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[Taoiseach Micheál Martin – also confirmed on Sunday that he voted for Catherine Connolly]

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/10/26/ff-needs-to-reinvent-itself-after-campaign-shambles-party-td-says/

Fianna Fáil's presidential election campaign was a "shambles" and the party needs to "reinvent itself for the future", including a change of leader "in due course", according to one of its TDs.

Fianna Fáil Carlow-Kilkenny TD John McGuinness – who has been a long-time critic of party leader, Taoiseach Micheál Martin – also confirmed on Sunday that he voted for Catherine Connolly, the left-wing Independent TD who won the presidential election.

But sure he said after JG pulled out that he was voting HH?

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/10/11/micheal-martin-will-vote-for-heather-humphreys-but-wont-tell-party-to-back-fg-contender/

That piece is saying that McGuinness (who has been a critic of Míchéal Martin) voted for CC.

Half Time Score in the Mayo Senior final replay. Westport 1-10 Ballina 0-6

Nice to see Westport win that

Not to be for Westport.

Ballina Stephenites 2-13 Westport 1-15

Some turnaround

They were 10 up with 10 to go, and absolutely coasting

The mudslinging from FFG is unreal.

How long will it be until the family of poor Paul Quinn are wheeled out to try and tie Connolly to that.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/1020/1539434-paul-quinn-appeal/

First part of that,  Humphrey's will roll in behind this no doubt with a photo shoot with Breege and a strongly worded Maria Cahill article will do the rounds. Inevitable

This is where it began actually.

Catherine Connolly will make a wonderful president. I don't think anyone can deny the humanity, honesty and sincerity she displays.

Its in stark contrast to the negative campaigning and attack politics used by FG throughout.

The centre right parties really engage in gutter politics.

Connolly has been poor tonight, refused to answer several questions.
Maybe tiredness, maybe the facade beginning to slip.

Hopefully not another massive night of rioting and looting like November 2023.
We really need to be sort out the asylum mess. Big Jim O'Callaghan needs to buy more planes to clean up shop.

Yep the asylum mess is giving the vast majority of ordinary decent foreigners in this country a bad name in the eyes of those not best informed.

Ordinary decent people don't have a problem with ordinary decent foreigners who are a) here working and raising a family, or b) seeking refuge from actual war.
They do have a problem with economic migrants who contribute nothing to our society financially or otherwise, and are now causing understandable fear for those who live in the vicinity of these "accommodation hubs"

https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2025/1008/1537556-liam-farrell/

I can tell you  Sinn Féin and the independents   have being a lot more help to the Farrell family  then FF or Fg
Indeed the family are most disappointed With Fianna Fail as poor Liam was a staunch Fianna Fail supporter all his life and canvassed for several FF candidates ain  both local and national elections,  From reports the family of Shane O'Farrell  have found the same

Why are you bringing this man's death into a presidential debate?

Could it be that the Quinn family see an opportunity to push for answers and publicity during these periods rather than FFG using them for petty political points. Genuine question.

Absolutely could be the case and the Quinn family have every right to pursue this and advocate for justice but we know the people who will push this on their behalf have little interest in actually delivering that family justice. Their only concern is the political capital they can gain from it.

If you take the Lucia O'Farrell case, imagine Catherine Connolly latched onto that now and used it relentlessly in here debates with Heather Humphreys. That would be cynical wouldn't it, she hasn't done it. She has let Humphreys address it and that be that.

It's the cynical way in which FFG do politics, there are many victims of FFG injustice SF and opposition parties could roll out every election but they don't. Imagine SF started rolling out members of Jo Jo Dullard's family in the next election, that would be cynical and crass wouldn't it? FFG politicians have a long and grosteque recent history when it comes to utterly crass, distorted and offensive commentary on The Troubles that has only served to pour more pain on the victims of British state terrorism.

FF and FG have really went down the American route of attack politics in the past 10-15 years and it has really cheapened political discourse and made the whole environment a lot more toxic in recent years.

Nobody from FF or FG has raised the Paul Quinn case in this election campaign as far as I'm aware.
It's entirely fabricated on this fcking thread, and people are getting outraged over it!
Some of ye would want to have a look at yourselves.

A primary school student assaulted near the Citywest 

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/gardai-investigating-alleged-rape-10-36103970

Awful stuff. Poor child.

Was the child staying in the place where the murder took place recently?

Very unlikely. The murder was on the northside. No idea how a 10 year old girl ended up in the grounds of an IPAS centre....

A primary school student assaulted near the Citywest 

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/gardai-investigating-alleged-rape-10-36103970

The mudslinging from FFG is unreal.

How long will it be until the family of poor Paul Quinn are wheeled out to try and tie Connolly to that.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/1020/1539434-paul-quinn-appeal/

First part of that,  Humphrey's will roll in behind this no doubt with a photo shoot with Breege and a strongly worded Maria Cahill article will do the rounds. Inevitable

You're the guys bringing "poor Paul Quinn" into a thread on the presidential election, so maybe have a look in the mirror.

Imagine the amount of corruption you dont know about.

Irish deserve it because they do nothing other than throw the head up. A conquered peasant mindset.

The North isn't much better.

The "themmuns" phenomenon tampers it somewhat, the scale of corruption and looting of state coffers is quite incredible in the Republic.

Looting of state coffers? What are you on about?

Fell on his own sword!
Is it too late for Fianna Fail to nominate someone else?

Nominations closed last Monday or the Monday before.
Jaysis, it's a bad state of affairs.

That rent story on Gavin very very damaging. Pure scummy act if what's reported is true. And his defense was "poor me at the time".

Yeah. That'll sink him, but he was on his way of comfortably finishing last anyway.

Many a man died trying to free Ireland from British rule, things are obviously different now than they were 50 years ago and no one wants to go back to that. We all just have to accept each others cultures and get on with it, the Unionists accepting our Irish culture will be more difficult buy they know it's coming and they don't really have much choice. The first 10-20 years will not be much different to the way it is now and things will gradually be introduced through a generation or two.
I will vote for a united Ireland all day long and twice on a Sunday...

They did and natural colonialism died off in many countries with minimum destruction.

We've finally got to a point for unification by sheer numbers rather than bombing and shooting

Yeah we have but you and most other people forget a lot of us wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for the IRA in the late 60's and early 70's. The Catholic population were targeted and would have been a lot less today only for taking up arms. Now please don't start throwing back the atrocities that happened after that as I'm not condoning them by no stretch and there was some bad sh1t that went down in a dirty war. All i'm saying is make no mistake about it the IRA had no choice but to take up arms and defend their people. What followed wasn't acceptable...

I'll say this, Australia had no issues, no major bombings no sectarian murders and the end goal was is a county run by itself

Now, that said Australia has suppressed the ingenious people since its initial plantation, but at what cost in terms of conflict was it?

There was a choice, so don't think for a second that the choice was to take up arms during the last troubles, there was.

As we have shown that the ballot box is actually stronger than the gun in

Strange post. Which, when with hindsight is very noble.  And that's the problem I think. You're looking at history from an end point.

After years and years on unionist misrule and discrimination etc. when the whole thing 'kicked off', no one knew how and where it was going to end.

I remember doing a Bloody Sunday tour and even years I felt angry about what happened that week and I wasn't even from the area. I heard the story of the city wards being gerrymandered etc. and unionists then in control.

As I say, a lot of people look at the situation backwards, rather than from the starting point.   

That's a very fair point.
Judging from the comfort of knowing how things panned out isn't a privilege that they had.