Presidential Election 2025

While I disagree with CC on a lot of issues, its mostly the foreign policy except Gaza, where I agree with her.

I thought the visit to Syria was a mistake, especially with characters like Saeed Bel Al Al.

It is true that as president, the government will have a veto on her foreign travels. Hopefully this will prevent a repeat.

On domestic policy I might be more sympathetic to her views. But I disagree with her on justice policy and her concept of what rehabilitation is.

I hope as president she wont repeat what she said about Germany and France being untrustworthy or comparing German rearmament to Nazi Germany rearming.

IIt's not beyond the realms of possibility that she will turn out to exceed my expectations. But I just cant vote for her because foreign policy is important to me.

Remember that SF were on 39% a few years ago and only 22% in GE 2024.

Heather is on the attack again. Connollys barrister past representing banks being compared to Heathers working in a credit union trying to save people from repossessions. One lady confronted Connolly after her election and called her out on her speeches about homelessness after having being involved in repossession cases.

Inter-GE pollng always throws up strange results. FG was on 38% and FF on 12% while SF was on 26% in one. They are snapshots of public opinion at a given time not predictions. In the 2024 GE, FG got 20.8%, FF got 21.9% and SF got 19% in 2024. It is only in the last two weeks before an election that voting intentions crystalise. The Irish Times/Ipsos-B&A poll had Connolly on 38%, Humphreys on 20% and Gavin on 5%. That's approximately within a week of the election. The DK % was down to 17%. It looks like FFG and its friends in the media are getting increasingly negative as this isn't the coronation for Humphreys that they expected. Connolly is on 1/10 and Humphreys is on 6/1 on Paddy Power at the moment,

Anyone who talks about "the establishment" should be automatically viewed with cynicism.

CC has been a TD for over 10 years and served as leas ceann comhairle. She is as established as it gets.

Truthfully, how do you think the Humphreys campaign has gone and do you think that she can win? Has this election turned into a rejection of FFG?

HH never got her presidential messages clear on day 1- this feels like she’s desperate now and her script writers are trying to rewrite her campaign image as some sort of saviour of those in financial difficulty throughout the 2008 onwards recession - way too late now to be playing that card and dangerous considering her government experience since, where there are big societal problems unresolved .

I see her campaign made up of

80% …because I’m FG people will vote for me and

20%…because I’m HH people will vote for me

she’s relying on the FG vote without making any significant effort to sell herself to the electorate - in presidential elections it’s always the person first, party second - she hasn’t got that memo

“Connolly is more presidential than anyone in the Dail today. “

Fawning nonsense. The statement also makes no sense whatsoever - just what exactly is “presidential” when it’s at home.

“Has this election turned into a rejection of FFG?”

A rejection of their candidates certainly - but the candidates were terrible so well done public on rejecting them- but you can’t say it’s a rejection of FF/FG as the next government - we’ll have to await the next election results for that - people vote person first over party when it comes to presidential elections .

Her oratory skills are great. Her intellect is questionable. Very questionable actually. Being committed, on the side of a cause, great at explaining your stance, doesn't make you right. And it doesn't make you intellectually superior.

I wonder were FFG caught out when SF didn't put up a SF candidate?

Its standard fare when SF put pressure on FFG for them to start with the snide comments and put downs for their fellow FFG TD's and diehards to latch onto as "owning" SF regardless of topic. With no SF theres been no real strategy left aside from Heather finding an old "attack Paul Murphy" script, that was utterly irrelevant but appeared all she had left.

There's that arrogance again 'Ireland' - your tunnel vision is laughable, one Ireland, one EU, one defence policy...'TINA' is alive and well in your head....thankfully it would seem at this remove that a majority of those who intend voting on Friday have a more objective view on such matters than you seem capable of.....