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A SENIOR FINE Gael figure has expressed an interest in running for president – but only if Michael D Higgins decides not to seek a second term.
Sean Kelly MEP says his background as a former GAA President offers him a “great opportunity” to connect with people.
President Michael D Higgins said upon his election to the office in 2011 that he would not seek a second term but in recent times he has been more vague on the question, leading many to believe he wants to stay on for another seven years.
Another potential candidate, Fine Gael MEP Mairead McGuinness, said recently she feels a presidential election is looking more likely.
Asked by EuroParlRadio whether he’d run, Kelly said colleagues have been encouraging him to go forward and that it’s something he’s consider if Higgins decides not to serve a second term.
“Well I suppose with my background, firstly in sport, I think I’d have a great opportunity to connect with people. Especially now with the whole area of obesity and an unhealthy society, I think that’s an area I could do an awful lot to connect with people,” he said.
You can look at the what the two Marys and Michael D have done and put your own particular personality on it, because ultimately it’s your personality as much as your ability that would help to connect with people and make the role relevant.
To get on the ballot for the presidency, someone must be nominated by at least 20 members of the Oireachtas or by at least four local authorities.
In the 2011 election that was won by Higgins, there were seven candidates in the field.
Independent Senator Gerard Craughwell has been clear about his interest in the position and said he would be seeking a nomination.
Earlier this month he called on the political parties to state whether they would field candidates.
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Accord marriage counselling. dont make me laugh. they charged us 150 euros three years ago for a mandatory pre marriage course that lasted a day. I needed counselling after paying out that kind of cash.
Stephen, how was it mandatory?
In order to get married in the catholic church, you must do this course
That Bertie bloke’s got a lot to answer for.
You shouldn’t have married him.
Marriage is something that you have to work at. Once both of you talk openly with each other a lot of silly issues can be resolved before they get out of control. Try your best to keep mother in laws away from negotiations as that can spell serious trouble.
It would really help also if the gluttens in the Government stopped savaging peoples finances because the cost of living ain’t coming down e.g mortgages,shopping,electricity/gas…
A good half of marriages I know are financially agreeable. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t last long. People call that love here! Ha ha ha!
Never do it, locked to 1 person for the rest of UR life, no thank u
Totally agree Louise, can’t understand why anyone would get married in this day and age.
Tax
I wonder if Accord will offer their services to the gays when equality in marriage happens.
No, and if it’s marital stress caused by something like having had a pregnancy terminated, they’d probably just hang up the phone on you!
Will they have people qualified enough to deal with gays? Would the counsellors not need to be gay themselves so as to offer the best service.
‘The gays’, its like being back in the 90′s. Sean, how very logical of you.
‘The gays’, its like being back in the 90′s.
Money. The root of all evil ,
Perhaps we need that asteroid to veer off course and smash into earth,
The world really does need to hit there reset button , before the greed ends up forcing us to self destruct
Im afraid to tell you the reset button is made up. We’ll just have to make do . . . Awkward!!
Read “the midnight companion ” http://www.dealing-with-separation.com it’s brilliant .
I think that people want to save their relationships way above the need for financial problems. If it was that simple we would see sites like http://markkordubapsychologist.com/couples-counselling-brisbane/ becoming null and void. Relationship and marriage counselling has become such a useful tool for people because we don’t ever really get a set of instructions when we start a relationship :) Interesting article!
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