Catherine Connolly will be a voice for equality and justice, insists Tipperary TD

 Tipperary TD Seamus Healy has come out in support of Presidential candidate Catherine Connolly.

Deputy Healy, who accompanied Catherine Connolly on a visit to south Tipperary last Friday, said she would be a voice for equality and justice.

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I am delighted to lend my support to the campaign to elect Catherine Connolly TD as Uachtarán na hÉireann, and indeed was honoured to nominate her to run for the office. I have known Catherine for the last 10 years and know her to be an intelligent, compassionate person who can lead the country with hope and confidence into the future.

Catherine’s lifelong commitment to public service and community can be seen in the many roles she has filled in her long and varied career – clinical psychologist, Barrister-at-Law, City Councillor, Mayor of Galway, Teachta Dála, Leas-Cheann Comhairle, not forgetting wife and mother.

In times of deep division nationally and internationally, Catherine’s is a voice for peace and unity. She believes in the strength of Irish neutrality. Not as absence, but as action - an active, living tradition of peace-making, bridge-building, and compassionate diplomacy. I am confident that she will defend our neutrality with clarity and conviction.

I know that Catherine will continue to be a great promoter and defender of the Irish language and culture. She has shown this commitment in her time in Dáil Éireann by chairing the Coiste Gaeilge, na Gaeltachta agus Phobal Labhartha na Gaeilge during both the 32nd and 34th Dáils.

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Catherine’s wish to be a President for all the people, especially for those often excluded and silenced, is a worthy one. I believe she will be a unifying presence, a moral compass in a world increasingly driven by profit and spectacle, a voice for equality and justice.," he said.