Despite the winter chill, the St Nicholas’ market in Galway city heaves with people, as tourists and locals help themselves to artisan cheeses and vegetarian curries.
On a different day, the Churchyard Street market is exactly the sort of place where you might expect to find Catherine Connolly, pushing her bicycle up the cobbled street with a wicker basket at her side ready to be filled with organic vegetables and handmade soaps.
But on this day, as her campaign to become the next Irish president enters the finishing stretch, she is nowhere to be seen.
Galway is safe and, for now at least, the Áras hopeful has more important places to be.
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