Presidential Election.

It's been taken down. I was halfway through listening to the interview when it stopped playing.

Nah.
I'll wait until the sensational news that a prospective president refuses to say if they'd sign a bill makes the general news,
Quite a scoop that one.
EDIT:
I see it has made the newspapers.

Of course she is going to have 'feelings' about ending the Triple Lock, something she is not hiding her opinion of. She accepts neutrality is not in the constitution but thinks there should be a referendum on it, like many people in this country do.
As to the 'have you stopped beating your wife, rehabilitated rapist question, I see no issue about reflecting on individual cases as presented, rehabilitation requires sound judgement and she has already proved she has that.

CC couldn’t even promote and praise our national language without ending it with a slating of another language, and another people, English. She’s a strange fish, and about as far from a pacifist as can be.

She’s inherently divisive. She is anti integration!!! She’s a poor choice for a 21st century president who should be promoting harmony.

lt’s about self preservation, common enough in most political dna. But this particular group of ff’s are for the most part particularly craven devotees of Martin. Fear.. possibly, but mostly self preservation. That’s what he’s relying on. It was interesting to hear how several were “summoned “ to his office for individual meetings with him prior to the “main event”. No doubt those who were grumbling on media outlets. If l’d been one of those ld have told him, no… you’ll hear what lve to say at the meeting. Another interesting thing that was leaked out was that pat the cope intervened at one point to tell Martin to allow someone to speak and he asked the chair to do his job and allow the point to be made. Martin is a dictator within his own party, no doubt. It’s the hypocrisy that annoys me when he scutters on about democracy

Listened yes, comprehended, no.

Alan Kelly and some of the other older Labourites would be more comfortable with FF/FG. They are stuck in the 2.5 party era when Labour was the half party that FF or FG required to make up a government. As for RTE, I think that the electorate has become quite cynical about claims emanating from there regarding Connolly. After all, it got a nice little bailout of over 700 million Euro.

It wouldn't be surprising to see some women who might previously have voted for McGuinness voting for Connolly on the basis that she seems a fundamentally decent person.

Pontificating about the military industrial complex does not save the lives of those in Kyiv being bombed today. If she is opposed to Europe sending them weapons, that amounts to denying the right of the Ukrainians to self defence in my opinion. It is legitimate to argue Ireland shouldnt send weapons, but for me thats only because we have no military allies to share the burden of defending us, and have hardly any military capability anyway (by political choice).

In 2023 Connolly participated in a forum discussing neutrality and the war in Ukraine. The forum included SF's Mairead Farrell, Clare Daly, Mick Wallace George Galloway, an outspoken supporter of Russia who was employed by its foreign news service Sputnik. Will any of these be appointed to the Council of State?