Lucinda Creighton: 'the soft option would have been to run as an Independent'

Politics
Feb 27, 2016

Renua leader Lucinda Creighton arriving at the Election 2016 Count Centre said that 'it probably would have been easier to get elected in Dublin Bay South as an Independent, but I've never been one to take the soft option’.Video: Bryan O'Brien

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