Irish Presidential Election 2025

Neptune said:
The momentum is with the protesters, a candidate with full backing of almost 45% of sitting TDs/parties. and all promotion that goes with it, got 25% of electorate.
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Because 54% of the electorate stayed home.
You are lucky to see 60 to 70% of the electorate come out to vote anyway.
Neptune said:
Grass roots (no funding) movement got 6%,
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Grass roots for what? Are you suggesting 6% are all anti-immigrant, far-right voters? I understand some of them wanted Dustin the Turkey which could be a real vote getter.

Neptune said:
another 3% voted Gavin knowing that's a wasted vote also
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They voted for an FF candidate which is all you can say about that.
 
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Declan said:
It is not correct to say that 94% did not spoil their vote because 55% did exactly that by not bothering at all
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The spoilt vote gets larger and larger all the time!

Since we are heading firmly into la la land, Ill drop out of this thread now.
 
Haven said:
94% of the electorate did not spoil their votes either.
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Well, technically you could argue that most of the electorate didn’t spoil their votes — but that’s only because more than half of them didn’t vote in the first place. In truth, 54% of eligible voters stayed home, and of those who did turn out, around 19% deliberately spoiled their ballot or voted for a withdrawn candidate — that’s roughly 9% of the entire electorate. The real story here is that only about 25% of all eligible voters actually voted for Catherine Connolly. We’ve no way of knowing how many of those people simply felt pressured to choose what they saw as the lesser of two options, but it’s clear she doesn’t carry the will of the majority of Irish people. Connolly may have won a legal majority under the rules, but she certainly doesn’t command a moral one.
 
jpc said:
213,738 or 13% of the total ballot spoilt!
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id argue its much worse, many voted for Gavin in the hope it would force a new election, anyone who voted for a withdrawn candidate did technically spoil their vote, thus the true figure is actualy 19.2% of the turnout spoilt their vote in some way.
 
In 2018, Michael D. Higgins won with around 822,000 votes in a six-horse race, taking 55.8% of valid votes. Connolly, by comparison, received about 914,000 votes in 2025 — but from a much larger electorate of 3.6 million (up from 3.3 million in 2018). When you work it out, her share of the total electorate comes to roughly 25%, only slightly higher than Higgins’s 20%. And unlike Higgins, who faced a wide field of candidates and still managed to win outright, Connolly was effectively in a two-horse race after Jim Gavin withdrew. So while her headline percentage looks similar, it’s not a sign of greater popularity — it’s simply the result of fewer options on the ballot. Add in the fact that over half the electorate didn’t bother to vote, and nearly one in five of those who did either spoiled their ballot or voted for a withdrawn candidate, and it’s clear her support is far from overwhelming. Connolly may have secured a legal victory, but it’s hard to claim she carries the moral or popular mandate of the Irish people. She won the election, yes — but not the country.
 
Anderson said:
id argue its much worse, many voted for Gavin in the hope it would force a new election, anyone who voted for a withdrawn candidate did technically spoil their vote, thus the true figure is actualy 19.2% of the turnout spoilt their vote in some way.
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It couldn't have been that high?
That said it was a severe boot in the nuts to the establishment and media.
The question now is what future for Meehole and the tik tok cretin?
 
Haven said:
The spoilt vote gets larger and larger all the time!

Since we are heading firmly into la la land, Ill drop out of this thread now.
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lol Worst rage quit ever 😆
 
jpc said:
It couldn't have been that high?
That said it was a severe boot in the nuts to the establishment and media.
The question now is what future for Meehole and the tik tok cretin?
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i am not happy with how it went and i was shocked when the court challenge failed,
as we all know there was a diktat from not one but two parties forbidding the FREE democratic will of the people .
the courts are not what you would expect in this state.
the only thing i am happy about is Catherine Connolly fired a broadside at the government in the past week when she stated she was fully supportive of the occupied territories bill and VEHEMENTLY OPPOSSED to the triple lock/neutrality issue which clearly means she will never allow the constitution to be altered for NATO EU VON DER LYING .
 
Why were you shocked at the court???

did you come down in the last shower
 
clarke-connolly said:
One thing about Gavin ~ He busted the myth about GAA managers being smart !

Fuck me ~ ~ How many advantage must Dublin have, to be winning all those All-Irelands with that clown in charge ? !
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The difference is he's was playing senior hurling not senior football this time as baldy Noonan might have put it.
 
jpc said:
The difference is he's was playing senior hurling not senior football this time as baldy Noonan might have put it.
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Yeah , goes to show how nasty Politics is.

All the same, Jim Gavin was supposed to be this coaching genius / guru = = It turned how he just a Gombeen !

This Gombeen will have done some damage to the GAA.
 
Declan said:
Why were you shocked at the court???

did you come down in the last shower
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no -- i am used to judges serving their masters however this was a clear cut constitutional case where the Constitution was upended where it clearly laid out how a person is elected .
and the dictate from BOTH parties meant the law could not be observed and therefore the entire election was a fraud as the free will of the tds and councillors to vote as their conscience allows and the constitution expressly states was cancelled .
 
The important thing is that even in a Clear Cut case, they will rule otherwise when necessary
 
Catherine Connolly promises to sort out the woudy webels

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clarke-connolly said:
If the Elites, Kill / Genocide, lots of White People then the others won't be long after ! ! !

If / when, it gets to the stage where Robots can do all that the Elites want, they will Kill everybody else pretty damn quick !
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They will kill themselves. Withdraw subsidies and they can not survive in ireland. They can not even survive at home
 
A nice quote that applies to the last selection of Presidents.
From Voxday.net
"There is nothing to be learned from elders who are foolish, narcissistic, and societally destructive. Disavow the Boomer mentality. Reject the Boomer mindset."
 
Yes and notice its always over the genitals that they make the sign. Among other things its supposed to be a kind of an Occult sign signifying what they call 'sex magic', thats why its done there.
 
Connolly has gone all quiet about the massacres in Palestine. She spent the last twenty years banging on about it, and now, when it might make a difference, she keeps quiet. Did Ivana Bacik and the Jewish lobby get to her?
 

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