Presidential Election 2025

I don't see an SF candidate finishing ahead of Connolly, If they do on the first count it will be the transfers from the elimination of the FF/FG/Lab/Green/Gene Pool candidates that will push Connolly ahead of the SF candidate because there are so many supporters of those parties who would vote for an inanimate carbon rod before voting SF

I don't see an SF candidate finishing ahead of Connolly

Only one I would give a better than evens chance of doing so would be Mary Lou. She could afford to act imperious and ignore/patronise Connolly in her campaign.

there are so many supporters of those parties who would vote for an inanimate carbon rod before voting SF

Again if it's Mary Lou I think a majority of centrist floating voters would see her as a lesser evil than Connolly

I would see Connolly as being more appealing to centrists than MLMD. I could be wrong of course

Connolly is a lot like Michael D without the saw doctors song

BTW ,you saw it here, from Realdanbreen first!

But sure thats exactly why she/the party decided weeks ago that she wouldn't be going forward.

That ambiguity about a month back was a shambolic effort to try and goad Micheál Martin into running, which he was never doing anyway.

And so Sinn Féin will either back Connolly, or run a candidate that is not MLMD.

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You'd be surprised. She was born in Cork and her family connections there are strong.

And I feel many people regard her more highly as a leader and a statesman from her performance in the top job in the 6 counties. More highly than Mary Lou perhaps, who is a negative campaigner and so utterly dreary to listen to.

In fact, if I were a Sinn Féin executive member and it was a straight vote to run one of them, I'd pick Michelle O'Neill any day. For many reasons.

Heather romping home in FG

Brace yourselves – Keogan aims to get FIVE onto the Park election ticket https://meathlive.net/2025/08/18/brace-yourselves-keogan-aims-to-get-five-onto-the-park-election-ticket/ #aras25

Keogan says she is not just backing Sheridan. Keogan now hedging her bets in regard to backlash from her supporters?

That is simply not possible without at least 1 of SF,FF or FG agreeing to let their councilors a free vote, and even then she still has to get those councilors on board with her so realistically it would probably require all 3 parties to do this as I doubt she can manage a majority for 20 different county councils unless she has every single councilor available to vote.

Yeah a very poor scoping exercise by himself and the people in his local organisation.

They might as well not even bother with the hustings.

When he quoted that 'a day out of Kerry is a day wasted', he might as well have said that the suggestion of Kelly is a suggestion wasted.

So just to be clear, prior to the general election Heather felt she no longer had the interest or energy for public office and wanted to "relax a bit". But hey now that McGuinness is out and she has a sniff of getting elected to a mega buck job plus perks she's like a new woman ,full of beans all gung ho, mighty woman altogether!

Agree with that. SK doesn't seem to be in favour with HQ. Similarly, if SF want to change leader and try and address the doldrums they seem to be stuck in, then Mary Lou will be 'asked' to run for President and Matt Carthy will become SF leader.

Carthy is too young IMO he’ll be kept for another while