They should let Sebulba be in movies again. He has done his time

I’m hugely unhappy with the implication that the clients you had as a barrister say something about your character or fitness for office. Barristers represent any client that comes to them that they are competent to represent and that doesn’t compromise their professional ethics.

it's the 27th of August 2025 and Alan Kelly has told Tipp FM he isn't voting for Catherine Connolly it's the 26th of September 2025 and Alan Kelly has told Tipp FM he isn't voting for Catherine Connolly it's the 13th of October 2025 and Alan Kelly has told Tipp FM he isn't voti

Gentle reminder…the Special Criminal Court was opposed trenchantly and for compelling reasons by Mary Robinson before she became President; its continued existence has been criticised by the UN Human Rights Committee, UN Special Rapporteurs, the Irish Human Rights & …

[crowd erupts, just absolutely losing their shit]

This is ultimately it. Friday is about whether you have confidence the candidate you choose will actually do the primary job of the President. And quite frankly, Connolly has proven she will, whereas the evidence suggests Humphreys simply will not #Áras25

I think the relevant comparison point for the spoiled votes isn't the 2018 spoils btw, but 2018 Casey votes #Áras25

so it turns out the 'depressed turnout' was largely Humphreys voters throwing in the towel

Adding some results from the polling day poll here: kevcunningham.substack.com/p/polling-day-…

If the Govt parties had inexplicably engaged in affirmative action for quack fringe right candidates and actual nominated (sorry, ‘allowed’) them to run, it may have avoided the high % of spoiled votes but importantly she would still have an historic landslide victory

‘spoil the vote’ think they’re outsider insurgents but I get the impression of bourgeois entitlement, a ‘call the manager’ whinge from ppl who want basically affirmative action to get around not being electorally successful enough to make a nomination through the normal process

Aontú was founded on the idea that there was a principled anti-choice vote that wanted vaguely leftwing economics as fiscal policy and women suffering as social policy, and then VERY quickly discovered that this hypothetical vote didn't in fact exist.

Discovering that Ireland has had 3 presidential elections where the incumbent just ran unopposed and won really makes the whole 'This was a disgrace to democracy' argument really fall flat lmao

This is one of very few worthwhile analyses of the spoiled votes I've seen so far. Based on data, not confirmation bias.

The options that matter are the ones we're presented with in the local and general elections. The presidency is downstream of that and was never intended to be anything other than a choice filtered through the judgment of our representatives.

Me listening to "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

Are there forums about grilled cheese sandwiches where all the people argue about if the bread or cheese is more important, and a third of the posters go "THE CHEESE IS THE BEST PART, BREAD IS BORING. THE ENTIRE SANDWICH SHOULD BE CHEESE." No, because we follow the dumbest hobby.

It’s deeply frustrating that we can all identify that we used to have a better, more curious, more informative internet and then like four companies demolished so that they can profit off the algorithms designed to make people angry all the time.