Recent Aras elections saw multiple candidates get through process via Oireachtas or local authority support - 1997 had 5 candidates, 2011 had 7 and 2018 had 6. There is no need to change the system because the 2025 motley crew were late to process, poor quality or not serious about running at all.

To Mediahuis Ireland; your editorial team, journalists, and opinion writers took one hell of a beating #Aras25 #PresidentCatherineConnolly

Given that Connolly got the biggest personal mandate in the history of the state AND the highest percentage of first preferences ever in a presidential election, anyone in media engaging this pereniial fuckwit for analysis is pissing in your eye and telling you it's soda water.

1. It was a higher turnout for this presidential election than the 2018 presidential election. 2. The number of spoiled votes only equates to 5.91% of the actual electorate. 3. No Irish presidential candidate has ever received as many first preference votes as Catherine Connolly got. #SpeirGorm

Catherine Connolly wins more votes than any other single electoral candidate in Irish political history The Irish media: Yeah well what about the random chuds who drew a cock and balls on their ballots?

Catherine Connolly got more votes than any other president in history - any pol corr or commentator trying to convince you that the story is actually the spoiled votes is showing you their whole arse, and should be treated accordingly.

Re-sharing this in light of Sutcliffe's yesterday's Instagram story, which featured an extremely hateful and violent commentary on a ballot paper.

Only 5.91% of the Total Electorate of over 3.6 million people spoiled their votes. These people are very very much in the minority. Also needs to be said that not all spoiled votes will have been conscious intentions to spoil but mistakes #SpeirGorm #Áras2025 #Aras2025 #Uachtaran #CatherineConnolly

Same - but I still always vote. I reckon you can only choose your meal from whatever is actually on the menu! (Of course, you can campaign to change the menu, but demanding oysters in Burger King or pulling your trousers down to moon at the queue in protest is loser behaviour.)

Currently with 41 of the 43 constituencies reported it's spoiled votes (in many different hues) at a figure of 203,877 which represents only 5.87% of the total electorate. #Áras2025 #Aras2025 #SpeirGorm

A man has been arrested in connection with the alleged assault of two women who were out on a canvass with Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald in Dublin yesterday.  More on #VMNews

Pointing out close connections to a massively sectarian organisation like the Orange Order (which doesn't allow Catholics join & which actively celebrates their supremacy over the native people of Ireland) & saying you can't support it/them is not sectarian abuse #Aras2025 #SpeirGorm #Áras2025

So not the really low turnout the right wingers have heralded

I'm waiting on final numbers but at the minute the number of spoiled votes represents less than 5% of the total number of the electorate that could have voted yesterday. #Áras2025 #Aras2025 #SpeirGorm

The story is not the lads spending quality time with their crayons in the voting booth. It's the Irish left coming together and handing the Irish right its arse, despite the govt parties having literally every advantage going (except for their candidates, who were hopeless). #Aras25 #SpeirGorm

If Declan Ganley or Peadar Toibín want to suggest that all spoiled votes are a vote for an alternative right wing candidate. Will they also own the vast vast amount that we’ve seen with pro Nazi, ethno nationalist, genital obsessed slurs?

With 3 constituencies left to count - Catherine Connolly has received the highest number of votes of any candidate for presidency in the history of the state According to @womenforelection.bsky.social data - MDH in 2018 had 822k #Aras25

Part of the reason that FF/FG are a bit hopeless in presidential campaigns is because it relies on having a positive vision for the future of Ireland, not just fear and a strong constituency game. #Áras25

Micheál Martin is perhapd the most arrogant and egotistical Taoiseach we've had in years (and that's including Leo Varadkar, so this is impressive).

Now, I will never ever hear a single word from a FFer about partisan conduct from opposition parties.

Over half of all constituencies now reporting #aras25. Connolly 63%, Humphres 29%, Gavin 8%. 13.5% of all ballots spoiled. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Probably not great for FF/FG to project the impression that they’ll give up on the ol’ norms once they stop working in their favour.

I need every journalist to point out that even if steen got the finger out and got on the ballot (she didn't), and even if all the spoiled votes would have gone to her (they wouldn't), she would have still come last

A sitting Dublin city councillor has posted a call for "ethnic cleansing". Don't call them far right though

Saw a Fine Gael TD saying they didn't appeal to their core voters, "the people who get up early in the morning" GET SOME NEW MATERIAL Such arrogance in it, basically another way of saying "we're the party for grown ups"

Remember, respectability politics is a way to keep people in their place. This is incredibly petty, and again, when the worry about Catherine Connolly was that she would not be able to conduct herself at official events properly...

What's the reasoning here? If this is because of anything other than him having a serious serious event to attend in the EU that he cannot miss then this is unforgivable. #Áras2025 #Aras2025 #SpeirGorm #TonightVMTV #rtept

Can the person that completed the ballot in the third image here be identified and charged and convicted? It's sick. #Áras2025 #Aras2025 #President #Election #SpeirGorm

Even the Healy Rae machine (they canvassed for Humphreys) is vulnerable to left unity. Final tally in Kerry has Catherine Connolly on 62% #aras25 #speirgorm #ConnollywillbePresident

If I were about to definitely lose an election for an entirely ceremonial position, I wouldn't frame it as a referendum on the prevailing ideology of the country, but maybe I'm just not the political genius that Simon Harris is

I'm gonna follow Simon's logic and say that if Catherine does win then we definitely ARE a far left country

Lance Corporal David James Cleary has admitted he killed innocent, peaceful protesters on the day.

It is worrying that people feel entitled to behave this way. Nobody should have to deal with this shit. Solidarity with the canvassers and the person who was struck

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Vote, vote, vote #connolly4president #aras2025 #speirgorm

#Áras2025 #Aras2025 #SpeirGorm #TonightVMTV #rtept

Don’t flake on voting just because the result is in the bag! Margin matters. Remember how awful it felt seeing Peter Casey jump from 2% polls to 23% after his attacks on travellers. A low turnout/high number of spoiled votes will be seized on by the fash. Every vote for Connolly undermines them

CMAT is a legit legend

Connolly 55 Humphreys 35 Gavin 10 m.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

USAF has positioned B-1 bombers near Venezuela, signalling an escalation in military pressure, the WSJ reports.

Respect to the Irish News for linking to Hansard on their live feed and confirming Soldier F's name can be read there despite the anonymity order

No justice. Utterly disgusted for the Bloody Sunday families. An obscene decision and a dark day.

Statement by: Madden & Finucane Solicitors, Belfast

He may have been allowed to walk free by a British court, but the world now knows that David Cleary was part of the unit that murdered 14 and injured 15 in Derry on Bloody Sunday, 1972. Let history judge them with the same amount of mercy that they showed their victims - that is, none at all.

🗣️ "Are we going to have a conversation, on the level that you are about deportations here, about the crisis of male violence against women in this country?” - News Correspondent, The Journal Eimer McAuley #TonightVMTV

The refusal of the Irish government to pass the Occupied Territories Bill despite overwhelming support from the Irish people is a democratic disgrace.

That anyone in Europe is still buying these vehicles with a neo-fascist like Musk at the helm is beyond idiotic.

"Gaza Genocide: a collective crime" Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

Gardaí say two officers hospitalised after tonight’s second night of violence in Citywest. 23 arrests made.

🗣️ "How a very significant, very realistic, incredibly disruptive, probably malicious, possibly professional deepfake AI intended to disrupt the presidential election [...] gets to stay up for 4 full days?” - Technology Editor, Irish Independent Adrian Weckler #TonightVMTV