Campaign against election posters launched

AS election candidates in Kerry pick up the pieces and count the cost of posters torn from poles during yesterday’s violent gusts of wind, image-conscious Killarney has declared all-out war on public displays of election literature.

The tourism capital is determined that attractive shop facades and carefully maintained street-scapes will not be overshadowed by giant snapshots of grinning election hopefuls.

The has been a long-standing political pact in Killarney — officially Ireland’s tidiest large town — that posters will not be erected in the picturesque urban area and now Tralee and Listowel plan to follow that example.