Catherine Connolly taking nothing for granted as she urges 'everyone to come out and vote'

'Galway Girl' on track to become country's 10th president

Presidential candidate Catherine Connolly meets Tom Flynn, an 87-year-old shopkeeper, in Castlerea. Picture: Bairbre Holmes/PA

On a day that began with her being serenaded with Galway Girl as Gaeilge, Catherine Connolly did a very, very Galway thing — she got stuck in traffic.

When she reached the Galway Arts Centre to meet with creatives and trade unionists, Ms Connolly told those in attendance that her marathon campaign began in the third week of July and would end, fittingly, in her native city, though she lamented having left her bike behind as she came from the Roscommon leg of her last campaign swing earlier in the day. She might have been quicker, if a little wetter, she said.