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Reaction to CMAT hit sounds warning to Fianna Fáil as they consider presidential candidate
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Saw her a couple of years ago and been a fan ever since. She's fantastic live. I'm in the north so can't vote but it would be class if she single-handedly stops a Bertie presidency.
I think it's very odd that some Irish people in Ireland aren't allowed vote for the presidency. There are proposals to change that and I hope it goes ahead.
It's a bit odd. I understand the argument against since we're a different jurisdiction (for now!), but we do also have the automatic right to Irish citizenship and it's a right that even ardent unionists have begun to claim post-brexit. Given the president's quite limited political power I've always seen them more as a representative of the Irish people than of the state. And we've already had a brilliant president from the north before in Mary McAleese, so the border hasn't ever been a barrier to becoming the president, just in voting for them.
Those are all excellent points that highlight just how odd it is.