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Update on the Irish Presidential Election
Today we had the major unexpected news that the frontrunner for November's Irish presidential election, Mairéad McGuinness, has pulled out of the race due to health reasons. This came as a shock, since she had to go through Fine Gael's nomination process to be their candidate, so it is difficult to imagine that there were any real doubts over her ability to sustain a full campaign after her nomination was confirmed. Nonetheless, her campaign was nonexistent and I wondered if she was going to in effect campaign from Brussels but it makes much more sense if she wasn't truly in a position to launch her campaign.
That leaves independent candidate Catherine Connolly as the only formally declared candidate with enough nominations to run. She is now the clear favourite to win. McGuinness dropping out now opens up room for a new candidate for Fine Gael. Several who have ruled themselves out may be tempted to step in. These would include Seán Kelly, ...