And after all that, Ireland’s presidential election was a bit of a non-event. In a world saturated with dramatic elections and unclear results, Catherine Connolly’s election was so obvious that nobody was at all surprised when she won by a margin of effectively two to one.  What was interesting for me, from a political and sociological lens, was how her campaign brought together two key elements of previous successful campaigns. Even setting aside their similar views on foreign policy and world politics, there is a strong similarity with her predecessor: As with Connolly, so Higgins was well known for his…

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