Presidential Election 2025

It neatly encapsulates FG's mistake. It ran a popular constituency level politician in a national election. Humphreys won her constituency vote and lost every other constituency.

You referenced the fact of the ethnicity of the population also, the fact that it would be as well suited to Northern Ireland as the Republic, an ethnic cut also about the OO. Many have spoken of smears in the campaign, mostly on the Connolly side iirc. Jesus yiz are all over the shop on that matter?

Anyway its over now, still, Matt Carthy and Co must be wondering how she done so well there, that was my original point. Jmcc is saying that more FG voters turned out there perhaps. Maybe Border voters in Cavan/Monaghan were sending a message to SF too perhaps?

They ran a person incapable of stringing 2 sentences together without a script

Someone personalable on a one to one basis with her constituents and colleagues in Leinster house but a disaster on screen

They’d have walked it if Maireád had of stayed in

A confluence of circumstances brought CC over the line and dragged the other two parties well under

I’m sure Fine Gael and certainly FF will learn from that,opposition T.D’s thinking otherwise for a GE is them thinking at their peril

Long way away though

Sean Kelly would have had a better chance of getting a countrywide vote then Jim Gavin. Popular in his Europeam constituency and I thanked liked by a lot of people inside and out of the GAA

Well I was making a GAA comparison if the stuff about him didn't come up. I say Kelly would not be a multiple time elected to the european parliament without some women voting for him

14 years of a Man in the role and they are still the natural option, indeed they should also be to the left.

The problem you have with "these days" is the 7 year term, there are people who voted on Friday who don't remember Mary number 2.

I don't think that SF would be wondering much. The electoral reality is that it is a Big Three electoral model still and and that means that FF, FG and SF still are close in terms of support. A presidential candidate would have had to appeal to voters beyond the party support silos. Apart from FF and FG making a complete mess of things, I don't think that SF had the level of support necessary to get a candidate elected in this election. In backing Connolly, it took the best option open to it and in the process combined the Left. That has demonstated to FFG that the Left is not, for the moment, fragmented and that, more importantly, it has a larger combined support than FFG in the opinion polls.

FF looks to be abot to give Martin a fair trial before hanging him. FG is probably considering dumping the useless Harris. In both strategic and tactial terms, SF won this battle. In terms of allies, the SocDems is increasingly perceived as a major party and that is at Labour's expense. It needs to remain between 8% and 11% for the next year or so in the polls if it is to take Labour's old slot in the political landscape. The SocDems are getting the benefit of nominating Connolly. It was, however, SF's support that was the gamechanger that the legacy media missed.

Yes, i think FF and FG would and maybe will need new leadership to try to increase their votes. SF too probably in fairness. ML is getting a bit stale at this stage too, no one believes shes running the party anyway.

The battle with the left is intense, there is very little in common among them as they span a very wide range of how far left they are. Very few of the left outside SF would choose to be in govt with SF. SF are seen as tepid left at best. Interesting times ahead for the next four years as the jostle for position evolves.