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A gangster candidate polling ahead of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael has turned an otherwise routine Dublin by-election into an uncomfortable moment for Ireland’s political establishment.

The left-wing independent candidate Catherine Connolly is on track to win Ireland’s presidential election, according to early vote tallies.

Rivals claim Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael ‘becoming one party’ with voters under-34 increasingly backing Sinn Féin

Announcement comes as polls show Simon Harris’s Fine Gael and coalition partners Fianna Fáil in position to win fourth term

Mary Tangney, 74, was selflessly trying to rescue her sheep when she tragically drowned in a County Kerry river. Tributes have poured in for a “beautiful” and “warm-hearted” mother-of-five

The tragic incidents occurred on Sunday as both men found themselves in difficulties in the swimming portion of the event - they were pronounced dead at the scene