Councillors cry stroke as they vote down election poster ban

By TONY GALVIN

IT was a case of do as we say, not as we do, when members of Galway Co Council voted down a proposal to ban their own election posters in the county for good.

The selfless proposal to ban election posters as part of the council’s drive against litter was put forward by Cllr Michael ‘Stroke’ Fahy who told a meeting in County Hall on Monday that no politician had ever got a vote “up a pole”. He said he had made a unilateral decision to dispense with the litter-prone practice of postering and focus instead on the doorstep which was where, he assured the members, the real votes were to be got. 

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