Irish voters looked set to have elected left-winger Catherine Connolly to be the country’s new president, after her only rival conceded defeat on Saturday in a contest marred by unprecedented spoiled voting and low turnout.
After hours of counting following Friday’s ballot, Connolly, an independent, was on course for a landslide victory, prompting the centrist Fine Gael party’s candidate Heather Humphreys to congratulate her on “becoming the next president of Ireland”.
But the apparent win by…
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