Posters and the Litter Act

ardmacha · 23-03-2014 8:00pm #1

As I understand it, the Litter Act proscribes fly posting generally, but there is an exception window around elections.

I'v noticed posters recently with large pictures of candidates and a small panel below advertising something else. In particular, Emer Costello in D2 advertising a conference and SF posters in Louth advertising some local event (illegible).

This seems to me to be dodgy, if not downright illegal.

JP 1800 · 24-03-2014 7:24pm

I have passed comment on this also while canvassing, the window for the erecting of posters for election campaigns is set at 30 day before the polls. Many if not all the parties are "circumventing" this rule by advertising a "public meeting" or something similar. This is just underhanded and those whom participate will not get my vote as it just shows how they view the rules.

www.jpkearney.ie

kerry4sam · 30-03-2014 5:43pm

It happened in Killarney for the Ard Fheis but all have since been taken down following Council Intervention. Have a read here.

Perhaps contact your own local Council and see what they have to say on this.

Thanks,
kerry4sam

For Forks Sake · 30-03-2014 10:15pm

Ronan Mullen is at the same nonsense all over the midlands

colaheart98 · 22-04-2014 3:00pm

Frank O'Rourke Fianna Fail has Celbridge plastered in posters since this morning!!!

punisher5112 · 22-04-2014 3:03pm

The we buy your car for cash signs do my head in and they don't seem to be getting fined as they just keep putting up more.

Bobking · 22-04-2014 7:10pm

Today my road and all the surrounding area have been remodeled to look like a spam website.

I would like to know if people in Mungret, Dooradoyle and Raheen area of Limerick are interested in having;
one billboard or wall in one or two public areas (maybe the County Council offices and Mungret College, allegedly the site for a public park to serve these areas) for all local candidates to present their views on approved posters 30 days before election.

Would this serve the publics need for information on candidates?

Would this at least mean we could stop the constant line of posters?

Tabnabs · 23-04-2014 8:40am

punisher5112 wrote: »

The we buy your car for cash signs do my head in and they don't seem to be getting fined as they just keep putting up more.

Hard to fine when they have no fixed abode, is what the gardai are saying.

There's no austerity in poster printing for the anti austerity campaigners, up since Monday morning. Working class areas are plastered in them, but the leafy suburbs are exempt it seems.

hoodwinked · 23-04-2014 10:33am

Bobking wrote: »

Today my road and all the surrounding area have been remodeled to look like a spam website.

There is a candidate running here locally in douglas in Cork and oh my god! :eek:

spam website doesn't cover it, she has EVERY pole and light post covered, any chance she had for a vote is gone now because its the poster equivalent of constant spamming it's just annoying and i have 29 days to go of it (more if she doesn't take them down on election date)! :mad:

i wish the litter laws would at least have some kind of rule to stop this kind of thing happening

ThisRegard · 23-04-2014 11:34am

Tabnabs wrote: »

There's no austerity in poster printing for the anti austerity campaigners, up since Monday morning. Working class areas are plastered in them, but the leafy suburbs are exempt it seems.

I've been following this closely as my area was covered in them a couple of days early. It was put to Ruth Coppinger and the AAA and this was her response

The erection of some election posters 24 hours early by some supporters hardly ranks as a crime. It's hardly litter either.

She also brought Sean Fitzpatrick "getting off" into it for some reason.

dulpit · 23-04-2014 2:45pm

Down these neck of the woods (Cork) loads of posters went up on Monday by the Anti Austerity Alliance (Mick Barry and that lot), followed by some Sinn Fein, Labour and 1 FG poster yesterday.

I emailed the Cork City Council complaining, they advised that they forwarded complaint to the litter department, have heard nothing else.

Bobking · 23-04-2014 6:27pm

It appears we all agree that the offending politicians couldn't care less about the law or the rules. Here also, http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/elections/candidates-facing-fines-for-putting-posters-up-early-30209707.html Paul Murphy offers the excuse that someone else did it so he felt this freed him from obligation to the rules.

Also the roundabout in the picture looks dangerous because of the signage. Talk about spam.

Does anyone know of a way we can "hardly count as breaking the rules" in removing these signs?
Ideally I would like to perform a public duty and make my roads safer but either way they got to go.

Any graffiti artist in the area want some free space?
This sign is spam as is the next and the next.

Sierra Oscar · 23-04-2014 10:38pm

Under law the signs are private property, so interfering with them is illegal. There are quite specific regulations that have to be adhered to (can't be under 6ft on a pole and you can't block junctions for example), so you can report the offending posters to the council.

upaho · 14-10-2014 3:18pm

The Crowne Plaza in Blanch SC has been using it's facade as a billboard for years with posters advertising various events. Most recent one has a large wedding pic and a smaller one with details that I presume they will update as time passes. It's not as if they couldn't afford advertising space.

CrabRevolution · 14-10-2014 6:16pm

punisher5112 wrote: »

The we buy your car for cash signs do my head in and they don't seem to be getting fined as they just keep putting up more.

Old post but these stickers annoy me more and more lately. Can the Gardaí not ring the numbers on them (they have several different ones) pretending to sell a car, and then nail them for littering/defacement on a massive scale?

punisher5112 · 14-10-2014 9:40pm

CrabRevolution wrote: »

Old post but these stickers annoy me more and more lately. Can the Gardaí not ring the numbers on them (they have several different ones) pretending to sell a car, and then nail them for littering/defacement on a massive scale?

They should.

Also prank call them anyone that sees them up.

Numbers should be blocked right away.

Posters and the Litter Act

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