Presidential Election 2025

A lot would probably support such legislation. Those strongly opposed very likely voting left anyway…

Would be incredibly clever, FF attacking him would expose MM's partitionist ethos, he wouldn't even be able to blame SF.

FFers would vote for Eastwood also.

I assume she was referring to generational welfare types who lie about being disabled and getting money for it.

It is disrespectful to actual disabled citizens and taxpayers.

They are supposed to have already been medically examined ffs.

Why is he complaining, the government are all talk, they never did anything about welfare cheats, never will.

Shame, no one in FFG cares about punishing violent criminals.

I see one bookie has Mary O'Rourke at 50/1

Sheridan is 66/1.

Effectively, a dead person has a better chance

Don't be obtuse.

Only two parties have ever held the presidency. Both are centrist. All the presidents ever elected were centrists.

Labour are the ones that will live to regret going so hard left with the candidate they are backing this time. Many in the party already are.

That only leaves FG and FF this time. And if FF don't jump in hard with a superstar of a candidate, Humphreys will walk it.

Tony out before he got it.

And FG have never been one of those two parties.

HH has a good chance, she's a long way from home and hosed though as we know with these specific elections.

Whether folk like it or not, party's and party leader's performance will be dragged into this campaign. Fionann out of the traps on it already.

Humphreys will also be representing a party that is hardly firing on all cylinders at the moment.

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The shine has well and truly gone off Harris at this stage.

His mastery of social media might have delivered the “TikTok Taoiseach” title, but it is now coming back to bite him hard.

Harris’s past empty promises while he was health minister around ­scoliosis surgery and soundbites around cutting waiting lists bought him cover at the time, but were based on nothing.

Following on from his flop in the general election campaign, Simon Harris is becoming an electoral liability.

Fine Gael’s presidential campaign has been led by statistics rather than sentiment. With undue haste,

Humphreys and Frances Fitzgerald were swiftly dispatched because McGuinness was faring better on the name recognition of early polling off the back of her term as European Commissioner.

Simon Harris and Heather Humphreys in 2024.

But there was little thought put into public mood and what the voters ­actually want from their president.

McGuinness’s insistence on running for vice-president of Ursula von der Leyen’s European People’s Party – Fine Gael’s EU grouping – only a few months ago showed zero interest in being seen as a bipartisan consensus-builder.

Wrap the flag of Europe over the Blueshirt and away you go.

I very sincerely doubt that FF were ever going to support Holohan in any shape or form.

For the same reason Micheál Martin won't get behind people from his own party connected with the crash, it would be an unforced error.

If Holohan was going to get FF backing, he'd have known it already, instead of scratching around seeing if the numbers might add up for a nomination.

And for me thats the real reason he's called off the hunt today, he sees there was no path to a nod.

If FF back a candidate, it will be someone they nominate themselves and throw all the resources behind. Someone with a real chance of winning.

I think too many people remember his policy of locking down the country while the rest of the world had moved on. Christmas 2021 was a particularly dark time by comparison even to England

Where is this coming from?