Election Daily: a new hope for Sinn Féin as Fine Gael tries to stop the rot

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Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald spoke to members of the public as she canvassed in Swords on Sunday. Photograph: Grainne Ni Aodha/PA Wire.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald spoke to members of the public as she canvassed in Swords on Sunday. Photograph: Grainne Ni Aodha/PA Wire.

Jennifer Bray and Cormac McQuinn join Hugh Linehan to discuss today’s news from the campaign trail:

Reaction from Mary Lou McDonald and Simon Harris to a new poll from The Irish Times that puts Fine Gael back in third place behind Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil.

Also today, Simon Harris offered very limited support to the embattled candidacy of Senator John McGahon.

Friends of the Earth ranked the political parties according to the environmental friendliness of their policies. And the Greens did not come first, or even second. Will it matter?