City councillor’s shed full of corriboard, and a poster ban!

Bradley Bytes – a sort of political column by Dara Bradley

Galway City Councillors’ vote to ban election posters (subject to legal advice) appears to have taken some members off-guard.

Bradley Bytes has been reliably informed, from a number of sources, that at least one elected member, who will be seeking re-election, had already purchased posters for the local elections next May, long before the notice of motion banning posters was passed in the Chamber last Monday week.

It means that somewhere in this great city of ours, there is €4,000 worth of corriboard posters lying redundant in a shed, and will mostly likely never see the light of day, if the vote to ban posters is upheld. Fail to prepare, prepare to fail, they say. But if you prepare too early, you might fail too.

Endangered species attend extinction rally

Given the Labour Party was almost wiped out in the last general election, and haemorrhaged support in the local elections in Galway City nearly five years ago, Labour voters are an endangered species.

It was only fitting then that the party’s chairperson in Galway West, Andrew Ó Baoill, let people know, via a press release that, “Labour participate in Extinction and Climate Rebellion in Salthill”.

The handful of Labourites that aren’t already extinct, that is.

For more Bradley Bytes about Galway 2020 and one councillor’s engagement, see this week’s Galway City Tribune