Who will be our next President

[human 19]

Do we actually need a president? I have never voted for 1. Does anyone know how much of a pension Robinson got after leaving before going to her next well paid gig? I did enjoy Lenihan being stuffed a few years back. That was the end of the parties sending out their elders for a cushy few years of semi retirement.

I do think that its good to have a legal expert in the post as it currently stands, to decide on the constitutionality of bills before being signed off, but could this function not be fulfilled by a different post... supreme court leader or something?

that reminds me (off-topic). If a NAMA decision can be unanimously backed by the high court and then overturned by the supreme court...what the hell do we need a high court for?? Can that layer not be scrapped?

Anyway, I would like to see the presidency, if at all possible, to be a post used to sell Ireland for tourism/industry. Someone well known around the world... a Ronnie Drew type figure.

[Daypro Fundiss]

To carry on the tradition of women as president, I would suggest Susan McKay, a person of immense courage, compassion and credibility.

[Radix]

To carry on the tradition of women as president, I would suggest Susan McKay, a person of immense courage, compassion and credibility.

When I think of "Susan McKay" and "immense courage", I think of the young girl from Sligo about whom she wrote a book, about her courage in the facing down of a man, (her father) who brutalised her and her family.

When I read this book, I knew that Susan McKay rightly envied the courage she saw.

There's a President for you in that young girl.

[Radix]

I think Higgins would be far too ecentric and not level headed enough for the preidency.

I think Ruairi Quinn would a good president. He knows the political landscape very well and dosen't stick his foot in many things.

Ruairi Quinn would like to be President of "post Catholic Ireland", to use his own words.