Listen closely, and you might be able to hear something that hasn’t been encountered in Ireland for fourteen long years: It’s the sound of relative silence from Aras an Uachtaráin.
In her campaign for the Presidency, Catherine Connolly was a very outspoken candidate on matters of foreign affairs. She pledged to be a consistently anti-Nato, anti-militarisation, anti-war voice on the global stage. While she won a majority of votes, it was those pledges of activism from the office of head of state that appeared to motivate those in the electorate who either spoiled their vote or chose her opponent in the race, Heather Humphreys.
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