I'll Be Your Mayor

So Terri Hooley is now the elected Mayor of the Cathedral Quarter in Belfast. His function is to lead a parade back and forward along Donegall Street during Culture Night on September 23. The Parades Commission have been notified and with a cute bit of programming, the quarter will be pedestrianised for the evening. The friends of Hooley put up some spirited campaigning, warning Facebook users that Terri would be unbearable if he lost. My feeling is that he'll be hard to contain anyway. But he was in good form at the inauguration, borrowing the chain of office from the real Mayor of Belfast and promising that he won't kiss too many babies during his term of office. 'I'll kiss plenty of women though," he declared.