The pork-barrel king of TipperaryNorth, Michael Lowry, topped the poll as an independent although he was lately sacked as a minister, and from Fine Gael, in a cloud of sleaze.
He headed to another significant Celtic site, the Rock of Cashel, in the town of Cashel, County Tipperary, about 94km north of Cork, which then rivalled Tara as a centre of power in Ireland.
Mr Fallon, 42, formerly of Newmarket, Suffolk, but now of Tipperary, Ireland, is on trial with fellow jockeys Fergal Lynch, 29, of Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire, and Darren Williams, 29, of Leyburn, North Yorkshire.