Loud shouts of ‘He’s back’!” were heard in the early hours of Monday morning in Athlone, as supporters swarmed around Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran in the middle of the John Count McCormack Hall at TUS Athlone’s campus and hoisted him up above them.
In what has been one of one of the biggest political comebacks in recent Irish politics, the popular local taxi driver was deemed to have been elected after the fourteenth count, shortly after 2am on Monday 2 December.