How Catherine Connolly won the Irish Presidential election and what it means

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : As for other potential culture war issues she's made clear she's in favour of the Gender Recognition Act, supports the Irish traveller community and opposes removing the 'Triple Lock' which requires that deployments of Irish troops for peacekeeping missions have Government approval, the support of the Dáil and are mandated by the United Nations.
50% : The latest Westminster polling has Reform way out in front, sure, but it also has Zack Polanski's Green Party tied with Labour; while in France the most likely challenger to Rassemblement National appears to be not Emmanuel Macron's protégé Gabriel Attal but Jean-Luc Mélenchon supported by some coalition of the Socialist Party, Green Party, Communist Party and Workers' Struggle.
49% : Connolly was an opponent of of the 2007 Treaty of Lisbon, a European Union amendment which committed the bloc to "a highly competitive social market economy" and, at least in the view of many opponents, undermined the rights of workers.
44% : Read More: While Plaid would be no-one's idea of a socialist party, they're firmly to the left of Keir Stamer's government and handily defeated Reform who focused pretty much all of their campaign on immigration.

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