I HOPE VOTERS HAVE LONG MEMORIES
THE woman who challenged Sean Gallagher about his business affairs during an RTÉ television debate during the last Presidential election said she hopes the electorate hasn’t forgotten the last campaign.
Businesswoman Glenna Lynch tweeted: ‘Sincerely hope that voters have longer memories than we’re often credited with.’
During a Frontline debate on RTÉ in the closing stages of the 2011 election, Ms Lynch challenged Mr Gallagher about the finances of his companies, asking him about a specific payment and its origins.
The row spilled into the following day on radio as Mr Gallagher pointedly asked Pat Kenny of Ms Lynch: ‘Where does she come from and what party is she belonging to?’
Ms Lynch told the Irish Daily Mail at the time ‘Nobody put me up to ask what I asked,’ and that she had confronted him as he was too much of a ‘spectre of times past’.
The interior designer said she was so shocked about his questioning of her during that radio interview that she rang in to the show herself.
At the time, she told the Mail: ‘It is extraordinary that just asking a few reasonably intelligent questions about an issue of concern to me marks me out in his mind as somebody to make totally unfounded allegations against.’
In a poll shortly before that debate, Mr Gallagher was 15% points clear of his next rival. But in the days after, his support base collapsed.