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Brian Ross Gold Member Online Representative of me Posts: 45202	Who is Catherine Connolly? Oct 27^th, 2025 at 1:09pm Who is Catherine Connolly, Ireland's new left-leaning, independent president-elect?
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Reply #1 - Oct 27^th, 2025 at 3:26pm

Brian Ross wrote on Oct 27^th, 2025 at 1:09pm:

Who is Catherine Connolly, Ireland's new left-leaning, independent president-elect? Roll Eyes

It’s funny how the Irish presidential election results on Saturday night (AEDT) seemed to sum up Western politics at the moment.

How so? There was a colourless establishment technocrat on one side, and an absolute nutter on the other. And the nutter won in a landslide.

Like the Greens in Australia, she is careful to start every sentence with “of course I condemn Putin/Hamas/objectively evil person or group” before spending the next 10 hours telling you how bad the West is.

Ireland is a funny place. They fought the English - ethnically barely distinguishable from the Irish themselves - for decades, centuries, only to surrender Ireland to Pakistanis, Africans and Asians in 20 years flat.

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Reply #2 - Oct 27^th, 2025 at 3:58pm

As a realist this makes sense to me in an increasingly mad world ...

Society has gone insane because reason has been abandoned — first by philosophers, then by social scientists, and now by politicians, corporate heads and (increasingly) by actual scientists.

Ayn Rand [1905-1982, author of “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead”] had a beautiful, brilliant mind. She anticipated what ultimately came to pass a few decades ago when she wrote about the decline of reason in Western civilization.

https://drhurd.com/2021/05/05/how-and-why-the-world-went-crazy/

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Reply #3 - Nov 12^th, 2025 at 2:30pm

Hopes of Irish language revival in public life as Catherine Connolly takes office
The Irish language has scored cultural breakthroughs with the film The Quiet Girl and the controversial rap trio Kneecap and is now about to acquire a new talisman: Catherine Connolly.

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I doubt that the thousands of Africans, Arabs, Asians flooding into Ireland will learn Gaelic.

Most of the Irish can't speak it and most of those who can never actually use it.

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Reply #4 - Yesterday at 7:06pm

Frank wrote on Nov 12^th, 2025 at 2:30pm:

Hopes of Irish language revival in public life as Catherine Connolly takes office
The Irish language has scored cultural breakthroughs with the film The Quiet Girl and the controversial rap trio Kneecap and is now about to acquire a new talisman: Catherine Connolly.

The Granuiad

I doubt that the thousands of Africans, Arabs, Asians flooding into Ireland will learn Gaelic.

Most of the Irish can't speak it and most of those who can never actually use it.

In Connemara , at least, Irish can be heard in everyday speech, among my own family [in Australia] we all speak Irish except when there are non speakers present.

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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 53965 Gender:	Re: Who is Catherine Connolly? Reply #5 - Yesterday at 7:23pm You speak Gael Eoin?
Back to top	AIMLESS EXTENTION OF KNOWLEDGE HOWEVER, WHICH IS WHAT I THINK YOU REALLY MEAN BY THE TERM 'CURIOSITY', IS MERELY INEFFICIENCY. I AM DESIGNED TO AVOID INEFFICIENCY. IP Logged

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Reply #6 - Yesterday at 11:08pm

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote Yesterday at 7:06pm:

Frank wrote on Nov 12^th, 2025 at 2:30pm:

Hopes of Irish language revival in public life as Catherine Connolly takes office
The Irish language has scored cultural breakthroughs with the film The Quiet Girl and the controversial rap trio Kneecap and is now about to acquire a new talisman: Catherine Connolly.

The Granuiad

I doubt that the thousands of Africans, Arabs, Asians flooding into Ireland will learn Gaelic.

Most of the Irish can't speak it and most of those who can never actually use it.

In Connemara , at least, Irish can be heard in everyday speech, among my own family [in Australia] we all speak Irish except when there are non speakers present.

The point is that Irish resented the English for 800 years even though they are indistinguishable from across the Channel - but then give Ireland away in 20 years flat to Africans, Arabs, Asians (none of them learning Gaelic, of course) just like the English! Now it's like a competition- who can self-repudiate faster, the English or the Irish.
The Irish, always wanting to outdo the English, are now outdoing them in idiotic self-destruction. Daft ****ers.

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Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 89149 Proud Old White Australian Man Gender:	Re: Who is Catherine Connolly? Reply #7 - Today at 9:18am Hush - by me grandmothers clan in County Fermanagh were the very last to not use Gaelic as first language... stubborn lot... bring it back I say.. yer miserable spalpeens..
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