Desperate Dana seeks support of TDs and senators

DANA Rosemary Scallon is making a last desperate bid to secure a nomination for the presidency from 20 Oireachtas members before the midday deadline today.

But it looked last night as if the former MEP and Eurovision winner had no hope of getting the backing of this number of TDs and senators to enter the race for Áras an Uachtaráin.

While Dana insisted that she had secured the backing of a number of Oireachtas members, she would not put a figure on it.