Mr Tayto caused a few headaches for candidates

MR TAYTO introduced comedy into the election campaign.

Complete with battle bus, website, election posters and a theme song, his official spokesman was veteran comedian Frank Kelly, better known as Father Jack Hackett from TV’s Father Ted series.

Kelly said Mr Tayto wouldn’t speak himself because he didn’t want to be misquoted or contradicted.

But he ruffled two candidates in Co Louth who complained they didn’t have enough space to put up their posters in Drogheda, because Mr Tayto’s election agents had beaten them to it.

Mr Tayto’s policies included re-naming the M50 as the M51 and making all the traffic lights green, to solve transport problems. His view of climate change was that a week or two in the Canaries never did any harm.