Presidential Election 2025

Name them.

Hes a dreadful choice because he is an incredibly divisive individual, you either love him or hate him, personally i despise the man due to his repeated interjections in Dublins transport infrastructure, he has opposed the Dart, the Luas and the Metrolink, hilariously he opposed the Luas by claiming we would be better served by a metro and now he opposes the metro by saying we need more light rail…..

I don't give the Irish Presidency much thought but I would have liked McGuinness and I'm sorry to see her pull out, especially under those circumstances. I just don't want the Presidency to become nothing more than a publicity stunt or to be like some reality TV show prize to be won. I just want to see a competent career politician in the office who will be a good and dignified ambassador for Ireland. That being said, I'd still rather see Dustin The Turkey as president than Bertie!

There aren't

Try list them and you'll soon be in to people who either wouldn't go near him, or are in favour of Connolly, or both.

Aontu want to nominate Ganley and would never nominate someone with a PDs view on abortion, so you can take them off the list immediately. Nolan likely the same. Mullen wouldn't nominate someone with a PDs view on anything. An entire quarter of your list are single-issue anti-abortion, or damn close to it, representatives; McDowell is absolutely not anti-abortion.

Mattie wouldn't have the time of day for him. Keoghan wouldn't nominate someone vaguely sane.

All your unlikelys/Government members are basically impossibles.

He has no path to Oireachtas nomination and never did.

I wonder will they now speed things up because Mairead McGuinness has dropped out ? I think Catherine Connolly will come a cropper in the campaign given her statements around Syria and Russia and Ukraine.

If you look at the first part of a statement it appears is pro Ukraine but there is always a but to her statement.

They wouldn’t have the issue of multiple parties having to “support” someone through gritted teeth like some are with Connolly.

Imo I think the McGuinness news will make it more likely they do run someone.

I wonder who FG will nominate now though.

They'll all have to declare or get off the pot soon enough.

Allowing the electorate a swipe at the two parties of government would be interesting to say the least.

FF and FG Oireachtas members will never be given a free vote

McDowell isn't going to debase himself touring councils with the clown car; unless he wants to lose business (as a barrister and writer)

SF will now jump and nominate a user-friendly Lynn Boylan or Michelle O'Neill or Conor Murphy.

None of those would have a prayer of beating a strong

FF/FG candidate from the centre ground

Murphy would be lucky to outpoll Connolly. If SF actually want to win Mary Lou is their only man

Whatever about council members going rogue or even just being let off the leash as in elections past there is no way Oireachtas members will be let nominate outside of the party, but keep coming up with impossible fantasy sceanrios if it amuses you.

It will depend on who they chose imo.
If they turn around and chose a FF FG candidate that woukd be an awful look and look like a scramble.