Offaly candidate calls for single dedicated area for election posters in towns and villages

Offaly Minister and general election candidate Pippa Hackett has called for a single dedicated area to display election campaign posters in town and villages.

The Green Party representative said the designated areas for posters would help to strike a balance between "informing the electorate vs littering and wasting resources".

"In early October, I wrote to the CEO and Cathaoirleach of Offaly County Council regarding preparations for this next General Election asking that the Council consider introducing designated areas within every town and village for each election candidate to display a poster," Minster Hackett said.

"I believe that a designated area in a public space, with room for one specific sized poster from each candidate, within or along the main thoroughfare or square of a town or village would not only serve the electorate, but also our precious democratic process, better."

Highlighting that a number of Tidy Towns groups have asked that no posters are erected within their towns, the candidate has said she has toyed with the idea of foregoing postering.

"Postering is part and parcel of our democratic process, but this aspect too, like so many others, needs to move with the times."