Portumna cracks down on election poster boys

Opportunist politicians are trying to sneak a few posters into a South East Galway town – despite a local ban on the practice to avoid littering.

Both the Chamber of Commerce and Tidy Towns Committee in Portumna have banned election postering in the run up to the general election – despite the fact that all candidates have a legal right to erect them.

The Portumna ban was initiated by the Tidy Towns group back in 2016 and, while Fianna Fail’s Anne Rabbitte put up posters in the town at the time, she quickly removed them.

This time, two Government Ministers and a Fine Gael councillor – all standing in Galway East – have dipped their toes in the water by sneaking in a poster or two along the approaches to the town.

Fine Gael’s Minister Ciaran Cannon has erected a few posters between the 60km/h and 80km/h speed limits on the approach to Portumna but he has been informed that not even this is acceptable from a Tidy Towns point of view.

A few posters from Tuam’s Minister Sean Canney also appeared – followed by a handful from Cllr Pete Roche, the Fine Gael candidate from Abbeyknockmoy.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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