Dara Murphy writes:
“Eleven weeks after the election and look who’s still on Cathal Brugha Street! It’s been reported to Dublin City Council and Fianna Fáil several times but to no avail…”
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Very interested in you in the weeks coming up to an election.
Less so after.
If you own a pair of secateurs, Dara…
That’s not really the point though, is it?
Exactly, much better to bitch and moan about everything in this country than do anything constructive about it, Im with you edalicious, the council are are disgrace ! dame public service waste of space !
Dara did do something about it… several times.
“It’s been reported to Dublin City Council and Fianna Fáil several times”
Exactly, there are laws there regarding the length of time election posters can be up. They are supposed to be responsible for removing them since they put them up. This IS an issue of civic pride, in a lack of civic pride for our lack of accountability of the political classes.
In fairness Dara is doing a great deal by pointing this out.
I know the poster rage has quietened down dramatically since the election but I would love to see some sort of ban on posters ahead of the next one. There was a healthy debate here on BS on how politicians could effectively and fairly market themselves without putting up these tacky placards on lampposts and littering the place.
Saw a Mary Fitz one on a lamppost by Shamrock Rovers stadium last week as well.
Are you sure it wasn’t actually her? Rovers took that defeat very hard.
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Someone else is sticking up her posters all around the city; two went up on the North Road in Finglas a week after the election and one is still there.