No voter is an island

SOME people will do anything for a vote ... including slogging around an island with just six people on the electoral register.

First, the mainland-based politician is forced to get into a shaky cable car for a 200-metre trip across the sea, looking at a drop below which would frighten even the bravest soul especially in a gale.

Once on Dursey Island, known as the "last outpost of County Cork" it's often a real footslog to get around. There are a few elderly cars. But there's no tar on the roads and sheep are likely to jump out in front of you at every turn. This can prove especially dicey if a woolly-back causes you to swerve along a dirt-track just inches from a sheer drop into the Atlantic ocean.