Presidential Election.

Did I say that? You keep changing the argument.

She wouldn't answer his question because he asked it outside his allocated time slot !!

Total garbage. She should have at least addressed him in some way, or even acknowledged his presence. I thought she acted in a very unpresidential like manner.

Currently trying to listen to this podcast about Jim Gavin with guy he didn't pay the rent back to!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1umKe6j6fQfDSUf7909hr4

And was told he could ask it at the end of the event. It was a Burke trying to hijack an event for their own pet topic.

It absolutely is support for the idea of them being president. You can support multiple people much like you can vote for multiple people HOWEVER you can only nominate ONE person so the idea that using your ONE nomination isn't defacto support of that person is absurd and anyone trying to make this claim that nominating isn't supporting is hiding behind nonsensical prevarication.

Nobody is entitled to a nomination much like many people seem to think Steen was, she showed up last minute to an election that's been coming for 7 years its nobodys fault but her own she didn't get nominated.

And if you or Fintan O Toole or Maria Steen or anyone else who thinks we should have had more candidates were in anyway serious about this issue and not just annoyed at how you left this all to the last minute you would have been talking about it since before last years local elections but you didn't and arent so here we are.

A week after the election none of you will be be talking about it and will forget about it for another 7 years when you will remember how outraged you are and annoyed that nobody has fixed this problem you've had by then 14 years to push to change but have still done nothing about.

definitely nothing to see here, an ex landlord, shafting an ex tenant, thats now an ex presidential candidate, for the biggest political party, that is known to strongly support landlords, definitely nothing to see here, definitely!

That's just your opinion based on her ideologies. None of those ideologies will make her a bad president. Unless the govt allow for it she will be forced to stay silent on those matters and I feel from what I've witnessed so far that she is happy to do so

My God- I’ve obviously touched a nerve 😀

Not to mention extreme left wing candidate, more critical of the UK and the West than Russia, backed by S.F., seeing nothing wrong with employing ex dissident accused with the smell of sulphur, definitely nothing to see here, definitely!

it ll be shame that cc looks like she ll win, i guess, but shur at least ffg are on top of critical issues such as housing!

No im just tired of the same thing every 7 years when people who don't know or understand what the role of the president is, or how they get nominated and elected, come out of the woodwork and complain how its unfair, undemocratic, unconstitutional etc etc and then when its all over disappear. Last election cycle it was the gemmaroids and freemen idiots this time its steens disciples and other spoofers who are only coming to the realisation they forgot or didn't know how nominees are elected during the local and general elections and are annoyed nobody told them.

I, similarly to many, think the field is pathetic and wish there were more and better candidates but I also understand this current situation is unfortunately and maybe unwittingly the democratic will of the people based on last years elections. People may not have understood that this would happen when they were voting for parties but that's nobody's fault but their own. Its similar to republicans in the states regretting their trump vote whinging "this isn't what i voted for" when it absolutely is and they just weren't paying attention.

If people want the next Presidential election to be different they should start considering that now and vote accordingly when it is time but they wont and the same idiotic whinging will happen in exactly 6 years and 11 months time.

This election is for a ceremonial, head of state role, as opposed to a law-making one. As we saw with Higgins in the last two elections, people are more willing to vote for a left-wing politician than they would in a general election.

It's unfortunately for Humphreys that she's attached to FG who didn't perform well in the last election, have pushed through an unpopular budget and are led by a person who's not performing well in opinion polls.

A lot of people I talk would never ordinarily vote left in a general election but are looking at Connolly as the least worst option. There are others who just want to give the government a bit of a kicking.

Again, the role of the president is largely ceremonial; the position has nothing to do with running the country, the president is not there to fix anything or change anything, nor to push an agenda or shape the country one way or another, has nothing to do with the weird culture wars.

Maybe it's a good thing the majority have only a mild interest in politics.