Former GAA President Liam O'Neill has revealed he will not be a candidate in the presidential election.

Speaking on last night's 'The Tonight Show' on TV3, the Laois man - who disclosed only last week that he was considering running for the office of President of Ireland - informed Matt Cooper and Ivan Yates that the idea was a non-runner:

"I talked to a good few of my political friends and people in public relations and in politics, and I have to say I'm blessed that I have good friends and more importantly honest friends.

"And the assessment after talking to them is I don't have the backup team. I don't have the logistical group that it takes to undertake a campaign like that. I am political newbie, I haven't stood for politics I haven't been involved with politics at any level and I don't have the finance. And I think the most critical point of it was the amount of finance it takes to mount a campaign like this."

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