Senator David Norris is back in the race to become President of Ireland

More power to him. I wish him well.

wont be getting my vote not a hope

David Norris will not be on the ballot for the Presidential election for the simple reason that he will fail to secure a nomination - 1/ he will not get the required number (20) of parliamentarians to nominate him, 2/ he will not get the nominations from 4 local authorities necessary for nomination. End of story. The matter is dead !

I still think an Irish American would be a great idea for president.I don't think I could vote for him now.Pulling out of the race for a while sounds like tactics to me.It took the heat off him from the press.

Interesting poll 39% want to see him in the race, while 40% want to vote for him. 1% don't want to see him in the race, but will vote for him. I'm glad the United States has Texas in the Union. It seems that all the common sense in the world is centered in Texas. Rick Perry benefited from that Texas common sense.

I think the twisted comments so far reveal a real disgusting aspect of Irish people that more suits a fundamentalist bigotry that has always disgusted me than the supposed always friendly Irish. He's an intelligent gay man - Irish people are loaded with shame/suppresion/guilt/sexuality issues/(list is too long) thanks to the biggest paedophile monster in Ireland, the Roman Catholic church. Wake up Ireland to the 21st century and have an open mind and elect an openly gay man as the President.

If David Norris were really stupid enough to try to re-enter the race, it would merely confirm his total lack of judgement and unsuitability for the Presidency. The reasons which led his campaign team to abandon him, along with his apparent realisation of his shortcomings have not changed. What he did, by attempting to use his position as a Senator to influence an Israeli court to show leniency to a paedophile friend has not changed through the summer. He was unsuitable then and he remains unsuitable. The opinion polls quoted are highly suspect, very likely the pro-gay fringe that were pushing his candidacy in the first place. Even if he does run, the Irish people will send him packing.

Wish you all the best David Norris, way to go................

Just look at the STUPIDITY of this reporting by a bent journalist - but then STRAIGHT FACTS would be foreign thinking to one who is BENT. Dervan starts with the alarming headline stating what is SUPPOSED to be Fact: "Senator David Norris IS BACK IN THE RACE to become President of Ireland" Then we find that, "Norris is EXPECTED to confirm his latest decision to run ..." - so in FACT he is neither Back in the race NOR has he made a DECISION. Then the real comedy starts, "The latest Sunday Independent opinion poll shows 39 percent of the Irish electorate wants to see Norris contest the October election with 40 percent of that sector PREPARED TO VOTE for him." Now, having used my hi-tech Abacus, that means out of 100% of the electorate, ONLY 39% want to see him run, and of that 39% ONLY 40% will vote for him - so using Cathal Dervan's 'logic' only 15.6% of the Gays will vote for a Paedophile. Considering how Dervan has TWISTED the report to suit his support for a Paedophile candidate, then it must be safe to use the same conclusion that Dervan is also a supporter of Paedophiles. By the way, that Poll was taken in Norris's own Constituency in Dublin and does not take into account the remaining 61% of the voting population, which far exceeds the 7,000 Paedophile supporters who are calling for him to run.

I rawterh suspect that the biz about Norris is simply a smear by the catholic church. How worse can it get for the church- Ireland has civil unions for gays and a poll I saw said 70% of the Irish people support it changing to marriage The church meanwhile makes all kinds of excuses, and it looks like the money paid to the victims is mostly coming from the Irish govt. As an example of what the church has done in the past, in the USA in 1998 a young gay man, Matthew Shepard was picked up by two men who said they were gay. They took him out of town, tied him to a fence and beat him all but to death with gun butts And then left him to die. Their names were Henderson and McKinney The church actually tried to smear the prosecutor and also tried illegally to influence the Jury. the church is all but dead in ireland and all of western Europe, where every nation except italy and greece have marriage or civil unions for gays. 6 nations in so once catholic Latin America are the same. All about 50-50 civil unions / marriage With chile to be next. And many others around the world The church will do anything at all to keep its power, its fighting its last battle of the bulge, which it too will surely lose Beware of a second anything but Holy Inquisition. Can you immagine the church facing a gay man as Irelands president? the truth about the horrible molestation and hiding of these vile crimes will surely be further exposed.

a disgrace that an admitted pedophile is supported by so many people no wonder the moslems hate us

going in with a swish - eire is commical enough.

A selfish decision - more about "gay rights" than about the "abused" Irish. Don't do it Senator.

"They're all going to laugh at you!"

Given the current Church-State squabbles about pedophilia, Norris does not get a free ride. We cannot condemn the behavior of the Catholic Church when it comes to pedophilia among priests/bishops and then somehow say its ok for Senator Norris to have views in support of pedophilia and incest. Norris said in Magill's magazine in 2002 "I cannot understand how anybody could find children of either sex in the slightest bit attractive sexually ... but in terms of classic paedophilia, as practised by the Greeks, for example, where it is an older man introducing a younger man to adult life, there can be something said for it. Now, again, this is not something that appeals to me." THEN he said: "Although, when I was younger, I would have greatly relished the prospect of an older, attractive, mature man taking me under his wing, lovingly introducing me to sexual realities, treating me with affection, teaching me about life." THERE IS NOTHING CLEAR OR UNAMBIGUOUS ABOUT HIS STATEMENT. Given the current climate in Ireland regarding Church/State relations and Pedophilia, Norris is the wrong choice.