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Eamon Gilmore canvassing in Thurles, Co Tipperary yesterday, with Theresa Lucas and Mary Vaughan
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  • Eamon Gilmore canvassing in Thurles, Co Tipperary yesterday, with Theresa Lucas and Mary Vaughan
  • Conor Lenihan gets a shave from John O'Loughlin at Johnny's Traditional Barber Shop, Tallaght, Dublin
  • Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore (centre) is pictured canvassing with Labour candidate for Dublin South East Kevin Humphreys (left) on Grafton Street, Dublin
  • Independent candidate James Breen (centre) keeps an eye on the bidding while chatting to Sean and Shane Halpin (left) and Paddy Kelly (right) at Ennis Cattle Mart yesterday
  • People Before Profit candidate Richard Boyd Barrett speaking to local children yesterday as he charges through housing estates in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, to canvass for votes
  • Wearing his trademark cap, Michael Healy-Rae commandeered a few horses to help out with his election campaign yesterday. The Kerry South Independent candidate took to the Gap of Dunloe in Killarney with his father Jackie and daughter Rosie. The route is restricted, and Michael clearly felt the need to try and get to every last voter, since polls show him possibly losing his father’s Dail seat
  • Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny arriving to speak at a town hall meeting at Listowel Arms Hotel in Co Kerry last night with the help of musician Liam O'Connor
  • Gerry Adams meets Talitha Carroll while on the campaign trail in the Greenacres estate in Dundalk, Co Louth
  • A transport container promoting independent candidate Micheal Healy-Rae stands on the outskirts of Killorglin
  • Christy McCarthy lit up Sinn Fein TD Martin Ferris’s day as the candidate for the North Kerry and West Limerick constituency and deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland Martin McGuinness took to the streets of Tralee, Co Kerry, at the weekend to meet the locals
  • Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny strides out yesterday with the party’s justice spokesman Alan Shatter (right) and spokesman on children Charlie Flanagan (left) following a press briefing on political reform at The Clarence Hotel, Dublin
  • Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny chats with Annmarie Walsh owner of Tipperary Kitchen bakery in Roscrea, Co Tipperary, during Election campaigning
  • Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams in the National Gallery, Dublin, during Sinn Fein's General Election campaigning
  • Labour leader Eamon Gilmore, centre, with candidate Joe Costello, left, buys a bunch of bananas from a market trader on Moore Street while canvassing in Dublin City centre
  • The election may only be a week old - but already Eamon O Cuiv is feeling the effects. The final straw for the Social Protection Minister came when Fianna Fail launched its manifesto on political reform yesterday - and he felt the need to take a quick snooze. Mr O Cuiv was apologetic afterwards, blaming "four hours' sleep last night, canvassing on Inis Mor, meetings all evening, Dublin very late, and in the Dail at 7.45am"
  • Sinn Fein candidate Alan Kelly’s wife Regina and baby Ava at his election HQ in Nenagh
  • Green Party deputy leader Mary White, Fianna Fail councillor Jennifer Murnane O'Connor, Labour Cllr Ann Phelan and Sinn Fein Cllr Kathleen Funchion are the women running for election in Carlow-Kilkenny
  • Green Party Leader John Gormley speaks to Donnybrook resident Luke Gavin whilst canvassing for votes in Dublin. Photo: Collins
  • Some candidates will go to any lengths to get votes, as our picture shows. Fine Gael candidate for Dublin South East Eoghan Murphy greeted Tiernan Sparks from Ringsend with a leaflet on the Great South Wall in Dublin yesterday
  • Just a week after he led out his new frontbench, Micheal Martin was surrounded by a herd of a different sort on the Summerlee Farm near Cork city yesterday. The Fianna Fail leader chose the beef and dairy farm in Douglas to launch his party’s agri-food policy
  • Supporters of Mayor of Roscommon and candidate for the Roscommon/South Leitrim constituency in the forthcoming general election, Cllr. Luke "Ming" Flanagan, pictured when they took to the water at Carrick On Shannon to launch his Tourism Strategy yesterday
  • Trevor Sargent at the launch of the Green Party's general election campaign in Dublin yesterday
  • Fianna Fail's Nick Killian with his car parked on a double yellow line and displaying out-of-date insurance and NCT discs
  • Eamon Gilmore, leader of the Labour Party with (from left) Senator Alex White, Ruairi Quinn, Joan Burton and Cllr Jimmy Harte, candidsate in the Donegal NorthEast constituency in front of a campaign poster at their daily  news conference  held in Dublin
  • Fianna Fail was forced to remove all their posters from a town after complaints that they had ignored a 'gentleman's agreement’ to preserve the local environmental heritage. Fine Gael reacted with fury after posters - most of which were emblazoned with the face of new FF leader Micheal Martin - were erected around the town centre and approach roads to Clonakilty in west Cork
  • A poster for Sinn Fein's Mary Lou McDonald sandwiched between posters for Labour candidates Eamon Gilmore andAine Clancy
  • Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny pictured with Nikita the trainee guide dog in Paddy Power Bookmakers, Baggot Street, Dublin, where he placed a bet on Fine Gael to win 70 seats in the General Election
  • An election placard for Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny beside posters for show 'Calendar Girls' in Dublin's city centre
  • Fine Gael’s Richard Bruton with party leader Enda Kenny (right) at a press conference in Dublin yesterday to launch their election campaign
  • Green Party leader John Gormley putting up the first Green poster of Election 2011 on Merrion Square, Dublin
  • Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin tried to stop a shot when he visited Fettercairn Community Centre, Tallaght
  • Labour leader Eamon Gilmore was one of the unlucky ones who had their posters taken down due to an old bye law which prohibits them being displayed, even on the  pavements, at St. Stephen's Green, Dublin
  • Dublin South-East TD Chris Andrews hitched his election wagon up on the streets around Leinster House but came a cropper after the clampers bolted up his front wheel
  • President Mary Mc Aleese looks on as Taoiseach Brian Cowen countersigns the Proclamation of Dissolution at Aras An Uachtarain on the day of the Dissolution of the 30th Dail
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Eamon Gilmore canvassing in Thurles, Co Tipperary yesterday, with Theresa Lucas and Mary Vaughan
Credit: Date: February 24, 2011
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