Norris tries to salvage Áras dream

PRESIDENTIAL hopeful David Norris made a last-ditch plea to Oireachtas colleagues in an effort to save his campaign, as more than half of those who had pledged their support considered withdrawing it.

It comes as the Labour Party denied claims by a blogger that they put him up to revealing the conviction of Mr Norris’s former partner for statutory rape.

Meanwhile, just five of the 14 TDs and senators who had pledged to sign the nomination papers for his candidacy were publicly supporting him yesterday.