Sunday 28 February, 2021
Love them or loathe them, there’ll be no avoiding them over the next three and a half weeks.
200 members of the public complained to DCC about posters during the recent local elections.
A party spokesperson said the posters were all removed after it was brought to their attention.
A trailer belonging to Independent candidate Mattie McGrath was also taken along with Sinn Féin posters.
A number of incidents have been spotted.
The former minister said he believes political opponents are sabotaging his campaign.
The youths said they were “cleaning up the area”.
Before the Dáil was dissolved and the election called, some politicians started scaling lampposts a bit too early.
Posters urging people to Vote No 1 for Terence Flanagan are appearing a little early in Dublin Bay North.
Colm Brophy woke up on Sunday to find around two-dozen of his posters spray painted with the Nazi symbol.
The new poster has a cartoon-dig at the health policies of both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.
Eight posters advertising Anne-Marie McNally’s public meeting on corruption have mysteriously disappeared.
* It may not actually be a supporter of Renua candidate Frank Cronin. The posters aren’t supposed to go up until shortly before the forthcoming election.
These folks take the well-worn “fake moustache” idea and throw it out the window.
Lorraine Higgins’s posters were defaced with the message ‘Pro Abort’.
*At making election posters. And assorted other pieces of political literature.
This Ireland South candidate in the European elections is hoping to reinforce at EU level the importance of volunteer work.
One council in Dublin has said it has removed over 1,000 posters as they are “dangerous positions”
With posters erected all over the country we’ve found out what work, if any, candidates have had done on their pictures.
“I challenge those who deface posters to put their own name on the ballot paper,” said one candidate.
One might be familiar, having blocked the traffic lights for a week now.
Somewhere in Ballaghaderreen, someone is probably feeling very pleased with themselves right now.
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The erection of posters on lampposts around the country this week has sparked debate about their merits. The Secret Candidate has some solutions…
The party’s European candidate in Dublin has had a number of poster-related controversies this week.
Sitting councillor Mel Mac Giobúin admitted removing the 27-year-old independent candidate’s poster and said he regrets the incident.
Louth/East Meath Senator Mary Moran wants the posters taken down for the weekend of the bicycle race.
Not a good day for those erecting posters around the capital.
The poster for MEP hopeful Mary Fitzpatrick was inadvertently put up blocking the lights at Custom House Quay.
Or be pretty badly injured.
While some have been breaking the law others have been sticking to it, but are still managing to get their name out there.
Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy said earlier he didn’t believe people would be bothered that he put up his posters before he is legally allowed to do so. But one local authority has asked that he take them down.
Mary Fitzpatrick’s posters were erected near the Battle of Clontarf festival.
