ELECTION posters have been put up in various parts of Shannon over the last week, away from an area the local Tidy Towns group want candidates to confine them to.
There is no legal impediment to people putting up their posters, but the local Tidy Towns group have requested that people not put them up away from a previously designated area at the roundabout closest to the Lidl Store.
However, there are other views and councillor and former Senator Tony Mulcahy (FG) said that there is a democratic imperative to allow people to use posters to inform the public of their options, while he said the previously designated area was terribly unsuitable anyway.
“It’s ridiculous. If there were a half a dozen designated areas it might be possible to work with something like that,” said Councillor Mulcahy.
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Owen Ryan has been a journalist with the Clare Champion since 2007, having previously worked with a number of other publications in Limerick, Cork and Galway. His first book will be published in December 2024.