Presidential Election 2025

And yesterday they were banking on the 21% undecideds. A truly sure way of getting your candidate elected.

On a wing and a prayer, comes to mind.

I don't listen to 'paths to power', himself and Cooper are insufferable centre right bores but he's used the last two 'calling it' podcasts to attack CC and her campaign. I agree with you, I don't believe he's working for FG at all, but he's promoting the same bullsh!t that FG are articulating against CC but it's kind of semantics really…

What we'll have on Saturday is re-affirmation of the presidency as an irrelevant old folks home with a dour nauseating occupant which, as I said before, would clear out the UN General assembly in record breaking time. No one is going to listen to her or care what she has to say.

I think we should consider inviting the British Royal Family, his Majesty, to be our Head of State and dissolve the office of president.

Totally. It's been depressing what we been left to choose from.

There will be a record low turnout tomorrow and it will be well deserved.

The turnout doesn't matter a jot. Nobody will talk about it once it's over. The result matters and CC will win at a canter.

Alot of words to admit one….'defeat'…🤣

Connolly is at 1/50. She reached 1/40 and then some. :)

I would say that it's almost a certainty that CC will win reasonably comfortably tomorrow. Who may end up being effed are those who vote for her. Either 1 of 2 things will happen IMO.

1. CC understands the role of president, will tone down her rhetoric and will go on to be a decent if unremarkable president. Those who voted for her thinking that it will go someway to solving crises such as the one in housing will be disappointed. The protest vote will be just that, as the president has no role in the day to day running of the country. Especially in 5 years time when again, most likely, we end up with a very disparate general election result again and the only parties who can agree a program for government are FF and FG, perhaps with a smattering of gene pool independents. This is what will most likely happen IMO.
2. Or, God forbid, CC doubles down on previous positions such as being anti EU, pro-Brexit, anti-NATO, anti everything and creates a constitutional crisis where the president is openly challenging the elected government. Personally I can't see this happening, CC is too cute of a political operator to do this. She's just playing to her most ardent supporters to win their votes by not moderating some of the troubling positions she has taken in the past. She knows there is a sizeable vote out there who just want to stick it to the government and she will hardly tone down the populism now that's winning their support. If she continues in this vein then we're in for a very rough ride. Given that she represented banks in repossession cases and less than a decade later was decrying home repossessions by the very same banks it's likely CC knows what side her bread is buttered on. Mickey D got fond of the life in the big house and all the trappings that entails and only got vocal again when his time was almost up. CC's work as a barrister shows that she's well able to be a socialist of the champagne variety.

I'm going to go completely against the echo-chamber here, and predict HH to win.

When I speak to anyone in my circle, who come from a wide and varied demographic, I have a funny feeling that HH may get more votes than a lot of people predict.

Almost all of the people I've spoken to regard HH as the best of two evils. Even dogged Republican Nationalist friends of mine would rather vote for HH than CC.

Many of them have pointed at the outright stifling media bias towards CC, and the the behaviour of Miriam O'Callaghan during the "as gaeilge" section of the recent TV appearance ( which to me was absolute rudeness, ignorance and bias against HH, and I say that as a fluent Irish speaker here in the West of Ireland), as reasons for leaving a bitter taste in many folks mouths.

I could be completely wrong of course, but I think the building arrogance of the CC camp may have crossed the line for a surprisingly large portion of the population.

Anyone else thinking the same?

Hugely unlikely I would say. I think the surprise may be that the margin of victory for CC may end up being quite small. But it's hard to see her losing. If she does then the bookies are in for a rough day.

There is one other point I neglected to mention too.

There is a huge, underlying, simmering anti-immigration sentiment behind all the pretty doors and lace-curtained windows of almost every town and village in Rural Ireland.

It's there in every conversation, in the back of almost every person's mind, more than one can imagine outside the M50. Anyone who thinks that there isn't is being very naive.

So, bearing this in mind, and considering the hype and attention in relation to the on-going situation at City West, there is a strong possibility that much of the demographic aligned to CC may not come out to vote n the numbers expected, whereas those against the very leftist views of CC may choose HH, DESPITE her support from the government.

I know this point seems counterintuitive, but anti-immigration sentiment is very much the elephant in the room outside of Dublin, and stranger things have happened in elections.

Apathy and arrogance may bite CC's chances, especially if the very motivated anti-left voters come out in favour of HH in the required numbers.

Hope so, as opposed to think so.

Here, boards is totally biased in defence of CC, as if her s**t don't smell.

I as a centrist and localish HH supporter can see her flaws as a communicator, but she's basically sound.

https://www.thejournal.ie/sean-kelly-not-running-contest-big-mistake-heather-humphreys-6853046-Oct2025/

Sean Kelly and Billy Kelleher will be wondering what might have been.