Independent presidential candidate Maria Steen has fallen short of the ballot by just two votes. The barrister secured 18 Oireachtas signatures, two short of the 20 required to enter the race. She had ...
THE PRESIDENTIAL race is officially on, as the final three candidates are confirmed and Maria Steen drops out. Maria Steen has fallen short of the 20 required signatures to enter the presidential race ...
Independent Ireland has agreed to nominate Maria Steen to enter the presidential election. Ms Steen needs nominations from 20 Oireachtas members to contest the election. She said she was now at 17 ...
It’s hard to escape the conclusion that Maria Steen should really be on the ballot paper for the presidential election. In a very short period of time, her campaign garnered significant support from ...
After a brief but intense campaign, Maria Steen bowed out of the race for the presidency on Wednesday, shortly after the 12 noon deadline for filing her nomination papers had elapsed. Steen had ...
Maria Steen is a woman who understands the language of fashion. She dresses as she speaks: crisply and with tactical precision. As a political operator and spokeswoman, she holds minority views, which ...
Who’s afraid of Maria Steen? If you listen to the conservative right, the Irish establishment is. The failure of the barrister, conservative campaigner and stay-at-home mother to secure enough ...
Barrister Maria Steen has said she made "good progress" and hopes to secure enough support to get onto the ballot for the Presidential Election before the tomorrow's deadline. Speaking on RTÉ’s Six ...
PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Maria Steen has until noon tomorrow to secure the required 20 Oireachtas nominations to get on the ballot for the Presidential election. So far, Fianna Fail’s Jim Gavin, Fine Gael ...
Maria Steen has called for the 2025 Irish presidential election to be cancelled and run again, claiming its political legitimacy has been “further undermined” by Fianna Fáil candidate Jim Gavin ending ...
Blocking Maria Steen from running for the presidency was not clever. It is likely to rebound in particular on Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. Let us consider a different scenario, however improbable.