Better to have links to US than to Europe, claims Dana

PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Dana Rosemary Scallon has suggested it is better to have ties with the US rather than Europe after denying claims she concealed her US citizenship.

The Independent candidate was speaking after it emerged she had taken an oath to become a US citizen but had failed to inform voters.

She said yesterday that her family had no memory of comments repeated in a US court where it was said voters should not be informed of her dual citizenship. She denied concealing anything from the electorate.