Battling Pat leads election campaign from hospital bed

WHILE other local election hopefuls are pounding the streets, one is laid up in hospital at “the worst possible time”.

Pat Murphy, a 37-year-old county councillor from Bantry, Co Cork, recently caught a infection which was being treated at the outpatients clinic at Cork University Hospital.

But last week doctors told him his condition had deteriorated so much he’d have to be admitted for an operation.