Councillor Donal Lyons has expressed disappointment with the “plethora of political posters” around the city, despite his motion asking for a voluntary ban on posters during the Volvo Ocean Race stopover.
The Independent Knocknacarra based councillor said that while the Green Dragon route has been “virtually clear of posters”, the city has become “littered with vast amounts of posters going up on an almost daily basis”.
Cllr Lyons and Fianna Fáil councillor Mary Leahy remain the only two candidates in this year’s election who have refrained from erecting posters.
Cllr Lyons wanted no posters in the city during the Volvo Ocean Race, believing that the city would not look its best if it was covered with politicians faces beaming down from lampposts.
“The city has never looked so well with enormous amount of time and effort being but in by Let’s Do It Galway, etc,” he said. “However the erection of such an amount of political posters has blighted the landscape and has done nothing to enhance or promote the city.”
Cllr Leahy is also unimpressed with the other councillors for failing to adhere to the voluntary ban on posters.
“The blight of ugly posters across our city is a disgrace,” she said. “Labour have been the worst offenders. It is ironic that Labour who claim to promote jobs, have not alone blighted the city with posters, but had their posters printed in Northern Ireland, allowing vat and tax to be paid outside the State.”
