Election a shoe-in as FF circus arrives

AT times it was reminiscent of one of those speeded-up Benny Hill sketches, in which our hero would chase scantily clad women down the street.

But the difference was Bertie Ahern was chasing voters — and he had a brand new pair of shoes on to prove it.

They were supplied free of charge by O’Donnell’s of Westport, and history will record that the 2007 general Election campaign began in the little shop when the Taoiseach slipped off his old size 10 and a halfs.