Proven person needed for Presidency

VERY soon we will know who the candidates for the office of Presidency will be, and just as soon as they are known, they will be interviewed ad nauseum about their credentials, what they can bring to the office, what they propose to do for the term, and why they want the job.

They will all give meaningless cliched responses about the Presidency being above politics, about relating to the voiceless, about opening up the Aras to all the citizens, about building bridges, and about being ambassadors for the country.

All very fine and laudable but of absolute no relevance to the Ireland of 2011.