First-time Independent candidate ran Sinnott’s campaign last time

IT’S nearing the final stretch in another gruelling run in a Cork South Central campaign for a candidate from Turner’s Cross.

But rather than the better-known names of Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin or Green senator Dan Boyle, it is first-time candidate David McCarthy’s first time to run for office himself.

While never before on the ballot paper, he is all too well known to Mr Martin, after running disability campaigner Kathy Sinnott’s bid for the Dáil in 2002.