Presidential candidate Catherine Connolly has declined to say if she asked a woman she employed in 2018 what she intended to do with guns and ammunition found in her possession four years earlier.
In an interview on Virgin Media News, Ms Connolly was repeatedly asked if she asked Ursula Ní Shionnáin, an activist with Éirigí, what she intended to do with arms in her possession at the time of her arrest in 2012. Ms Ní Shionnáin was convicted to six years imprisonment for firearms offences in 2014 in the Special Criminal Court.
Ms Connolly, the Independent left candidate, said that Ms Ní Shionnáin was perfectly qualified for the positio
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