Missed Opportunity for Unity
According to opinion polls, Catherine Connolly is likely to win the Irish presidential election by a significant margin.
Heather Humphreys missed a chance to unite the Irish people, including Protestants in Northern Ireland, by not taking on a mantle similar to John Hume's.
She has expressed the daft hope that unity would come during her seven-year presidency. This is cloud cuckoo land stuff, meaningless except to keep her sponsors in Sinn Fein happy.
Catherine Connolly's record shows little interest in Northern Ireland, making her promise of unity unlikely.
Author's summary: Humphreys missed a chance to unite Ireland.