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Please be polite. Please communicate accurately.
On Sat, 25 Oct 2025, David Hartung wrote:
"On 10/25/2025 5:11 PM, c186282, [. . .]=20
[. . .]
On 10/25/25 19:01, pothead wrote:
On 2025-10-25, Bradley K. Sherman <bks@panix.com> wrote:
|
| Catherine Connolly elected 10th president of Ireland in
| landslide victory"
Actually Catherine Martina Ann Connolly became elected to be a president=20
of a country in Ireland.
"> > They just destroyed their country."
Each country here had already been destroyed before this election has=20 existed.
On Sat, 25 Oct 2025, David Hartung wrote:
"The president of Ireland is a figurehead.
He or she has no executive power, no policy power."
Please explain these last two quoted sentences by David Hartung in=20
relation to this Gript quotation which I posted in Irish newsgroups on=20 Friday (i.e. in
news:
66225d4f-42d6-8c1a-10f2-549c9ad12f9c@irrt.De
with
Subject: Re: Webpage about Heather Maud Stewart Humphreys and Alan Joseph S= hatter
on
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:15:20 +0200):
""MMG 17 days ago
=E2=80=9CAs I have said before, and needs to be repeated, the President has=
zero=20
executive power.=E2=80=9D
Not quite zero.
According to the oath of office/declaration, the first duty of the=20
President is to =E2=80=9Cmaintain the Constitution=E2=80=9D.
The President is also appointed as Commander-in-Chief of the Defense=20
Forces.
In all actions he/she takes, the President is required to act on the=20
advice of the Government.
But his/her primary duty is to =E2=80=9Cmaintain the Constitution'=E2=80=9C=
, therefore,=20
if the President considers the Gov advice to be unconstitutional, it must=
=20
be disregarded.
In particular, except in case of invasion, Article 28.3.1 requires the=20
Dail to make a formal declaration of war or give equivalent assent to=20 participation in a war before the Defense Forces can participate in a=20
war. =E2=80=9CWar shall not be declared and the state shall not participate=
in=20
any war save with the assent of D=C3=A1il =C3=89ireann.=E2=80=9D
NATO is a 99.99999% participant in the Russo-Ukrainian War, doing=20
everything except direct infantry combat on the front lines. Therefore,=20 cooperation with NATO in providing support to Ukraine amounts to=20 participation in the war. Certainly, this is the Russian position.=20 Legalistic quibbling about what is and what is not participation in a war=
=20
is not adjudicated in a court, but only by the unanimity of the=20 belligerents, and in the case of the RUW, there is no such unanimity,=20 therefore Ireland IS a participant in the war.
Dail Eireann has not given explicit assent to participation in the war,=20 therefore DF participation in it is unconstitutional.
The President could ignore the Government advice and order the DF to=20
cease all cooperation with NATO and Ukrainian Armed Forces in relation to=
=20
the conflict pending a formal declaration of war or equivalent explicit=20 assent by Dail Eireann to participation in it."
arsa
HTTPS://Gript.Ie/perrins-michaels-presidential-election
"
On Sat, 25 Oct 2025, David Hartung wrote:
"The president does=20
what the
prime minister instructs him to do."
False!
On Sat, 25 Oct 2025, David Hartung wrote:
"The current prime minister of Ireland is in
the Fianna F=C3=A1il party"
Dear Mister Hartung:
Thanks for writing a diacritic. However, the prime minister of Northern=20 Ireland is not in this party. This party is not even in Northern Ireland.
Sincerely.
Niocl=C3=A1s P=C3=B3l Caile=C3=A1n de Ghloucester --708268602-2103246970-1761571673=:1483509--
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