CATHERINE CONNOLLY SAID she would consider publishing correspondence relating to her attempts to obtain security clearance for an employee convicted of a gun crime. The Independent candidate, who has the backing of left-wing opposition parties, said questions being put to her about hiring a woman convicted of firearm offences have “backfired”. She was asked about the story after appearing on a debate on RTÉ Radio’s This Week programme with Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys. Asked after the debate if she would publish correspondence, she said: “I’ll take advice on that in terms of GDPR and that, but the email was simply asking where the process was at because it was taking so long, it was actually trying to elicit information, ‘what is the delay?’.”Most of the emails are between the person, or whatever contact is between the person and the system in Dail Eireann, not with me, and I put in an email asking ‘where is this at?’”
Published: October 12, 2025 5:46 pm
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