Posted on 10/25/2025 1:58:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Catherine Connolly’s lop-sided victory to be Ireland’s next head of state was accompanied by a surge in vandalized ballots from right-wing voters.
DUBLIN — Independent socialist Catherine Connolly swept to a landslide victory Saturday to become Ireland’s next president, dealing a record-breaking rebuke to the two center-ground parties of government.
Jubilant supporters of the 68-year-old Connolly, a lawmaker from the western city of Galway, embraced and kissed her as final results from Friday’s election were announced at the Dublin Castle count center.
In her victory speech, Connolly struck an immediate note of unity. She stood side by side with Ireland’s government leaders — and pledged to challenge the far right and its anti-immigrant agenda.
“Together we can shape a new republic that values everybody, that values and champions diversity … and the new people that have come to our country,” she said. “I will be an inclusive president for all of you.”
Connolly won a record 63.4 percent of valid votes. Heather Humphreys of the government coalition party Fine Gael finished a distant second with 29.5 percent.
Connolly’s triumph shattered the previous record set in 1959 when Eamon de Valera, the towering figure of 20th-century Irish politics, won his first term as president with 56.3 percent support.
On Nov. 11, Connolly will succeed her fellow Galway socialist Michael D. Higgins, Ireland’s president since 2011, who was constitutionally barred from seeking a third seven-year term.
Finishing in third and last place Saturday was Jim Gavin of the largest government party, Fianna Fáil, who won barely 7 percent of votes. Gavin, a political novice hand-picked by Prime Minister Micheál Martin, remained on the official ballot despite quitting the race midway after admitting he had pocketed €3,300 in excess rent from a tenant.
Connolly won, in no small part, thanks to backing from Ireland’s five left-wing parties,...
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While the left celebrated from Dublin Castle to Galway, Ireland’s disgruntled conservatives left their own mark on the election — by vandalizing their ballots in unprecedented numbers.
More than 200,000 ballots — or about one of every eight cast — had to be discarded. Many voters had written in the names of their own invalid choices, or drawn disparaging X marks across all three candidates. Others defaced their ballots, often with anti-immigrant messages expressed in nativist or racist terms.
At least Ireland doesn’t have nukes for the jihadis to take over.
What’s the deal here? Did the leftists rig the election to block conservative parties?
To the Irish voters....
Updated “blessing.”
May a stepped on rake
come up to hit you.☘️☘️
May the ill wind
knock you down.☘️☘️
May the rains
flood your cities
for voting like a clown.☘️☘️☘️☘️
Countries that will be destroyed by violent, radical Muslim immigrants:
Sweden
Britain
France
Germany
You can now add Ireland to that list.
☹️
Rosee should be joyous!
No Belgium or Netherlands?
ALL three candidates are left wing morons, regardless of the party name
Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Yes she used the “D word”!
They doubled down on stupid.
That title’
“Ireland elects left-wing president in anti-government landslide “
Confuses me.
Left wing animals love more government!
how can they be anti- government to
a government run by stark raving “Mad” liberals?
so you’re ‘vandals’ now; all you right-wing micks. congrats from all us ‘deplorables.’ wear the badge with pride.
The West is fading fast...
As Ireland continues its Jew hatred, a solid plank in their leftist platform.
They must have some kind of ranked-voting scam in Ireland to make sure that your choice is limited to Left-wing candidates.
Or the good people are so beaten down they don’t even bother running for office.
““Together we can shape a new republic that values everybody, that values and champions diversity … and the new people that have come to our country,” she said. “I will be an inclusive president for all of you.”
Ireland is done.
We’re the discards kept for verification if an audit needs to done...?
Betcha they weren’t...
> No Belgium or Netherlands? <
They seem to be a little less violent (and stabby) as of now. But yes, you’re right. Both countries will eventually make the list.
It’s an almost unimaginable tragedy.
As I see it, only a military coup can save such countries now. One can only hope that the generals are having serious discussions about this.
But I doubt it.
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