Election Posters Being Sabotaged in Donegal

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On Highland this morning, Cllr Jimmy Harte (LK) and Cllr Gareth Reid (FV) were on talking about their large billboards being sabotaged during the night. (not sure if related incidents)

Jimmy said a few of his were targeted

Gareth said every one of their posters were covered in spray paint, I think his image was targeted in them all. There were about 40 of them he said.

It was all the FG team posters and they were targeted.

From listenin to the wireless, it wasnt a few fellas messing around, it had to be organised. The Stranorlar EA is a pretty big area to be going around doing that in the middle of the night.

Obviously no other party's posters were touched.

Any other areas in Donegal having the same problem? Or has someone just got it in for Harte & Reid

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On Highland this morning, Cllr Jimmy Harte (LK) and Cllr Gareth Reid (FV) were on talking about their large billboards being sabotaged during the night. (not sure if related incidents)

Jimmy said a few of his were targeted

Gareth said every one of their posters were covered in spray paint, I think his image was targeted in them all. There were about 40 of them he said.

It was all the FG team posters and they were targeted.

From listenin to the wireless, it wasnt a few fellas messing around, it had to be organised. The Stranorlar EA is a pretty big area to be going around doing that in the middle of the night.

Obviously no other party's posters were touched.

Any other areas in Donegal having the same problem? Or has someone just got it in for Harte & Reid

On needs to be very careful in publicising such organised sabotaging.. in some cases it can be self sabotage while trying to garner a sympathy vote

Usually sabotage is random, like writing "crook" on a FF poster or some such

Mind you, Donegal people can be strange

[Ah Well]

On Highland this morning, Cllr Jimmy Harte (LK) and Cllr Gareth Reid (FV) were on talking about their large billboards being sabotaged during the night. (not sure if related incidents)

Jimmy said a few of his were targeted

Gareth said every one of their posters were covered in spray paint, I think his image was targeted in them all. There were about 40 of them he said.

It was all the FG team posters and they were targeted.

From listenin to the wireless, it wasnt a few fellas messing around, it had to be organised. The Stranorlar EA is a pretty big area to be going around doing that in the middle of the night.

Obviously no other party's posters were touched.

Any other areas in Donegal having the same problem? Or has someone just got it in for Harte & Reid

What do LK and FV stand for? Letterkenny and ....???

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Urgent message to Dermot Ahern, re-deploy the gardai from Rossport to go on poster patrol.This is the first incident ever recorded of an election poster been sabotaged. Is nothing sacred?

Seriously, are we going to have a thread for every poster attacked?

[Ah Well]

Urgent message to Dermot Ahern, re-deploy the gardai from Rossport to go on poster patrol.This is the first incident ever recorded of an election poster been sabotaged. Is nothing sacred?

Seriously, are we going to have a thread for every poster attacked?

Noticed a FF one here having been twisted round as adjoined the GAA pitch. Was gone after the match. No doubt someone took it home to affectionately hang it behind the bed

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What do LK and FV stand for? Letterkenny and ....???

Sorry, Finn Valley or Stranorlar EA.

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On needs to be very careful in publicising such organised sabotaging.. in some cases it can be self sabotage while trying to garner a sympathy vote

Usually sabotage is random, like writing "crook" on a FF poster or some such

Mind you, Donegal people can be strange

do you mean like this?



I was thinking the same...

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On needs to be very careful in publicising such organised sabotaging.. in some cases it can be self sabotage while trying to garner a sympathy vote

Usually sabotage is random, like writing "crook" on a FF poster or some such

Mind you, Donegal people can be strange

Leave us Donegal people alone thank you very much!

Yeah I know the whole craic with writing stuff but Hartes & the FG ones were just sprayed randomly, I think it was longer hair and beards...that type of thing. But the end result is that FG have 50 billboards which they now have to dump because they are no good!

mmmm.......what would people write on mine..........

[Mr.Ograff]

Oh theres been a fair few poster stories down here.
Like last year for Lisbon. I remember putting up 20 posters around my local area. Three days later 3 of them were missing. Four days another three. So I returned and put 6 more up higher than the last ones. Next Day all were down and noticed that Fine Gael ones were down.

So to spite the people who were doing it I climbed the ladder and stuck up another one another foot higher.
Again all were taken down.

Last European election Markian Harkins posters were drilled through with a drill/screwdriver and some local elections ones had the usual artist impression.

[Gabha Óir]

do you mean like this?



I was thinking the same...

Did they really have to waste their time spraying 'black'?