Gareth Sheridan suddenly has that most precious of political commodities - The Big Mo.
He already has one nomination secured in Kerry. Today he has a good chance of getting the backing of Tipperary County Council too.
That would bring him to the halfway point of the required four nominations from local authorities, notwithstanding a setback in Laois yesterday where a majority of councillors did not support him.
If events unfold this way in Tipperary he would face into next Monday within touching distance of gaining a place on the ballot paper for the Presidential Election.
Councils such as Meath and possibly Offaly could play a major role at that point.
His assiduous approach to meeting and talking at length to councillors could be about to pay dividends.
Several Independents along with Sinn Féin and Labour councillors in Tipperary look set to agree that the council should nominate a candidate.
The Lowry team of five councillors will not nominate Gareth Sheridan but crucially they will not vote to block nominations by others, even if Michael Lowry is informing his supporters that on election day he will give his first preference to Heather Humphreys and his second to Jim Gavin.
That could all pave the way for Gareth Sheridan to emerge as the sole candidate to be proposed in Tipperary. This would be in keeping with how things played out in Kerry.
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Others such as Nick Delehanty and Maria Steen are to date making no detectable progress in their efforts to enter the presidential election race.
Those who are already on the starting line will attend the National Ploughing Championships in Co Offaly today.
Heather Humphreys, Catherine Connolly and Jim Gavin will all make their pitch to voters today at this huge gathering in the midlands.
Of course Jim Gavin has already filmed a social media video on a farm where he sported a light-coloured pair of trousers and he did not seem to fully close a gate behind him - two things he probably can't repeat when walking the land in Screggan today.
Pearse Doherty, the man viewed by many as the most likely Sinn Féin presidential candidate, will be in Screggan too.
That party will finalise its approach to the presidential election on Saturday.
