I actually didn’t vote for him (I declined to vote at all) and further when I explained to my inquisitive neighbour that I had failed to do so she told me off on the basis of “how could anybody not like Michael D”.
It was in effect the suburban Dublin 16 equivalent of a vicious row.
It was my primary reason for not bothering my hole (factor in pure laziness also).
Dana, a bloke who looks suspiciously like another bloke from Harry Potter, a retired IRA man and a dragon. Further analysis shows other entrants including a bloke called Gay and a gay bloke called David.
And as Lar has suggested above it isn’t really a position of any real power or influence from what I can tell.
I think the wee man got into a bit of bother over the Xmas when your man Castro died and he offered fulsome sympathy and condolences on behalf of the people of Ireland.