Race for the ARAS 2025

[Snapchap]

All after promising just to stand for one term.

I must say I never get the point of people throwing out the "he said he'd only stand for one term" line. He changed his mind and decided he would like to do a second term. So what? He didin't get to sit for that second term without people getting a vote on it. He had to stand for re-eletion. Which he did. And won it with a vote that went up by over 16% on his first election.

[Rossfan]

MD would know plenty about poverty too having been born and raised in it.
I see "Independent Ireland" won't nominate Steen unless she gets 16 others first.
Strange bunch to out it mildly.

[Baile Brigín 2]

No doubt Jim Gavin is a smart enough man. But he has the charisma of a loaf of bread.

Luckily I care as much about who is President as I do who wins the Rose of Tralee.

The Poet proved that you can sit in the park for 14 years and nobody knows what you are really doing other than getting all the peripheral stuff sorted out for you such as fed, watered and sheltered.

Did we have to pay him all his pensions while he was free loading and getting the fat salary. In turn he told us about poverty and the wrongs in the world. For such a rich man The Poet is an expert on poverty. All after promising just to stand for one term.

Bizarre

[The Boy Wonder]

Like a lot of people I don't understand why Jim Gavin would want to run for President.
It would be more in his line to follow Jarlath Burn's route to GAA Presidency.

Also, he's young enough to make a valuable contribution as a GAA intercounty manager.
He could follow the example of Micko and Mickey Harte and light a fire in one of the underachieving counties.

[From the Bunker]

MD would know plenty about poverty too having been born and raised in it.
I see "Independent Ireland" won't nominate Steen unless she gets 16 others first.
Strange bunch to out it mildly.

Yes, Michael D had a brush with hardship. But he did not grow up in poverty - He went to St. Flannan's College, Ennis
a boarding school. Poor people did not go to secondary school in the '50's.

[Rossfan]

Got a scholarship.

[Baile Brigín 2]

MD would know plenty about poverty too having been born and raised in it.
I see "Independent Ireland" won't nominate Steen unless she gets 16 others first.
Strange bunch to out it mildly.

Yes, Michael D had a brush with hardship. But he did not grow up in poverty - He went to St. Flannan's College, Ennis
a boarding school. Poor people did not go to secondary school in the '50's.

He got a scholarship ffs.

There is a reason this was never thrown at him in the campaigns

[armaghniac]

MD would know plenty about poverty too having been born and raised in it.
I see "Independent Ireland" won't nominate Steen unless she gets 16 others first.
Strange bunch to out it mildly.

Yes, Michael D had a brush with hardship. But he did not grow up in poverty - He went to St. Flannan's College, Ennis
a boarding school. Poor people did not go to secondary school in the '50's.

He got a scholarship ffs.

There is a reason this was never thrown at him in the campaigns

Yes, because people actually checked, rather than posting something they knew nothing about.
And he didn't board, he cycled 8 miles to the school as a day boy.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20319669.html

[Rossfan]

Bunker's oul mask slips from time to time

[From the Bunker]

MD would know plenty about poverty too having been born and raised in it.
I see "Independent Ireland" won't nominate Steen unless she gets 16 others first.
Strange bunch to out it mildly.

Yes, Michael D had a brush with hardship. But he did not grow up in poverty - He went to St. Flannan's College, Ennis
a boarding school. Poor people did not go to secondary school in the '50's.

He got a scholarship ffs.

There is a reason this was never thrown at him in the campaigns

Yes, because people actually checked, rather than posting something they knew nothing about.
And he didn't board, he cycled 8 miles to the school as a day boy.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20319669.html

''President Higgins attended St Flannan's in the 1950s and, for three of his five years as a day boy, cycled the 16-mile round-trip from his Ballycar home, outside Newmarket-on-Fergus, with his brother John.

Recalling the commute, President Higgins said: "In those days, you didn't have a locker so you had an enormous amount of books balanced on the carrier tied up. Of course the hill near Dromoland Castle was the challenge on the cycle."


''It was at St Flannan's where President Higgins earned the nickname 'Snowall', and he quipped yesterday: "I was very pale and retiring of course — something that has stuck with me."

Addressing students in the school's assembly hall, President Higgins said entering the school in 1955 as a first year, "it was before free secondary education and it was quite a privilege to be able to go to secondary school at all".



President Higgins recalled his two years boarding at the college and the compulsory hurling on Wednesdays.''

[Baile Brigín 2]

Bunker's oul mask slips from time to time

A weird hill to die on.

[From the Bunker]

Looks like ye lads were the ones that half read ye're research. 

But if you rather the other story - sure stick with it.

[From the Bunker]

Bunker's oul mask slips from time to time

Stick to reading Sunday World articles...... 

[armaghniac]

Addressing students in the school's assembly hall, President Higgins said entering the school in 1955 as a first year, "it was before free secondary education and it was quite a privilege to be able to go to secondary school at all".

This does not state that he paid for the school rather than receiving a scholarship. He would be well able to win a scholarship if one exists.

[From the Bunker]

Addressing students in the school's assembly hall, President Higgins said entering the school in 1955 as a first year, "it was before free secondary education and it was quite a privilege to be able to go to secondary school at all".

This does not state that he paid for the school rather than receiving a scholarship. He would be well able to win a scholarship if one exists.

It does not state that it was paid for either by a scholarship. And It's your quote....