Brendan O’Regan
Presidential candidate Jim Gavin of Fianna Fáil during
the fi rst televised debate of the 2025 Presidential Election
campaign on Virgin Media’s The Tonight Show in Dublin on
September 29, 2025. Photo: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfi le A week is a long time in politics’ says the familiar cliché and wow it was certainly one of those weeks. The week started with the first of the Presidential debates on Virgin Media, on the Tonight Show. It was on a spectrum between dull and lacklustre – all task forces (Gavin), military industrial complexes…
