Presidential Election 2025

I've not been involved in this until I pointed out that you had a fundamental factual error - about Higgins receiving "another" council nomination.

You then replied with a further factual error, suggesting that DCC were going to nominate him - when he had never requested their nomination and hence they could not actually nominate him.

Now you seem to think you've actually been debating other parts of this with me; so it appears you are chronically confused.

Read my post again

You made two entirely factually inaccurate claims about Higgins receiving council nominations - firstly that he'd receive "another", which requires him to have received one or more to begin with; and that secondly DCC were going to nominate him until he requested Labour councillors to support Norris's nomination.

He received zero council nominations and was not going to receive one from DCC.

That is all I have brought up - you were discussing the other elements with other people.

You made stuff up and don't appear to be able to realise that you did, just as you don't appear to be able to realise who was actually debating stuff with you earlier on!

Thanks for that, I have edited the statement, see below, to correct it so that it is factual.

Not only that, but she has served on the Council of State and would therefore have a greater knowledge experience of the workings of the Presidency than the likes of Catherine Connolly.

Having experience of how Higgins ran the presidency is a plus, and Heenan has been effusive in her praise of his integrity and erudition, I'm sure she would want to emulate him.
Still doesn't mean Connolly's knowledge of what the job she is undertaking entails is deficient. We have had perfectly acceptable Presidents who didn't sit on the Council Of State prior to being elected.
Any other of the candidates you think might be deficient or are you only worried about Connolly?

You have spent the entire morning showing you haven't got a clue about the council nomination process (believing Higgins had council nominations), so you are in no position to criticise others lack of knowledge of the nomination process!

Catherine Connolly was never Ceann Comhairle, please research before posting.

Asserting that a Deputy has the experience of their manager is quite a leap.

The Presidential Commission only has a function in the event of absence, incapacity, death, resignation, removal from office or failure to perform functions by the President. The DCC only has a function in that respect where the CC is unable to fulfil their duties. Perhaps you might point out to me how many times the President was incapable or failed to do his job and the Presidential Commission was invoked and that Catherine stepped in in the place of the CC?

Remember, as Francie pointed out, knowledge is not experience.

You suggested that Connoly's knowledge of the job is deficient in some way because she hadn't served on the CoS.

This is an assumption, not based in anything other than your opinion.
Yes, it is no harm to have served but the evidence shows it is no bar to being President.

Still pointing out you made stuff up, yes.

You're still arguing with the wrong person about the 'democratic goodwill' stuff, cause I've never mentioned that.