Candidate hopes pedal power will pay off

On yer bike. That’s the message to the main parties from Independent candidates who say it’s time there was a shift away from "failed mainstream politics".

One candidate is taking that message to the electorate on his bicycle along with his canvasser pet Murphy, a Jack russell.

Freelance photographer Denis Boyle doesn’t mind peddling around the Bandon-Kinsale electoral area in search of votes with Murphy in tow.