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Article: High-speed mission to quip and grip
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- June 3, 2009
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KATHY SHERIDAN on the canvass with Pat 'The Cope' Gallagher: The
pace is relentless on the last-minute candidate's hit'n'run tour of
the North-West
THE WOMAN is standing stock still, staring at her hand. So did
she, um, "enjoy her encounter with Pat the Cope?"
"Are you SERIOUS? That. Was. An. Ambush", she spits staccato-
style, as Pat the Cope's loudhailer blasts out the Saw Doctors' I
wish I was on the N17to the sunny streets of Gort, Co Galway.
The Cope himself is already five doors down and the booming voice
of Big Noel Treacy, one of the officer escort, rattles the hinges.
Noel's gift for hurling a quip at every human who crosses his path
is tailor-made for the millisecond allocated for ...