Presidential Election 2025

Gavin got a hammering in the Drogheda Independent/Irish Independent yesterday. Never heard about Oliver Plunketts Head / Relic. And had to play it cute to dodge a question by secondary kids on lowering voting age.

https://archive.is/GhvB9

If I remember HH only had a question on Fox Hunting yesterday. Which she just spoke generally on culture of rural Ireland mostly controlled etc.

At this rate HH only has to avoid major errors getting the tap over frees. While the other two keep fluffing the ball.

Thanks for the article particularly as the quote function doesn't always work for me.

As a quibble I would feel the author from Ohio is stating his opinion as fact but maybe that's just me.

I'm not a Pacifist btw, fully believe in the right to use force when necessary.

I think it is good that you have people like CC that will make you think about the consequences of your actions & also the reasons that you have ended up in the situation that force is needed.

The military industrial complex is more than happy with the situation in Ukraine & we need reasonable people at the table to question this.

This is obviously outside the remit of the presidency of Ireland but we need to start to shake up the status quo in this & other countries & in my opinion a vote for either the FG or FF candidates is not going to make this happen.

Finally who reading this is going to fight in a war in Europe that we seem to be sleep walking into ? I'm not & I don't want my children & grandchildren to either.

No, she did not.

Incorrect today much of the middle classes and younger Irish people have embraced the Irish language. Symbolism is important when it comes to the Irish language/presidency. Ferriter is correct.

The issue you have it seems to me you associate the Irish language with the provos or backwardness. Which is an unfortunate perception. As I have found foreigners are more than keen to learn the Irish language. Sudan, France, Russia, Kentucky, Kansas are some of the places people are from who have no issue with learning the Irish language. Who I have met personally.

But yet are more than keen to give out about “Republicans” if they are bigoted towards Protestant traditions. You can’t have it both ways be bigoted towards the Irish language, and then accuse others of the same when it suits your narrative.

Fortunately for you though the Irish language seems to be the only plus point CC has. And will be lucky to finish 2nd the way it is going for her so far.

I'm happy enough for Germany to rearm and I want everyone to send loads of weapons to Ukraine.

But this idea that EU or NATO countries are under threat is bollix. Poland is under no danger from a Russian army that can't even secure two provinces of the much smaller Ukraine. This war has shown Russia to be fairly useless as a conventional army.

In Canada our roughly equivalent post is the Governor General. The previous one was a former astronaut who turned out to be a genuine space cadet. Personality matters more than political outlook in such jobs:

yes, she absolutely did!

Again incorrect you are assuming anyone with an interest in the Irish language is to use your word from a previous post a far right “looney”.
More often than not you will find the far right have a limited grasp of the Irish language, because they are not very well educated. That is the irony of your assumption.
Linda Ervine had no issues learning the Irish language she understands its importance culturally. Yet she is Unionist.

Not only do you not understand the importance of a language to a culture/country. You seem to equate the mindset to “Irish for Irish”. To the Irish language. You have obviously never experienced comhrà as Gaeilge with a man from Sundan wearing a white Arran Jumper! Nor listened to two Americans discuss as Gaeilge - the minute details of Donegal dialects in the language.

If you don’t think the Irish language is important for Irish culture, nevermind the President of Ireland. You are making yourself “culturally stunted”. In my view at best