By Dionne Meehan
INDEPENDENT Councillor Micheál Cholm Mac Giolla Easbuig has announced that he will contest this year’s local elections without the use of election posters.
Making the decision to run his campaign without posters, Cllr Mac Giolla Easbuig told the Donegal News that it is something he believes the community prefers.
“They find posters unsightly and especially when cable ties are left on the roadsides and strapped around poles.
“We can clearly see from the emails that we get from tidy towns asking for no election posters in our villages and it is about respecting that and also respecting the countryside.
“At the end of the day, if you are doing the work the public will reward you and it shouldn’t be about what face is on a pole at the side of the road,” he said.
Instead of erecting posters, Cllr Mac Giolla Easbuig said he will be concentrating on knocking on doors, spending time with people and hearing what people have to say.
“Since elected in 2014 there is hardly a week that passes that I don’t randomly knock on doors.
“I believe that is where it is at, doing your work, knocking on doors and listening to people and what they have to say,” he said.