Presidential Election 2025

Another person choosing to totally miss my point. I've said nothing about Jim Gavin's qualities or suitability for the Presidency and I'm utterly baffled where you got the impression that I support Catherine Connolly.

Once again, I'm refuting the idea that there's 100s of thousands of voters out there who will blindly vote for a candidate solely because they are a prominent GAA figure. There is no evidence that this bloc of voters exists.

He would very much be a safe pair of hands. He will not speak out against government in a meaningful way, He will endlessly talk about the benefits of immigration and warn against those who speak out against current policies.

He will sign what he is told to sign, no need to worry about him not understanding what he is signing.

They sprang it on Jim 2 months ago?

Thats not a point.

Jim Gavin is a meticulous, ambitious, strategic and accomplished man,who suffers no fools. He had already accepted a number of leadership roles from the government in running the Inner City Task Force and chairing citizen's assemblies.

FF approaching him and saying 'Jim, we have you in mind for this, we're still getting our ducks in a row, but we'll need to get moving in about 8 to 10 weeks' , is not "springing it" on him by any objective analysis.

Again, I fail to see your point here. You appear to be attempting to identify incompetence or tail-chasing on the part of FF, where absolutely none exists.

I'm surprised to see a lot of commentary this weekend on how Jim Gavin will win the "GAA vote", maybe it's not realised outside of the capital or understood by non-GAA supporters but that era of Dublin team was absolutely despised and loathed by 31 other countries because of the unfair funding, sponsorship advantages and home stadium advantages Dublin enjoyed. That period of Dublin dominance turned so many fans away from the Championship that attendances and viewers have been in freefall ever since.

As a coach he was viewed as a drill sergeant, cold and uncompromising. His contribution to the amateur game was to professionalise conditioning filling his squad with full-time gym bunnies who could outrun and outfight amateur opponents, it was ugly at times and sapped a lot of the life out of the sport for many.

I'm sure many GAA fans around the country will have strong views on Jim but they won't be the kind Micheál Martin seems to expect.

Kelleher was added last minute to the 2019 ticket after a careful campaign by Kelleher et al. Martin didn't want to loose a TD to Europe but Kelleher did his homework. It made the press in Cork alright.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30912723.html

Martin could be thinking about the poor electoral results in Dublin for FF so maybe a Dub with name recognition may get votes in Dublin. As others have pointed out, being a Dublin GAA person may not go down too well in the rest of the country.

The idea that she would get nominated was widely ridiculed, not that she'd try to. Do keep up.

Also, she's a terrible potential candidate just like all the other far-right weirdos that have been suggested.

Even though I have reservations about the panel approach used in the Ireland Thinks and RedC polls, the Ireland Thinks polls tend to be quite good. If you are talking about the analysis of these polls in the Sindo, then it is not as good as the polls.

Regards…jmcc

Given that most of your takes are nonsensical ravings, I think most here will ignore that opinion for what it is.

On the wider issue of Jim Gavin's appeal outside Dublin, or not, I don't think that'll bother him or FF particularly, either way. 30% of all voters live in county Dublin, and although Gavin won't get every single one, as the sole Dubliner in the race so far, those are statistical advantages that both Humphreys and Connolly would give their right arms for.

cant see gavin getting very far in this race, think ff have made a mistake

MM may be playing a slightly different game. Running JG in the race does give FF a chance of winning or at least doing well. The second benefit is running a well liked FF figure in the capitol and building back it as a support base for FF.

Interestingly, she is still the only declared candidate in the race and the only person who can campaign and give interviews.