Catherine Connolly raises concerns over potential 'misuse' of US veto power at UN

Presidential candidate Catherine Connolly at the Oireachtas broadcast workers demonstration at Leinster House on Tuesday. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/ RollingNews.ie

Presidential candidate Catherine Connolly has said she is "seriously concerned" about the potential "misuse" of a UN Security Council veto by the US.

Ms Connolly said there was a need to "double down on strengthening UN structures" amid concern the US could veto the renewal of a UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, to which Irish troops are deployed.