Presidential Election 2025

HH criticising CC on her remarks on whether or not she would employ a rapist. CC had earlier said she would have to consider it. HH asking how do women feel when they hear that. HH says "I would not employ a rapist". CC responds 'I was speaking in terms of rehabilitation'. CC also says she has spoken up for women who have been victims. She is now being asked if she represent banks in home repossession cases. CC replies that a barrister is obliged to take cases unless there is a conflict of interest.

HH accuses CC of "insulting our friends…insulting France…insulting Germany".

HH just spoke some Irish again just now. Says she learned it in school, but entered the world of work where she didnt have the opportunity to use it, and "if you dont use it you lose it". She then said she went to the Donegal Gaeltacht and it was coming back to her, and she actually "writes very good Irish", and is "committed to the Irish language" "like Mary McAleese".

I asked this of anther poster who has a similar view but from what i can see he didn't respond…What's your time limit for 'rehab' after jail - 6 months, 12 months, 6 years?...Does rehab only begin after release, time in prison doesn't count for you? How do you measure rehab, how do you decide what's suitable employment after you've decided a person is rehabilitated?

Voting for Heather Humphreys over Catherine Connolly is not a "betrayal" of the left. It's a preference in this 1 election when the powers of the winner are essentially zero.

Is the debate over? Or is it continuing after the news?

To address the question about the hypothetical paedophile working with children… as their crimes were borne out of a compulsion, rather than a sexual attraction, almost none of us are qualified to say whether he or she could ever be rehabilitated to the extent that allowing them to work with children would be safe.

Crimes borne out of ideology aren't the same. We've had reformed terrorists in the Dáil before. I haven't read anything that suggests Ursula Ní Shionnain didn't turn over a new leaf after being jailed. Quite the opposite, in fact. It appears to be a non-story, as far as most people are concerned. That's certainly what the most recent poll suggests anyway. It's the kind of story that should probably have been sat on until the moratorium, for maximum effect.