Deadine day drama in race to be President

World of Politics with Harry McGee

And then there were three, because in the end Maria Steen fell just short of getting herself onto the starting line – and more’s the pity from a democratic perspective.

I would not share Maria Steen’s views at all, but I think a three-candidate presidential campaign will be very narrow…and very Leinster House. A fourth candidate would have offered another alternative view, a choice.

I’d side very strongly with Fintan O’Toole who wrote a few weeks ago that Steen represented a minority view in society, with which he profoundly disagreed but which........

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