Presidential Election 2025

Sure. Here she is legitimising Russia's bombing campaign in Syria - a campaign overwhelmingly focused on destroying hospitals, murdering first responders and killing as many civilians as possible. But in reality it is actually the US's fault in her mind, because that is the only prism through which she can judge anything.

Here she is blaming NATO for Russia's invasion of Ukraine

“Nato has played a despicable role in moving forward to the border and engaging in warmongering. Ireland has been hypocritical on many levels.”

Here she is saying we can not trust the UK and France (our two closest European allies)

Ms Connolly agreed with another contributor in the debate that there are countries “we certainly cannot trust”, adding: “America is one of those and England and France are others.

Here she is talking about her regard for Clare Daly

"Clare Daly is a beacon of hope. The degree of venom in the media towards her is a testament to her effectiveness... [H]er honesty, her integrity... I wish there were more of her. I've no hesitation in supporting her every step of the way."

The "historical context" is not true - Russia's murderous behaviour in Syria had nothing whatsoever to do with the US, nevermind a legitimate fear.

Anyway, good to see we have moved on from your claim that she has never expressed any of these views to the fact that you simply agree with them.

Catherine Connolly has never seen a problem anywhere on the globe that she does not think is the fault of the US, the UK and our European allies. While she is obviously not always wrong, her end goal appears to be isolating us from everyone we are close to and lecturing them from some utterly delusional manufactured "high ground".

I assume she does but it is mostly nonsense. Khrushchev himself has said the supposed "guarantee" to not move NATO further east was not true. And I'm not sure abandoning the Baltic states to Russian interference and occupation would be much of a vote winner were it put in those terms.

Ukraine was constitutionally neutral (moreso than us I might add) before Russia invaded them in 2014. It has never been about NATO and reinforcing that viewpoint is just spewing Russian, anti-Western propaganda.

Shame they weren't admitted really, given that Russia invaded them both afterwards. Seems like NATO membership is the only thing that stops Russian invasions.

Ukraine was constitutionally neutral prior to their invasion by Russia. That is simply a statement of fact. That article is about Bush's view on what Ukraine should do, they had not at that point applied to anything.

So I would rather her not represent me on the international stage.

"you fundamentally disagree with the views of a person who wants to be Head of State" is a weird thing to dismiss so casually.