Tag: Presidency
Centre Right Duds: Can Ruth Dudley Edwards Stop Making Catherine Connolly Cool
One of the smoothest cakewalks in recent Irish political history is unfolding as we speak with Galway socialist Catherine Connolly running rhetorical rings around centrist contender Heather Humphreys in the penultimate days of Áras ’25. Unfazed by mutterings about dissident...
The Irish Presidential Election Doesn’t Matter and Distracts Us From Real Issues
A future Irish historian glancing over some of the headlines in the Autumn of 2018 would be surprised at the national fixation with the 2018 Irish Presidential Election. This fixation could have been forgiven had the race been dogged with...
Michael D. Higgins’ Marxist Philosophical Circus
In his “King Lear,” William Shakespeare writes: “Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.” I cannot think of a public figure in Ireland who exemplifies it better than our old-new presidential candidate Michael D. Higgins. He...
Kevin Sharkey: An Ireland-First President?
Ultimately however, Kevin Sharkey is at the mercy of mainstream politics for the time being.