Presidential Election 2025

Shock horror: Lifelong pacifist doesn't want more money spent on killing people.

But she didn't compare them did she?

What she did say was....

"They're absolutely championing the cause of the military-industrial complex in Germany, as a booster for the economy ... Seems to me, there are some parallels with the ’30s."

Irrespective of how she does on 24 October, CC will continue to have a role in Irish public life because she has stood in elections multiple times, put forward a programme and got people to support her....unlike yourself and others here.

It's amusing the extent to which the former MEPs live in the heads of many here, a bizzare obsession..

Don't forget to add; that was his job and he got paid, a pension too.

It's also interesting the emphasis here by the anti Connolly brigade is reflected in the MSM today, the coverage in general agrees that CC won the debate and has a level of momentum. However, there is an insidious element to much of the coverage - reviews go into great detail about CC and her 'controversial positions', in part, that's because she actually has something to say the other two are largely vacuous. However it's also because she dares to move from the centrist line demanded by the IT and Indo and they don't want her to win. They do their bit with disingenuous headlines but they need Gavin and HH to step up in the debates.

As a current public servant, I am proud to get the chance to vote for an excellent public servant for President too, Catherine Connolly! The opportunism of Gavin and FF merit no reward and on the evidence to date, it seems they won't get any.

Just a few - and mostly as an independent:

First woman to hold leas cheann comhairle, mayor of Galway, over two decades to Galway City Council, ran as an independent for president of ireland, and secured support of six parties (she didn't ask for their backing), promoted the Irish language and Gaeltacht, championed neutrality, human rights, and social justice.

Lets not forget the outstanding work on mother and baby homes report…

etc.

Yep, pretty empty list. 🙄

Now you do HH and JG…

Outstanding lifelong career fulfilling the duties of an opposition TD, holding the government of the day to account and raising important issues.

The FF & FG fanboys and girls hate that and see no value in it. But it is, of course, a vital part of any republic and democracy.

They can call themselves republicans but are they really when they hold those autocratic values?

Who is lying? Are you stating that Connolly agrees with Germany providing anti aircraft defence to Ukraine, and replacing it in Germany?

She stated a falsehood. Germany did not sit down and decide that the best way to boost the economy was the "military-industrial complex", they realised that more military spending was needed owing to Russia and the most that will have happened is that someone somewhere noted that the money spent would at least provide jobs. That a person continually speaking such falsehoods can get elected is a sad reflection on the Irish electorate.

Here we go again. Do you make a diffentiation between those who are 'waging' a war and those defending themselves because there can only be one on either side. Do you, and does Connolly, believe that victims have a right to defend themselves? Because a pacifism that doesn't believe it is on a hiding to nothing.

So she thinks that when Rizzian soldiers attack Ukrainian soldiers that they shouldn't fire back? That they should retreat and surrender more of their country and its inhabitants to the Putinist thugs?