Cork City Local Elections - 7 June 2024

Going by the leaflets left in my letter box, two candidates for Cork NW are:

Louise Jordan (GP)

Michelle Gould (SF)

it’s high time election posters were done away with. They’re all eye sores, adds to litter, not exactly environmentally friendly and do any of us actually decide who we’re voting on based on a poster?? They’re not cheap either so I’m surprised they’re still a thing.

Well, what’s the alternative? Not everyone is online / on X / on Facebook etc, so social media won’t get your campaign to everyone.

I know some countries on the continent have walls for pasted posters around, but idk if this is complimented with leaflet drops.

We’ve had a small handful of leaflets in. One came from a National Party or Ireland First type fella. I’m sure without coincidence it was dropped in the middle of the night when no one would have been awake to challenge them…

I've gotten leaflets in the door from Sin Fein and The Greens, despite having a, "no junk mail", sign. They don't seem to accept that their leaflets do not have a name or address on them, so are junkmail!

A ban will suit incumbents. Annoys me to see tidy town groups force a no-poster policy. It's undemocratic (not their job, not their place) but also smacks of an agreement, by those who have seats and a profile, to keep out other candidates, especially those in smaller parties or less-established groupings.

Whatever about banning leaflet drops, they could respect, "no junk mail", signs.

@Brussels Sprout ,"As for the leaflets - it's hardly a great imposition to put it in the bin if you're not interested."

That, entirely, misses the point!

Anything that doesn't have a name and address on it is junk mail. (actual local or national government notices excepted)

I agree

Why? Not disagreeing (or agreeing), just curious on your reasoning

Does anyone have a list of South East candidates? From what I could find

FINE GAEL:
Des Cahill, Deirdre Forde, Barry O’Brien
LABOUR:
Peter Horgan
GREENS:
Honore Kamegni
SOC DEMS:
Susan Doyle

Is there a list of candidates available yet, I'm south central.

Nominations

The period for receipt of nominations for the local elections begins at 10 am on Saturday, May 11 2024 and ends at 12 noon on Saturday, May 18 2024. https://www.corkcity.ie/en/council-services/news-room/latest-news/information-on-the-upcoming-local-elections.html

@Brussels Sprout Nominations haven't been done yet, going by the above?

There need to be rules on the amount of posters you can hang in a certain radius. I have not forgotten your name and face between one pole to the next, or the next 10 poles

I was driving on the Rochestown Road by the Centra garage. At one point I could see 7 posters for the same candidate (Mary Rose Desmond from Fianna Fáil) which seemed excessive. This would have been in the space of maybe 100 metres. I've heard that she's absolutely deluged Coach Hill too…

Posters are important to get the face out there, but excessive postering is bloody annoying. One theory is that it is both to get the face out but also to block poles from other candidates.

Very difficult to find a list of who's running. I was searching this morning for who's running in Cork North East - there doesn't appear to be a list anywhere. There is a list for the European candidates so I've had a chance to see what they all stand for, but not the local candidates.

and the other wards are at the bottom of the page.

There's an older, "Ireland is full" type, character coming up on my YouTube ads!

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Is there anywhere we can view all the applicants from our area and their manifestos?

Thats the crowd who've been behind a campaign of harrasment against libraries, in particular the City Library in the Grand Parade. That work dodging knuckledragger Ross Lahive is actually running as a canditate for them.

I reckon it's cheap posters. I can't see why someone would target his posters specifically and why they'd do it so randomly and around the place. They're very shoddy looking though...