FG members echo Connolly challenge — but some express disquiet: 'Video made a balls of it'

Senior Fine Gael politicians who also work as lawyers insist that they never represented banks

Catherine Connolly was the subject of an attack video posted by Fine Gael on Sunday. File picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews 

Several Fine Gael politicians have insisted that they have never represented banks during their legal work, amid discontent in some quarters of the party about an “attack video” criticising Catherine Connolly.

The Independent presidential candidate has refused to say whether she represented banks in repossession cases. However, she has argued that the cab-rank rule means that barristers must take on work.