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Reaching out to @Outlander_STARZ from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪 how can Irish fans watch season 8 if no streaming service showing it is unavailable in Ireland? Been a diehard fan for years now and I'm beyond gutted 💔 💔💔💔
Reaching out to @Outlander_STARZ from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪 how can Irish fans watch season 8 if no streaming service showing it is available in Ireland? Been a diehard fan for years now and I'm beyond gutted 💔 💔💔💔
For what it’s worth here is my tuppence worth.
The Irish Constitution guaranteed that any eligible citizen could stand for President, provided they secured a nomination either from 20 members of the Oireachtas or from four local councils. This safeguard was designed to keep the process open and ensure that ordinary democracy and not just party elites had a voice in who appeared on the ballot.
But in this election, that safeguard was deliberately choked off. Political parties instructed their councillors and Oireachtas members to block independents. Many councils dutifully voted not to nominate anyone at all, and Oireachtas members were told not to “lend” support across party lines. The result was that independent voices, including Maria Steen, were denied a place on the ballot, despite the Constitution’s clear intent.
The council route was never meant to be symbolic. It existed precisely to prevent party machines from monopolising the nomination process. Yet when councils, under party discipline, refused to nominate anyone, the safeguard collapsed. Article 12 envisaged councils playing an active role, but this year party orders turned that safeguard into a dead letter.
This was more than politics as usual, it was a direct assault on representative democracy. Councillors, elected by the people to exercise judgment, were reduced to party foot soldiers. Their independence as representatives was stripped away, and with it, the voice of the people they serve.
The Constitution was treated as an inconvenience rather than the supreme law of the land. Party control trumped constitutional principle. What the Constitution promised and what political practice delivered were two very different things and in this case, democracy lost.
The Presidency was supposed to belong to the people. Instead, the nomination process was locked down so tightly that no independent candidate could even reach the ballot. The Constitution was mocked, and Irish democracy was diminished.
Jim Gavin thinks we all should have a voice in this election. If he truly believes that he should pull out of the race and encourage the two others to do the same until we go back and remove the whip and possibly have a secret ballot for TDs , Senators and Councillors.
The blocking of Maria Steen’s candidacy is not merely a political setback and it raises serious constitutional questions. The nomination process exists to allow citizens to contest elections and voters to exercise meaningful choice. When there is political manoeuvring or blocking in the councils and the Oireachtas route it undermines that process, it is both contrary to the spirit of the Constitution and corrosive to public trust in democracy.
2 hours left for nominations for the presidential election.
Just 2 more signatures are needed.
TDs and Senators who have not made up your mind,
It's simple.
Let the people pick the president.
#LetThePeoplePickThePresident
There was never a chance that any party would have even thought about having the balls to go against Micheál or Simon. The government and opposition are determined to keep Maria Steen out and keep it a three horse political race. They are shitting themselves that she’s so close to a nomination and is real threat to their political control. If she doesn’t get the nomination to make it on the ballot there are serious questions to answer about the validity of the democratic process.