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Maybe they should prosecute her for littering and creating eyesore’s, not to mention a distraction and danger to traffic/pedestrians. But, they are immune from these laws and flout them regularly!
Of course it should be reported. Not saying the Guards should be spending long on it but a crime should be reported.
We are way to relaxed about such things in Ireland. Saying things like “Someone stole my chainsaw / lawnmower / bike, sure no point reporting it’
A crime should always be reported, on the off chance a petty criminal is caught all their possible crimes should be part of the charges.
Hi Larry, I see your point but lets put this whole crime thing into perspective, its a poster that somebody wrote on with a marker. Her property will be going in the bin by the 24th. She’s looking for attention.
Is their any need for 10 of the exact same posters 20 ft apart down the same street anyway?everyones sick of looking at their faces.personally i’d be happier looking at the odd defaced one just to momentarily halt the painful monotony……..
She seemed pretty happy to deface Ming online but all of a sudden it’s terrible when it happens to an election poster that won’t be seen by near as many people? Double standards much Lorraine? Oh I forgot you’re part of the double standard kings – the Labour Party
Election posters in general should be banned outright, or else limited to a number of small poster specific locations at shopping centers etc. They are a total blight, and utterly useless at any rate.
I’m just back from London. Didn’t see a single election poster up either for the European or the UK local elections. Why are politicians in Ireland so obsessed with them?! Don’t they realise that people just tune them out….
Don’t waste Garda time & resources. If you don’t want them defaced, don’t hang them in public. Funny how the skin of all politicians seems to thin just before elections & thickens right up immediately after.
Lorraine…worry more about how you are going to explain to your constituents why your party broke it’s promises on university fees, water charges, the medical card charge and why they cut some jobseekers money based not on their willingness to work but their age…you’ve far bigger fish to fry.
This woman epitomises the disconnect between some politicians and the people. Firstly, if I put up a notice for a jumble sale on a lamp-post and someone wrote something offensive on it and I went into the Garda Station I’d be laughed out of the place, and rightly so, but she’ll expect a time-wasting rigorous investigation because of her delusions of grandeur. Secondly, a campaign tip for Sen. Higgins, the electorate do not like, or vote for, arrogant, rude people.
If the posters are placed low enough for people to write on, surely they are illegally placed and are a danger to pedestrians? Is it also possible to report that to the Gardai?
In the last General Election a woman got hit in the head by a Fianna Fáil election poster. She took them to court and won some €50k. At the time FF only had €200k in party funds, I was kinda hoping in a perverse way that another three people got hit by their posters and sued the pants off them.
She’s running for a party full of treacherous lying prix, but she’s worried about magic markers and election posters.
This woman needs a good kick in the behind!!
Seen these about maynooth. Then again so where her cronies with their lovely campaign coats, in her lovely campaign jeep. I asked them does their candidate support the water charge? No reply. So I politely told them, even if she did not, I still wouldn’t vote for her if she was the only one running
I will be looking out for her posters post election and will be sure to report any infractions if they arnt taken down promptly. Also get over yourself you self righteous twit.
Sick and tired of these election posters plastered everywhere, one poster on a road is enough, next they will be painting cattle in the fields, labeling the roads and taking over TV. Ohh they are already….
The last (non effective) sting of a dying wasp. No amount of publicity or spin can save Labour from their fate. Higgins could finish very near bottom in her constituency. A shameful performance from a shameful candidate.
Lets see if her/ the rest of them have posters still up beyond the deadline to take them down…..if so buy a newspaper (for the date mark) and take pictures of them and get them all fined. Hit them in their pockets…
The only problem with the fines is that they will tag it on to you & me by raising our taxes to pay for it. Do you really think it will come out of their pockets not a hope in hell.
Lorraine Higgins has a ridiculous amount of posters across the country, more than any other candidate I’ve noticed. I’m sick of looking at her face and all the other potential candidates, the posters were eyesores to begin with, a bit of graffiti won’t make a difference.
The only vandalism to report is these god awful posters. They should be banned. Ms Higgins might take a leaf out of councillor Sheridan in mullingar. He reported a constituent for littering on her own door step “she was wisely ripping up the plonkers literature”, the backlash locally was predictable, mr Sheridan pay the 180 fine and learned a valuable lesson on how not to get reelected.
I have to say if labour showed more concern in what really matters rather running to the guards over defacing posters , if a poster in a bus shelter for cadburys say was defaced do you think they’d so much even dream of going to guards ? So why waste Gardai time why 1rule for a politician in government & 1 rule for us ? Labour I’d be more worried about whats going to happen to yas on Friday than a scribble on a senseless waste of our money poster . Emer Costello Sth Dublin has plastered her ugly mush with big banner size posters , do politicians seriously think that inn 2014 posters will help us decide how to vote they are even more thicker than I thought .
I agree with most of the comments but a pro abort statement doesn’t express the true feelings of pro choice advocates. Who wants to promote abortion except when it becomes the rational choice?
Bloody waste of tax payers money getting guards to investigate this ‘appalling’ crime. Next thing she’ll have CSI there. A lesson to be learnt here voters??
Coming home from school today with my grandaughter , she was looking at all the election posters, ( you could hardly miss them here in Carrigaline, Cork, they are everywhere) and she said to me, ” nanny, why do the posters say vote no one ( 1) “, well said sweetheart, well said .
maybe the senator should be reminded that the tax payer funded the printing of said posters and as such are free to do what they like as we own them..agree with other contributors arrogant and out of touch happy to sit in a house that she and her party want to abolish ie the seanad
Just wondering if people would be advocating the same advice of dont do anything about it to the Muslim lad in the story above whose posters are being vandalized with pig drawings and bacon? I’m guessing ye wouldn’t…. Now it’s easy to assume that she’s over reacting but it doesn’t mention in the article what the graffiti was exactly but if its to do with the whole pro choice/ pro life argument I’m guessing that it probably wasn’t the most humorous or tasteful given the nature of the topic and the people who tend to wade in on the pro life side… Maybe it was of a threatening nature…? Politics aside, She may be well within her right to report it if she feels threatened or frightened… Ye all seem very eager to be judge, jury and executor today lads….
I was thinking that, but the Turkish guys posters aren’t someone writing about someone’s political views on them, they’re making what should be incredibly offensive statements to people who may be Muslim (same would presumably go for Jewish candidates).
In that sense there is a level of difference between them. Although having said that the Turkish fella said he prefers to eat bacon so maybe he isn’t Muslim at all and the people defacing his posters were being extra xenophobic by assuming he was because he didn’t look Irish enough for them?
Poor Lorraine Higgins has slithered down the polls. Just passed a FG poster with a rather rude gesture & in Dublin other candidates across numerous parties have receieved the same treatment. If Lorraine can’t cope with matters such as this then how is she competent in representing us in Europe?
People are vandalising posters – they’re angry, we get it..
If all they did was take down some posters and vandalise others – it may be a bit of an overreaction to be calling the Gards in.
If there have been threats or anything other than simple vandalism, then fair enough – call the Gards.. But if it’s just the posters – perhaps it’s best to chalk it up to getting a taste of your own medicine and stop making a fool of yourself..
Lorraine vandalised posters is the least of your worries considering the photo of your election campaign vehicle parked in the disabled space outside a shop next to four vacant parking spaces. Tut tut .
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