People gathered in protest at Citywest Hotel in Saggart, which houses asylum seekers and refugees, holding banners in the colours of the Irish flag which read: "She was 10". Photograph: Niall Carson/ PA Wire
Catherine Connolly skated in by a landslide. She won every age group by a distance. Turnout was up on the 2018 election.
Many may retain their reservations but no one with a functioning brain cell can deny she is our president.
Yet the soundtrack of the weekend was the gloating masterminds of #spoilthevote. Even combined with the entire vote of Connolly’s opponents, their “vote” wouldn’t have come near her first preference total.
Yet the ferocity of their message, scrawled into a 213,000 ballot pile, was frenetically picked over and analysed. This was the authentic voice of their risen people, the leaders insisted, a claim borne out by data collected by Technological University Dublin
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