President Connolly

And of course you forget how they were abandoned by the new state and that state sided with its own one time enemy to quell their ‘rising’. Far more complicated relationships than the ‘oh they are a different people guff. Self deprecation and wilful blindness added.
Doesn’t excuse you looking to place the blame and need to change on the President of your country.

Ah, I see the myth of the Gentle Black&Tan is back. Newly updated & transformed into the Sweet RUC and the Kind UDR, along with the Loving H Block screw.

Shure did'nt we see her meeting 50 families who were victims of violence, all cherry picked by S,F., all from the nationalist/republican community. None from the protestant/unionist/loyalist community.

Where's me fiddle, I mean my violin, I know a tune that goes with that.

Actually in my area, there was a huge campaign for Catherine Connolly before SF got involved. What SF did was to provide organisation and experience and they also added extra energy to what was already a lively campaign.

A week after same MLMD s party MEPs voted in support of Russian war that continues to kill innocent men, women and children as the Russians continue their war of imperial conquest, colonialism and occupation into the 5th year 12th year

https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/184426

Taking same hypocritical stance as our newest dear leader

That suggestion hasn't been made on here, so where are you getting it from?

The evidence suggests that she is unlike Presidents of the past, and isn't in a position to reach out across the divide of Northern Ireland. Her partisan approach wins no friends, but those in thrall to her bind even tighter. Politicians like her, of the far left, do not understand that is why they have never been in power here.

She is 'like' several previous Presidents who have fallen foul of belligerent Unionist politicians.

Nothing new under the sun there.

*The suggestion that she is a SF president and is being controlled by them has been implied. The idea SF 'handpicked' people for her to meet in Derry has been allowed to stand here without the slightest back up.

A 'suggestion' is to imply something.

If you claim that a political party are handpicking people for you to meet (as a poster has done) you are implying that that political party are controlling you. Deal with it. For someone so fastidious about perfectly normal descriptive words used here you seem very blasé about claims made with zero backup.

100 days up -to me Connolly has been solid. Unremarkable. Which is the way an Irish presidency should be. No wild rants like her predecessor. Pleasantly surprised as a HH voter. All I can say is overall well played. The good referees are barely noticed. Pleased to proven wrong.

And this thread is symptomatic of how solidly Connolly has performed that posters are scrambling for things to attack her on. When In reality she has left them little to go on. Almost inventing faults. Which I find amusing.

I have been here before with posters who have a weird obbession with perfectly acceptable words.

P,S. I didn't accuse you of anything.

Post #691 They funded her election campaign in more ways than one. He who plays the piper plays the tune. Shure did'nt we see her meeting 50 families who were victims of violence, all cherry picked by S,F., all from the nationalist/republican community. None from the protestant/unionist/loyalist community. Ain't no such thing as a free dinner.

That was in response to post #661 Everytime I see Connolly up and down the country in news clips/photos, she seems to have a Sinn Fein head standing behind her. Is she their prop president ?

Want to retract your "Nobody has suggested that Connolly is controlled by Sinn Fein" statement?

The suggestion/implication is as clear as day in that post alone.

@JohnDoe2025 I'm not going around in circles on this.

One single post, for something that "has been ongoing" since her election. I will spare your further blushes by leaving it at that.

The easiest way to refute his claim is to demonstrate it is untrue with counter-argument.

Looking at it from the outside, and at the victim profile, the claim is credible, though not proven. Sort of like a prima facie case, circumstantial evidence or a missing alibi. In those cases, an explanation that refutes the evidence is needed.