The Dublin MEP says he will have to fight to retain his seat despite being seen as the frontrunner
Barry Andrews in Blackrock, Co Dublin: 'I’m just anxious about opinion polls that tell you one thing, then things can go very differently.' Photograph: Nick Bradshawcandidate. Then, the poll put his support level at a dizzying 19 per cent, well ahead of the pack. And then when election day came, he had dropped to 14 per cent, finishing third in the first count and then being overtaken by
The canvass starts on the main street of Blackrock on a sun-splashed morning, with Andrews and his team meeting and greeting people as they rush by. He tells people it is a “dangerous time” in European politics because there is a chance more right-wing candidates, who are Eurosceptic and “sit on the fringes”, will be elected to the parliament.
But it is being brought up here. We meet Aidan Fitzgerald outside his hair salon, which he has run for 43 years. Fitzgerald says the handling of the issue has been a mess and that he had heard on the radio about handfuls of people being sent back across the Border by bus. Speaking afterwards, he says as an MEP, he voted for the Asylum and Migration Pact but as former head of the aid agency, he was not comfortable with some of the elements that passed. “I campaigned for EU-wide search and rescue to be part of the pact. That was not the case. There are parts of the child detention part that I’m concerned about. I wonder if they will survive challenges under the European Convention of Human Rights.
He tells the students the cobalt inside their phones and computers may be the product of child labour in the Democratic Republic of Congo and also tells them that fast fashion has the potential to create about 10 per cent of global emissions.
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