The Sunday Independent’s View: Voters deserve to know what our presidential hopefuls actually stand for

Jim Gavin looks likely to get the Fianna Fáil nomination. Photo: Sportsfile

There are only six more ­Sundays to go before the presidential election, and still not a single voter knows for certain who will be on the ballot on October 24.

That is quite the pickle, considering all the feverish speculation that went into this contest over the summer.

Sinn Féin has yet to make a decision on whether to run a candidate at all. Whoever eventually gets the nod will scarcely be out of the blocks before the race is over.

The startling lack of clarity is reflected in today’s latest Sunday Independent /Ireland Thinks poll, which finds the three main party-backed candidates virtually neck-and-n

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