Five towns across Donegal and five local election candidates have made a commitment to not use plastic posters in the upcoming council elections.
The climate-conscious move is part of a nationwide campaign to have poster free elections in Ireland.
One hundred and fifty towns nationwide have signed up to be poster free areas this May – which is the equivalent to over 15% of 2018 Tidy Town entrants.
In Donegal, you won’t be seeing any political posters on polls in Annagry, Bundoran, Donegal Town, Glenties and Kilcar.
The local election candidates who have shunned posters for their campaigns are: Seamus Maguire, Tom Conaghan, Seán O’Beirne, Seamus Rodgers and Michael McBride.
PosterFree.ie is a joint campaign by Independent Donegal Councillor Séamus Maguire and David Weitbrecht of ZeroWaste.ie, which is now calling for a national voluntary ban to mark the beginning of the end for plastic election posters.
An estimated 600,000 posters were erected across the country in the 2014 local elections.
Election campaigns will kick off next week, when it will be legal to erect election posters again.
Despite this, Poster Free are calling on all current and future representatives to take note of the calls by children who are demanding climate action, the Tidy Towns Committees, the voters and the planet.
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