Election poster shenanigans costs candidate

Election posters have been re-appearing on telegraph poles around the county almost two months after the election, much to the consternation of the politicians involved! Former county council chairman, Liz McCormack, was recently fined for having a poster at Kilskyre on 10th July, but she is adamant that it hadn't been there a few days before. "I will be paying the fine. I am responsible for my posters, my name is on them, but I am sure that poster was put up after the election," she said this week. "I drove up there to a funeral recently, spotted the poster and had it removed, but received a fine dated a few days prior to my seeing it," the former council chairperson, who lost her seat in the June local elections, went on. "A week or two before I was also on that road with a number of youngsters from the No Name Club. The poster definitely wasn't there at that stage," she said. The former councillor said she was fully behind the council's anti-litter league and had ensured that her posters were taken down after the election. She said the poster at Kilskyre looked as if it hadn't been out very long, as it was in good condition and she believed it was taken down during the election campaign but put up again some time after the poll. A number of other local politicians are believed to have experienced similar incidents and posters of Worker's Party candidates appeared on poles in the Kildakey area recently, despite the fact that the party did not run candidates anywhere in Meath. A spokesperson for Meath County Council said a total of 16 fixed penalty notices were issued for election posters that were displayed outside the timeframe allowed. The fines were issued to a total of nine election candidates, including local and European candidates. He said that there had been a number of posters discovered in recent weeks that looked as if they hadn't been there for the duration of the election campaign, and which may have been put up by someone other than the candidates representatives after the election.