Taxpayer Footed €650 Limo Bill for Catherine Connolly's Croke Park Trip to All-Ireland Final.

Catherine Connolly has launched her bid to become president

Galway West’s very own Independent TD, Catherine Connolly, has decided that what this country needs right now—amid numerous geo-political crises, Russians probing Irish coastal water, and a nervous economy —is herself in the Áras.

Standing outside Leinster House like a Socialist prophet, if that prophet were flanked by the Social Democrats, People Before Profit, and a ragtag band of Independents who somehow scrounged up enough nominations to get her on the ballot. Connolly declared Ireland to be at a “critical state.” (Groundbreaking insight—has she been watching the news?)

Her mission? To “empower people to find their own voices.” Because nothing says “empowerment” like a career politician—who has spent years inside the system—promising to shake things up from the cushy, state-funded confines of the presidency, where she has absolutely no power to change a thing. Even if she wanted a lightbulb changed, if elected, she would have to ask someone else for permission to change said light…