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It is just over a week until voters cast their ballots in the presidential election and looking at today’s opinion poll one thing is clear: Heather Humphreys has a mountain to climb if she is to deny Catherine Connolly the keys to Áras an Uachtaráin.
As Political Editor Pat Leahy reports, Connolly holds a commanding lead in the latest Irish Times/Ipsos B&A opinion poll.
The Galway West left-wing Independent TD is on 38 per cent, almost double the support of Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys, on 20 per cent.
Spare a thought for Fianna Fáil’s Jim Gavin who stopped his
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