Ireland’s Next President Will Assume the Progressive Mantle

Anti-war candidate Catherine Connolly’s victory is the country’s latest rebuke to the global right-wing populist wave.

Catherine Connolly, smiling and wearing a gray suit, arrives at Dublin Castle as supporters cheer her on. November 4, 2025, 11:18 AM Comment icon View Comments ( )

In late October, Ireland elected Catherine Connolly as its 10th president to serve a seven-year term beginning on Nov. 11. Connolly, 68, is an independent, left-wing politician—and a former psychologist and barrister who professes to not like politics. Until 2024, she served as the deputy chair of the Dail Eireann, Ireland’s lower house of parliament. Her victory was emphatic: She secured 63.4 percent of the total vote.

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