Presidential Election 2025

Look at McGregor. Nobody passed any comment on his very expensive suits, and very expensive wrist watches when he was on waffling about being a president for the people. Yes, he certainly has other flaws to pick at, but still

Quite honestly, for me - i was against her prior to the bag incident!

• Her supporters included numerous Far right people, both on and off line, including obvious anti-immigration campaigners
• The claim that Steen failure to be nominated, by the democratic system for presidential nominations, was undemocratic - ludicrous
• Specific supporters including John McGuirk, moving to join the attempted smear of Jimi Gavin, while also shouting that RTE should be 'defunded'
• The description by her fans, of all other candidates as 'woke' -
• Her stances on Gay rights, Civil Partnerships, Marriage equality, surrogacy, egg donation, sperm donation, adoption by same sex couples, lifting restrictions on divorce.
• her and Ionas view, that less people engaging with the church, or being in hetro sexual marriages, is causing crime and drug use
• The Iona instutes rocky history with funding - they are a charity, no they arent, yes they are. Receives funding from Russia Via Azerbaijan - 'that never happened and we will sue'
• Followed by - well we did get a number €25k donations from Azerbaijan but we definitely didnt use them in the marriage equality referendum 🤣
• Links available for all of the above!

Yea i have to say, from my point of view, the deck was stacked fairly sizeably against her receiving a vote from me! I grew up in the 80s. And as regards going back to it societally - its a hard pass, thank you.

Her tactics of framing herself as a maverick, anti establishment, grass roots candidate - who happens to be backed by right wing christians, and those who wish to defund the National News service - and a lady who cares about families, albeit, if they fit a certain narrow standard - all of this is right out of the Brexit/Maga Playbook - so again, hard pass, i think.

I will say, the bag incident, was icing on the cake. But she is welcome to try again next time so! Were I advising her, i would take her to Dunnes Stores! They have a wonderful inventory of bags and clothing!

I’m Irish through and through, but cannot stomach this hammering us a language, that let’s be honest, the large majority cannot speak with any real fluency. If people really want to learn the language, they will do so. But let them alone to decide themselves!!! And it shouldn’t be a crutch to beat any candidate with.

Nothing is impossible, but I don't know where you got your thinking from.

Each of them has a huge amount of political capital and financial backing invested in them. If they were to drop out, it wouldn't be just themselves that it would affect.

And so if those who don't prevail in the contest want to be taken seriously ever again in the rest of their lives, they'll stick out the campaign, even when the going gets tough. In fact, especially when it gets tough.

When the more extremes of right and left get stuck in the horseshoe effect, and begin eating each other, its music to the ears of those of us in the firm centre.

The centrists always inherit the Earth.

11 years ago when she was supposed to minister for the Gaeltacht. And worse still she would send her junior minister on RnaG. Refused requests to go on herself.

Despite all that carry on she is getting no1 from me best politician of the three. Doesn’t say much fot the other two.

the TG4 is visual. This is how it shows on tv. As Roy Walker said, say what you see!!

well, there ya go. I never knew what Luas meant till now!!!

Well I won’t be as quick slagging America for their quality of candidates after this.

Given the choice we have even though it is a non executive President. It is still an embarrassing choice. Could be a record low turnout. I was thinking if I was a young first time voter, I wouldn’t be too pushed

I see all three are hard core Republicans now

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0927/1535655-presidential-campaigns/

I think it's HH's to lose. I don't see where she is likely to stumble. Jim Gavin's campaign hasn't sparked yet. CC is a liability to herself any time she has to speak in detail about anything. It will be HH, JG, CC in that order after the vote I reckon.