Election Poster Overload

Madame Razz

Is it just me, or is anybody else looking forward to seeing all of those bloody election posters coming down after this Friday??? They have the place destroyed. They seem to have gone into overload/overkill mode with them all, I'm sick of the stupid pictures, the stupid slogans and the false rhetoric so many of them demonstrate. I even saw one with a pic of Healy Eames jogging.

I mean, really, who needs to see that?

The stupider your poster is, the less likely I am to vote for you. Also, you should take care to send your poster putter-uppers out in more modest vehicles, a certain party had a person in an E Class Merc wearing boat shoes, chinos, and a bobby blazer plastering the city with posters the other day....not very true to their socialist roots....

And a poster citing 'agri-business' when you have quite clearly never been on a farm in your life, and wouldn't know one end of a cow from another is slightly stupid, no??

And Mr O Brolchain, it is not wise putting big posters of your face on roundabouts, it's a safety hazard and only makes people want to drive at you, the stupid slogans which accompany your face on said posters just increase that desire even more....

Frankeen looks even dumber on a turquoise and pink background too btw....

Zzippy

Aw come on down off that fence, tell us what you really think!

Madame Razz

Zzippy wrote: »

Aw come on down off that fence, tell us what you really think!

Sorry, but seeing the Healy Eames jogging poster earlier was the final straw for me:pac:

Das Kitty

Do you remember a good few years ago when Niall was running (not sure if it was general, local or MEP) and he had cloth posters?

He dropped that idea like a hot potato.

I've noticed that there has been some vandalism of some posters, for example on the headford road roundabout Grealish's posters Have now got PD written on them. One of Hildegarde's has "Tories + FF = FG" and another one of hers has something really demeaning on it that I'm not going to post here.

Madame Razz

I saw some abuse on some Frank Fahy posters(Quelle Surprise:p), and a few Hitler moustaches on the Micheal Martin ones, they didn't use a proper permanent marker tho, so they didn't last...

biko

Yeah they're on pretty much every single lamp post by now.
It's like they're hoping for at least a vote per poster...

Tommyboyjedi

fail posters

cats.life

saw a poster with VOTE FOR CUBBORD, think his name is mick or pat or something, i was thinking he was so lucky that he was not named aidan . thought it was a joke, it would read VOTE FOR'' A CUBBORD'':D

Pure Sound

cats.life wrote: »

saw a poster with VOTE FOR CUBBORD, think his name is mick or pat or something, i was thinking he was so lucky that he was not named aidan . thought it was a joke, it would read VOTE FOR'' A CUBBORD'':D

His name is Mike Cubbard and he is an independent, very mature of you digging at someones surname Are you still in primary school??

cats.life

We Need Community wrote: »

His name is Mike Cubbard and he is an independent, very mature of you digging at someones surname Are you still in primary school??

oh lighten up will ya mike there are alot of posters being messed with why is what i said any different, im sorry

cranky bollix

Madame Razz wrote: »

I saw some abuse on some Frank Fahy posters(Quelle Surprise:p), and a few Hitler moustaches on the Micheal Martin ones, they didn't use a proper permanent marker tho, so they didn't last...

fahys posters seem to be getting vandalised systematically on a nightly basis

For example the large poster on the headford road, had "frank fahy working 25 years for galway Frank" wrote on it a few days ago, then later on that day, there were a few lads washing it off.

The next day it was knocked down in the morning, and again there were lads putting it up in the evening, and the cycle continues.. this seems to be happening all around town.

commendable persistence on the vandals part, and its providing employment for the lads who have to repair the damage the following day, hard on the pockets of frank though....:P

Pure Sound

cats.life wrote: »

oh lighten up will ya mike there are alot of posters being messed with why is what i said any different, im sorry

Im not mike but he does post here so I wouldnt want to upset him so close to the election day Sorry I didn't mean to make you sad its just I think slagging someones surname is a bit below the belt, after all they have to live with that name for life

Madame Razz

cranky bollix wrote: »

fahys posters seem to be getting vandalised systematically on a nightly basis

For example the large poster on the headford road, had "frank fahy working 25 years for galway Frank"

Lol:p

dloob

Only a few more hours to the moratorium, a break from politicians on the tv.

AMHRASACH

just where is the money coming from to finance the enormous expense of these posters? Some candidate, one time PD, now independent, has the entire area saturated.

tonyhiggins

Labour has loads of posters down at the docks in the shape of stop signs. Incredibly dumb idea that was.

FouxDaFaFa

Madame Razz wrote: »

I even saw one with a pic of Healy Eames jogging.

That sounds fantastic, whereabouts?

tonyhiggins wrote: »

Labour has loads of posters down at the docks in the shape of stop signs. Incredibly dumb idea that was.

I've seen these. Not a fan of anything that would needlessly distract drivers from the road.

Robbo

What is with our vandals these days that they think they're above doing a classic "cock'n'balls" motif on the posters? The only heartening sight was some devil horns/moustache on a Grealish poster on Taylor's Hill.

Madame Razz

There's one at the back of the hospital(if it lasted the night:p) However, I think they have them plastered elsewhere aswell. As you can imagine, my eyes hurt so much having seen one, that I averted my gaze every time I saw another poster of hers, for fear that I would be traumatised by catching site of one again:p

Zzippy

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

That sounds fantastic, whereabouts?


I've seen these. Not a fan of anything that would needlessly distract drivers from the road.

There's a pic of her jogging in yesterday's Galway Indo. Haven't seen the poster but its prob the same pic...

Hennybug

Is it just me or do the Michael Martin ones remind anyone else of an alien

snubbleste

Hennybug wrote: »

Is it just me or do the Michael Martin ones remind anyone else of an alien

I think it's just you. I've never seen or met an alien.

tonyhiggins

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

I've seen these. Not a fan of anything that would needlessly distract drivers from the road.

So technically, they're in the shape of a yield sign, but all red and with a very large "STOP" written on them that you see from distance. I thought there had been an accident in the harbour area or something as the first time I saw them was on the road down to the Harbour Hotel carpark.

Das Kitty

I saw in the Galway independent yesterday that someone in Galway East has "Glow in the dark" posters. They seem more like they're reflective from the pictures. Can't see how that's a good thing for drivers!

paconnors

Anybody else notice how the Fianna Fail Posters their logo is tiny compaired to other posters

c_man

There's loads of the Labour 'Stop' signs at the traffic lights near Nile Lodge. Sometimes you have to wonder at the stupidity...


The huge Michael Crowe billboard seems to have been driven into on the roundabout by the hospital. But then again they could have been distracted by the poster of FHE doing the run at the side... the goggles, they do nothing

c_man

paconnors wrote: »

Anybody else notice how the Fianna Fail Posters their logo is tiny compaired to other posters

I didn't think it was too bad until the new ghost-Micahel-Martin-over-the-shoulder ones popped up.

N'OB posters have a Green logo about the same size as the facebook and youtube logos.

Madame Razz

On one of Frankeen's 'let's get Galway moving' posters, somebody has written 'let's move Frank on'

Hildegard has been given a fetching moustache and eyebrows in Claregalway, and I came across a Grealish poster with 'gobshyte' written across his forehead.

O Brolchain falls guilty of afterthought on his posters in Oranmore, which feature a page saying 'i say yes to Oranmore railway station' in a plastic pocket and taped to his green pixie poster. Smacks of desperation if you ask me...

O Cuiv wins the 'posters with the least BS' award, his don't even feature that smarmy caring smile the others are so fond of. No pathetic slogans either.

However, he is FF so that pretty much negates the merit of his posters:)

ValerieR

I have to agree with the unsightly posters ... where I come from, France, each village and each 'quarter' of the city has a series of boards on which the candidates can put their poster. They are not allowed to put them elsewhere ... much tidier



I wish Ireland would go for something like this ...

V