Official Vote for the Lord Mayor of the Cathedral Quarter 2011 Mayoral candidate: Terri Hooley   What really needs to be added the plaudits, the notices and the garlands that this cycloptic polymath has been drowning in ever since he put the words ‘punk’ and ‘Northern Ireland’ together back in 1978? Well, a royalty cheque might be nice. Mr Hooley has been presiding over the kingdom of the blind - on a mainly cash in hand basis – ever since he first learned that the word stylus wasn’t just Latin for cool. Who better than the unofficial mayor of Belfast to stand in an election that cries out for candidates with experience and wit but has no strong feelings either way about three-dimensional vision? The conviction that running for election may be too “establishment”, too conformist a concept has prevented this self-professed “ageing hippy anarchist” from standing for formal office before this. But when the Cathedral Quarter calls, who better to answer than the man who not only promised, but delivered Good Vibrations to successive generations of music lovers. With the (unimpeachably verifiable) memoirs riding high in the charts and so far evading any notable libel writs, not to mention a film biopic on the way, it could be argued that Terri Hooley is the one example of the truth being almost as interesting as the legend, although don’t quote us on that… Terri Hooley is known by many and liked by many more. If this election were a popularity contest rather than a serious election for mayor of the Cathedral Quarter, it would be no contest at all. In lieu of an actual campaign manifesto (surely it’s the one circumstance where the man is the manifesto) citizen Terri Hooley has issued the following brief but memorable statement. “My electoral pledge is to back Kathy Young and Martin Lynch and good luck to them. Whoever wins they will have my full support. No matter who you vote for, the Lord Mayor always gets in.” Mayor Terri Hooley – So Hard to Beat…