Presidential Election 2025

Kelly isn't stupid. Had to have been people telling him he had their support.

Of course the Assad support has been debunked numerous times but you are a self-proclaimed FF/FG voter so like the hospital emergency, the housing emergency and the next crisis/emergency nobody expects you to understand it.

With that being said I completely understandable that a right-wing voter such as yourself wouldn't be inclined to vote for either candidate

Something being "debunked" to the satisfaction of people who already support Connolly does not actually mean it was debunked.

Syria, Russia, Wallace, Daly and Gemtrails will come back again and again and again; and nothing Connolly has said has made any of them any better.

Labour rolling in behind CC is pathetic. She left the party and was scathing about it. No wonder Labour are screwed.

The only circumstance I'd vote for cc is if that criminal Bertie was her rival.

Yes, facts are usually an issue for right wingers

I'm not sure what that has to do with the upcoming presidential election

I've noticed a lot of comments similar to this online and in person. Right wingers throwing out random comments here and there in the hope that it sticks in the minds of the gullible, a form of brainwashing if you will. It suggests they are somewhat scared of losing this one.

Yet you mention UHL or John McNulty and most will feign ignorance!

An attempt by Labour to try and shake off their recent time in government with FG and establish themselves as a party of the left. In the absence of them having the numbers for their own nomination it also means they don't have to back the SF candidate, especially if that is MLMD. A smart move from them by all accounts.

They really don't

I refer you to my earlier point of throwing out random comments.

They didn't have the numbers to do anything on their own. But the correct signal would have been to stay out of it entirely.

Their old advisor Fergus Finlay was scathing about them backing Connolly, in the Irish Times yesterday.

"There’s a lot of stuff I don’t agree with Catherine Connolly about, there’s a lot of stuff I admire her for. But Catherine Connolly left the Labour Party because we wouldn’t give her a nomination to run alongside Michael D Higgins, and she has never had a good word to say about the Labour Party from that moment on,”

“And now we’re backing her. And I have no problem with members of the Labour Party going out and voting for Catherine Connolly, none in the wide, Earthly world. But I don’t know what she’s done to deserve our support, to be absolutely honest with you.”

There you go again with your random comments, I consider plenty of people who aren't me to not be right wing

Until evidence of her support of Assad is established I think most people would consider it hearsay at best or random comments

What the right really need is proof of what she said about Assad because otherwise nobody will believe them. I wouldn't hold my breath though

Harry Magge on Radio 1 said SF are looking at running Rose Conway-Walsh. As a Mayo man I suppose I should be excited at the prospect of another of our ladies getting the big job but I can't see RCW being more than a marginal improvement on Liadh Ni Riada…

Sinn Féin are going to attack whoever the Fine Gael candidate is. The fact she is a Protestant has nothing to do with that, and I doubt the push back from Mark Ward has anything to do with that. Sure 2 of our previous presidents have been Protestants too…