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INCUMBENT PRESIDENT MICHAEL D Higgins has said he will not be taking part in one of the scheduled presidential debates.
Higgins said he will not participate in the Claire Byrne Live show, which is scheduled to be broadcast in front of a live studio audience.
However, speaking on his canvass through Dublin this afternoon, Higgins said that he will be part of RTÉ Prime Time debate as well as Virgin Media’s offering with Pat Kenny.
He told reporters: “It’s a matter of making a choice between the different offers that are there.”
The 77 year-old has held the office since 2011 and revealed he would seek re-election earlier this summer, with his campaign kicking-off properly in September when his website went live.
Speaking previously about debates, Higgins said: “All of that has to be settled of course. You know very very well, I have never ever pulled back from most things. But it is all to be negotiated. My campaign team will be discussing [it with] people.”
Higgins’ closest competitor in the polls, Sean Gallagher, has also been outspoken on the debates process – saying he would only take part in certain broadcasts if the incumbent were present.
There are four televised debates scheduled so far. They are to be show on Prime Time and Claire Byrne Live on RTÉ while Pat Kenny will host one on Virgin Media One with the other to be broadcast on the Tonight Show on the same station.
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We have three bathrooms which is far from what i was reared with it but i would suggest that the majority of homes built in the last 10 to 15 years would have at least two.
It is bad enough going into the bathroom and hour after my husband has vacated it, not hope of me being anywhere near it when he is doing doing his business.
A feed of Guinness, a kebab and a taco chip put an end to that.
@Fay Moynihan: So you’re saying that you can”t tear yourself away from your booze and nosh to go and be with your husband for a little while?
@Paraic McDonagh: No, what i am saying is after he has had a feed of Guinness a kebab and a taco chip that he can move in with you.
@Fay Moynihan: your husband sounds like quiet a catch ….
@Fay Moynihan: Nice of you to share your grub with him before sending him packing. But it could never work out. My place has a meagre 1 bathroom. He’d never be able to readjust from the lifestyle he’s accustomed to.
@Paraic McDonagh: He’s banned from dumps in our En-suite so has to use the main bathroom with the fancy flushing toilet although he complains about it as the Wi-fi signal is very poor and he can’t close the door because the piano is in the way.
@Steve Austin: Stone Cold.
@the druid: ohhhh are you offended ..Snowflake …as life is gonna get tougher as you get older ..let me break you in ..there is no tooth fairy….and you weren’t your mammys special boy.
@Joe Bloggs: or in your gob !?
@the druid: it’s a quote from Fawlty Towers ..doesn’t get more lighthearted than that.
No, but the dog sometimes watches.
@Reg: Ah here
@Reg: my dog sits in the loo too…. on more than one occasion she has squatted and peed next to the toilet…. smarter than the average bear
When we had the kids, my other half took all keys from the doors so they wouldn’t lock themselves in rooms, so with the 3 kids standing watching I’m not to sure if the missus would fit in the bog also, but may be a new family game to try on Saturday night.
I still laugh when Father Stone drops trou with poor old Ted in the bath.
For a hit and miss yes. A donal trump no.
Time to split up if this ever happens
I’d get ‘stage fright’ so no point.
@Tony Gordon: glad I’m not the only one
@Tony Gordon: #metoo
Uh, yeah? How else can you manage living together? Usually though for a poo we just ask the other for privacy and then they leave. Simples. When you’ve “been intimate” with those parts you eventually stop being prissy about their usual function.
@Veronica: bit of back door action, go you girl.
@Veronica: I’m all in …
@Veronica: Watch out, we have an ass eater here
If you can’t talk to your partner while having explosive diarrhoea then you don’t have true love.
no..but if they barge in,they then must pass me the bog roll…
I’ve often dropped a duce in front of my wife while she’s having a bath. Give us time to ponder and discuss the more important things in life. After all some of our greatest ideas come while we are using the crapper!!
Come on Journal.This is just ridiculous and unnecessary.Im not being a prude but is there no privacy anymore?
Move on quick.
@gerry fallon: You’re being a prude.
liam Whelan: your just an old romantic at heart,
My wife has no problem entering with me doing a No.1 or 2. She only complains when her Respirator Strap gets caught in her hair.
If she ever has a baby chances are you will see your partner take a dump, as will the midwife and nurse.
*an
No. 1 or No. 2???
what a shitty question :D talk about muck raking, journal open door dumping all over the place
Why would you even ask!! Idiot
Sometimes i even show her
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