The Irish presidential election was already an anti-democratic farce even before the combined left candidate lobbed an incendiary device into the mix. Catherine Connolly’s comments on BBC describing Hamas as ‘part of the fabric of Palestinian people’ – and her opinion that Keir Starmer is wrong to exclude Hamas from a new Palestinian state – has not gone down well.

Fourteen interminably long years of suffocating sanctimony from Michael D. Higgins will come to an end. But will Ireland’s new president be any better?

For the first time in 14 years, the Irish people get to elect a new president of Ireland next month. Fourteen interminably long years of suffocating sanctimony from the present incumbent, Michael D. Higgins, will come to an end. But will Ireland’s new president be any better?

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