Presidential Election.

It can be fixed. It is not in the interests of the traditionally large parties to fix it just as they want to keep the Aras for themselves.

Remember the eVoting debacle and the "experts" in FF/PD claiming that it was secure? A paper sticker on the eVoting machine was the "security". It even had articles in the legacy media from people with no expertise in hacking extolling the system. Would you trust these people to fix the electoral register?

Michael Lehane saying Lowry's group of councillors are not supporting any Independent councillors tmw, that dents Gareth Sheridans' hopes.

It's a duty as a councillor to propose relevant candidates which serve the interests of their constituents. We all know what the FF & FG councillors are doing here but to not even hear the pitches is being mask-off that they're not even considering constituents in the matter. At least after hearing them they can claim they were given due consideration and just weren't up to standard so the locals can rest easy that their councillor is working for them and absolutely isn't blindly following orders from HQ.

That was also the case in the past when Dana (twice), Derek Nally and a trio of chancers from Dragons Den presented themselves before the councils and it didn't stop them receiving multiple nominations.

I can't see there being any major appetite to put the work in to change the constitution to improce this situation. It's an even that happens usually every seven years, effects very very few people and why would the big players want this changed? The population in general don't give much of a toss about the presidency (in reality) and not enough of them would lobby for this type of thing to happen.

A country fella like Jim Gavin who's busy working the land isn't going to be familiar with the struggles of young people in modern urban life 😁

My sympathies to the unfortunate reporter who drew the short straw of having to report on the cranks pitching to DCC yesterday

Says the lad currently having a go at a woman on another thread because of how she looks.

All points that the all party oireachtas committee examined and considered. Obviously they thought that having a more open nomination process, and the requirement to have ten thousand citizens nominate them would stop "cranks and timewasters" as you put it. Plus they would be given their answer by the electorate if they even got nominated. All political campaigns cost money.