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Election Poster touching property

  • 20-02-2016 3:34pm
    #1
    dashdoll
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 660 ✭✭✭


    Wondering if someone can help me out with this.

    My parents house is on a main Street.....a terraced house.

    An election poster has been erected on a pole on the footpath that is at the gable end of the house. Basically the poster is tipping off the wall of their house as it's so low.

    Can they do anything about this?

    Thanks in advance.


Comments

  • #2
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    Is it causing a problem for them?
    ie: causing shade or making noise in the wind?

    They could always call the candidate in question to remove it.

    Or just take it down if it is reachable.
    It won't be the end of the world if they did.


  • #3
    athtrasna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,420 ✭✭✭✭athtrasna


    BoJack Horseman wrote: »
    Or just take it down if it is reachable.
    It won't be the end of the world if they did.

    That would be interfering with property belonging to someone else. Not the end of the world but not entirely legal either.

    Contact the candidate or their party. A quick call or email will sort it.


  • #4
    BunkMoreland
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 820 ✭✭✭BunkMoreland


    Tear it down ta ****


  • #5
    BunkMoreland
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 820 ✭✭✭BunkMoreland


    athtrasna wrote: »
    property belonging to someone else.

    Paid for with the public purse so we all own it.


  • #6
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    BunkMoreland wrote: »
    Paid for with the public purse so we all own it.

    I hadn't thought of that. Now excuse me, I'm off to occupy my local Garda station. I may even bring a garda home to tidy up my garden since I own him.


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  • #7
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,768 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    It is a rather trivial issue, but while property is a right (the poster) it is one the state on numerous occasions can lessen in importance as it sees fit and must also be placed in the context of other people's rights (as in the right not to have their own property used as locus for advertisement). Simplest is best, and athtrasna's advice seems the most reasonable.


  • #8
    dashdoll
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 660 ✭✭✭dashdoll


    Thanks for the replies guys.

    Their main issue with it was who the poster for....a candidate with a rather colourful background for a party whos leader has a rather colourful background to say the least.

    Anyway problem solved....the poster was gone this morning. Looks like it was taken down last night, our main suspect is the neighbour across the road who previously ran for a different party!

    Thanks anyway.


  • #9
    dashdoll
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 660 ✭✭✭dashdoll


    I wouldn't say it's a trivial issue either when an someone who 'was never' a member of the IRA' face is plastered on a poster leaning against your house.

    They can put their ****e somewhere else.

    Hopefully they will all come down as quick as they went up.


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    dashdoll wrote: »
    I wouldn't say it's a trivial issue either when an someone who 'was never' a member of the IRA' face is plastered on a poster leaning against your house.

    They can put their ****e somewhere else.

    Hopefully they will all come down as quick as they went up.


    I'm no SF lover, but jesus... :rolleyes:


    Anyway, I believe there is a bye-law or such somewhere that states they must be hung at a minimum height (so blind people are clattering into them, for example). You reference it was hung very low in your OP.


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