On the hustings: The week in pictures on the Election 2011 campaign trail

TheJournal.ie brings you Election 2011′s candidates in their more – or less – photogenic moments of the week.

ONE MOMENT YOU can be up, the next your heart is in your boots. Join the candidates of Election 2011 on the campaign trail – in pictures…

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Independents play
Green Party members implying that independents like Jackie Healy Rae have had a stranglehold on the Dail... Pic: Julien Behal/PASource: Julien Behal/PA Images
Be mine....
Face forward
Who's your pal?
Independent candidate Mannix Flynn launches his campaign in Ranelagh with supporter Nell McCafferty. But hey mascot, why the long face?
If the shoe fits...
Labour's Pat Rabbitte has been wearing out some serious shoe leather on the campaign trail... Pic: Stephen Kilkenny.
Making the connection
Kickboxing instructor Anthony Dunne shows Sinn Fein's Aengus O Snodaigh a few moves in Dublin. Pic: Julien Behal/PA
Are you right there, Michael?
Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams gets a warm welcome from a supporter holding a picture of Michael Collins during canvassing in Drogheda, Ireland. Collins was a member of Sinn Fein but also pro-Treaty and agreed to partition so we're getting mixed messages here... Pic: Peter Morrison/AP Photos
Taking the Michael
Taking the Michael - Part Deux
...But just like that, his mood appears to change. Pic: Stephen Kilkenny.
Who is going to clean this mess up?
A reader of TheJournal.ie sent in this poster belonging to a moo-sterious independent candidate...