A woman wearing a lovely blue scarf beetled through the doors of Navan Shopping Centre and into the waiting crowd. She saw the cameras and microphones.
Josephine (82) didn’t give her last name and she didn’t mince her words.
“What’s happening? Who’s coming?”
“Catherine Connolly.”
“Tell her to get new clothes.”
It’s tough, being a candidate in a presidential election. Everything is scrutinised.
Josephine is not impressed with Catherine Connolly. She doesn’t think much of Heather Humphreys either.
“They don’t look like presidents. They need to dress the part.”
A knowledgeable bystander suggested this will not be an issue.
“They clean them up when they get in.”
Josephine shot back: “But it’s what’s inside your heart that will come out then.”
She used to work at elections, but “not from a party point of view”. Having a vote is important to her.
But, turned off by the two choices on the ballot paper, she is seriously considering not voting at all.
“But then, I don’t know what a no vote is really saying.
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