Who's for President 2025? Any takers?

They've clearly read the tea-leaves...

www.irishtimes.com

‘It would be a waste’: Little appetite in Sinn Féin for Mary Lou McDonald to run for president

Party figures move closer to idea of backing Catherine Connolly
www.irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com

Sinn Féin remains nervous about presidential elections following a bruising run for its then MEP Liadh Ní Riada in the 2018 contest. Ms Ní Riada came fourth with a little more than 6 per cent of first-preference votes.

There are anxieties within the party that anything less than an overwhelming win for Ms McDonald could feed a media narrative about a dip in Sinn Féin’s electoral fortunes.
 
While I don't like most politicians, I don't actively dislike them either.

Mary Lou is different, I genuinely actively dislike her to the point I turn off the radio when she comes on, her nasally whining just does my head it.

The only other politicians who had a similar effect is was Ivana bachic and Joan Burton.

Most people I know have a similar distain for Mary Lou, this is across the political spectrum. I don't see her as a conviction politician, never have and never will.
 
Persia said:
While I don't like most politicians, I don't actively dislike them either.

Mary Lou is different, I genuinely actively dislike her to the point I turn off the radio when she comes on, her nasally whining just does my head it.
Click to expand...
It’s the didactic slow condensation in her tone that gets me. That and the fact that she’s the figurehead of a Uk based populist party run by people who are anti democratic and hero worship child killers.
Persia said:
The only other politicians who had a similar effect is was Ivana bachic and Joan Burton.
Click to expand...
I disagree with the politics of both women but I respect their ability and their commitment to public service.
Persia said:
Most people I know have a similar distain for Mary Lou, this is across the political spectrum. I don't see her as a conviction politician, never have and never will
Click to expand...
I believe that she has conviction. I’m just not sure what for.
 
JoeRoberts said:
Riverdance did more for the positive promotion of this country than anyone in politics.
Click to expand...
No argument from me. But why not one of Bill Whelan, John McColgan, or Moya Doherty, who it seems, collectively are the owners and creators? A revolving Uachtartán with the term set at six years to allow for two years each?
 
Last edited:
cremeegg said:
Very interesting. Have you a source for that.
Click to expand...
I can't find a link but Thomas Davis, he of the Young Irelander's and founder of The Nation newspaper, was instrumental in the weaponisation of the Irish Language as a cultural tool to create a hostility towards all form of colonialism and so the Anglo-Irish were not really Irish. This despite that fact that his father was a British Army surgeon and his was an Anglican.
The "Dissenters"; free Presbyterians etc, were closer to the Catholics before the 1978 rebellion because they were also subject to the Penal Laws. That changed slowly after 1978 but even in the 1830's the Presbyterian Home Mission was teaching Catholic kids to read and write through the medium of Irish as a means of proselytization. A basic tenant of Protestantism is that people should have access to the Bible in their own language but Henry the Eight passed laws that religious ceremonies should be conducted in English or, for the Irish Speakers, in Latin. Presbyterian, being dissenters, were against that and used Irish to attempt to convert them and save their souls. The influx of Scots-Gaelic speaking Presbyterian preachers from Scotland after the Jacobite rebellion also influenced the links between Protestant Northern Ireland and the Irish Language.

We see Northern Ireland as the result of pollical acts and plantation for political ends but the primary driver up to 200 years ago was religion.
If you are interested this is a good read.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top