Inishfree observes democratic principle of one island, one vote

Hugh O’Donnell may be the only presiding electoral officer to have music played to him during voting in this referendum.

Yesterday, islanders off Donegal cast their votes in the fiscal treaty, four days ahead of the rest of Ireland, and Barry Edgar Pilcher, the only person to cast a vote on Inishfree Island played a saxophone for Mr O’Donnell.

The polling booth is always set up in 69-year-old Barry’s ramshackle cottage home. He has been the lone resident on the island for most of the past 20 years.