Businesses get warning over illegal advertising

More than 200 businesses have been warned that they face fines from next week for placing advertising ‘sleeves’ on bollards around the city centre.

In recent years, it has become commonplace for advertising to be placed on Council-owned permanent bollards – usually erected to prevent parking on footpaths.

From Monday, Galway City Council will be issuing on-the-spot fines of €150 unless the sleeves and free-standing sandwich board ads are removed.

Persistent offenders, or businesses who fail to pay a fine, can be prosecuted under the Litter Pollution Act 1997.

A spokesperson for the Council told the Galway City Tribune: “More than 200 businesses have been written to, and we have also notified Galway Chamber and the Galway City Business Association, to give them all sufficient time to remove them.”

For more on the litter crackdown, see this week’s Galway City Tribune