Catherine Connolly says her presidential election campaign has Fine Gael ‘very worried’

Left-wing Independent TD said: 'This movement is gaining momentum with every day, every minute, every hour'

Independent presidential election candidate Catherine Connolly meets Niamh Ní Mhainnín and her seven-month-old daughter Roisín, in Navan Shopping Centre, Co Meath. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

Fine Gael is “very worried” about the momentum behind Catherine Connolly’s campaign, the left-wing Independent candidate claimed as she campaigned at a shopping centre in Navan, Co Meath on Wednesday.

She said: “I think they’re very worried that this movement is gaining momentum with every day, every minute, every hour. That’s been the response since I went out in July, it has just gained in intensity.”