Notes from the campaign

Cereal talk, Norris initials, Dana international and Gallagher’s secret weapon

We hear that Kellogg’s sent a hamper of Special K into Mary Davis’s campaign headquarters early in the week for her tireless promotion of its breakfast cereal . . .

The exchanges during David Norris’s campaign launch over whether he had contracted hepatitis A, B, C, D or E in the early 1990s – it resulted in him being pensioned off early by his university employers – had one correspondent writing in to explain that it was, in fact, hepatitis TCD . . .

News that Dana Rosemary Scallon converted and became an American citizen in the 1990s has people asking if she can now call herself “Dana International”.

As Seán Gallagher stormed up the presidential rankings, election watchers are predicting that his wife of one year, Trish O’Connor from Cork, will prove his secret weapon. While there are lovely wedding photos online, their engagement shots, by Bartek Witek, are sure to corner the farming vote. The happy couple are posing on Trish’s family farm – cuddling up on a rick of hay, beside a barn, in a tractor and among a collection of mucky wellies.

He’s one dragon the parties may find difficult to slay.