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POSTERS FOR CANDIDATES contesting the European and local elections on 7 June have begun to pop up all over Ireland as today marks the first day that they’re officially allowed to be erected.
Some candidates and their teams were out in the early hours of this morning erecting their posters in order to get prime real estate on lampposts.
The posters, which are a staple of any Irish election, are only allowed be erected 30 days before the polls open and must be taken down within a week after the election ends.
Presumably to stop people from super-glueing their faces to the Spire in Dublin city centre and causing residual damage, posters must be fastened by plastic zip-ties only. Metal fixings, such as screws and nails, or adhesives such as glue or blue-tack are not permitted.
There are also a list of places where candidates’ posters are not permitted:
Posters should also have a 2.5 metre clearance from any footpath and 3.2 metre clearance from any cycle lane. At the same time, posters should be no higher than 6.5 metres from the ground.
Lastly, political party affiliation or the individual responsible for the poster must be clearly indicated on all material.
Local councils have the ability to remove any posters that break these rules or do not meet the requirements. Additionally, if the council incurs costs as a result of removing the poster, the party or individual responsible will have to pay those costs.
If you’d like to find out more about each candidate, you can do so on The Journal‘s Candidate Database, which gives an opportunity to every candidate to inform readers about their campaign’s main points and what they hope to bring to the European Parliament.
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Election posters on every pole since last night. Put a for sale sign outside your home and you’re likely to get a fine from the council and ordered to remove it. Great country.
I’m voting for right wing candidates
@Sunglasses Ron: and thats your constitutional right my friend
We live in a democracy.
@Sunglasses Ron: voting at 16 is only a proposal, so sorry but you’ll have to wait…..
@Sunglasses Ron: what a waste.
@Sunglasses Ron: Be careful of what you wish for.
Corriboard posters are so analog they need to be banned any election poster needs to be banned. When the rain comes posters will be down around the bottom of poles or half way down waiting to poke the eye of you. Embrace the digital billboard. Better still engage with your constituants don’t just just drop a leaflet.
@Nemethon: posters now are corriplastic so are able to cope with weather and can be reused over and over again
@Pat Hazzard: True. After the last election, I saw plenty of homeless people using them to keep off the rain.
They are a complete eyesore. They should only be one poster for each candidate in each locality not ten or eleven etc.
Wouldn’t it be terrible if the posters were destroyed by several freak accidents or a huge storm.
Cue smug faces looking down on us for the next 4 weeks. Great.
The hypocrisy of the Green Party, who seem to have the largest amount of corri board signs around the country, these are notorious for breaking down into micro plastics, but just like Eamon Ryan & Catherine Martin flying Business Class around the world with their large entourages, it’s ok when the Greens do something but it’s a major problem for everybody else. Double standards by the most fake party in the Dail, real leaders show leadership, the Greens are incapable of real leadership.
Wonderful to see free and open democracy in action, especially bearing in mind places like Gaza where Hamas terrorists brutally supress all opposition and have denied their people elections for two decades.
@Pat Hazzard: @Pat Hazzard: Which do you think might be more harmful to the Palestinian?
Not holding elections during a war (like Ukraine)?
Or being murdered by “democratic” colonial racists that are stealing their homeland?
Why is it legal to have posters on all the same street poles. Do they think we forget from pole to pole. Should be one per street max. What a waste.
Not a looker in the bunch.
Has Coleman got enough posters up at that junction in the photo at the top of this article ?
@Jb Walshe: something for the ladies, right there.
Sunglasses Ron so you hate women children and minorities your probably a rogan , musk trump and tate manboy who has mammy issues, and has never met a proper man ,
I saw a poster for a Michael Pidgeon and i thought if he got in would that mean there is a coup ?
Phil Hogan replaced by Paul Hogan. You just got to love the nerve of these folkd
Let’s hope people have sense dont vote same shower in thats wrecked our country. Irish people second class citizens. Know have let people in but not to extent are. Sure how bad is it when can go on holidays to Ukraine and people I know have good friends from Ukraine s that they go home for hospital and dennist appointments as services there better. Was in hospital with dad yesterday 18 hours before got bed in mullingar hospital. Is a disgrace way this government has ran our country.
Summer is icuim in, loudly sing cuckoo!
The poles outside my house are slathered on FG and Green Party posters. They must think I’ve never heard of them. I guess those ugly mug posters will remind me whom I’m voting against.
Lovely
Big smiley airbrushed heads on um with only thing in mind. MONEY.
They’ve been up for weeks in North Offaly and FF/FG local councillors have been canvassing around the Bracknagh and Clonbullogue areas for at least a month.
Posters of some absolutely vile, inept, unethical wastes of space such as the lot that can be seen across Fingal. Everything that’s rotten to the core about Ireland
#votenotoRegina
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