Presidential Election 2025

I am being sarcastic. But for certain people on the left you'd be digging a hole for yourself.

There was uproar among a few enlightened mothers at local primary school recently when a dinosaur male teacher made a sexist comment along the lines that boys are physically stronger than girls and admitting he should have sent 2 boys to pick up a heavy package after the girl in the boy/girl combo send to perform the task complained about how heavy it was.

The president is really just a figurehead

If the Dáil end the triple lock,she has no say

If there’s legislation involved,submitting it to the supreme court is about all she can do ,only to have them hand it back to her untouched

Can she refuse to sign legislation? Not sure what impact that would have on her job

Crystal Ball Joe has decided CC is not cut out for the job before she takes up the job , he also knows how she's going to deal with bills coming from gov...tiresome stuff really.

Fronta Poblachtach, were the ones putting up the posters. It wasnt Connolly in a balaclava.

I’m confused.

If there’s nothing wrong with the orange order, why is it a smear to be associated with them?

'Same as', if somebody had gone to jail on a gun crime.

That wasn't the dichotomy the poster was pointing out though.

Connolly stood over what she did and didn't step back from it.

With Humphreys you had a candidate getting caught out trying to obscure any recent connection with the OO because they know that is a damaging connection to them.

If the OO are an acceptable organisation in a republic why be so anxious to distance yourself?

The self imposed omerta among our journalist class on these issues never asked that question of course.

Nobody said she was. And she caught herself out trying to distance herself. Nobody else did that.

to smear her as being an orange order member.

So why is it a 'smear' to say that?

How would Humphreys intend to reach out to this organisation if she is so anxious to distance herself from it? Why is it anathema to her 'republicanism'?
What did it do in the 'troubles' that ended their connection to it?

All questions that could have been asked but weren't so we will likely never know.

Not what we were discussing and a different subject.

*You might also want to look up 'Lundying' in relation to this 'tradition'.

I think it was Fronta Poblachtach because of this tweet https://x.com/frontapoblacht/status/1979156172188930227

The claim was made to deliberately try and harm her in the eyes of the electorate

Are you saying I claimed that? Because I most certainly didn't.

in much the same way some tried to imply that she had something to do with road signs. Otherwise why would it have been put out there?

The other candidates can be asked about anything stemming from what they said or done or didn't do but not this candidate. Why is that? Were questions asked about the Éirigí story to 'imply' stuff? Why was the overpaid rent story 'put out there'? Why was it ok to ask questions about the fox hunting story but not ask questions about a candidates professed love of the Irish language and the importance of it?

If it is 'smearing' her to try and get a honest answer on her professed love and belief in the importance of the Irish language then there was a whole lot of smearing going on here.

When was she anxious about it?

She denied that she was a member each time she was asked.

And she tried to leave it at that and subsequently had to correct herself about attending events.

Why? Im not doing any research on the organisation. As i sad, if CCs having to explain her connections to an Eirigi member and recently released gun criminal is a smear, then surely HH and any association she might have had with the OO is also a smear. The thing is it wasnt the press that put up the posters about HH, it was racist bigots, i didnt see any put up about Connolly anywhere. The questioni by journalists or even the public is fine, no bother with that. But anytime Connolly was questioned with anything, SF and her other backers immediately shouted "smear:" , yet you seem to be of the opinion that anything attached to Humphreys is just informative.

Ah FFs, the press were the ones the Connolly people were talking about, being in league with FG. They and she questioned why the press were asking the questions.