Race for the ARAS 2025

[Rossfan]

Seán Kelly out of the race so McGuinness obviously has the blueshirt nomination.

[Dag Dog]

One leprechaun in the Aras was enough.

[Franko]

Moscow Mick said he wouldn't run if Catherine Connolly was running. That is another warning about how unsuitable Connolly is. She's another Putin and Assad mouthpiece.**

**citation needed

She votes against aid for Ukraine, she votes against sanctions on Russia, she calls Ukraine "The Ukraine" which is the tankie way of denying it's an independent country in it's own right.
What more evidence do you want to see the colour of her stripes?

Ah come on now.

1.  She voted against MILITARY aid, on the grounds of our neutrality and her consistently non-militaristic stance.  Which is an eminently reasonable position.

2.  She has NEVER voted against sanctions on Russia.  This is just a complete lie.

So we are left with her calling it 'The Ukraine'.  As being the entire basis for you describing her as a 'Putin and Assad mouthpiece'?

[Dag Dog]

She's an embarrassment. 'England', 'The Ukraine'. One of the basics of being President is knowing the correct name of nations.
'Warmongering' by the west is the problem in her tiny mind.

https://x.com/TonightVMTV/status/1894514104225689679

[Franko]

She's an embarrassment. 'England', 'The Ukraine'. One of the basics of being President is knowing the correct name of nations.
'Warmongering' by the west is the problem in her tiny mind.

https://x.com/TonightVMTV/status/1894514104225689679

Fair enough - that's your opinion an you are obviously entitled to it

But don't try to back it up by telling blatant lies, it doesn't do much in terms of bringing other round to your way of thinking

And FWIW - personally I think she's bang on.  Warmongering by the West IS one of the biggest issues of our time and is the cause of many of the issues directly affecting Ireland

[Dag Dog]

She's an embarrassment. 'England', 'The Ukraine'. One of the basics of being President is knowing the correct name of nations.
'Warmongering' by the west is the problem in her tiny mind.

https://x.com/TonightVMTV/status/1894514104225689679

Fair enough - that's your opinion an you are obviously entitled to it

But don't try to back it up by telling blatant lies, it doesn't do much in terms of bringing other round to your way of thinking

And FWIW - personally I think she's bang on.  Warmongering by the West IS one of the biggest issues of our time and is the cause of many of the issues directly affecting Ireland

Putin literally marched into Ukraine to take it over and absorb it into Russia. Talking points about 'NATO', 'The West', 'warmongering' are just a distraction.
Connolly refused to applaud Zelensky when he addressed the Dail, along with some other crackpots, which shows how far down a rabbit hole she has gone.

[Rossfan]

For the record I woukd like to have a left of centre candidate to vote for.
However I won't be voting for this lady if she gets selected, or any other pro Putinista.
How anyone describing themselves as left could be supporting a right-wing autocratic cnut like Putin is mind boggling.

[Franko]

She's an embarrassment. 'England', 'The Ukraine'. One of the basics of being President is knowing the correct name of nations.
'Warmongering' by the west is the problem in her tiny mind.

https://x.com/TonightVMTV/status/1894514104225689679

Fair enough - that's your opinion an you are obviously entitled to it

But don't try to back it up by telling blatant lies, it doesn't do much in terms of bringing other round to your way of thinking

And FWIW - personally I think she's bang on.  Warmongering by the West IS one of the biggest issues of our time and is the cause of many of the issues directly affecting Ireland

Putin literally marched into Ukraine to take it over and absorb it into Russia. Talking points about 'NATO', 'The West', 'warmongering' are just a distraction.
Connolly refused to applaud Zelensky when he addressed the Dail, along with some other crackpots, which shows how far down a rabbit hole she has gone.

Fair enough, again - your opinion and you're entitled to it

But when the first defence of it involves a blatant lie, I'm entitled to believe that it's an opinion grounded in very little

But it's all moot - you'll be voting and I wont

[Rossfan]

Seems she's on the way to being on the ballot.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0711/1523014-presidential-race-connolly/

[Banks of the Bann]

She's an embarrassment. 'England', 'The Ukraine'. One of the basics of being President is knowing the correct name of nations.
'Warmongering' by the west is the problem in her tiny mind.

https://x.com/TonightVMTV/status/1894514104225689679

Fair enough - that's your opinion an you are obviously entitled to it

But don't try to back it up by telling blatant lies, it doesn't do much in terms of bringing other round to your way of thinking

And FWIW - personally I think she's bang on.  Warmongering by the West IS one of the biggest issues of our time and is the cause of many of the issues directly affecting Ireland

Putin literally marched into Ukraine to take it over and absorb it into Russia. Talking points about 'NATO', 'The West', 'warmongering' are just a distraction.
Connolly refused to applaud Zelensky when he addressed the Dail, along with some other crackpots, which shows how far down a rabbit hole she has gone.

Fair enough, again - your opinion and you're entitled to it

But when the first defence of it involves a blatant lie, I'm entitled to believe that it's an opinion grounded in very little

But it's all moot - you'll be voting and I wont

What 'blatant lie' are you referring to?

[Franko]

She's an embarrassment. 'England', 'The Ukraine'. One of the basics of being President is knowing the correct name of nations.
'Warmongering' by the west is the problem in her tiny mind.

https://x.com/TonightVMTV/status/1894514104225689679

Fair enough - that's your opinion an you are obviously entitled to it

But don't try to back it up by telling blatant lies, it doesn't do much in terms of bringing other round to your way of thinking

And FWIW - personally I think she's bang on.  Warmongering by the West IS one of the biggest issues of our time and is the cause of many of the issues directly affecting Ireland

Putin literally marched into Ukraine to take it over and absorb it into Russia. Talking points about 'NATO', 'The West', 'warmongering' are just a distraction.
Connolly refused to applaud Zelensky when he addressed the Dail, along with some other crackpots, which shows how far down a rabbit hole she has gone.

Fair enough, again - your opinion and you're entitled to it

But when the first defence of it involves a blatant lie, I'm entitled to believe that it's an opinion grounded in very little

But it's all moot - you'll be voting and I wont

What 'blatant lie' are you referring to?

That she voted against sanctions on Russia

[armaghniac]

That she voted against sanctions on Russia

This may not be true. However, she has been behaving appallingly all the same.
Here she is refusing to applaud the visit of the Ukrainian president to the Oireachtas

[johnnycool]

McGregor is upping his game for the Presidential elections evidently...

Sending díck pics is a vote winner in Ireland it seems.

Utter sc**bag.

[armaghniac]

McGregor is upping his game for the Presidential elections evidently...

Sending díck pics is a vote winner in Ireland it seems.

Utter sc**bag.

I thing that a dick pic is an appropriate representation of the man.

[Rossfan]

McGuinness the only candidate for the Blueshirt nomination.
Connolly expected to launch campaign amárach ar Radio na Gaeltachta.
Labour sitting on fence as whether to support her or not as mixed views on her.
Declan Ganley and Senator Aubrey McCarthy trying to get 20 Oireachtas members to nominate them.
Aontú looking for a candidate to back that "supports their view on things"