'Banning them is a red herring': Why election candidates are standing over their use of posters

'Banning them is a red herring': Election candidates and political experts defend use of posters for political campaigns

Election posters on lamp posts in Dublin City centre yesterday Image: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie Election posters on lamp posts in Dublin City centre yesterday Image: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie IT’S LESS THAN a month until this year’s local and European elections take place, with voters beginning to familiarise themselves with candidates ahead of both votes on 24 May.

And earlier this week, a local Tidy Towns group in south Dublin made headlines after sending an email saying that all posters erected in the area would be “removed & destroyed ASAP” .Dr Jane Suiter, associate professor at the school of communications at Dublin City University, doesn’t think so.“They let people know that there’s an election happening, and they introduce the idea of politics and participation into society.

“They can afford to pay for billboards, advertisements at bus stops, and so on, so I think that posters give people and constituents a chance.” A further 5% of those polled said that they don’t listen to the radio, 7% said they didn’t watch TV news, and 20% said they didn’t read a newspaper. While Flynn tells TheJournal.ie that his posters are re-used and sometimes recycled into objects like flower pots, others believe there are more environmentally friendly ways to canvas votes from the public.

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