Gráinne Seoige at the Galway West count centre last year. Photo: Gerry Mooney
The Taoiseach has backed Gráinne Seoige over her insistence to the Sunday Independent that she was not a “parachute” candidate imposed by him or Fianna Fáil headquarters.
Micheál Martin also expressed sympathy after reading her revelation that she had been the target of a faked pornographic image that Ms Seoige complained about to gardaí.