
Catherine Connolly, a left-wing independent, wins the Irish presidency
Catherine Connolly, a veteran legislator on the far left of the Irish political spectrumwas elected president by a landslide margin on Saturday, in a harsh rebuke to the recently re-elected center-right coalition. Connolly, 68, a long-time critic of the European Union in an Ireland that is overwhelmingly pro-EU and backed by the left-dominated oppositionwas not ...











