2025 Irish Presidential candidates

Not a bad list all told

Frank Clarke will be out based on your age criteria (73 in 2025). Anyway look at what happened the last time the job went to a former Chief Justice !

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn (73)
and Olivia O'Leary (75) are another two who miss out on age grounds.

And please, no more z-list celebs, dragoneers, entertainment has-beens etc.

They owed Labour money from the Adi Roche presidential campaign.

She was originally nominated by Labour, then DL also officially endorsed her and agree to contribute to campaign costs.

From what I remember they were too small at the time to get much State funding, and as a result had run up other debt as well. All of which Labour agreed to take on as part of the merger.

6 Seats or 3.75% of the Dáil. Same number as social democrats, half the number of Greens

I think largely the electorate are happy for them to be in Europe or the local authority where they can't create too many problems but haven't forgiven them for their record between 2011 and 2016. There's 2 of the old Guard left from that era, Alan Kelly and Brendan Howlin. If those 2 step down there could be a resurgence

With regards to the presidential candidate if Labour pick a "celebrity" candidate they might just sneak it

1 down 1 to go so

Yeah sure in Dublin Bay South Labour are seen as having many of the same policies as FG

i reckon Bertie wins it ,

But the rouge in me would love to see McGregor win it just to see what would happen,

I'm well aware it would be total **** show but sometimes a man wants to watch the world burn

Bertie has more chance of being elected the next Pope then he does of being elected the President of Ireland.

Wonder who will SF put forward? It can’t be Adams anyway.

Surely the safest option for FF is Michael Martin?

Agreed. MM got a taste of the Taoiseach's office. He liked it. They people seemed to like him as Taosieach. He probably doesn't want to go down in history as having the shortest tenure in that role - also he got robbed by Covid of his opportunity to go to the White House for St Patrick's day!

Five figure sum from Owen O'Callaghan comes to mind.

Yes I would argue that they were both ridiculous and should not have been made, e.g. "Labour's Way not Frankfurt's Way", no third level fee increases, etc.)

"FFG" was not in power in 2006, let FF take the blame for that debacle.

Which minister signed off on the bike shed? People seem to have no idea how public administration and government work in the real world as opposed to online memes and soundbites.

‘The Minster is only in charge of the good stuff’ is what’s wrong with the system.
If he/she falls on their sword because of something like this, how long do you think it would take before proper oversight was put in place? The buck stops….and all that.

Nobody knows who knew what or signed off here.
Unusually this project had made newspaper headlines before and after it was built, the Ceann Comhairlr, Ivana Bacik and Ryan, the current Minister and two Dáil committees all knew about it before it was built, but the line Minister at the time never heard anything about it all the way through the process apparently.
We need to wait until the information tumbles out to be able to categorically claim anything.

And lose.

Everything dodgy he was ever involved with will be (rightly) dragged out into the open again - and that's a LOT.

He really doesn't look very well and I wouldn't be certain he'd make it to the end of a first term never mind a second.

I'm sure Bertie's delighted.
Not so sure if the Irish electorate would want their president reacting like this when he is asked legitimate questions:

My we have short memories.

Bertie certainly got some great PR company to get certain journalists to write glowing pieces about him in the newspapers regarding his role in the Good Friday Agreement. Which is not to say that he did not have a pivotal role in that. It was a masterclass on how to rebuild a reputation. But those shmooze-pieces conveniently glossed over the "dig outs" and "helping hands" he got from certain friends over the years. Remember he didn't have a bank account when he was Minister for Finance? And the less said about bankrupting the entire country the better. Bertie would understand the role as President fine, and would do a passable job, but he absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, doesn't deserve it.

McGregor is obviously a sociopath, and probably believes he could win. But if he has anyone sensible giving him advice, he'll stay well away from it. We all know we can't mention it on the internet, but we all also know a certain thing that he did, that through certain connections that he has, didn't end up with any repercussions. Every Irish politician knows that you can't have someone like that as President. If there's even a sniff that he'd get enough backing, I'd imagine there are ways and means that that incident would end up in the media again. He'd be very ill advised to put himself in that position.

Councillors really made themselves look stupid the last couple of presidential elections.

The last three contested elections all had ridiculous council route candidates; and then we only had one before that in the past 50 years!

They set a very low bar the last time.

I see Auntie Vaxxer's wikipedia article has been carefully curated by SF to remove all the questionable stuff she uttered and endorsed. An empty shell is left.

The Brave New World is just around the corner.

Cuiv O, Eamon ? That was announced a fair while ago. Another dinosaur falls over moaning and dies.

(Note how he was "creative" with the alphabetical ordering of the ballot paper)

Chancer of the worst order and enacted nationwide legislation to create taxpayer-funded non-jobs for the girls and boys of his constituency… I suppose in Irish politics that's a win 🙄

Irish presidential politics is not American presidential politics, thankfully. While American presidential politics is a circus it's hard to look away from, I really don't want that circus coming to town, so to speak, and it would be utterly cringeworthy seeing eejits like McGregor campaigning on vacuous, vain promises that they would have absolutely no real power to make good on anyway. It's what was so stupid about Casey's platform.

A stable and sound individual who is a good representative of the country and is able to perform their constitutional duties ably. All you want, really.