Presidential Election 2025

Just for posterity.

The fallout from this one, in my opinion, will be far reaching. Despite the role being ceremonial and generaly not making a blind bit of difference to the regular citizen, the parties that were behind CC have learned a lot. FF and FG have been absolutely deplorable in some of their actions and if they don't get the message at some point and enact changes to how the country is run, this could be their last stint in government for a few years .

Did you mean the fallout?

We have 3 and a half years to the next local elections, over 4 years to the next general election.

We have a strong majority, a well-resourced exchequer and a stable society. In other words, all the power, and all the money. Catherine Connolly cannot and does not affect that in any way. We will send her legislation, and she will sign it, or she can resign.

Theres a blip, not a mess. If the lesson is to become more aggressively and rabidly centre-right, thats what will be done.

Instead we had endless boring debates where journalists couldn't even pin down an anti-EU, anti-American, pro-Brexiteer who hired a convicted gangster as her Parliamentary assistant and who went as a guest of the Assad regime while it was massacring its own people.

Still at this nonsense? You've learned nothing from this election. Lies and framing falls short sometimes...now dry those tears and have some humility.

Jeepers, the mask well and truly slipped.

“FF and FG need to stop being reactive and considered.”

Man up and merge your parties.

“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. “

In terms of Justice, Health, Corruption, Housing, Equality, Education, Fairness, Reunification, Real Irish issues and those that get up early in the morning - You have abjectly failed. There are no serious people in your party, just spoofers - McEntee, Regina Doherty, the passport express woman - is evidence of this.

“We need to destroy SF”

Good luck with that, they stand up to bullies, FFG are no different. An Phoblacht Abú.

Don’t forget he is in favour of of free speech, except when he disagrees with it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=david+quinn+libel&rlz=1CDGOYI_enIE1169IE1169&hl=en-GB&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

And if Phil Hogan was the one pulling the strings behind the scenes in Heather's campaign there is a good chance that his big ass has already been bounced.

Be nice if Chris Donoghue was bounced too...obnoxious guy, delighted his strategy blew up in his/their face...

From the comments today, Martin may be on very thin ice. Martin and Varadkar did get rid of any potential challengers. Varadkar elevated the mediocrities McEntee and Harris because he seemed to think that they were not challengers to his leadership. Replacing one mediocrity (Varadkar) with another (Harris) is not a good thing. FG, as this election has shown, is so incompetent that it might make McEntee its next leader rather than Carroll MacNeill. FG is in a worse state than FF after this election.

Calling other people scum because they have different opinions to yourself. How very left of you. Nearly 60% have not voted in this election. Of those that did 10% spoiled their vote.

What does that tell you?

Pyrite.

A very large cohort in Donegal seem to believe that the taxpayer should be on the hook for 100% of their defective homes, which they bought and built privately.

Fine Gael has resisted that to a large extent.

And so our candidates invariably get a bad time up there. But overall its irrelevant.

I’d say if anything, Donegal would would be far less likely to react to those Orange Order tenuous links that were brought up - a lot of that is very much part of the complicated landscape up there, especially in east Donegal - it’s less controversial than it might be in places that are further away from NI tbh. I have Donegal family and they were actually commenting that they thought that was below the belt - it had a whiff of sectarianism about it, but they still weren’t voting for her - but for political reasons, nothing personal. If anything she has a better grasp of the border counties and rural Ulster than many politicians, but they still don’t like the current government.

When you look at it, with the exception of a few well known local candidates, FG seems to not resonate very much with Donegal voters and there’s a rather anti-government vibe up there at the moment due to numerous issues ranging from pyrite to the fact they feel they’re often forgotten about and overlooked for infrastructure investment.

I’d say it was more about giving the government a bit of a kick tbh - also a very strong SF vote in Donegal.

Thinking some people are less deserving of human rights just because they are gay or women is scummy. She is a disgusting person so save your fake outrage because I have no shame in calling a scumbag a scumbag.

People didn't vote or spoiled their vote for a number of reasons.

Could it be that no candidate represented their point of view on the direction of the country so there was no one to vote for?