#aras2025 — Public Fediverse posts

@simon_brooke Indeed, #MikeSmall does great work both as a writer and as editor of the wonderful @BellaCaledonia. Bella is one of the key forums for cerebral analysis of the independence movement and the breakup of #UKania.

I also owe Mike a huge personal debt for his gentle encouragement of my writing, including my two recent pieces on the Irish Presidential election #Aras25 #Aras2025:

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/24/messy-democracy-irelands-reshaped-presidency/

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/26/catherine-connolly-wins-the-irish-presidency-what-next/

"Catherine Connolly wins the Irish presidency. What next?"

My reflections on the independent left candidate's victory. #CatherineConnolly #Aras25 #Aras2025

Thanks again to Mike Small for publishing it in #BellaCaledonia.

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/26/catherine-connolly-wins-the-irish-presidency-what-next/

The result of #Aras25 #Aras2025 has been formally declared. #CatherineConnolly has been elected as the 10th #PresidentofIreland. ❤️

#VoteTheBejaysus0utOfThem? Yes, #WeVotedTheBejaysus0utOfThem

THREAD #IrishPol #Aras25 #Aras2025: Since childhood, I have been in love with the physical process of #voting. My grá for the contest of political ideas and personalities came later, in my teens. But my first love was the physical business of voting.

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Ireland, Presidential Election: With the majority of first preference votes counted, the number of spoiled ballots has hit a record high of over 200,000. At the last Presidential Election, it stood at just 18,438.

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Anyone looking for context on the Irish presidential election, here is everything you need to know:

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/24/messy-democracy-irelands-reshaped-presidency/

#Aras2025

Ireland, Presidential Election: With the majority of 1st counts completed, Catherine Connolly (Independent) has won the 2025 Irish Presidential Election.

Her candidacy was supported by Labour (S&D), Sinn Féin (LEFT), Social Democrats (S&D), People Before Profit (LEFT), Green Party (Greens/EFA), Solidarity (LEFT) and 100% Redress (*)

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Just in: the final sound of #HeatherHumphreys in #Aras25 #Aras2025 #Shutdown 😈

@maddler Absolutely! Even the basic electoral task of getting bodies on the ground to knock doors was a fail for them.

I followed the #FineGael machine closely on Facebook, and from town after town FG was publishing photos of only 4–8 canvassers. But the #CatherineConnolly campaign was posting photos of teams of dozens of #Aras25 #Aras2025 canvassers.

That's before we consider the intellectual tasks which they also failed.

The electoral inertia which kept them in power is draining away

Over half of all constituencies are now reporting the first count of #Aras25 #Aras2025.

Connolly 63%, Humphreys 29%, Gavin 8%.
13.5% of all ballots spoiled.

The wonderful #GavReilly of #VM1News #VMoneNews has published his usual excellent election spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1N9PxE0z7tDJ8ggNZ7Idy69N2JoyecvdIgX_ZZG4CjoM/htmlview?pli=1 👍

So far, the highest support for #CatherineConnolly is 75% in Donegal. Connolly's lowest vote share so far is 54.7% in Cork South-Central.

Among the other things, one conclusion we can get from these elections is that FF and FG failed, once again, even at the basics. With their candidates totally incapable to deliver anything (or even taking part in the race, actually).
#Áras2025 #iepol #connolly

#Aras25 #Aras2025 #JimGavin #FiannaFail

I'm sort of amused at foreign media describing Connolly as a "nutter" or "anti-establishment". She might not agree with the current government and have no problem speaking her mind, however, she's held jobs and positions that are very much part of the establishment. She's been a Barrister, a Mayor and Ceann Comhairle, these are definitely establishment jobs. People call her far left. I find a lot of her views to be left of center rather than far left.

#Áras2025 #irishpresidentialelection2025

There are spreadsheets #Aras2025
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N9PxE0z7tDJ8ggNZ7Idy69N2JoyecvdIgX_ZZG4CjoM/edit?gid=0#gid=0

So it looks like Connolly will be elected on the first count with Spoiled Vote a distant second.

#Áras2025 #Áras25 #MastoDaoine

The story of the vote for the #Áras2025 will be the size of the spoiled vote which in some cases was bigger than those who voted for FF & FG.

The Irish Government are in trouble!

Some of these #spoilthevote photos just scream 'I left school at 12 to become a full time mad bastard'. #Áras2025

Voting in Ireland's 2025 #PresidentialElection has closed. #Aras25 #Aras2025
Estimated turnout looks set to be a record low, at 30–40%. It was 44% in 2018, 56% in 2011, 48% in 1997, and 64% in 1990.

Even in #CatherineConnolly's own constituency of #GalwayWest, only 5 of 22 polling stations reported turnout of 50% or more.

https://www.rte.ie/news/presidential-election/2025/1024/1540324-presidential-election-voting/

Ireland, Presidential Election today: Polls have closed at 10PM GMT, there will be no exit polls.

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#Áras2025 #Ireland

Ireland, national parliament election today: Polls have closed at 10PM GMT, exit polls will be out shortly.

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Ireland, turnout for the 2025 Presidential election at 8pm has increased to around 37%. With 2 hours left of voting it is 7% short of the final turnout of the last Presidential election in 2018.

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Ireland, turnout for the 2025 Presidential election at 5pm shows overall turnout is around 23% with urban areas outperforming rural areas on average.

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#Áras2025 #Ireland