Presidential candidate previously said claim she was barrister for Bank of Scotland Ireland was a ‘cowardly personal attack’

Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly speaking to the media during a visit to the offices of Alone in Dublin. Picture date: Wednesday October 8, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly speaking to the media during a visit to the offices of Alone in Dublin. Picture date: Wednesday October 8, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Eavan Murray and Maeve McTaggart

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O’Reilly’s bar in Salthill faces out towards the choppy waters of Galway Bay, but it was the scene of a stormy exchange that Catherine Connolly described as “a cowardly personal attack”.

The Independent TD was accused by a Fine Gael councillor of representing a bank in repossession cases, despite “jumping up and down” about housing and homelessness.