A serial canvasser who thrives on voter contact

SOME months ago members of the Scottish parliament visited Limerick to have a look at the huge regeneration plan for four of the city’s rundown estates.

As their bus drove through crime-ridden St Mary’s Park on a Saturday morning the official from the regeneration agency who accompanied the group said: “I see the local minister ahead, I’m sure he’d like to meet you.”

The Scots assumed they were to meet a clergyman minister.