Taoiseach’s Offaly canvass greeted by quiet streets

“Taoiseach, will you come over and speak to me?” Leo Varadkar was beckoned across the street by a woman in a pink hi-vis jacket.

The Taoiseach, and most of his Cabinet, including the Tánaiste, ministers for housing, justice, finance, arts, and health, along with a plethora of backbenchers, had just been given a tour of Tullamore town by local TD Marcella Corcoran-Kennedy.

It had been billed a yes vote canvass, ahead of next Friday’s referendum on the Eighth Amendment. However, it seemed like all of Co Offaly had fled, perhaps to Kilkenny, where they were playing the Cats in Nowlan Park.