Four out of Five Voters Prefer ...

TDs obsess about "constituency work", but 80% of voters never need a TD to do this at all.

I wonder whether, if TDs had paid more attention to the 80%, they might have done some of the things neglect of which has "sent us up the Swanny".

The purpose of my candidature is, in the first instance, to re-awaken the attention of the 80%, and to give them someone for whom to vote if they are of the view that Ireland should come first.

It is not that I will refuse to do any constituency work: there is a sense in which all politics is local, and a legislator who does not keep in touch with his constituency is a mere bureaucratic functionary, not a democratic politician. I am not interested in being a bureaucratic functionary.

However, as that great Corkman Edmund Burke memorably said

We have a country