Shite Talk: An Irish History Podcast

President 2025 - Connolly vs Humphreys

Shite Talk: An Irish History Podcast

Show Notes

The country is heading to the polls this Friday to decide the 10th President of Ireland so we wanted to do a run down of the 2025 race so far;

Conor McGregor, small pharma, 20k on Hermès bags, 3k of stolen rent, Syria, and Fox Hunting, by god this election has it all.

We'll have another episode out on HeadStuff+ this Thursday covering the final week of the Áras race which you can listen to here, alongside all our other bonus stuff and ad free content.

Also, we've got a few line shows coming up which you can find out about here - ⁠⁠LIVE SHOWS:

Kilkenny - 01st of November

Dublin w/ Peter McCann - 25th of November

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