Gallagher sticks to the positive in Áras race

ÁRAS hopeful Seán Gallagher has said rival candidates David Norris and Mary Davis should come clean on questions surrounding their campaigns — but insisted he would not resort to mud-slinging.

The Independent presidential candidate was responding to Ms Davis’s failure to divulge how much she has earned from sitting on state quangos and company boards, and Mr Norris’s refusal to publish his correspondence with Israeli officials over the statutory rape conviction of his former partner there.

“Everybody in the race needs to be transparent and open,” he said. But he declined to challenge his rivals directly, saying: “I’m not interested in the negative — I’m interested in the positive.”