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20th Nov 2016

Poll: Would you want Michael D Higgins as our next Taoiseach?

Rosanna Cooney

Presidential debate

A scholar, a poet, a president…what else can he be?

Michael D has burrowed his way into our hearts and earned our respect. He speaks out about the inequality in our country, he represents integrity and he radiates pragmatic optimism even when the nation seems in the doldrums.

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Now we know it doesn’t work this way. We know it is a slim to never chance but in our current world of political upheaval what the heck? Let us consider that the impossible has already happened in America and let us believe a world where anything now seems to be democratically possible

The next general election is an undetermined entity but what if in an upheaval for the ages, Michael D became the leader of Labour, the party then jumped ahead of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael and Sinn Féin to have a majority government and our President became our Taoiseach. Could it happen? Would you want it to?

 


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