Youth no obstacle to Sinn Féin’s winner Cunningham

He was ridiculed as the baby-faced candidate and dubbed the Confirmation Boy because of the photograph on his election posters.

But Sinn Féin’s Stephen Cunningham, a 21-year-old student of government at University College Cork, is now one of the youngest councillors ever to take a seat on Cork City Council.

He put in a storming performance to top the poll in the Cork North East ward.