Presidential Election 2025

I can't find any online article backing this but I did hear on the radio this morning that there would be targeted cost of living measures introduced in the next budget. The payments won't be universal however as they were previously. I'm not suggesting you should vote for the FF or FG candidate, just that your voting decision should be an informed one

Your method of supporting a candidate based on their past history is a good one. You're voting for somebody who has similar powers to King Charles, not somebody with Donald Trump style powers, so unlike a general election you're not voting based on promises of what a candidate might do in the future.

Likewise I didn't agree with FF or FGs past handling of healthcare, housing or justice. Even after the errors of their ways were shown they didn't change track. This is why I feel that Jim Gavin and Heather Humphries don't deserve my votes, which realistically only leaves Catherine Connolly for me to vote for.

My own conundrum is what order do I give my second and third preferences because unlike Maria Steen the FF or FG candidate still deserves the job more than her. Assuming those will be the 4 candidates

Same. The days of voting for FFG are gone for me, which right now leaves me with Connolly.

At least she speaks well which is a plus for the Presidency. Gavin is not a good speaker ( based on his public interactions I've seen to date)….and I just couldn't listen to HH for the next 7 years tbphwy.

In a situation where Maria Steen is the 4th candidate I would feel compelled to give Jim Gavin or Heather Humphries my 2nd/3rd preference. Not sure what order though.

If it stays as a 3 candidate race I'm just marking an X in the box beside Catherine Connolly's name

He lost Meath by 1 vote and 8 councillors didn't even bother to attend.

This is a useful visual:

I wonder why Donegal didn't bother organising a vote one way or the other?

She has never shown sympathy for Russia over their Ukraine invasion, she described the actions of Putin as "illegal", "horrific" and "against international law".

If her biggest issue is made up nonsense from the FF/FG corner then she's in a great position!

CC will be a formidable opponent in debates if the matter comes up. Heather won't be able for her knowledge and Jim will be in the say nothing bad about NATO or the US strait jacket that most defence forces people are when dealing with it.

Heather's party were over in Moscow looking favours from Russia after the invasion of Crimea.

Sanctions that don't work and only hurt the innocents caught in the middle of NATO - Russia powerplays shouldn't be supported.

If that's gonna be Humphrey's and Gavin's response then that will be great.

Meanwhile CC will point out that she was right not to trust the US, currently arming and supporting a genocide with NATO members sending aircraft and selling armaments to aid it too.

Meanwhile we are used as a staging point to get the genocide materials to the users.

I have a mind of my own and can judge what I see.

CC has just been on BBC radio in the north saying "Gaza is top priority for the people of Ireland". She's about to find out how true that isn't.

Blanch, I have been watching NATO/US etc - Russia power playing and game playing for a long time before Ukraine became an issue and before Putin came along.

I think CC’s views on being anti war are fairly transparent, and is also what she would view as anti-imperialist.

Her polling shows the 'Putin supporter' muck throwing is not having any effect on her support.
I think the public is looking at her actual record on these things not the propaganda that we see spread about her here and elsewhere.