@Frank O’Hara: Alexander the Great led the Companion Cavalry at 20 years old. King Baldwin IV was king of Jerusalem at 14 years old, and he kept peace with the Muslims and Christians until he died at 24 years old.

@Maximilian Kolbe: That’s two examples out of how many?

@Frank O’Hara: are you ok?

@Tom O’ Donnell: This is a democracy. If people vote for a 25 year old, and that 25 year old gets enough votes, then he has every right to be elected. The people have every right to be represented by their vote.

@Maximilian Kolbe: Look who’s back, it’s one of the virulent antisemites of this news site. Let’s run through your lousy examples. Alexander the Great was a weak and paranoid leader who only gained the territory of Persia because Darius III who fled from the battlefield twice instead of facing Alexander. He had no tactics, no courage and his Empire was already crumbling before Alexander invaded. Then Alexander got defeated by his own men at India and was humiliated. He was forced to retreat back to modern day Iraq and died soon after. Baldwin IV? What a very random but equally poor example! That guy had leprosy and was incapacitated for most of his life. Count Raymond III ran the show from behind the scenes. He tried to invade Egypt but failed miserably after his own vassals refused.

@Maximilian Kolbe: How does it make sense that we understand that you have to be sensible and mature to be President of this country, but not a TD? President of Ireland is little more than a figurehead role, but you have to be at least 35 years old to run for it. How can you seriously think that in order to run as a TD you should not have to be at least 35 years old as well in order to take office? Being a TD is much more important and powerful than being President because you actually draft and pass legislation. I don’t trust a 25 year old to do that. They can barely get out of their own way, let alone understand how to run a country. In any case, I question whether filth like you should be allowed to vote at all.

@Frank O’Hara: your missus would, if you had one of course

@Frank O’Hara: you’re right a teacher or doctor would be much more qualified to run the country….let’s try that for a change…oh wait……

@Frank O’Hara: and your example is the already tried and tested middle aged teacher and doctor running the country…how has that faired for us? Maybe someone younger actually in tune with modern times is exactly what we need. Not more of the same crap

@Frank O’Hara: is it the young people that are out of touch? Or maybe yourself?

No, it’s definitely the young people.

@anthony davoren: I’m not a Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil supporter either Anthony. I agree with you that we do have a problem with career politicians and teachers in the Dáil which is why I’m pointing it out with this guy. I think that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil’s left-wing economic policy has completely destroyed this country, their wacky environmental laws only punish taxpayers and their soft-on-crime positions have been unacceptable. That doesn’t mean that this kid is going to be any better. Young people are even more out of touch than politicians and they need to learn a thing or two about how the world works before they start legislating it for others.

@Temp Stuff: I’ve been married for 32 years and have four wonderful kids. Have a nice day buddy.

@Frank O’Hara: I hope they believe in freedom of will and are not held back by ageism

@Brendan O’Brien: I’m surprised you haven’t cursed the Irish people for turning their back on climate change. The greens are getting there p45′ handed to them. FF and FG getting re-elected 2 of the worst rated parties by friends of the earth. Terrible election for you, wouldn’t you agree?

@Ger Whelan: No: I’m happy that the far right is getting nowhere and Independent Ireland, which tends to oppose the green agenda, isn’t tearing up trees (pardon the pun). Glad to see the Social Democrats doing well. FF and FG are reasonably responsible as regards climate etc.: they’re not denialists at least. It could be much worse.

What were you hoping for?

@Brendan O’Brien: Look who’s “brave facing” it now. You big old hypocrite you. I’d say you’re foaming at the mouth and roaring at the basement walls in disgust at the greens absolute hammering. Amen to that, Brenda.

@Brendan O’Brien: not according to friends of the earth they are not. They rated them poorly on their climate pledge on their election manifesto. As for what I wanted. I wanted a government that would actually care about the working class, tackle the homeless crisis, make housing and rent affordable, fix the health services. Got none of that instead just FG and FF who will make everything worse and more expensive.

@Marvin Dollery: I’d have liked to see the Greens do better, but I’m pretty happy, as I said. It’s the climate/biodiversity agenda I’m interested in (as well as other progressive agendas), not the Greens as such. And they largely have themselves to blame.

Labour and/or the Social Democrats will probably be in government and will carry the flag for these issues, whereas the people you support will be nowhere to be seen.

@Ger Whelan: So what parties did you want to see in government? Spit it out|.

@Ger Whelan: we all want those things Ger – but what party did you vote for in the hope of achieving that, if you don’t mind me asking? You’ve been fairly clear about who you haven’t voted for

@Brendan O’Brien: None. No such party exists does it Brendan. Soc Dems are the closest but they didn’t run enough candidates to actually win the election. Who did you think I wanted? Spit it out.

@Ger Whelan: I had no idea. You don’t interest me as much as I obviously interest you.

@Brendan O’Brien: Who said I support any “far-right” parties? You’re lying and deceiving again Brenda. I’m a sensible old fashioned liberal, not a warped lefty like yourself and your band of groupies. The Green movement is over, dead and buried. All their policies, punitive laws and whacky agendas are going to be scrapped. It’s a resounding win in my opinion. Couldn’t be happier. Whereas you.. You’re panicking because there’s nothing you can say or do to change it. Bliss.

@Brendan O’Brien: Go on Brendan spit it out? You know you want to. At least we can both see we didn’t get what we wanted from this election.

@Ger Whelan: Read my last comment again.

@Brendan O’Brien: you’re a good lad for asking questions, yet you’ll always refuse to answer them. But hey I know you’re upset by the election result.

@Ger Whelan: Great to see the Greens getting a good kicking, Hypocrites. Their followers on here with their multiple ID’s will have to jump on somebody else’s bandwagon now. Trying to enforce their warped ideologies on everybody whilst not following their own, showed that the Hypocrites weren’t fit for Govt. What a great Election result.