In this election we had six candidates with hopes and decent media profiles beyond their political exposure (in three cases their political background was essentially non-existant). All of them failed to translate this into anything approaching a successful campaign:
Fearghal McKinney – ex-journalist
Mike Nesbitt – ex-journalist, ex-victims commissioner
Eamonn McCann – columnist (also a political activist)
David Vance – political pundit and blogger
Harry Hamilton – singer
Trevor Ringland – former rugby player
Seems being known doesn’t guarantee being rated by the electorate
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