Christy Moore on stage in Vicar Street during a concert in support of Catherine Connolly on Mondays. Photograph: Dan Dennison
While Heather Humphreys received the endorsement of Daniel O’Donnell over the weekend, Catherine Connolly’s camp knitted together a line-up of buzzy, current Irish acts targeting a young audience on Monday night.
Tickets for the Vicar Street event sold out in about half an hour, with discounted €10 passes available to those who signed up for a national youth canvass for Connolly in the afternoon.
That rallying call was central to the evening’s message – a focus on youth activism and an appeal to younger voters to turn out on Friday.
Connolly emerged to kick off proceedi
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