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Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald in between two fire engines with Kildare North candidates Réada Croinin (R) and Caroline Hogan at Naas Fire station yesterday. Eamonn Farrell

At a glance: Parties to make their last-ditch attempts to earn your vote before polling day

Every political party is hosting a major, final news conference today, as polls have it neck-and-neck.

IT’S DAY 21 of the campaign trail and tomorrow, voters have their say on what the next government will look like.

With the campaign entering its final hours, here’s what the parties will be up to later:

  • Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald will be joined at a press event by Matt Carthy and Eoin Ó Broin to make a final appeal to voters. Sinn Féin say McDonald will “remind voters that Friday will be their last chance for five years to change government in order to fix the housing crisis and to tackle the rising cost of living”.
  • Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin will be out and about in counties Wexford and Wicklow with Health Minister Stephen Donnelly.
  • Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman yesterday said that his party would provide stability to a coalition and will later host his party’s final press conference of the campaign. He hopes to present a strong pitch to voters and is asking them “to build on the Party’s major success as the active ingredient Government”.
  • People Before Profit will also host their final press conference, with  leader Richard Boyd Barrett and other TDs and candidates in attendance.
  • Aontú meanwhile is launching its Cost of Living policy tomorrow, on the eve of the election.
  • And while the Social Democrats hosted their final press conference yesterday, TD Gary Gannon will be speaking to the media this afternoon to make one final push with voters. 
  • Meanwhile, The Journal has read the manifestos so you don’t have to - Here’s what the three big parties promise on three key areas.
  • The Journal also looked at where the parties stand on Gaza.

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