Democracy is best served by Mary McAleese’s second term in office

THE public opinion poll this week showing that 90% of voters are happy with the job that President Mary McAleese has been doing has exposed some of the chattering class as nincompoops.

It would have been absurd for any party to waste money in opposing her in the circumstances. They would have only been placing themselves on a par with the Monster Raving Loony Party in Britain.

Some twits have been denouncing the President’s unopposed re-election as undemocratic and they have called for a change in the Constitution. Whereas what happened really confirms the vibrancy of our Constitution.