Growing backing in SF to run presidential candidate

Irish Times Monday 5th September, 2011

HARRY McGEE, Political CorrespondentTHERE IS ';growing backing'; within Sinn Féin for a party candidate in the forthcoming presidential election, according to a senior source in the party.Finance spokesman Pearse Doherty yesterday became the second Sinn Féin TD to publicly back a Sinn Féin candidate in the October elections. This fol...

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