After a fractious and unpredictable presidential election campaign, voters will go to the polls on Friday to elect Ireland’s 10th president, with Independent candidate Catherine Connolly now the overwhelming favourite to win handsomely.
There are widespread fears of a historically low turnout, even lower than the 44 per cent at the last election, and both Ms Connolly and the Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys on Thursday urged people to exercise their right to vote.
Some 3,612,957 are entitled to vote on Friday, according to the Electoral Commissio
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