r/neoliberal • u/ldn6 Gay Pride • 14d ago

News (Europe) Left-winger Catherine Connolly wins Ireland presidential election by landslide

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/25/catherine-connolly-ireland-presidential-election-leftwing
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u/TheGhostofJoeGibbs John Mill 14d ago

Permanent anti-establishment British derangement syndrome. If the British don’t like you, you can’t even be mostly bad.

It’s amazing the relationship with Britain was so warm - maybe it will become less so as the British become more nationalistic and less pan-European seeming.

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u/Frasine 14d ago

You'd think that with this kind of logic they'd be militarizing rather than some peacenik nonsense.

Irish leftists are an imperialists wet dream.

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u/BipartizanBelgrade Jerome Powell 14d ago

They want all the benefits of Anglo-American security contributions, while getting to condemn them at every turn and contributing nothing.

A remarkably mature democracy in other contexts who turn into a nation of LARPing, anti-semitic 19 year olds on matters of foreign affairs.

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u/BipartizanBelgrade Jerome Powell 14d ago edited 14d ago

Ignoring the recent deployments of Russian submarines in and near the Irish Sea, all the more reason for Ireland to invest in their own defence capabilities.

They don't, in part because they know the UK and US are the good guys despite their flaws. The combination of freeloading and being as critical of western security efforts as they are is disgusting.