Presidential Election 2025

Ah I think you are reading way too much into all of this.

It's the Presidential election.

Once a candidate is elected and in the Áras everyone of the political parties have to be seen to accept the democratic vote , get in behind the President and go on about their business as before

By Christmas, nobody will remember apart from the individuals themselves who didn't get elected , and even less will care.

Sure most people don't remember who went for election except if there was a scandal .

It's a role that is ceremonial and only relevant to the people of the country as someone who speaks very generally on their behalf , represents and attends functions, greets other dignitaries and heads of state ...except when there is a constitutional matter to be dealt with .

Turnout was low because it was a locked-on second term for MDH, and there was no credible opposition candidate.

It's not the governing parties' fault if the opposition can't come up with a credible candidate. SF's candidate was particularly bad and her poor showing was extremely embarrassing for the main opposition party. But it was pretty obvious she was "taking one for the team".

Even within FG it was acknowledged that Gay Mitchell was a terrible choice of candidate, but parties which aren't run out of a backroom in West Belfast have rules they have to abide by.

The idea that FG should have run a candidate in 2018 is entirely ridiculous.

The 2018 Presidential election has precisely zero relevance to the 2020 general election.

You are hypothesising about a miracle SF candidate who is still a mystery, even if they exist at all. It seems that if they run anyone, it'll be with a bayonet poking them in the back and it'll be the end of their political career, just like Ni Riada.

We're well into the comedy hour now, "female voters" will line up to support Mary Lou regardless of her party's brainless policies and support for IRA terrorist murderers. 🙄

Nah. Failure to find a credible candidate within their own ranks is a massive embarrassment for the main opposition party.

Mary Davis was possibly the most useless Presidential candidate ever, and I say this as someone who hates Dana.

Yes their super-duper masterplan is in action. We can be forgiven for thinking that they don't have a clue and are getting increasingly desperate, and that nobody wants to be the next Ni Riada and Mary Lou does not want to end her political career with a presidential campaign loss.

They're more secretive than Kim Jong Un's mob. Only 35% of SF voters would vote for Mary Lou as President. She should have stayed in Fianna Fail 😁

She didn't answer it directly but it sounds like they aren't putting a candidate forward

She sounds quite unsure of herself...not as polished as she normally is considering she's not being asked anything unexpected..

Agreed, she certainly didn't come across as sure-footed as you would expect. It sounds like the SF backroom boys can't agree on a strategy for this election, so the media facing politicians are left to ad-libbing until they are informed about what their masters have decided...