Tag: Presidential election

  • Establishment staggers as election day draws near

    Establishment staggers as election day draws near

    “It is hard to think of a greater shock in any presidential election” – so wrote the Irish Times after Fianna Fáil’s candidate Jim Gavin’s sudden withdrawal from the race for the Áras. After a cold start, a scandal from 2009 when he pocketed money from a tenant in the midst of the financial crash…