I poteri presidenziali potenzialmente chiave che non sono mai stati utilizzati

Thats a good read (which I’ll definitely reread more attentively later).

Amusing to recall how everyone eagerly pounced on that ‘Mature recollection’ and co-opted it for satirical japes. A very ‘Father Ted avant la lettre’ moment

I love that detail about Dev making constitutional provision against undemocratic pressure from ’intense minorities’ in the Dáil. Great way to put it, though you shudder to imagine whom he had in mind then.
I wonder how he views these little blisters of irritation nowadays, from his astral drone hovering above the splutterings.

Really hammers home how pointless this role is.

It’s interesting, the two candidates will have very different public-facing styles and messages, but on the role’s constitutional functions, I’m not really expecting either of them to do anything different from the other.

They’ll take whatever the conventional action should be, rather than be an interventionalist.