Sir, – Philip O'Reilly (March 1st) is quite wrong in stating that election posters serve no useful purpose. After each election I collect about 20 or so at random (including ties!) and they often come in handy. Indeed, when the recent hurricane blew in the glass in my living-room window, I was immediately able to make it weather-tight with a poster of a prominent TD. My neighbour's comment on seeing it summed it rather neatly: "It's the most useful thing the man has ever done."
Perhaps election posters of sitting TDs should by law remain permanently on posts – just to remind people every day exactly who is responsible for the mess the country is in? – Yours, etc,
BILL BAILEY,
Kilcascan,
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Ballineen, Co Cork.