catherine connolly

Had Maria Steen secured a presidential nomination, she would have faced constant media interrogation about how a candidate with her conservative views could represent all the people of Ireland. It would have been a fair line of questioning, and no doubt, one that Steen would have been well able to field. I hope it is also a question that President Catherine Connolly reflects on, particularly given the unprecedented 12 per cent of spoiled votes in the election. Electoral Commission research, which allowed respondents to nominate more than one reason for spoiling their vote, found that the most