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The sense of relief is palpable this week as the October Bank Holiday rolls in and finally, the 2011 Irish presidential election campaign comes to a close. For better or worse we have now elected our new president and whatever political elections, by-elections, local or national arise in the next seven years, all going well, we won't have to worry about who will occupy the Áras for that period at least.

Gay Mitchell is languishing in the polls and protesters greeted the arrival of Fine Gael big wigs in Ballinasloe on Monday, but it did not stop Taoiseach Enda Kenny from sounding upbeat or determined.

Whether there was a witch hunt out for him from the start or not, what he did was wrong and inexcusable.

Irish presidential hopeful Michael D Higgins visited Kilkenny city last week, as he prepared to address the annual opening of the Labour Party’s Tom Johnson Summer School.