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Posters and Ads on Rahoon Rd

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  • 06-10-2011 10:30am
    #1
    inisboffin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭


    Folks, does anyone know the legality of people posting cardboard ads and posters (usually on lampposts) on the roads?
    The Rahoon Rd, for example (From B O'D road up towards Bóthar Stiofán) is starting to turn into an advertising strip!

    I think the presidential ones are legal enough, and tbh I don't have a problem with ones like an arrow or *one* sign for the Daybreak shop (as it's in an estate), but there ones advertising Capone's 'specials, ones advertising Mc Donalds, The home brew shop in Liosbán etc. Thery're not even directions to, some of them are simply just ads!

    A few are badly put up and are now half hanging. Do people have permits to put these up? Are these not litter? Doesn't seem like the Council give a hoot if so


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    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Call the Council's environment section to remove the offending posters.


    Also any election posters should be 2.3 metres above footpaths, cycle tracks or any area to which pedestrians have access. The Council also have to remove these or contact the candidates concerned if they fail to meet guidelines.


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    inisboffin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭inisboffin


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Call the Council's environment section to remove the offending posters.


    Also any election posters should be 2.3 metres above footpaths, cycle tracks or any area to which pedestrians have access. The Council also have to remove these or contact the candidates concerned if they fail to meet guidelines.

    Thanks. So they are illegal then? There's a few near a friend's house off the main road, she may even snip them herself!


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    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Yeah, all those private boards are prohibited unless authorised by the Council. You normally see them go up when there is an election campaign when they 'merge' with legitimate posters, or on a friday to monday morning, as there is a perception that the wardens don't work on the weekend.
    These posters are the property of the advertiser, so if your friend takes them, it could be viewed as theft :)


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    #5
    inisboffin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭inisboffin


    snubbleste wrote: »
    These posters are the property of the advertiser, so if your friend takes them, it could be viewed as theft :)

    Ha ha! Aren't they the same as 'finding' something on the road then? If she hands them in to Mill St, surely she's covered? ;)


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