if Nick Delehanty raised and spent tens of thousands in other people's money to hire a swanky PR firm to run his campaign just to raise his profile, it doesn't seem to have worked too well. he gained fewer than a thousand followers on X since his "official" campaign launch

Are RTE frightened of Maria Steen? "Family campaigner" yeah right.

Independent Ireland putting out press releases about halal meat, this entire party has pan-fried it's brain on social media

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i sympathise with the folks trying to get the councils to nominate them for president because i too am regularly late, forget to submit essential documents on time, and hold views that make me virtually incomprehensible to the average person.

The criticism of her comments came, of course, from a man whose party was intimately (and correctly) involved in a peace process which involved talks with terrorists and was based on bringing everyone to the table.

guy who published an op-ed literally yesterday saying it was undemocratic to not give him a nomination: I respect the democratic process, now

The Irish Aviation Authority didn’t follow proper procedures when it hired Fianna Fáil presidential candidate Jim Gavin as chief operating officer, according to a confidential letter from a whistleblower to then taoiseach Leo Varadkar. www.ontheditch.com/whistleblowe...

same thing happened to douglas hyde if I remember correctly

It's disgusting that a man can he prevented from running for President just because nobody has heard of him and he's never done anything or filed the required paperwork

I am shocked that Tom McDonnell, a man so deep down the conspiracist rabbit hole he becomes physically sick if he walks near the Grand Lodge because he thinks he feels demonic energy radiating from it, turned out to be unreliable

This whole "Ireland needs a right wing presidential candidate" and "I'm being prevented from running" thing is funny because you only need 20 Oireachtas backers. You couldn't get 20 people to like you. Sounds like a skill issue tbh. #aras25

when I get to this bit in my upcoming pod on the nomination process

Oh wow, so it turns out it wasn't about giving everyone a chance in the name of democracy as they claimed, but about getting their specific favoured candidate on the ballot. Who could have known??

an Aontú councillor abstained on the Sheridan nomination in Meath lmao

The online rights are disturbingly comfortable publishing their deeply sexualised thoughts about Maria Steen and like, even the way they treat their allies is gross. A genuinely unwell, unpleasant bunch

To jog people's memories, this person, talking about European "natives" & very anti-immigrant on X, claimed to be from Thailand & said it was running for election in 2016, but dropped out last minute, never accepted interviews, no one knows what was going on.

"this is Ireland so you can say whatever the fuck you want" is such a lie that I now want to get invited on RTÉ just so I can get them sued by saying a bunch of unambiguously factual statements about rich and powerful people

This made me laugh because Iran's regime blocked access to Twitter in 2009. They truly have NO idea what a real dictatorship looks like.

sending something to the media for immediate release doesn't make any sense. we're definitely gonna mediate it

Letterfrack says Free Palestine

John Hurley continues to be a legend m.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

Go for it Brenda. Give it a lash. See how you get on.

The public had ample opportunity to elect enough right-wing Oireachtas members in the last year to nominate a right-wing presidential candidate. They chose not to. They elected a handful of right-wing TDs and only enough councillors to elect a handful of right-wing senators.

Gareth Sheridan would already have a third nomination if he hadn't skipped Waterford (40% FFG) for Carlow (60% FFG) – and now he's setting up Louth cllrs for accusations of "blocking" him even though he didn't bother to finish applying to them

maybe Patrick Kielty could prove you can say whatever you want on Irish television by inviting Panti on to call the Iona Institute homophobes?

fascinated by people who think rising fascism is a threat to NATO, an organisation that has employed and collaborated with fascists from its very inception

me on a bad fatigue day (today)

I will be laughing even longer if Steen doesn't make it because Craughwell won't bow to the pressure campaign

imo a fair conclusion to draw about dem leadership's obstinance in the face of revolt from their voters is that they'd rather win an intra-party fight with their left wing & their own voters than maximize potential electoral gains in the midterms

I'll always remember seeing Catherine Connolly walk through Eyre Square the day after she was elected to the Dáil in 2016 – or rather try to walk through Eyre Square, because there were so many people coming up to her to congratulate her. FFG would be foolish to underestimate her

the conspiracist graffito of Clonmel whose work I've been tracking has reemerged from a long fallow period. a bunch of shit got tagged in recent weeks, including signposts just outside a local primary school. I wonder what got them so excited. it was October 7th last time

I just realised you can sing "Catherine Connolly for President" to the tune of "Solidarity Forever"

skinny jeans forever, i will wear flares in hell

At a Scottish Highland festival in central Germany (AfD land) and an American woman is singing the Fields of Athenry (an Irish song) in German. I’m so confused.

absolutely insane for Kielty to present Ireland as a bastion of free speech. we have some of the most onerous and one-sided defamation laws in any liberal capitalist democracy. Coolmore killed the sale of a book critical of them with the mere whiff of a threat of a lawsuit

BREAKING: Sinn Féin announce Nile Rodgers with special guests Chic as their nominee for Áras25

Another typical morning in town after Culture Night, sean-nós singers left strewn around the footpaths, poets carelessly stuffed under park benches, a lone interpretive dancer being gently blown around the square

it's very important to understand that just because something is unlikely, even implausible, that doesn't mean it can't happen. I learned this lesson early in life when I blinked just as a bluebottle flew past my face and got a live fly trapped under my eyelid

it's going to take me a while to stop laughing if Sheridan doesn't make it because he skipped Waterford for Carlow

Kieran McCarthy was easily the most impressive candidate who addressed Tipp CoCo after Gareth Sheridan, so I am not surprised he successfully got a nomination

What a co-inky-dink that our lovable rogues with their flat caps and simple man of the people manners parrot hard-right US anti-science in the Dáil and also nominate the most reactionary presidential candidate possible, all within 24 hours.

me: Maria Steen didn't even apply to this very winnable council her fans: BECAUSE IT'S ALL RIGGED AND THEY WON'T NOMINATE ANY INDEPENDENT WCCC: we want to nominate an independent so badly we're just nominating the best one who showed up

Maria Steen is such an unserious candidate she didn't even apply to Waterford City and County Council, the council where a cross-party group of pro-life councillors did this shit in 2018

Really funny that a man who set up a little blog with a fake name (which led to misidentification of a poor Indian man who lived in Dublin and had that name) is calling Dublin Inquirer fringe. lmao

it is pretty funny that Nick Delehanty is going around telling councillors about his social media following even though the swanky firm he hired to run his campaign has clearly told him to stop posting almost entirely while he seeks the nomination

hey so this is insane

I can't pretend it doesn't feel quietly dehumanising that political discourse around autism in Ireland forefronts not even autistic children, but their parents, while autistic adults are largely absent from the discussion unless they're the Tánaiste's brother