Election stress ‘creates self-doubt’

PARANOIA, self-doubt and a complete inability to see where you’ll get a single vote?

No, it’s not a psychological profile of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party but a set of psychological symptoms resulting from stress and common to all election candidates at some point during their campaign, says Labour Party Cork North Central candidate, John Gilroy.

Cllr Gilroy, a psychiatric nurse by profession, has speculated online that his party’s finance spokeswoman, Joan Burton and Fianna Fáil’s Conor Lenihan, may have been suffering from such a set of symptoms when they found themselves in the Tonight with Vincent Brown studios recently.