On Wednesday night there’s a bit of a hooley for Catherine Connolly at the Button Factory in Dublin.
The Connolly Céilí, a fundraising concert, is multigenerational but attended by a very large number of young people. There are tattoos and keffiyehs and, on the older audience members, sensible anoraks.
The host for the evening is the very funny comedian Maeve Higgins, who kicks off with some personal reminiscences. She has known Connolly since 2009, she says. There’s a pause.
“She was my landlord. We recently reconnected,” she says of the Independent candidate who is, along with Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys, on
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