The Sunday Independent’s View: Is the way we choose a president still fit for purpose?

Sinn Féin has thrown its weight behind Catherine Connolly. Photo: Tom Burke

The latest film based on a book by horror writer Stephen King to hit Irish screens is The Long Walk , a grim fable about a broken society where a select group of citizens who trek without rest or mercy until only one of them is left standing.

The winner is rewarded with lifelong wealth and esteem. The losers suffer a less fortunate fate.

Ireland is far from being a broken society

Ireland is far from being a broken society, whatever might be said about us by toxic online agitators, and beaten candidates in our elections are merely sent away to lick their wounds; but it is starting to feel as if the race to become the next I

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