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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