Seán Kelly said 'I think I’d have had a great chance of winning'. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw for The Irish Times
Fine Gael MEP Seán Kelly has claimed he was “shafted” by his party when colleagues in Leinster House declined to back him to run for the presidential election.
Mr Kelly claimed that Heather Humphreys, who went on to lose to a Catherine Connolly landslide last weekend, had been “anointed” as the candidate.
“I don’t go into contests just to make up the numbers.
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