This is why they can’t answer a straight question.
Put simply, the side that is less factional and more united around a leading candidate of their side has the better chance to win.
It is not enough for those of us who desire political change in this country to cheer disillusionment with the system
There is no law saying to anybody that you must vote on a candidate on his or her merits instead of voting on them because your party has taken a position.
The fact that conservatives cannot even get a mildly conservative person like Maria Steen on the ballot is a shocking indictment of, well, the Irish conservative machine.
Voters, in both this election and future elections, should take careful note.
The apparently incurious Gardai.
“The Presidency should be a source of national ambition.”
When you do not have to pay for Utopia, you are free to vote for Utopia.
It is to the credit of the Electoral Commission that these issues might finally now be addressed.
And this brings us to the core problem: That Fine Gael’s policy offering is deeply, deeply unattractive right across the electorate.
With fears of a Trump-induced recession and global instability, the Irish voter appears to be very much in a “don’t rock the boat” mood.