10/29/2025

Catherine Connolly Set to be Ireland’s Next President

Her rival conceded defeat in a presidential election Saturday

Left-wing independent Catherine Connolly is set to become Ireland's next president after her rival conceded defeat in a presidential election Saturday.

Vote counting was still underway but ahead of the official result, Heather Humphreys, of the center-right party Fine Gael, told reporters that she wanted "to congratulate Catherine Connolly on becoming the next president of Ireland."

"Catherine will be a president for all of us, and she will be my president, and I really would like to wish her all the very, very best," Humphreys said.

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