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handing out leaflets in public places

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  • 22-02-2012 12:39am
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    millymash12
    Registered Users Posts: 123 ✭✭


    Hi, I want to hand out a cleverly designed leaflet selling useful products for commuters coming off the dart in the morning, is there any laws to stop me?

    Also, if these commuters throw them on the ground, can I be done for littering.


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    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,055 ✭✭✭✭neris


    I doint think theres anything to stop you handing out flyers on the street but if your standing on the platform or on the station grounds it may be an issue with cie so you would need their permission. as its private land


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    unnameduser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭unnameduser


    I'd imagine that yes you would be responsible for them being thrown on the ground.


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    blue4ever
    Registered Users Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭blue4ever


    neris wrote: »
    I doint think theres anything to stop you handing out flyers on the street but if your standing on the platform or on the station grounds it may be an issue with cie so you would need their permission. as its private land
    STOP!

    1) you are precluded for handing them out in the dart station or any part of In Eireann property - car park etc
    2) You can hand out flyers - in some parts of the city - in others you need a licence from the DCC
    3) you are personally responsible for the litter, regardless if you didn't actually throw it on the ground, you are still responsible - and that comes with a hefty fine for the first offence and gets better as the offences pile up.

    C


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    millymash12
    Registered Users Posts: 123 ✭✭millymash12


    Yes that's what I thought.

    I wasn't planning on handing them out inside the train stations property, my plan was to wait outside a train station and hand them out to people entering the train station, so they could read the leaflet while waiting for the train or while on the train.

    I was wondering why I didn't see more people handing out leaflets more often, how does metro herald get away with it? The papers are everywhere in the mornings.


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    abouttobebanned
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    If you hand them to people in cars then you are bypassing the litter law because they are allowed litter their cars all they want. Just a thought.


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    jeepers101
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    That doesn't really reach his target audience though


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    micosoft
    Registered Users Posts: 2,364 ✭✭✭micosoft


    millymash12 wrote: »

    I was wondering why I didn't see more people handing out leaflets more often, how does metro herald get away with it? The papers are everywhere in the mornings.

    Metro Herald pay handsomely for the privilege and you'll notice their guys on the Luas/Dart after rush hour picking up and bagging their paper.


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    millymash12
    Registered Users Posts: 123 ✭✭millymash12


    Dam, might be a better idea to pay for train billboard advertising so. One of the companies 'bravo' that seems to look after the advertising forget about billboards sometimes, like there was still a poster for the film '127 hours' up months after it was in the cinema, I wonder how effective train billboard advertising is. Has anyone used it before? Do a search on YouTube for 'tesco in Korea' and see what those clever people are up to using train advertising. Very smart.


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    SweetCaliber
    Registered Users Posts: 2,467 ✭✭✭SweetCaliber


    millymash12 wrote: »
    Dam, might be a better idea to pay for train billboard advertising so. One of the companies 'bravo' that seems to look after the advertising forget about billboards sometimes, like there was still a poster for the film '127 hours' up months after it was in the cinema, I wonder how effective train billboard advertising is. Has anyone used it before? Do a search on YouTube for 'tesco in Korea' and see what those clever people are up to using train advertising. Very smart.

    I'd imagine it's quite effective. Although most people on trains usually bring phones, tablets, newspapers and/or books. They don't always look at the advertising. I must say I always do because I casually get bored while on the train and the advertisments do cheer me up for the journey.

    I think the bus would be more effective. Short journey and it's half as awkward to look at the advertisments rather then looking at other passengers. That's what I do anyways.


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    IRE60
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    Also Newspapers (if i remember correctly) are covered by a slightly different law - something in the constitution regarding free speech - but they are still bound by the litter act.


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    IRE60
    Registered Users Posts: 1,881 ✭✭✭IRE60


    lee3155 wrote: »
    I think the bus would be more effective. Short journey and it's half as awkward to look at the advertisments rather then looking at other passengers. That's what I do anyways.

    The didnt get the nod from the buses (as they do in the UK) as it went against their health and safety and was deemed a fire hazard by the powers that be.


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