Heather Humphreys says presidential race rival used ‘language of Nigel Farage’

Presidential candidate Heather Humphreys campaigning at a fish and chip shop Leo Burdock in Howth, Dublin (PA/Bairbre Holmes)

Heather Humphreys has accused her rival for the Aras, Catherine Connolly, of using “the language of Nigel Farage”.

In a speech on the EU, delivered to her supporters in central Dublin on Friday, she said: “The other candidate in this race spoke the language of Nigel Farage when she accused those of us who wanted to warn of the dangers of Brexit, of ‘Project Fear’, and concluded the British people had not been fooled.