Candidates use election posters to choose which face to present to the world

Election posters give us an insight ito the minds of our local candidates - and, in turn, an insight into how they want us to see them, writes Clodagh Finn

THERE, large as life, was Alfred Hitchcock, his head in characteristic silhouette filling up most of the billboard space. Could the Master of Suspense really be standing for election to the 32nd Dáil? What else was a floating voter to think?

From a distance, it was impossible to make out his election slogan, but it must surely be something like: “Give them what they want — a fright.”