Diarmuid O’Flynn is the hurler on the pitch for protest votes

A few yards away his old mucker Phil Ryan is holding his poster up at chest height, like one of those guys who want to entice you down a side street to buy clothes or food.
That accounts for two posters in O’Flynn’s campaign to be elected to the European Parliament. He has eight others for a grand total of 10. That’s his allocation for the 15-county constituency. It’s about as many as some of his fellow candidates might allocate to a small village like Ballyhea, from where O’Flynn hails.