Dublin Bay South by-election: Battling barristers wheel out party heavyweights on the campaign trail
In the leafy, well-heeled environs of Dublin Bay South, Ivana Bacik is eager to break her electoral duck, James Geoghegan is learning on the job when it comes to canvassing, and Lynn Boylan hopes to spring a surprise on the government parties
“My nine-year-old is infatuated with you,” shouted a man who had just jammed on the brakes of his car in the middle of the road. He had spotted Ivana Bacik, the Labour Party by-election candidate, walking along Garville Road in Rathgar in the Dublin Bay South constituency.
Bacik was thrown momentarily, but the man explained that his daughter really liked one of her canvassers and her bicycle-themed election posters. “You’ve two votes in our house,” ...
