"Catherine Connolly has still failed to answer the question of who organised her 2018 trip to Syria. She rehashed the same lines about it being a "fact-finding" mission. But she has still not said who put her in touch with Fares Shehabi - someone who was named on EU sanctions as funding the Assad regime, who she did not simply bump into but sat in meeting rooms and was shown around Aleppo by."
"Nor has Ms Connolly answered the question on whether or not she took on repossession cases on behalf of banks. She did repeat her answer that "Yes I represented credit institutions." But despite the misinterpretation that this was an answer, or confirmation that she took on repossession cases, we are still no clearer on whether she did take on such cases or not."
"Heather Humphreys has also been going over old ground. She did her best, she says, for Lucia O'Farrell who claimed she failed to represent her family's case following the death of their son Shane in a hit and run in 2011. Under careful probing by Miriam O'Callaghan, she did say she was sorry a number of times to Ms O'Farrell. While she has apologised before, this is the furthest she has gone."
The seventh debate produced no new revelations and left major campaign questions unresolved. Catherine Connolly did not disclose who organized her 2018 Syria trip and maintained it was a "fact-finding" mission while failing to explain contact with Fares Shehabi, a named EU-sanctioned supporter of the Assad regime. Uncertainty remained over whether she handled repossession cases for banks despite repeating that she "represented credit institutions." Heather Humphreys reiterated apologies to Lucia O'Farrell and defended fox hunting as a rural pursuit, while continuing to criticise Connolly's judgment over hiring a convicted gun criminal. The debate preserved the campaign's status quo.
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