LAST UPDATE | 25 Nov 2024

IT’S DAY 18 of the campaign and there’s only four more days to go until voters take to the polling stations.

Here’s what happened today:

• Micheál Martin joined RTÉ’s Morning Ireland for a leaders’ interview, promising investment in public services and saying he has “proven that I can lead through very difficult times”.
• Simon Harris also made an appearance on RTÉ, joining Claire Byrne for an interview where he apologised again for his recent run-in with Cork care worker Charlotte Fallon.
• Students asked voters on Grafton Street in Dublin to keep them in mind when voting on Friday, with the national students’ union advocating for ‘Vote Left, Transfer Left’.
• In Dublin city centre today, Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin and Louise O’Reilly called on the government to release the latest homeless figures before polling day on Friday. Ó Broin said current homelessness figures were “scandalous and unacceptable”.
• The Green Party were also out in the capital today, where Minister Catherine Martin announced commitments on arts and culture.
• Labour launched their ‘vision for Dublin’ today, with leader Ivana Bacik and Aodhán Ó Ríordáin MEP out in the city centre with several Dublin Labour candidates.
• Staying in Dublin, People Before Profit leader Richard Boyd Barrett TD and Gino Kenny TD outlined their plan for universal free healthcare.
• Elsewhere in the city, Aontú launched its housing policy this afternoon.
• Simon Harris, Micheál Martin and Mary Lou McDonald will spend the evening preparing, as the trio are set to join Prime Time hosts Miriam O’Callaghan and Sarah McInerney for a final Leaders’ Debate on RTÉ One tomorrow evening.

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