Presidential Election 2025

I suggest a letter to Monaghan Co Co about the officlal languages act might in order.

Hang on now a minute @blanch152 I already explained this to you it is not a definition of Irishness to the exclusion of others.
Which is what you are trying to portray it as.

As if learning or promoting the Irish language excludes others. Those are your own biases with Irish equating it to exclusion/backwards. It is insincere.

Gef your head out of that mindset. Is my advice. Educate yourself on the “youth”. Irish is cool now.

As for @FrancieBrady he has limited interest in the Irish language but loves “weaponising” it. I think that is the wrong approach as well. Insincere.

The two of you need to look at both the Drum/Droim issue and Dingle/Daingain issue from 2005. The common sense approach lies somewhere in between.

Both @franciebrady and @blanch152 have the complete wrong mindset towards the Irish language. In my view. At an equally annoying attitude albeit for complete different reasons.

Perhaps these two posters could do an online ciorcal comhra together? Time better spent!

Unfortunately only one of the three presidential candidates have the correct attitude to OUR language. Anyone can learn it.

Two bickering posters. who are insincere about the Irish language for various different reasons are symptoms of the problem, not the solution.

You’re familiar with the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? I have good reason to be worried.

Honestly, all i am hoping for is that she starts to behave like a politician. Thats it, its actually not a high bar to jump.

• I want her to realize that saying divisive and contentious things, about matters like foreign policy, is a poor political choice for a presidential candidate.
• I want her to realise that thousands of activists screaming support for her at student conferences and rallys, is NOT going to get her elected (Jeremy Corbyn seemed to think it would, and sadly for Labour, we all know how that went)
• I want her to realize that, even in a Presidential Election, she is standing for the LEFT of Ireland. And when she drags the debate into these contentious areas, she damages us all
• I want her to keep her powder dry, until the budget. And then go after FFG, and make an impact. Even if it doesnt win the Aras, have it be that the country takes note of what FFG are doing at a time of huge cost of living increases.

Just be a better politician really

Honestly, im nearly certain at this stage, that we just backed the wrong candidate - all of the left did. We let the tail (activist class) wag the dog (the rest of us)

Its embarassing really😑

The question has been asked, and will be asked again in the debate, but it IS ONLY ONE QUESTION. Honestly dragging in, why her town doesnt have bi-lingual signage - come on. It is one topic - BTW telling me that its the first official language, etc, - yes i know, i never said otherwise.

The entire bi-lingual signage thing is just tying this in to the argument in the North, and the politicization of the language. Given her background, (presbyterian, orange cultural background etc) - @FrancieBrady im not having a go you honestly. Please believe that.

But the optics are all wrong.

And damaging IMHO

This matters to a lot of people, and they are free to vote with their feet, but continually dragging it in as THEE DISTINGUISHING ISSUE FOR HUMPHREYS - its poor, very poor

You do realise in Dingle, they reverted back to Dingle on the road signs? As An Daingean was not practical for tourists/tourism.

Furthermore, the dual usage of An Daingean/ Dingle proved impractical as signage. There is no excuse for this with Drum/Driom as the words are short.

But I suspect your interest in the signage is not sincere. Albeit it does have merit in argument.

Your banging of the “drum” sign is just a distraction tactic, and opportunism to stick the knife in on HH. As code for anti Orange Protestantism. Yet you yourself have shown very little interest in the Irish language on boards.ie before this. The irony is not lost on me.

If Dingle a Gaeltacht area can change back to their English name for practical purposes. It shows to me signage is a non issue for those in the majority of the ROI - other than those who wish to weaponise and cynically politicise the language.

There is a ciorcal comhra in Castlebaney library by the way!

Up to a point, Lord Copper. They support that aspiration in rather different ways. FFG would be more along St. Augustine lines, ie, grant us UI but not yet.

He is quite right. I had noticed that sign myself, but was to lazy to write about it. This type of sectarian marking of places is common in the 6 counties but should not be allowed extend to the 26 counties.

I have already said HH is. Not to do with the signage up in Monaghan. Instead not putting the effort in to improve her fluency is my issue.
But the difference between myself and yourself. I have an interest in the Irish language, not a faux concern.

So it is not a critique centred in sincerity on your part, just a stick to beat a political candidate who doesn’t align with you politically.

Yet you yourself are more than likely putting in the same amount of effort with the Irish language as HH is. Yet are critical of her efforts. But seem more concerned with the Drum sign. As doing so means you don’t have to question your own efforts re the Irish language. Instead point at a sign. And sneer. That is the distraction.

I still think HH will make the best President out of the choices available despite my misgivings re the language and HH.

I don't have a problem with her not speaking the language and have not mentioned it as a bar to her being President.

However, I DO expect her the uphold the language and the law relating to it.

I would like to know why her home village got a derogation and what HH's opinion on it is.

*I don't speak, write or understand Latin but I fully appreciate it's value and the need to preserve it, so you can stop the lofty nonsense about only being able to appreciate the importance of the Irish language if you speak it.

And-for the second time-they are a threat to Georgia, occupying part of that country. Now Georgia and it's fate at the hands of Putin seems, for many people, to be ''a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing'' but if the rest of Europe had paid attention it would have been better prepared for what was coming. Then there is another occupation, this time of part of Moldavia, and there is even less excuse for Europe's indolence about this matter, considering that Moldavia is closely related to Romania, an EU member. Both these occupations telegraphed Putin's intentions even before Crimea and showed that he regarded Russians or other ethnic groups in adjacent countries as his business.

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