Third Carlow village joins national campaign to go 'poster free' for Local Election

A national campaign called www.posterfree.ie has been launched, encouraging all Local and European Election candidates to go poster free, and it has successfully secured over 100 poster free areas.

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Several of those are in Carlow with Leighlinbridge and Rathvilly among those signed up to the campaign. 

Now Clonegal has joined the campaign - making it the third Carlow village to take part. 

The poster free areas equates to over 11% of 2018 Tidy Town entrants.

Campaigners are calling for a national voluntary ban to ensure a poster free election.

It is a joint campaign by Séamus Maguire (Independent Donegal councillor) and David Weitbrecht (ZeroWaste.ie) encouraging all candidates to go poster free this May in both Local and European elections. 

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