Presidential Election 2025

You're ignoring the conspiracy theory issue there, and making up quotes - I didn't say "raving lunatic" in any post you're quoting, if at all (checked recent pages).

All this just posts after you accused someone else of making up quotes!

Pointing that there may be someone else I consider unsuitable to hold a specific office doesn't help your argument, and indeed falls in to one of the most basic elements of bad debating - strawmanning. Deal with the issue at question, not a distraction you thrown in the way.

Based on your insistence that Connolly will have done scrutiny, you are now admitting that you believe she nominated O'Doherty as she had no issues with her lunatic conspiracy theories and insane antivax position, are you? Because there's no third way.

She was either OK with Gemma being a lunatic, or wasn't aware. Both make her unsuitable for the office of the President.

The reality is she may end up being the least unsuitable on a ballot paper of unsuitables yet, though

It's not just one thing, it is a pattern across the board of jumping on every conspiracy angle going.
As for Connolly, she didn't hold up her tour guides in Syria to scrutiny did she. Either she is clueless or not sure which is worse, that she knew the kind of person she was being a useful idiot for. So your claim doesn't stand up.

Please provide a source that a Minister of State had the same concerns. Not just that they raised concerns, but the same concerns.

If you are referring to Finian McGrath, compare and contrast that while he did raise concerns, as a Minister of State, he also backed the Government stance and that medical advice should be followed which recommends the vaccine.

Compare and contrast:

https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0903/901942-hpv-vaccine/

“I’ll always reserve the right to raise people’s concerns,” he said. However, he insisted there was “no equivocation” in his present attitude to the HPV vaccine and he was “totally supportive” of the campaign.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/i-cocked-up-finian-mcgrath-on-his-handling-of-hpv-vaccine-1.3210404

It was already apparent even as she was trying to get nominated that O'Doherty was a conspiracy theorist:

On Monday last week (September 10), this reporter approached O’Doherty outside the chamber of Kilkenny County Council as she prepared to make her pitch for the Council’s Áras nomination. When asked if she would like to expand on the doubts she previously raised about the HPV vaccine, she responded: “I am not here to talk about vaccinations. You can ask me about corruption.” However, in her presentation to councillors inside the chamber moments later, O’Doherty strayed off her anti-corruption script, speaking of her dismay that the drinking water supply in Ireland was still “medicated” years after she reported on the links between fluoridation and cancer. She said that, if elected, she would “educate citizens” on the perils of fluoridation.

https://www.imt.ie/news/presidential-candidate-educate-citizens-perils-irish-water-fluoridation-18-09-2018/

On Matt Cooper and Ivan Yates latest podcast episode he claims that Catherine Connolly booked a STRETCH LIMO to go from Galway to the All Ireland final the year she was mayor of Galway, she brought her cronies, and CHARGED it to the taxpayer !!!

Apparently she had no particular interest in GAA but the chance of “royally lording it” in a LIMO with the mayor chain bling bling was too much for her to resist.

Boys oh Boys…If that story is true she is finished before she starts.

Another do as I say not as I do merchant.

Once again, you make up bits of a post so you can give the answer you want to give.

I've invented nothing - there's only two options, and you don't want either of them so you just veer off-course to try claim something else.

Answer the question or stop dodging. Although based on a decade of SF shilling, I should know that you're just going to keep dodging.

She had the same concerns in 2018 as McGrath and many many people had. McGrath also claimed he was giving voice to the people.
This is a quote from O'Doherty in 2018

“What I have learnt in the last few days is that people are absolutely terrified that something about that vaccine is not right and it is not able to withstand scrutiny,” Ms O’Doherty said in the interview.

Ms O’Doherty said given the “wild reaction” to questions being raised over the vaccine, there was “something seriously wrong”.

“I will say, finally, that when you ask questions about a drug that is being given to all of our children and you get such a wild reaction, I would say there’s something seriously wrong, that vaccine, if it is as safe and effective as it is claimed to be, why is it unable to withstand scrutiny, why?”

there's only two options,

There's an invention right there.

One that consolidates the 'I'm only going to accept the answer I want' theory from earlier.

Can you come up with a rational third reason, then?

Gemma not being nuts yet isn't valid, because there is more than enough evidence that she was; from before she went even more nuts during the campaign for nominations.

You are the one reshaping posts and making up quotes so you can use your pre-canned answer; not me.

Can you come up with a rational third reason, then?

I don't need to. I accept her answer.

McGrath:

In late August 2016 Mr McGrath sent documentation from the Regret group to Mr Harris. The literature claimed hundreds of Irish girls had developed chronic ill health due to the vaccine, that included “regular seizures, daily headaches, joint pain, loss of feeling in limbs, muscle weakness”. The internal correspondence was obtained under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act.

Along with the literature Mr McGrath requested “a response to the concerns about the HPV vaccine Gardasil”, and told his Cabinet colleague Mr Harris the number of girls adversely affected by the vaccine in the Regret group “seems to be rising”.

O'Doherty. expressed the concerns of people too.

Does Catherine Connolly now believe there are no concerns like McGrath and all those concerned at the time, now do?

McGrath raised concerns as referred to him.

O'Doherty went beyond that as the previous quote of hers demonstates which is why you ignored it.

Likewise ODoherty in front of a County Council trying to get nominated in 2018 started rambling about flouride and society being medicated. No wonder she didnt get the nomination.

So there were clear signs in 2018, across multiple topics, that O'Doherty was entertaining / latching onto every conspiracy going.

So the options are - Connolly was unaware of this OR Connolly was aware but did not think such conduct disqualifying to be President.

The current 'answer' from Connolly does not address that as it so vague ie what does Connolly mean by 'her role'.

How is the documentary 'batshit'?
Nobody knows who killed Mary Boyle or why.
Same with Du Plantier.

There are many theories/allegations about both cases.