'Our candidates have run the most amazing, hopeful campaigns, and seeing some of them along the way might even cheer me up about becoming middle-aged.'
But instead of partying in Vegas or skydiving, one politician is marking the occasion in a manner fit for an election anorak.
Mr O'Toole said: "The SDLP as a movement has an ambitious mission to end division on this island, but even we can't stop the passage of time. "In this instance, rather than going to a festival or skydiving, I'm travelling round 40 polling stations to support as many of our amazing local government election candidates as possible and help them get out as much support as possible on polling day.
He will then head though part of Co Armagh and stop at various locations along the A1 before returning to Belfast to cover polling stations in the west, north and east of the city.There are hundreds of premises used for voting across Northern Ireland. For instance, Belfast City Council has 104 which cater for 254 ballot boxes.The election was pushed back by two weeks to avoid the counting of votes clashing with the coronation of King Charles III earlier this month.
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