and her nomination of Gemma O'Doherty for the Presidency in 2018 of course - which was about as anti-queer a political move as you could possibly make in this country 😏😏😏

but I suspect Heather - being a supporter of country pursuits 🦊😢 - would be slightly more kink adjacent and her name is after all rhyming with 'leather' - and for me this trumps Catherine's possible affinity for the Catherine wheel 🎡- so much spinning around I honestly got dizzy 😬 -

a safe pair of feet in this instance seems much more preferable to Catherine's fancy footwork ⚽🦶

How either potential Presidency would affect the overall wellbeing of kink in Ireland is as yet inconclusive -

I don't know for sure because the camera angle never went low enough, unlike the presenters - but she feels like a basically decent person with a basically decent conscience who would do a basically decent job - so yes I'm back to voting for Heather - a caretaker Uachtarán -

I'm just amazed so many people are willing to line up behind her Joan of Arc complex..🤔

I bet Heather wears comfortable shoes though, but probably still stylish enough - I would not be surprised if she buys her shoes in the same shoe shop in County Fermanagh as Arlene Foster -

but Catherine Connolly is like.. 2 steps left of Corbyn.. so far left-wing on some issues that she's actually almost right-wing 😱 I always felt we had a basically solid left in Ireland and that the populist element was somewhat fringe..

and he also had the populist thing going aswell - kind of this charisma where people would support him not because they actually believed in most of what of what he said but simply because he was a vehicle to allow them to express their anger and indignation at everyone else -

she herself is adamant about that.. I am a lefty (on most issues - though not all) but she is the kind of lefty that still makes my skin itch.

She's a kind of populist lefty, if I'd been in the UK I would probably even have stretched to being a Corbynist, considering the alternatives -

.. media platform is getting major abuse, it's not just the 'left', it's norms of basic human decency and compassion we seem to be struggling to keep alive.. I kind of feel we may have underestimated the challenges ahead of us..

- enslave or even destroy all life on this planet.

I urge my elected representatives to immediately do whatever is in the scope of their power to educate themselves on the real risks of this technology and to ensure that this game of Russian roulette is shut down before it is too late

Very sorry to hear this Rory ❤️

Oh yeah, a long tíme since I read but this was great, an autobiographical whirlwind through the authors younger years

I just discovered you on YouTube - I'm now binge watching your vids.. Really loved all of the Titanic ones!! Really fascinating and I love your corny sense of humour 😊😜❤️

Great article, it is really scary to witness how Elon Musk is increasingly meddling in world affairs and emboldening the fringes of the far right - even Putin pretends he doesn't do this while Trumps best buddy is just openly stirring the pot..