Presidential candidate Catherine Connolly meets a supporter with his dog on the campaign trail in Dublin on Sunday alongside Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald. Photograph: Conor O'Mearain/PA Wire
“Are ye making a film,” the teenager bawled across the street. “Can I be in it?” he called.
“You’re too late, it’s over,” came the response as broadcasters and reporters wrapped up their cameras and microphones after a “doorstep” press conference outside the campaign office of Independent presidential candidate Catherine Connolly in the north inner city.
Speaking to reporters after the three-way debate on RTÉ’s The Week in Politics with Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys and Fianna Fáil’s Jim Gavin, Connolly rejected claims she had circumvented security in employing a woman convicted on firearms offences to w
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