‘Hold your head high girl’ – A day like no other as Connolly trounces Humphreys to take the Áras

Alan Caulfield 🕒︎ 2025-10-28

Catherine Connolly's landslide and what it means for the Irish politics They started opening the boxes at 9am, and it was immediately clear that it was all over bar the shouting. In fact there wasn’t even time for shouting. A cursory look at the votes spilling out around the country showed Catherine Connolly was going to run away with the election.

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