Presidential Election 2025

I heard there was some sort of Gavin controversy “comments on Gaza”. Threw on RTE News channel (which repeats the news) . After sitting through Eurovision, American Politics Uk Politics.
Finally got to the bit where Micheal Leehane explained Gavin’s comments re Gaza and what they were in response to.

Basically nothing to see here. And it was Doherty painting Gavin as the out of touch Military Man. I assume aimed at any of the SF support base in Dublin?

When hearing the full story, I thought that was a bit sleeveen like by Doherty, and very click bait ish by RTE.

Gavin Reilly tweeting that Declan Ganley, Maria Steen and Nick Delahunty are 3 of the 4 candidates(according to Tóibín himself) giving submissions to the Peadar Tóibín led group of Oireachtas members today. No mention of who the 4th person is.

DB commented its probably Aubrey McCarthy as he'd also be there as a Senator…

A good idea by Toibín by all accounts. I'd assume the 11 Oireachtas members are, Independent Ireland (3) Aontú (3) Ronan Mullen, Ger Craughwell, Sharon Keoghan and the 2 Healy-Raes so no prizes for guessing that they'll be backing Maria Steen

No AFAIK II are not part of the gang of 11

 The objective is that the winning candidate should emerge with the support of 11 parliamentarians.

However, Independent Ireland, which has declined to take part in the caucus, has also pledged its four votes…That would leave the winning candidate in the caucus on an effective fifteen votes, and attention would then turn to figures such as Michael McDowell, Gerard Craughwell, and a number of Government-aligned independent TDs.

what poxy country are we living in? Sick to back teeth these clowns jabbering on about Palestine and pretending these foreign conflicts affect us. I’ll definitely be voting for Gavin now. SF and Connolly should eff off to Gaza and stand for election there.

He may not nominate Connolly and will not back another candidate. If Connolly loses, I think that Labour might be having a few leadership discussions.

Problem is there is no published list of who in the Oireachtas nominates candidates it just says Oireachtas Members

If they're auditioning in front of Peader it might be best to say, "will we start with a decade of the Rosary lads! "

She is a weak candidate and, like Kamala Harris, a replacement for a much better candidate. The spin from FG seems to be trying to present her as a bit of a character. I'm not sure that after 14 years of Higgins that the electorate wants another "character" in the Aras.

Connolly seems to be a bit like a nun in demeanour. Gavin is a managerial type who had been previously approached to run for FG.

The turnout is going to be important in this election. The last thing that FF and FG want is the election turning into a protest against the government. And SF has yet to make its move.

Seems like a clickbait story. People seem to be wating for SF to make its move and the media has to fill space and dead air. At tis rate, RTE will probably have its presenters interviewing other presenters to find out what they all think. When TV journos are waiting for something to happen, they normally interview other journos.At the moment, the election is in the "wating for something to happen" phase.

I don’t think that side is in Gavin he is very taciturn by nature. And tries his best to be inoffensive at all times. I suppose it is the combination of his military training, and personality.
And if the other candidates slip up in debates it will reflect well on him. No doubt he will play on his public servant to the state “for all” line.

I am still reluctant to vote for him though as the celebrity candidate trick annoys me . Feels like he is been pushed foward to the electorate.

So far I am leaning towards Connolly, but haven’t thought about an option two.

Hopefully, the debates can make it more definitive for me.

The last contested Presidential election I went McGuinness 1, Higgins 2. Thinking it would do more for peace on the Island of Ireland rather than any party political reasons.