Campaigning is continuing in the Presidential Election, with Independent Catherine Connolly and Fine Gael's Heather Humphreys seeking to win over public support before this Friday's vote.
Ms Humphreys will canvass in Wexford this morning before separate national and regional media interviews.
Her campaign is likely to continue zoning in on Ms Connolly's work as a barrister a number of years ago, including in some home repossession cases.
That issue was the subject of a Fine Gael social media video on Sunday night, which has been criticised by Connolly campaign team member and Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore as being straight out of the US political playbook.
Labour Party leader Ivana Bacik has criticised Fine Gael for what she described as its "craven and dangerous attack" on Ms Connolly's work as a barrister.
Ms Bacik, who has also worked as a barrister, said she was outraged by the video, adding that Fine Gael "should know better".
"The duty of barristers to accept instructions and the right of clients to be legally represented are cornerstones of our constitutional order. To chip away at these principles is dangerous.
"It is utterly wrong and misconceived of Fine Gael to mount this sustained nasty attack upon Catherine Connolly merely because she practised as a barrister, represented clients professionally and does not speak publicly about those clients," she said.
Ms Bacik added that through her career as barrister she represented many criminal and non-criminal clients before the Special Criminal Court and other criminal and civil courts.
"Indeed, it is well-known that the current Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan, who also maintained a professional practice while serving as an Oireachtas member, also represented clients whose views and values he patently did not share," she said.
Duty of a barrister to accept instructions - expert
Barrister and lecturer at the UCD Sutherland School of Law James McDermott said it is the duty of a barrister to accept instructions "in any case in their area of practice".
Speaking to RTÉ's Morning Ireland, he said a barrister can turn down a case if they are too busy, do not have expertise in that area or there is a conflict of interest.
"But other than those exceptions, if it's within your area of expertise and you're available and you can do the work, then you should do the work," he added.
"If you practice in criminal law, on the defence side, you might have to defend a bank robber or somebody who has allegedly committed an assault.
"If you do that in your professional practice, you wouldn't accuse the barrister of somehow being sympathetic to bank robbers or to people who go around assaulting people," he said.
Mr McDermott said it is important for the country that everybody who is involved in litigation has access to a lawyer and that lawyers are not picking and choosing cases on the basis that they are sympathetic to a particular position or person.
"We're an independent bar and it's important for reasons of access to justice that everybody is entitled to be defended in the appropriate circumstances," he added.
Meanwhile, Ms Connolly will today take part in a national youth canvass day, which is being organised under the slogan "your vote is your voice".
The event will include canvasses in campuses across all provinces.
