On the Canvass: Last past the post in the locals, but Holly is hopeful in sprawling Cork South-West

As her campaign team hit the streets of Ballydehob, West Cork, Holly Cairns could lay reasonable claim to having the country’s youngest canvasser on the job.

Baby Elodie, all of nine months, had a Holly badge on her woolly hat as she was wheeled around by her dad, Rob, mid-afternoon, just one more volunteer as they criss-cross the massive constituency of Cork South-West.