Presidential Election 2025

Peter Casey has written to councillors seeking support

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-41699030.html

does he really see a chance to get on the ballot?

The former Dragon’s Den star said he wanted to transfer “significant powers of the presidency to county councillors” and allow them to “shape” national decisions.

ridiculous pandering

She's a dreadful candidate in fairness….but compares favourably to the raggle taggle bag of other chancers

The Party for Animal Welfare, the one I suspected were asking Linda Martin to run, have announced a "candidate", Gerben Uunk.

They have zero councillors. We've actually found the wannabe candidate with less chance of getting nominated than Nick Delahanty!

You think Protestant/Unionists/Loyalists would vote for her?

Be careful what you wish for, sunshine. A 32 county election for President does not mean just the nationalists and Republicans.

Any person entitled to British or Northern Irish identity can assert an Irish identity too, register, vote, even put forward a candidate. Jim Allister maybe....

That could be termed, getting 'unstuck'.

Well that's me told anyway.

I guess I should read more VIP magazine and the Sindo gossip columns in future like yourself Larbre, to stay abreast of national affairs.

FF could be using the Trump strategy, intentionally or unintentionally, to deny the campaign of Humphreys/FG the oxygen of publicity. Essentially, the media focuses on the contest within FF and the personalities involved. They then move to rumours of a leadership challenge and the possible contenders.

As for the Irish media, they have a herd mentality and if a story is popular, they will pile on. The way that various FF "candidates" were namedropped and appeared in the print and broadcast media suggested a planned approach. FF might be useless on Social Media but it is good at dealing with the legacy media.

After the initial buzz of a candidate's introduction, it is necessary to keep the candidate in the news and make sure that other candidates don't get quite the same coverage. In some respects, it is PR 101. With Trump, even though he was not running here, nuch of the Irish media got caught up in the HRC groupthink. The morning after the 2016 election on RTE radio was some of the best comedy RTE ever produced. It was obvious to those with a clue that HRC's campaign was developing problems as early as September 2016. The Irish media were largely feeding off the US media and hadn't any original insights. They never even realised that there was a big difference between the HRC Big Data operation and that of Trump. As it later turned out, Trump's Big Data operation was using Cambridge Analytica.

There isn't quite as much at stake in an Irish presidential election though it may be FG's last chance at having an FG president before FF turns them into Labour 2.0 through taking support and votes.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0716/631195-irish-language/

She promised in 2014 to learn Irish to justify her role as Gaeltacht minister, if she's making the same pledge 11 years later having clearly not done so already she must really take the public for fools.

He seems to keep claiming MM/FF are engaging in a democratic process.

Martin deliberately delayed allowing a discussion on Presidential candidates, despite various requests, until the very last minute, then told them a non-FFer is their candidate.

(after picking up the phone to call a header like Bob Geldof (and all he represents) to apologise for not supporting him.

This FF candidate is then chosen by the parliamentary party - who all owe Martin favours, with no input at all, from the membership.

Even FG give weight to the membership.

Democracy, MM style.

The disrespect shown to a life long FFer, in order to facilitate a celebrity candidate is pretty typical of Martin's leadership of FF.