Race for the ARAS 2025

[PadraicHenryPearse]

Gavin is an unusual choice and it could go either way.
The assurances that he has a personality, behind the dullness he projected when Dublin manager will be put to the test.
Being of GAA stock usually implies a certain folksiness, and he'll have to show some of this.

Presidential races can get unpleasant because it's about the person, their personality, their past actions, not any supposed ideas or policies.

Catherine Connolly is already finding this out. Her poor takes on Ukraine, unwise Syrian trip and her associations with Wallace and Daly will make her transfer repellent to the centre ground.

Whatever about his dullness, Jim Gavin is unlikely to go off script with hot takes about NATO warmongering, EU tyranny, and how poor old Putin was provoked.

[/quotlegs ignore Eu

Gavin is an unusual choice and it could go either way.
The assurances that he has a personality, behind the dullness he projected when Dublin manager will be put to the test.
Being of GAA stock usually implies a certain folksiness, and he'll have to show some of this.

Presidential races can get unpleasant because it's about the person, their personality, their past actions, not any supposed ideas or policies.

Catherine Connolly is already finding this out. Her poor takes on Ukraine, unwise Syrian trip and her associations with Wallace and Daly will make her transfer repellent to the centre ground.

Whatever about his dullness, Jim Gavin is unlikely to go off script with hot takes about NATO warmongering, EU tyranny, and how poor old Putin was provoked.

let's ignore EU complicity with Israeli Genocide it's a 'hot take'....

there was no poor old Putin, you can see her Connolly comments on him, that doesn't prevent an anti war person being critical of the NATO or a new arms race.

also there is absolutely nothing wrong with going to Syria and more should have done it, to see what sanction were doing to the average Syrian rather than the regime which they were supposedly targeted.

Jim didn't sign the call from irish sports people for a ceasefire in Gaza in January, was he one of the 800 signatures recently..

[Banks of the Bann]

Gavin is an unusual choice and it could go either way.
The assurances that he has a personality, behind the dullness he projected when Dublin manager will be put to the test.
Being of GAA stock usually implies a certain folksiness, and he'll have to show some of this.

Presidential races can get unpleasant because it's about the person, their personality, their past actions, not any supposed ideas or policies.

Catherine Connolly is already finding this out. Her poor takes on Ukraine, unwise Syrian trip and her associations with Wallace and Daly will make her transfer repellent to the centre ground.

Whatever about his dullness, Jim Gavin is unlikely to go off script with hot takes about NATO warmongering, EU tyranny, and how poor old Putin was provoked.

[/quotlegs ignore Eu

Gavin is an unusual choice and it could go either way.
The assurances that he has a personality, behind the dullness he projected when Dublin manager will be put to the test.
Being of GAA stock usually implies a certain folksiness, and he'll have to show some of this.

Presidential races can get unpleasant because it's about the person, their personality, their past actions, not any supposed ideas or policies.

Catherine Connolly is already finding this out. Her poor takes on Ukraine, unwise Syrian trip and her associations with Wallace and Daly will make her transfer repellent to the centre ground.

Whatever about his dullness, Jim Gavin is unlikely to go off script with hot takes about NATO warmongering, EU tyranny, and how poor old Putin was provoked.

let's ignore EU complicity with Israeli Genocide it's a 'hot take'....

there was no poor old Putin, you can see her Connolly comments on him, that doesn't prevent an anti war person being critical of the NATO or a new arms race.

also there is absolutely nothing wrong with going to Syria and more should have done it, to see what sanction were doing to the average Syrian rather than the regime which they were supposedly targeted.

Jim didn't sign the call from irish sports people for a ceasefire in Gaza in January, was he one of the 800 signatures recently..

Catherine Connolly is an ignoramus who can't even manage to use the correct name of Ukraine when making speeches. 'The Ukraine' is an insult to Ukrainians and the Ukrainian nation. You can also set the watch ticking from when she starts to criticise Russia to how long she will be prattling about NATO warmongering and western arms to Ukraine.

In the upside down tankie world of Connolly, the countries of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Croatia and of course Ukraine itself are all warmongers for wanting to join a defensive alliance to protect them against their former brutal colonial masters in Moscow.

Russia only had to mention the words 'nuclear weapons' and the Biden administration would shit itself but we are expected to believe that NATO was an existential threat to Russia. Of course, as everyone knows, NATO is only a threat only to Russia's image of itself as a mighty empire retaining the ability to dominate and subjugate its near neighbours. How odd that tankies and so-called 'anti-imperialists' find this so objectionable.

[Armagh18]

There are Russia and Gaza threads folks.

Back to ÁRAS.
Connolly won't be getting the major slice of the middle Ireland vote that MD got. Probably none of that plus not all Labour voters will support her.

She's probably unelectable now.
Maybe if the * Shinners, whom she seemed to be courting in a big way last week, don't enter she might stay in the field long enough to push the FF or FG candidate to a few counts.

* Pearse Doherty being mentioned now.

Surely Pearse too good as a TD to go into a ceremonial role?

[Baile Brigín 2]

Seems FRC Jim now actively pursuing the FF nomination with MEP Kelleher also saying he wants it.

Looks like he has it.

The problem is immediately 50% of the population wouldn't vote FF. Says a lot about them that they looked internally and couldn't find one candidate of note. FF itself might not run a massive campaign as he is arms length FF.

His military background should work for him, very thorough and can bite his tongue.

But the reality is we know absolutely nothing about his politics. Does he even have any or is he a technocrat type?

[Dag Dog]

Seems FRC Jim now actively pursuing the FF nomination with MEP Kelleher also saying he wants it.

Looks like he has it.

The problem is immediately 50% of the population wouldn't vote FF.

A far greater % wouldn't vote for a Putin-Before-Profit gene pool candidate.

[Rossfan]

Assuming the 3 main parties run candidates then transfers will elect the new Uachtarán.
 Kelly drops out due to insufficient support so Humphries will be the blueshirt's candidate.

[Baile Brigín 2]

Seems FRC Jim now actively pursuing the FF nomination with MEP Kelleher also saying he wants it.

Looks like he has it.

The problem is immediately 50% of the population wouldn't vote FF.

A far greater % wouldn't vote for a Putin-Before-Profit gene pool candidate.

While her campaign hasn't kicked on, I assume she will deal with this nonsense in time.

Her politics are identical to the incumbent, who is probably the most popular politician ever.

[armaghniac]

While her campaign hasn't kicked on, I assume she will deal with this nonsense in time.

Her politics are identical to the incumbent, who is probably the most popular politician ever.

Her politics are broadly the same, but she is a lightweight with poor judgement and her pro Putin carry-on is not long ago before the election.

[PadraicHenryPearse]

While her campaign hasn't kicked on, I assume she will deal with this nonsense in time.

Her politics are identical to the incumbent, who is probably the most popular politician ever.

Her politics are broadly the same, but she is a lightweight with poor judgement and her pro Putin carry-on is not long ago before the election.

she is anti war, not pro Putin. She has spoken out against Putin.

[Dag Dog]

While her campaign hasn't kicked on, I assume she will deal with this nonsense in time.

Her politics are identical to the incumbent, who is probably the most popular politician ever.

Her politics are broadly the same, but she is a lightweight with poor judgement and her pro Putin carry-on is not long ago before the election.

she is anti war, not pro Putin. She has spoken out against Putin.

Of course. Just like the #IrelandIsFull folk will tell you up front they aren't racists...

They just don't like unvetted, fighting age males, people with different beliefs, people not respecting our country, outsiders getting benefits, gatherings etc.

But no, they aren't racists.

[PadraicHenryPearse]

While her campaign hasn't kicked on, I assume she will deal with this nonsense in time.

Her politics are identical to the incumbent, who is probably the most popular politician ever.

Her politics are broadly the same, but she is a lightweight with poor judgement and her pro Putin carry-on is not long ago before the election.

she is anti war, not pro Putin. She has spoken out against Putin.

Of course. Just like the #IrelandIsFull folk will tell you up front they aren't racists...

They just don't like unvetted, fighting age males, people with different beliefs, people not respecting our country, outsiders getting benefits, gatherings etc.

But no, they aren't racists.

 corbyn is anti semitic!!! and those calling for a ceasefire in Gaza are Zionists!!

We have condemned and do condemn Putin as a warmonger, a thug and a despot. And we were doing so before the invasion of Ukraine and we've done so since People before profit statement in the dail.

easier for you just to name call..

[Baile Brigín 2]

While her campaign hasn't kicked on, I assume she will deal with this nonsense in time.

Her politics are identical to the incumbent, who is probably the most popular politician ever.

Her politics are broadly the same, but she is a lightweight with poor judgement and her pro Putin carry-on is not long ago before the election.

she is anti war, not pro Putin. She has spoken out against Putin.

Of course. Just like the #IrelandIsFull folk will tell you up front they aren't racists...

They just don't like unvetted, fighting age males, people with different beliefs, people not respecting our country, outsiders getting benefits, gatherings etc.

But no, they aren't racists.

So even though she hasn't actually said what you claim, she means it deep down?

He is weeping for you

[armaghniac]

she is anti war, not pro Putin. She has spoken out against Putin.

Why did she not applaud Zelensky? Why would you make such a gesture when a representative of a country which is the victim of war has been invited to the Dáil?

She is a fellow traveller of Moscow Mick and Kremlin Clare and has been proposed by PBP who did oppose sanctions. She went to Assad's Syria with Moscow Mick and Kremlin Clare and supported Gemma O'Doherty being nominated on the last Presidential election, she seems to enjoy the company of loons.

I'm not saying that she is Trump, but she is just a contrarian with bad judgement.

[Banks of the Bann]

It's like I said earlier - you can start the countdown from when Connolly criticises Putin and Russia to when she starts parroting Russian pripaganda about NATO. It's classic tankie-itis. Incurable.

Another symptom is to express heartfelt  'concern' for Ukraine while campaigning to deprive Ukraine of the means to defend itself.

You'd think NATO invaded Eastern Europe the way tankies get on. They love to ignore, never acknowledge it, not ever, that all the countries that suffered under Russian occupation were beating NATOs door down to get in.

[Dag Dog]

Imagine sitting with Catherine Connolly while she watches 'Home Alone'.

"Yes, of course I don't condone what the wet bandits are doing, BUT..."

"the kid is provoking them"

"that's illegal what he just did there"

"more violence is not the solution"

"why isn't there someone taking away his traps?"

"It's tragic to see a young child already a NATO warmongerer"

"they need to sit down and negotiate"

"Why isn't 'The Kevin' listening to voices calling for peace?"

"All he's doing is making profits for the paint can, rope and blowtorch manufacturers"

"The media won't tell you that Marv and Harry have legitimate security concerns."

"Where was 'The Kevin' when other houses on his block were being robbed? Classic Western hypocrisy."

"What about the suffering of the Wet Bandits' families?"