Does Media Scrutiny Deter Potential Candidates?

As the presidential election campaign draws to a close, the two remaining candidates - Fine Gael's Heather Humphreys and Independent Catherine Connolly - are making their final appeals to potential voters.

Louise Burne, political correspondent with the Irish Examiner, Professor Gary Murphy, from the School of Law and Government in DCU, and Daniel McConnell, editor of the Business Post, joined The Last Word to assess why this race has struggled to get off the ground and whether anything can change in the last days of the campaign.

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