Cassells finds feet as he takes the floor

THE photographer is complaining. “It’s a disaster. He doesn’t know what he’s doing at all,” he says of Labour’s prospective MEP for East, Peter Cassells.

In Wexford's main street, the former ICTU head is clearly unused to canvassing and spends most of his time hanging back talking to the reporter from the Herald instead of pressing the flesh.

"He's not a politician. I keep telling you that," says a good-natured Brendan Howlin, who is more than making up for his colleague's lack of experience on the campaign trail.