Candidates Clash in Third Live Debate as Presidential Campaign Becomes More Confrontational - 13/10/2025
There’s now officially less than two weeks to go until polling day for the presidential election, and candidates are nearing the end of their list of debates.Now only two presidential rivals Catherine Connolly and Heather Humphreys visited RTÉ’s Donnybrook radio studio yesterday for a surprisingly combative debate.It came as a Business Post/Red C poll, carried out from October 1-7, indicates that Connolly is on 36%, Humphreys is on 25%, and now withdrawn Jim Gavin was on 12%.We were joined on The Agenda this morning by Political Correspondent Sean Defoe, who spoke to us some more about this …
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