Fine Gael’s candidate for the Áras is appealing for Fianna Fail supporters to lend her their vote after a tumultuous week on the campaign trail
Presidential candidate Heather Humphreys in Tipperary. Photo: Frank McGrath
In the course of the bitter 2011 general election campaign, Phil Hogan made a pitch to Fianna Fáil voters to “lend their vote” to Fine Gael.
It was an intervention that was decisive in securing his party’s large majority, as well as laying the foundations for the grand coalition of the once-bitter rivals that prevails today.