Da Gemma O’Doherty alla Siria, a Catherine Connolly non è affezionata a domande difficili – e non le piacciono neanche alcune di quelle facili | Irish indipendente
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Catherine Connolly digs more holes for herself in this interview.
🔴 Gemma O’Doherty deflected with “It is so long ago”. No clear yes / no on whether she knew of her public conspiracy views like the HPV vaccine 💉 at the time of nomination.
🔴 Lisbon Treaty (2008 🇪🇺) was when she “woke up” to the EU. She cites the “neoliberal agenda” and “building up of the arms industry”.
🔴 EU “is certainly not a peace project and has not been for a long time” ⚠️
🔴 Fumbles on Assad (🇸🇾), unable to name who organised the trip and is surprised when it’s put to her that a man sanctioned by the EU was among those the group met.
🔴 On Wallace and Daly, “I am sure they will be involved in the campaign”. ⚠️⚠️⚠️🤯
🔴 Insists she clapped for Zelensky (🇺🇦/🇷🇺) but adds “perhaps a dignified silence would have been better”. So she wishes she hadn’t… 🤔
Poor preparation for questions her team must have known were coming. Moreover, a thoroughly concerning set of views that must have some in @labour feeling buyer’s remorse….
About two months more of this to go. Possible that the Connolly campaign has totally crumbled by then.
Jesus that’s a bit of a car crash
The independent want Connolly to crumble. They are backing Humphries and they are not afraid to show it.
Always a few contrarian tankies knocking around Irish politics. At least the Russia / Ukraine has shined a light on how warped that crowd can be.
Anyone who buddies up with Mick Wallace and Clare Daly wouldnt get the steam off my piss let alone my vote.
Neoliberal hitpiece from a pro-partition, West Brit, TERF rag for which the designation of “jacks-roll” would be generous to say the least.
Bit of a car crash of an interview.
Surely she know a that when running for the presidency will involve hard questions about her past, especially given her statements on Syria and the EU?
She seems to live in her own bubble and echo chamber.
Labour especially will regret supporting her. Their middle class support will have no truck for her views.
You know it is a bad interview when the Connolly defenders only option it to attack the newspaper
Why do these fruitcakes get air time
I think Catherine Connolly is going to hit a ceiling votes wise. She could well top the 1st preference poll on something just over 20%. The traditional left voters who vote Labour, Soc Dems, PBP etc. But her problem is her messaging for the last few weeks seems to have been all about shoring up that vote and reassuring them that she is one of them. But by doing so she is turning off the centre vote she desperately needs to swing to her. Many of them work for American companies or have close ties to the UK. Almost all of them are pro EU and see Russia as a threat. By attacking the western powers she is attacking what they believe in and worse still in their minds she is aligning herself, unintentionally, with the likes of Russia.
She is being left down badly by the team around her at the moment. I suspect they are currently all from the same left Galway based bubble that she is in. That might work to get her the 20% she needs for a seat in the most liberal constituency in Ireland. Its not going to work to get her 50% in a national election. She needs to bring in experienced campaigners from the centre who can shape her campaign and messaging to appeal to a wider voters base.
As a long time supporter of the Soc Dems I’m pretty horrified that this is the candidate they’ve put their backing behind, let alone be pushing as the “unified left” candidate. Everything I’ve read about them makes me dislike them more and more and be overly worried about what their actual stances are. Her two close workers as she called them Wallace and Daly were given the boot for less than she’s come out with.
How on earth a candidate who is explictly against the EU, and for Russia in the war and blames Ukraine for it, got this far I don’t know. And to be frank I think personally I’m a lot more cautious about the parties backing her since the clear conclusion is that they share the same views.
Christ, she’s a terrible candidate. Presidential election really shaping up to be the worst candidate list in recent memory
Ah here, she’s a disaster. Apart from the dubious company she keeps, and the views she shares with them, the extent to which she puts her foot in her mouth in a basic interview is ludicrous. That kind of carelessness would cause an international incident every week. In the current climate, that’s the last thing we need.
While I’d agree with her views on some issues, her praise and alliances with O’Doherty, Claire Daly are just massive red flags. And that interview does not help in any way for me or anyone thinking along similar lines.
What a disaster 😂
A political lightweight with fruitcake views. Not exactly a recipe for success.