Presidential Election 2025

The game is changed.

look, I know MLMD's political talk will always be treated differently, but trying to make the 'gamechanger' comment anymore than a bit of bullish promotion similar to what any party would say is a bit hilarious if not already tedious.

Arragh, cop out. If any party leader said “Game changer” you expect - Something new vibrant, unknown fresh.
You yourself predicted a former GAA president as the SF candidate.

While I will probably go for Connolly I certainly wouldn’t buy a car off Mary Lou. One “careful lady owner” could mean something entirely different.

FG Labour 2.0? Never thought I would see that way of thinking? Surely SF want to eventually be a new Labour centre left with new added Republican flavours?

Think of it as prioritising. SF's main opponent is FF. FF needs FG to form a government.

Labour is a shadow of what it was in the past. Going into government with FG might have played well for the older Labour supporters (Kelly etc) but there is also a younger segment that voted to endorse Connolly. Labour abandoned the Left and centre Left and SF moved in. FF shifted to the Right with FG.SF does not appear to want to be Labour. It wants to take Labour seats.

Labour also has its relevancy problem in that the SocDems endorsing Connolly made it seem like the SocDems were the senior party despite them having the same number of seats.

SF picked Connolly months ago, read between the lines. Mary Lou was their only option in the party and knew she couldn't win it. She never wanted it, shes wants into government. Backing Connolly makes sense when they cannot support a FG or FF candidate.

What it gives Connolly is a cash and people injection that she badly needs. Connolly will not bash Gavin or Humphreys, but you can bet SF will. Gavin for his lack of any political experience and Humphreys for being part of a government that has failed at every level.

I want an interviewer to ask Humphreys and Gavin one simple question - "Do you think the FF/FG government has failed in terms of housing or health?"

Does Catherine Connolly advocate online stalking and bullying?

Downplay it all you want- it was a pathetic display of disorganisation coupled with in-house fighting - you do know there are a number of senior SF members who wanted to support HH?

It’s their usual hot air- it’s just stinks like a very bad fart today given the hype Mary Lou from Orwell Road Dublin instigated earlier this week - far from the far left she came -

If SF had someone palatable for the ROI electorate, there would have been no slow hand clap leading today.

Those with “ahem’ “political” experience are too tied to the past. And those of younger generations are too young. There is a vacuum there for the more discerning ROI electorate. Which is a different kettle of fish to that of NI. They accept anyone with SF branding up there.

SF could have come out at the start and said they were putting country over party and were going to back CC.

Instead they waited and waited, tried to find anyone who they could put up that might have half a chance.

When that failed they finally decided to back CC and put out the argument it was about building a coalition to win the next General Election. No way would they want to be in government with pbp.

Thats exactly what they'll be able to do now. You are being supported by SF therefore do you agree with their stance on x,y,z ?