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Whoever Took Down the Election Posters...

  • 11-10-2009 4:25pm
    #1
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,063 ✭✭✭✭


    ...just threw those white plastic tie tag things on the ground all over the city, they should be tracked down and fined for that, Im seeing them everywhere, even found one in the mudguard of my bike :mad:

    Another litter related matter, the little canal beside Dunnes Terryland is a disgrace, it looks like a town dump, completely carpeted in litter. I dont understand why they cut back all the bushes to expose it and then just left it there, even worse is that it doesnt have to be that way, a little bit of a clean-up and some trees planted and it would be a nice little green area like the way it is down at the bridge beside Galway Bay FM and the car wash, there are already swans, ducks and waterhens swimming around in there, as it is now though they're swimming around election posters, traffic cones, cans/bottles and tons of plastic.

    Does anyone know what the best person/place is to complain about this? Im going to actually do it this time.


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Thargor wrote: »
    Does anyone know what the best person/place is to complain about this? Im going to actually do it this time.
    Complain here:
    http://www.galwaycity.ie/AllServices/Environment/Litter/IllegalDumping/
    Do something constructive here:
    http://www.nationalspringclean.org/what-can-i-do.php?pagetype=home
    Edit: Vote this way:
    http://www.greenparty.ie/ga/


  • #3
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Nothing stopping you donning a pair of marigolds and engaging in some civic spirit OP

    Also the amount of broken glass at the side of the road/on bike path is unreal these last few weeks


  • #4
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    Thargor wrote: »
    ...just threw those white plastic tie tag things on the ground all over the city, they should be tracked down and fined for that, Im seeing them everywhere, even found one in the mudguard of my bike :mad:

    Another litter related matter, the little canal beside Dunnes Terryland is a disgrace, it looks like a town dump, completely carpeted in litter. I dont understand why they cut back all the bushes to expose it and then just left it there, even worse is that it doesnt have to be that way, a little bit of a clean-up and some trees planted and it would be a nice little green area like the way it is down at the bridge beside Galway Bay FM and the car wash, there are already swans, ducks and waterhens swimming around in there, as it is now though they're swimming around election posters, traffic cones, cans/bottles and tons of plastic.

    Does anyone know what the best person/place is to complain about this? Im going to actually do it this time.
    They took the posters down. That was what they were told to do. If you feel so strongly do something useful about it.


  • #5
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    They took the posters down. That was what they were told to do. If you feel so strongly do something useful about it.

    Whoever put up the posters are also required to remove the tags, not just the posters.


  • #6
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Whoever put up the posters are also required to remove the tags, not just the posters.
    Didn't know. Sorry. OP is fairly right so.


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  • #7
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,063 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Complain here:
    http://www.galwaycity.ie/AllServices/Environment/Litter/IllegalDumping/
    Do something constructive here:
    http://www.nationalspringclean.org/what-can-i-do.php?pagetype=home
    Edit: Vote this way:
    http://www.greenparty.ie/ga/
    Thanks for those PG633, will post if I get a response, I already vote Green too.
    snubbleste wrote: »
    Nothing stopping you donning a pair of marigolds and engaging in some civic spirit OP

    Also the amount of broken glass at the side of the road/on bike path is unreal these last few weeks
    Well I pay taxes and I expect those taxes to go towards clean roads and green areas, this job would be way too big for me on my own anyway. Agree about the glass everywhere, had 2 flat tyres on my bike in the last 2 weeks, it was 18 months since my last one before that.
    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    They took the posters down. That was what they were told to do. If you feel so strongly do something useful about it.
    Bit of a stupid thing to say, did you even read what I wrote? What am I supposed to do about my complaint in my OP? Travel back in time and walk behind their truck picking up the plastic as they throw it on the ground? Try to reason with people that are that ignorant and oblivious of their environment?


  • #8
    kinetic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 431 ✭✭kinetic


    I found 1 on the tow bar of my jeep,i did wonder where it came from.


  • #9
    Chris_533976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭Chris_533976


    Theres a ton of posters still up. Mr Eamon Gilmore should come take his down.


  • #10
    CliffHuxtabel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 407 ✭✭CliffHuxtabel


    Thargor wrote: »
    ...just threw those white plastic tie tag things on the ground all over the city, they should be tracked down and fined for that, Im seeing them everywhere, even found one in the mudguard of my bike :mad:


    so true...they were strewn all along my walking route home yesterday....itll take about 1000 years for them to break down


  • #11
    civis_liberalis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭civis_liberalis


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Nothing stopping you donning a pair of marigolds and engaging in some civic spirit OP

    I don't mean to sound like a smartarse, we pay taxes in order that things such as this don't happen.


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  • #12
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    CliffHuxtabel wrote: »
    so true...they were strewn all along my walking route home yesterday....itll take about 1000 years for them to break down

    You make them sound like land mines.


  • #13
    DD67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭DD67


    As well as all the ones on the ground there is as many still left on the poles, sticking out ready to take someones eye out.


  • #14
    paconnors
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭paconnors


    Thargor wrote: »
    Thanks for those PG633, will post if I get a response, I already vote Green too.
    you feelin proud at the moment.


  • #15
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,063 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    paconnors wrote: »
    you feelin proud at the moment.
    Well judging by the new programme for government in the paper this morning Im fairly happy with what they've done, especially phasing out fur-farming, wouldnt say Im proud of the way the country has been run but compared to the other 3 parties or SF or someone? Yes, Im pleased and wouldn't vote for anyone else.


  • #16
    paconnors
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭paconnors


    Thargor wrote: »
    Well judging by the new programme for government in the paper this morning Im fairly happy with what they've done, especially phasing out fur-farming, wouldnt say Im proud of the way the country has been run but compared to the other 3 parties or SF or someone? Yes, Im pleased and wouldn't vote for anyone else.

    well enjoy it while it lasts for the remainig 2 years cause they aint gonna see the inside of the dail again. unless there on a tour of course


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