesome, but no chance she'll run again. She's got more important work to do than act as a ceremonial head of state with a standing gag order from the govt

On a side note, I find it funny that some are still butthurt over her departure. It was 26 years ago, time to build a bridge and get over it

Burt Renaults · 12-11-2023 2:48am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121350365#Comment_121350365

Wait... one of Mary McAleese's first acts as president was in 2001? Considering she was elected in 1997, I could've sworn she did stuff before that.

As always, Mary Robinson winds the right people up.

hoodie6029 · 12-11-2023 6:17pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121341375#Comment_121341375

She only went a few weeks early. Every single person in the world who has changed jobs at one point had done it while in another one. Whether it is an office job or political one, they are no different. They are just jobs being done by people. They’re not married to the job.