President

Sinn Féin’s Presidential Candidate Appears to Distance Herself from the Party

Finn Purdy on October 2, 2018, 6:48 pm | Readers 3459

Liadh Ní Riada, Sinn Féin’s nominee for the upcoming Irish Presidential election has appeared to distance herself from her party in much of her campaign material. This includes Ní Riada’s election posters which have begun to appear on lampposts around the country and include no indication of her affiliation to the party she currently represents in the European Parliament for the constituency of Ireland South. The colour scheme of the posters, mainly purple and white, also does not hold connotations …

There’s no one as Irish as Barack O’bama … something for the weekend

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on May 21, 2011, 8:43 pm | Readers 29

Corrigan Brothers / Obama Moneygall image

The Corrigan Brothers generated a lot of publicity – including an appearance on Andrew Marr’s Sunday morning show – with their O’bama ditty which they ended up performing during the inauguration festivities in Washington DC. Here’s a link to the original. With the US president due to touch down on Irish soil on Monday morning, the Corrigan Brothers will be hanging around a Moneygall pub when Obama calls in Offaly to visit his ancestral roots. (UTV’s Ken Reid suggests that …

Uachtarán na hÉireann – SF within a whisker of nominating a Presidential candidate?

Blank on April 28, 2011, 8:50 pm | Readers 5

With 14 TDs and now 3 Senators elect, SF are a mere 3 Oireachtas votes away from the magically twenty that permits nomination to the 26 county Presidential election. I have no idea if SF would want to face a heavily tipped David Norris but two things do stand out; -just how much some of those close run Dail contests SF missed out on can really matter (also losing former members like Thomas Pringle TD) -just how far they’ve come …

“not quite Irish enough”

Pete Baker on October 6, 2010, 11:53 am | Readers 9

The Irish Times today gives space to a perennial whinge. Freelance journalist Darach MacDonald complains that, living in Northern Ireland, he is “now deemed by geography to be not quite Irish enough” to vote in the forthcoming Irish presidential election – even though he could stand, and take office if elected. But, rather than extending the franchise, there is a more obvious solution to the apparent contradiction. Introduce a residency requirement for the office of the President of [the Republic …