Heather Humphreys lost last night’s presidential debate simply because she didn’t win. It may have been her best performance, and occasionally her blows grazed Catherine Connolly, but there was no killer punch.
Connolly was calm, poised and expertly skated away from uncomfortable questions about her trip to Syria, her employment in Leinster House of a member of Eirigí convicted of firearms offences and representing banks who were seeking evictions when she was a barrister.
The Humphreys presidential campaign, in so far as it can be described as one, never had a proposition beyond asking people who are like Humphreys to vote for the very likable Humphreys.
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