creepy isn’t it? I’m going to print it off and use it when my daughter is being bold lol

Ya she’s very flamboyant! Met her last night. Flamboyant but nice.

Sorry Barbara but the constitution upholds my right to be part of the Irish nation as I was born in this “fantasy island” as such I want to vote for my president as of right.

Why my gaining that right should upset you is worrying.

Barbara, with respect your ‘British partitionist’ views do you no credit should you consider yourself an Irishwoman. Thankfully, you are in a minority in this regard. Ultimately, as a citizen of Ireland I should have a right to vote for my President. And, make no mistake the President represents the people of all 32 counties and the diaspora around the world. Certainly Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese, had they been asked, would have had no hesitation in recognising that they were/are representing all Irish people.

Mary McAleese is from Co. Down. No doubt you have been mortified that this ‘non-Irish’ individual has been in the Áras for 14 years. I was born and reared in Co. Monaghan (that is incidental by the way) I live/work in Tyrone/Belfast. I would prefer to pay my taxes to the Irish Exchequer and hope that will be possible in the not too distant future when (not if) Ireland is united (No doubt you will be against that as well). However, the issue of paying tax is is irrelevant in the case of the Presidency.

Really, your views would be more at home in Finchley or Grantham. Let me say this – I and my family (wife and 4 children) are, like Mary McAleese, Irish born and bred, proud to be so. Your attitude/beliefs about the rights of Irish people not born or living in the Republic are tantamount to denying me, my family and countless others our inalienable rights to be Irish. Neither you or anyone else for that matter has the right to do that. Your views are hurtful in the extreme, your apparent anger that we should claim citizenship is deeply worrying. Perhaps, that anger has been fuelled by the injustice of having one of ‘us’ as President for the past 14 years not too mention the possibility that another one could succeed her. All true Irish citizens, will as the 1916 Proclamation suggests, cherish all the Irish people regardless of which part of Ireland they hail from. I urge you to rethink what are, in effect, anti-Irish attitudes/sentiments.

Bit early Patrick, normally one at close of vote.

The diaspora may come home and vote…. I’d rather voting rights were kept to people who will actually be affected by the outcomes of elections.