Presidential Election.

Yes as poor and all as the 2 candidates are that we have to choose from, the so called 'blocked' candidates were atrocious altogether.

A religious fundamentalist with a penchant for designer handbags, an entrepreneur who's on the wrong side of the FDA and whose business appears to be akin to snake-oil selling, a cage fighter implicated in a rape case for which he had to pay damages and an Irish dnacer who lives in a stately home and has an American accent. Why people wanted this caliber of candidate involved is beyond me.

The 2 we have are bad enough as it is.

Despite me not being happy about the possibility of CC being elected those figures do show that it's hers to lose.

There's 20% undecided, of which 14% would have to go HH's way to leave the polls as a tie. That's 70% of the undecided vote which seems unrealistic to get that high of a proportion of.

I wasn't going to vote in this election, but jesus, humphreys is typical ffg, absolutely insufferable... I couldn't care less what those gangster's accuse connelly of, they are ruining lives now and an obscene shower of wasters... their tactics are so transparent and pathetic, it does nothing but drive votes against the establishment

I meant she is making those things her top priority, that's her shtick. I know she is, because she indicated as much in the debate.

Since when is 'social justice' the top priority of the nation, and says who? Is she going to make the comfort of refuges say her top priority? People who are not Irish and she is not their president?

In relation to a particularly social issue she very much leaned in favor of a 'tiny tiny tiny' minority. What about the majority?

You get my point perfectly well. I never said she should be against anything, I merely pointed out her angle on things, which is her selling point to be president.

Humphreys made a valid point I though when she pointed out Connolly's political position on foreign wars, again her selling point, insulting our European and US allies. I can totally see Connolly going beyond her remit even more so than Higgins.

I don't know if you've noticed but two points.

1. That is not her position.

2. Even if it were, the president has zero power in these matters.....

I am sure she (Connolly) is in step with the electorate on NATO membership.

I never mentioned NATO or Irish membership of it at all. I was responding to a post about comments on Germany and German rearmament (and rearmament of other EU member states).

I don't know if she is out of step with Irish voters with those sort of comments - I expect she is (but I may be wrong!). She'd be far out of step with the government (or any government we are likely to have any day soon outside some political earthquake).

However, I believe most of our electorate don't usually think much about foreign policy (apart maybe from Israel and Gaza currently?) and don't typically consider it when voting.

I suppose it shows how the world around us is changing (not for the better) that it is coming up as a live issue in the election.

Slip of the tongue. I think she meant Clare Daly.

I know she meant Clare Daly and a slip of the tongue like this shows the pressure she is under.

It will be interesting to see what happens after Connolly wins this.

While she didn't have the support of SF and some of the other parties while initially declaring, she is now essentially representative of the left leaning parties and has perhaps shown that if they get their sh1t together, potentially start to work a bit better together as parties, the FF/FG governments we have been accustomed to may be under more pressure in upcoming elections.

It will be hard to tell and may not happen but there could be a major shift in how these parties operate in electioneering going forward. Surely they have learned from this and previous elections.

I'm not a fan personally.

What a moronic comment