Catherine Connolly

Independent Socialist Catherine Connolly Wins Irish Presidency

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Independent Socialist Catherine Connolly

Voters in Ireland have elected the independent socialist Catherine Connolly to be president. Connolly is a critic of NATO who has accused the United States and Britain of enabling genocide in Gaza. She spoke to supporters in Dublin on Saturday.

President-elect Catherine Connolly: “I will be a president who listens and who reflects and who speaks when it’s necessary, and a voice for peace, a voice that builds on our policy of neutrality, a voice that articulates the existential threat posed by climate change.”

Catherine Connolly wins the presidency on a disastrous day for Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil

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Independent TD Catherine Connolly has been elected Ireland’s 10th president in a landslide victory, winning 63 per cent of the vote.

The Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys won less than half that figure, with 29 per cent of the first-preference vote.

Fianna Fáil candidate Jim Gavin, who ended his campaign in early October but whose name remained on the ballot paper, took 7 per cent of the vote, the party’s worst-ever performance