Should Catherine Connolly secure the presidency, it will be a sign that “people want change”, and in particular a left-wing Government, according to Trinity College Dublin Labour Youth chairman Matthew Butt.
The 20-year-old is sitting on a bench outside the Arts Block on the Dublin city centre campus, joined by other members of the branch, which is one of the college’s oldest political societies.
Butt, a second-year Classics student from Ennis, Co Clare, says there is “broad support” for the Independent candidate within Labour’s youth movement.
“It’s been great to see a unified left front and for it to be so active,” he says. “If Connolly wins, I think it will show people that when the left unites we can actually get things done, we can win elections and show t
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