AN ill wheelchair user who spent the last three weeks in hospital but who was discharged yesterday in time to vote had to sit outside the polling station for over an hour because he couldn’t gain access to the building.

STILL wearing his overcoat and leaning forward on a chair in his somewhat chilly constituency office in Tralee town centre, battle-hardened TD Martin Ferris shakes his head and reveals that he has never before experienced a reaction quite like what he is encountering on the doorsteps.

SINN FÉIN deputy leader Martin McGuinness went to the dogs in Kerry at the weekend with local TD Martin Ferris by his side, as they stole the show at the Kingdom Greyhound Stadium.