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A FIANNA FÁIL candidate for next month’s European elections says that she will investigate how her election posters were erected four days early.
Polling rules say that election posters are allowed be placed on lampposts in the month running up to voting. With elections not due until the 23 May, Mary Fitzpatrick’s posters have been put up four days early.
This is in breach of Dublin City Council protocols and the Litter Pollution Act 1997, putting Fitzpatrick, who is a member of Dublin City Council, at risk of fines of over €100.
The posters were spotted around the Battle of Clontarf festival, which is expected to attract thousands of people to the north Dublin area this weekend.
Local TD Aodhan Ó’Ríordáin tweeted a picture of the posters, and told TheJournal.ie that Fitzpatrick was “flouting the regulations”.
“This flouting of the regulations goes to show what Fianna Fáil think of the regulations.
“Particularly as there is a massive community festival taking place here. It’s a poor show by somebody who should know better.”
Under regulations, posters that are connected to public meetings can be posted, but election posters may not.
A spokesperson for Mary Fitzpatrick said that the issue came down to new volunteers.
“The Mary Fitzpatrick campaign is receiving new volunteers looking for ways to help every day. We will look into how this happened.”
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Fantastic recognition. Proper order too that these great women are celebrated. Too long have women been written out of Irish history. This is a refreshing change for the better.
Great article and great to see these women being recognised…. Fair dues to all! Good job they weren’t nuns or we’d be inundated with the anti nun brigade even though there were lots of well intentioned religious who did similar when the state abandoned their responsibilities.
@Jerriko17: One good nun or priest, remaining so, if they were aware of what was going on in their religious institutions, are guilty by; Association.
@ÓDuibhír Abú: Typical!!!!!!!… Seemingly only nuns and priests can be guilty by association. Maybe those voted for the government of the times were guilty by association too. What a load of…… !
Great women. Makes you wonder how much more of an impact women like these would have had on the growing state without the dominant church influence.
@Lad_ Well we know that they had no personal involvement with men at all being as far as we know in a lesbian relationship for decades .This.gave them the freedom to concentrate on their important work something that would be impssible for most married catholic women , under strict instructions from the church to be forever bearing and rearing children , while being simultaneously without proper recognition in law ,
Fantastic to see, especially during pride month!
Better late than never .These women came from privileged ,enlightened backgrounds for which we.can only be truly grateful .They had great courage and energy and achieved what they did largely one suspects because they weren’t as suppressed and depressed as so many catholic women were .
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