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PRESIDENT MICHAEL D Higgins has officially lodged his nomination papers for a second tilt at the Irish presidency.
Higgins, president since 2011, today submitted his own election nomination papers at the Custom House in Dublin, making him an official candidate.
After much speculation the President had declared his intention to seek re-election in July.
He will now face off against at least five other candidates – Sean Gallagher, Peter Casey, Gavin Duffy, Joan Freeman, and Sinn Féin’s Liadh Ní Riada. Higgins’s campaign will formally launch on Wednesday.
Speaking of his bid, he said that he had been “honoured” to serve the Irish people.
“I have dedicated myself to each aspect of the role from the constitutional responsibilities and representation of our nation at home and abroad, to those wider conversations and connections which I have, as President, been able to develop and deepen,” he said.
“At this important time for our nation I am once again offering to serve, and I am asking the people of Ireland to place their confidence in me.”
He added that he is “very much looking forward to an active campaign, which I hope will be driven by ideas and values so that citizens can make an informed choice on 26 October”.
The final deadline for receipt of a presidential nomination is this Wednesday, 26 September.
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He’d know a lot about being best supporting donkey.
@John Farrell: what about the Donkey emissions
Well if anyone should know of ” being robbed” it’s fair to say he and his colleagues in Leinster House have the inside track on that. They have being robbing the greater general public over the years when it comes to excise duties/V.A.T./health care/housing needs/utilities costs. I just give up
@Michael Costello: then give up talking sh#te
@Michael Costello: So you advocate reducing taxes?
@Mark Jones: must have touched a nerve there Sir
@sean o’dhubhghaill: never mentioned reducing taxes but when they are put to the sword they can reduce vat and excise. These are just forms of stealth taxes. Let’s look at for instance the local property tax. You save hard to get your foot on the property ladder and the government over night say , thank you for not being a burden on the government and keeping utility companies going , keeping insurance companies going , keeping the financial institutions going , and to thank you we want to tax your property
“We didn’t win one” . Save that line , Eamon , you can use it again after the next general election when Green Party will fail to win even 1 seat .
Cap in hand to a dictatorship, unbelievable.
@Mel Fitzpatrick: So we shouldn’t promote good relations with China?
@Gavin Conran:Correct
Cringe
Free public transport will lead to an increase in the number of “unnecessary” journeys, and now this. He really is an off-the-charts plonker.
The very fact that the Banshees received so many nominations in the first place was a mystery to me. I know rural people and no way would anyone I know especially a musician would cut off their fingers over a person who was getting on their nerves. The portrayal of the Garda was also bizarre . Barry Keoghan did deserve his award ,he is a superb actor. My favour film was An Caitlin Ciuin . As for Everything ,Everywhere all at once ,it was well named , it drove me mad ,I had to turn it off , my head was spinning. As I have shown , it’s all a matter of taste.
@Aine O Connor: even macdonagh himself didn’t think the play was worth publishing
@Aine O Connor: Spot on. In both elements. The only positive to come out of the dreary, incompressible, single brain cell Banshees is the superb landscape of the blessed Irish west coast, surely never before seen so magnificently on a cinema screen. The Irish Tourist Board must be dancing a jig,and rightly so. No swollen tourism marketing budget could have delivered such positive international publicity.
Robbed?? The only good thing about the film was the scenery and Barry Keohans performance… Pretentious “artistic” pish
@Kev Barnes: Absolutely correct,pure D ung.
Why doesn’t he concentrate on more pressing things at home.#clueless
This photo op has to be a stitch up. Almost to a tee, straight from Father Ted. Where a bumbling Irish community representative makes a fool of himself, in a room of Chinese, beside a projector screen. No coincidence that Father Ted and Banshees of Inisherin are packed with Irish talent and produced by Chanel 4 money.
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Robbed…? Nobody was robbed,It’s just that nobody from outside of Ireland thought that this Arty Farty bunkum was any good.Despite the woke media blitz level of promotion the film got in this country they obviously failed to have any impact internationally. Hopefully it will finally go away now.
We weren’t. Ryan is a dope
Perhaps it was a cliched navel gazing nonsense with delusions of grandeur.
So he’s now an expert on films is there no end to this man’s expertise
Hes making a laughing stock out of the Irish both at home and abroad ..
In the last election, with your taxes Eamo.
In other parts of the mulitverse Irish films and actors won all the awards.
Took him long enough to respond…..as per usual. Old news, move on dopey.
I Can’t tell the difference between a joke and Eamon Ryan….
Was a hard watch so maybe he slept through
For a minute there I thought I’d missed a couple of weeks, thinking it was the first of April.
Sadly, it’s not¿
The Quiet Girl was a far better film than the Banshee.. imo
The Oscars had a whiff of Eurovision all right .Nul points for Ireland is a.bit of a humiliation when the prepublicity was off the charts , rediculous .
Any chance pf a headline Ryan is at tit again!
He wont comment on his Comms Manger trashing one of the few Green Party TDs that can hold her heqad high. But can talk about the Oscars!!
I am going to tell them reknewable energy is the way to go. The chineese are leading the way in electic buses and trucks and battery design. I think they know a bit about it!
LAst month they shopwed the plans for 3 billion euro coal plants. So now they will shut them as Eamon said so!!
Delusional!
Not a very good film, in fact it was awful
I’m sure the Chinese are worried
Ryan really!
He knows a lot about donkeys the big donkey
it not tit bit that could have be a fruiadian slip!
How did that EEJIT,get to represent us in China..
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