http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/Irish+presidential+campaign IrishCentral Irish presidential campaign en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/news/The-final-stretch-of-John-F-Kennedys-presidential-campaign-in-1960---photo-slideshow-177158881.html http://www.irishcentral.com/news/The-final-stretch-of-John-F-Kennedys-presidential-campaign-in-1960---photo-slideshow-177158881.html Sun, 04 Nov 2012 06:38:41 PST By: $articleString READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/periscope/congressman-paul-ryan-a-brave-pick-by-mitt-romney-for-vice-president---charismatic-irish-american-will-force-a-major-economic-debate-in-fall-campaign-165835866.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/periscope/congressman-paul-ryan-a-brave-pick-by-mitt-romney-for-vice-president---charismatic-irish-american-will-force-a-major-economic-debate-in-fall-campaign-165835866.html Sat, 11 Aug 2012 04:31:28 PDT
Paul RyanIrish American Congressman Paul Ryan is a brave pick by Mitt Romney It makes the election a contest about ideas, the “get government off my back crowd” against the “government is needed to keep our social and economic fabric together” groupRomney could have run on just attacking Obama’s evident economic failures but he saw that policy was not working He was seven points down in a CNN poll as late as Thursday of this week READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Barack-Obamas-ancestral-home-of-Moneygall-set-to-hold--fundraiser-for-him-164395366.html http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Barack-Obamas-ancestral-home-of-Moneygall-set-to-hold--fundraiser-for-him-164395366.html Tue, 31 Jul 2012 02:09:56 PDT
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Mitt RomneyWhen the election is over in November I suspect we’ll have an Irish Setter named Seamus to thank if Mitt Romney doesn’t close the dealI mean for sheer weirdness, for what it says about Romney’s determination to accomplish his goals regardless of the cost to the less fortunate individuals concerned, poor old Seamus’s travails are hard to beatAs we know Seamus Romney was once strapped to the roof of Romney’s station wagon, for 12 terrifying hours, on an epic family road trip from the United States to Canada Of course the poor dog lodged his protest in the only way dogs know how, but Mitt wasn’t going to let a little thing like that stop him, then or ever READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Ten-things-not-to-do-when-running-a-presidential-campaign-132876573.html http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Ten-things-not-to-do-when-running-a-presidential-campaign-132876573.html Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:29:30 PDT
By: DARA KELLY $articleString READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/boston-irishman-ireland/the-irish-presidential-campaign-last-two-men-standing-132228783.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/boston-irishman-ireland/the-irish-presidential-campaign-last-two-men-standing-132228783.html Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:45:13 PDT
Michael D Higgins and Sean GallagherThe most recent opinion poll, conducted by the Red C polling firm for the Sunday Business Post, indicates that there are now just two candidates in the seven-strong field with a chance of prevailing in the Irish presidential election on October 27th They are the independent businessman, Seán Gallagher, and long time Labour Party stalwart and office holder, Michael D Higgins READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Presidential-candidate-Dana-Rosemary-Scallon-vows-to-continue-campaign-131876743.html http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Presidential-candidate-Dana-Rosemary-Scallon-vows-to-continue-campaign-131876743.html Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:10:22 PDT
By: MOLLY MULDOON $articleString READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/danny_boy/michael-d-higgins-admits-to-smoking-marijuana-in-interesting-blip-to-dull-campaign-131817883.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/danny_boy/michael-d-higgins-admits-to-smoking-marijuana-in-interesting-blip-to-dull-campaign-131817883.html Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:15:18 PDT
Michael D, photoed after his rock 'n roll yearsPresidential forerunner Michael D Higgins has admitted to smoking marijuana, an interesting revelation in an otherwise extremely dull campaignHiggins now follows in the footsteps of several other political leaders who have capitalized on their ganja-puffing ways to lighten up their image a bit, and appeal to the younger voter, for whom a pro-cannabis stance is usually almost always endearingHiggins told the Irish Independent that this happened at Indiana University, though he was careful to add that he had never been in favour of using drugs as a vehicle to expand consciousness, and emphasize that he had never tried LSD even when his friends were experimenting with itThis unexpected dope-toking surprise comes close on the footsteps of a similarly unexpected revelation that the diminutive and starkly un-rockstar like Michael D had in fact gone through some "rock 'n roll drinking years," to quote his words in another press conference READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/across-the-pond/whats-the-point-of-a-united-ireland---martin-mcguinness-presidential-campaign-raises-questions-131043518.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/across-the-pond/whats-the-point-of-a-united-ireland---martin-mcguinness-presidential-campaign-raises-questions-131043518.html Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:00:17 PDT
Martin McGuinnessLast week’s column on Martin McGuinness has, to say the least, prompted a great deal of debate While a lot of it was regarding the rights or wrongs of the circumstances of McGuinness and by extension Republicanism in general, some involved the nature and rationale of the conflict itself But really, what possible reason could there be for a united Ireland?There are certainly no logical reasons for such a move In a lot of cases, it seems to me, the desire to unite Ireland comes from a deep-seated case of geographical obsessive compulsion: Ireland is an island, that stands alone on the north Atlantic, and having another country administering a small part of it is just plain messy READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/sidewalks/irish-ghost-haunt-the-presidential-campaign-trail-130344808.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/sidewalks/irish-ghost-haunt-the-presidential-campaign-trail-130344808.html Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:55:17 PDT
Ron Paul (AFP/Getty Images)As Martin McGuiness embarks on an Irish presidential race that is sure to resurrect a fair share of ghosts from the past, Americans are also slogging their way through a tough presidential campaignRecently, an interesting spat broke out involving a controversial candidate, a current Irish newspaper columnist, and a fascinating yet forgotten pundit from the pastThe next thing you knew, the charges of anti-Semitism and McCarthyism were flying, and it was real hard to tell who the liberal and who the conservative was READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/ireland_calling/all-the-presidents-gunmen-130262768.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/ireland_calling/all-the-presidents-gunmen-130262768.html Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:35:07 PDT
Martin McGuinness greets a Kerry football fan in Dublin on SundayWe have resisted writing about the presidential election in Ireland so far because up to now it's been hard to take seriously That's mainly because of the candidates who have presented themselves this time, mostly a B-list of minor politicians and minor public figures all with delusions about their own importance and abilitiesThere were one or two exceptions to this But mostly it's been a parade of pygmies with inflated egos, all of them spouting nonsense about leadership and their vision for Ireland in the future READ MORE ]]>