Presidential Election 2025

He was just on morning Ireland and didn't say no. And made a comment that he's still officially with rte until Monday which sort of implied he couldn't say anything until then anyway.

Duffy did a fairly crap job at keeping his overt sympathy for a specific political party under wraps. I remember his pleas for callers to not be hard on Bertie when they were calling out his obvious lies at the tribunal. 

I didn't forget about her at all but I think if Sean Kelly is looking for the nod from FG he will get it ahead of her

They took a hard decision to stay out of govt if you ask me. Think of all the self gain they could have achieved at the cost of the people if they teamed up with a coalition of FF and FG. I think if they did risk it though that the govt wouldn't last long as they are politically very different

Joan Burton was never in the running for me

I don't think casey will be on the ballot either. Unless there's an instruction from SF, FF and FG head offices to abstain from voting (as opposed to voting no) for him at council level. He does fall in line with a lot of what Aontú and other right wingers stand for so that might be another route for him to get on the ballot if he can sway them. Very unlikely he'll get a look in by either though

Why do you think Kelly will get the nod ahead of McGuinness? She's have far broader appeal, and is far more media savvy.

Staying out of government is an easy decision. Going into government puts you into the crosshairs of all those people who would never have voted for you in the first place, but just love to take potshots at you. Do you know any such people yourself at all?

I'd have thought Kelly's stint with the GAA would be a major plus in an election like this. FG could do a lot worse.

She had a good stint with RTE targeting the rural audience. Kelly has been completely low profile outside of his own constituency - not exactly statesman material.

I don't think she was a terribly well known figure when in RTE. It was only after leaving RTE that she became high profile.
Kelly was high profile having led the GAA and would have a lot of capital among GAA people, a broader appeal maybe that FG would be foolish to ignore.

A competition for the FG nomination means they won't have a candidate until September (I think is what Simon Harris said), which means that's a shorter campaign period for people to dig into the candidate in too much detail. I do reckon though that both McGuinness and Kelly are viable candidates for different reasons and could see either of them doing well in a national election (not that I'd be voting for either, but still).

Didn't the greens get carbon taxes sorted? Ban on peat being sold commercially (not that it's being enforced). Wasn't it the greens who pushed for more public transport? Didn't they get the rural bus links in?

Tell me again about how they broke all of their promises and got none of their policies implemented?

Competition can open up old and new wounds.

Now I'm wondering.
Would Michaél be that blatant, coming on his radio show to blow smoke?

Your claims about none of Labours policies being implemented in 11-16 was picked through and shown to be nonsense last time you tried it. Some highlights being you entirely convinced that the exact opposite of things happened, and then moving on to another topic when this was pointed out.

Do you want to be shown up as incredibly ill informed again?

The reality, which you need to accept, is that you do not understand coalition government. In a country where coalition government is inevitable, this is a core failing of political understanding.