Driven candidate in it for the long haul

SPARE a thought for a candidate who gets up a 6am six days a week to drive 310km to and from work who then has to trudge out into the night to knock on doors.

Nevertheless, schoolteacher Pádraig O’Sullivan seems unfazed with the burdensome workload as the Independent tries to get elected to Cork North Central.

Pádraig, who lives in Little Island, teaches Irish and history at Cistercian College, Roscrea, Co Tipperary, and because it’s a full-time boarding school he has to work six days a week.