Presidential Election 2025

No, she was obviously going to win and win easily as she's by far the best candidate of the 2.

But people taking this as a sign of some revolution in Ireland ,like Owen Jones for example on his twitter page and the guardian newspaper , or Connolly supporters really need to reminded of the reality that her election isn't really that big an accomplishment, she basically scored into an open goal and essentially she is just another version of Michael D so it's no change from what we had already.

Newstalk: Cork NC 5000 out of 36000 votes spoiled.

Dublin Bay North CC 65 HH 25 3000 spoiled votes

Dublin NW almost 30% spoiled vote.

DL 49 CC -37 HH.

County Limerick big spoiled vote. 50% CC

FFG's final week of smearing and condescending "poor standard of degree" only served to push any undecideds straight to Connolly. It was a magnificent lack of basic common sense.

Its not as big a mandate as it seems when the 40% or less turnout is considered. More like 26%

That is actually a valid question.

I've been saying for some years within my party that a failure to lead robustly and to communicate unambiguously is killing us.

Varadkar was the wrong choice and subsequently so is Harris. They were milquetoasts.

Jim O'Callaghan is the leadership example the centre-right needs. I'm not sure what that looks like in our party, but its not Harris and McEntee.

FF and FG need to stop being reactive and considered. We need to start demonstrating to people the good place that we have put the country in, and telling them that they'd better start been more ****ing grateful for it.

We need to destroy SF. We need to destroy the kind of mealy-mouthed bullsh1t that you hear from Labour and the Soc Dems. We need to absolutely incinerate Peadar Tóibín and Paul Murphy, I mean how the f**k do these two-seat nobodies get so much profile??? Its our own damn fault.

We are still sucking out the poison of coalition with the Greens. They diseased us.

This is what I don’t fully understand. That particular poster spent the last few days sneering at people predicting a substantial CC win, going on about his internal superior political expertise/ knowledge suggesting otherwise.

Is this just standard political party hack tribal bollixology in which both sides try to convince those they consider gullible that black is white (or basically constantly lie through their teeth about pretty much everything) or is just innocent delusion?

If it’s the former it’s no wonder there is such apathy, actually more like disdain/distrust, toward politics at this time

Galway West tally. 192 boxes

CC 70%

HH I don't remember.

JG 4.4

Spoiled votes 8% mentioning preferred candidates like Steen.

Galway East

CC 63.3

HH 19.4

JG 5.5

G

Spoiled 11% I think.

Mayo CC 56%.

JG (I forget).

HH 24%

Spoiled votes 14%

Cavan Monaghan:

Turnout 51%

HH 59%

CC 38%

JG 3%

Spoiled 11%

Meath East has 16% spoiled votes. 16% in Meath West too I think.

Louth spoiled votes 15%

Black is white...

You have posted many times in this thread about how the polls were actually misleading and that Humphries was going to be a lot more competitive than people thought. You were wrong.

It's not larbre's fault, it's the results of Fine Gael's 'internal polling' that led them astray. Which they definitely weren't pulling out of their arse, no siree!

Ah its the Greens! That explains it.

Some of the copium today is baffling.

Like did FFG genuinely think today was going to be a coronation for Heather? Delusion.

Very true, but Steen herself is almost certainly not a 'far right' candidate : she probably genuinely is a 'right wing Catholic conservative'.

A lot of the bad actors from the right rolled in behind her, but probably privately disagree with her on many of her opinions. What made her a more plausible candidate is that she is clearly media friendly, intelligent, articulate, well educated etc unlike many of the cranky ageing males that we usually see from that side of the spectrum.

Delighted for Catherine and the country. The clear best candidate won by a landslide and once again it shows the electorate want a candidate with positive messaging running a positive campaign.