Tipperary TD says Fine Gaels nominee may be in for rude awakening from the Irish public

Tipperary South TD Mattie McGrath has said Fine Gael’s likely presidential nominee Heather Humphreys may be in for a “rude awakening from the Irish public given her disastrous role as Director of Elections for the 2024 referendums on family and care.”

Deputy McGrath went on to say that “as Director of Elections, Ms Humphreys oversaw a Fine Gael campaign that ended in an utter and well-deserved humiliation for that party by a public that immediately diagnosed it as an attempt to vandalise the constitution by a phalanx of out-of-touch government funded NGO’s.”

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“It is now very clear that Heather is going to be the Fine Gael nominee and as such her record on protecting the integrity of the constitution is now open to public and political debate. My own sense is that both Heather and Fine Gael have still failed to grasp just how angry the Irish public remains about the Government party’s attempts to erase the word mother from the constitution and insert a provision on care that was roundly rejected by a vast majority of those who voted.”

“When she accepted the role as Director of Elections, she began by repeating what were ultimately and correctly judged to be total distortions, specifically around the role of women in the home. How then can we trust a presidential candidate to faithfully defend the integrity of the constitution and our laws when the same candidate has already clearly demonstrated an utter inability to properly understand what the constitution actually says, and to merely parrot speaking points that are nothing more that the manipulations of NGO’s.”

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“I think this presidential campaign will be another opportunity for the public to give the Government a taste of the contempt that has been directed toward it for the last decade and more. We need a truly independent candidate that will adhere to the formality and dignity of the role without hijacking it smothering it in party political and NGO nonsense,” concluded Deputy McGrath.