Presidential Election 2025

So you don't really care if Connolly wins. It's just an anti FG vote?

The emergence of a modern Left/Right axis in Irish politics has been a long time coming. Looking at the GE stats from the 1989 GE onwards shows the decline of FF as the dominant party in Irish politics. A single Left presidential candidate is probably a bad thing for FF and FG because they have been used to dealing with a fragmented Left. As for the Irish media telling people anything about politics, remember that these are the same people who told everyone that Hillary Clinton would in in 2016, Labour would get around 15 seats in 2016, repeated that Joe Biden was sharp as a tack, that Varadkar would be a great leader for FG, and that Kamala Harris would be elected president in 2024. This is going to be a very dirty election campaign and FFG's friends in the media will do everything they can to help their candidates. If they over do it, Connolly could win.

Nethanyahu couldn't have said it better in reality.

The backwards and forewards posts are almost as entertaining as Sunday's entertainment in the second match in Parnell Park in the Dublin club championship.

I think people are starting to loose sight of what was said.

Here is the gist of it -

1. Kier Starmer says that Hamas should not be in government in a future Palestinian state, in his view
2. Connolly basically said that Hamas is part of Palestine culture. Saying Starmer should not lecture another culture/country, Connolly also used the word "fabric"in relation to Hamas.

To me that word implied that Hamas were the majority support among Palestinians overstating their importance. However, nowhere did Connolly say she supported Hamas though.

But you have to think of parallels with SF here. Most of which Mary Lou would wish not be reminded of prior to the GFA SF had low electoral support etc.

But fast forward about 20 years Martin McGuinness like him or not was integral to the peace process. And even ran as as a nominee in the the 2011 POI election.

Would Adams and McGuinness have described themselves as part of the "Fabric" of NI probably not, but they would have at least used the words consensus, negotiation, shared Island all that jazz. As they would have had the nous to know that "fabric" was pushing it when referring to the provisional IRA.

Another poster said that Mary Lou is probably "raging" I would agree. SF trying to modernise itself, a bespoke branding for the ROI. But now negative parallels are drawn between Hamas and the Provos for the older electorate. Who Connolly likely needs to claim victory in the Presidential race.

I think what Connolly said would play well in the border counties and NI, but not in the ROI. Given her choice of words.

But I could be wrong of course. For example, I have an elderly mother who is adamant she is voting for Connolly 1) because Connolly is a woman, 2) Connolly is from Galway. Nothing more complex than that.

Connolly is a dangerous nutjob.

But she’s right to say that Hamas is part of the Palestinian fabric. Any future Palestinian state with any Hamas influence would be a victory for the terrorists. It won’t happen though because Israel and USA won’t let it happen. I support Israel and USA stopping the set up of such a terrorist state.

I won’t be voting for Connolly.

most of the irish electorate are rip roaring hamas terrorist lovers surely connolly will romp home

It's one Irish American Trumper who has beef with the Irish government posting these things across several platforms because he was annoyed by a Simon Harris instagram post before the US election of a Kamala Harris cap which he believes constituted foreign interference.

I'm really not sure why it's getting this level of mainstream coverage or why it's being described as "waves of online abuse" as if it's some kind of sophisticated organised campaign. Did the media not learn from 2011 that regurgitating claims from randomers on twitter is a bad idea?