Poster Watch

[Lionel Ritchie]

Saw a labour van goind removing thelast of there's yesterday.

The flagship of the Irish Republican Navy is still docked ominously in the middle of the Shannon here in Limerick advertising Sinn Feins local and European candidates.

[blueblood]

I suggested to a local FF candidate they should be allocated specificly coloured ties to each party, he was all " i'll mention it now but i think it's a non runner as it's cost issue". I asked him what's cost got to do with it as long as it was protecting our environment and that you have to force people to do it as it's for their own good in the long run, so why not make it the law? Don't even remember his reply it was the usual polititical waffle.
Also i think i read somewhere before it's illegal to put posters etc on ESB poles without permission from the ESB which nobody gets before putting them up, usual double standards by these hypocrites

[blueblood]

Kathy Sinnott posters still up in limerick yesterday

[Lionel Ritchie]

Kathy Sinnott posters still up in limerick yesterday

Saw those in the city center, henry st/cecil st area. They've either been taken or have fallen down out on the northern suburbs from what I've noticed.

[eamo1]

A few Labour and F.F ones still up in Galway City,north side of the city.Incidently,a Labour Councillor who was re-elected was going around our area the night before the election putting his leaflets in letterboxes.Is it a criminal offence that you cant canvas the day before or is it just "a gentleman's agreement" type thing??

[Mr A]

I didn't think there was any such rule?

[Poor Student]

May Lou still up in Rathmines, Lower Richmond Street, Harcourt and St. Stephen's Green.

[centre mid]

Tom Fortune (lab) still up around Wicklow.

[dahamsta]

The rule is that you can't canvas on the day at the polling station. They used to be all over the place, like maggots.

[Lionel Ritchie]

As I mentioned in the local elections thread there was a clown from local RSF driving around Limericks north constituency the day before and of the election ALL DAY honking the horn on his tricolour draped motor and generally being annoying.

I was also quite disappointed to see a labour candidate park a car covered in his posters and literature well within 100 yards of a polling station on the day. I know he did it himself because I saw him at the back of it with the boot open and rooting for flyers to give to one of his helpers. The instructions aren't that complicated.

[Ash]

Other than that I hate the bloody things and think they should be banned.

AFAIK in Leitrim there is a ban on election posters. Open to correction on this
but a work mate of Mrs Ash was telling her as her mother was going for office.
Dont know if it was town or coco.

[pete]

Don't know if it breaks the rule but there was a car in the polling station car park with poster for local council FF candidate in the window. Maybe was just a regular voter but it was there when I arrived & still there when I left.

[dahamsta]

AFAIK in Leitrim there is a ban on election posters.

Seems to be a localised thing. Some town councils definitely banned it at the last election, although I didn't hear anything about it this time. I wonder why...

[micls]

Has a poster ever influenced anyone's vote, ever?

(And if yes, should that person be allowed to vote?)

Toirease Ferris.....

[Macy]

Is it a criminal offence that you cant canvas the day before or is it just "a gentleman's agreement" type thing??

There's no such rule - only rule is within a certain distance of a polling station (I think 50 metres, but not sure). They can canvas all day polling day if they want.

[Lionel Ritchie]

There's no such rule - only rule is within a certain distance of a polling station (I think 50 metres, but not sure). They can canvas all day polling day if they want.

I'm near certain it's 100 meters away from polling stations. Though I'm sure someone keen to hang about nearby would argue they're the requisite distance from the polling booth or the entrance to the polling station even though the may be standing along a gable wall of the building that contains the polling booth.

[osarusan]

Griffin / Griffith SF poster still up in Limerick today.

And coming in on the Ennis/Galway road, going past Thomond Park, I counted 39 plastic ties still attached to lampposts / telegraph poles / etc.