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As we head into St Valentine’s Day many of the city councillors will have their eye on two dates - February 14 and June 5.

The American columnist Franklin P Adams wrote in 1944 that: “Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.”

Catherine Connolly, Donal Lyons, Niall Ó Brolcháin, and John Mulholland look set to retain their seats in Galway City West but there will be a major battle between Fianna Fáil, Labour, and Independents for the fifth seat.

Galway must look its best during the Volvo Ocean Race and if politicians care about how the city will look to the world during May, they will voluntarily agree to no election posters anywhere in the city.

At Monday’s Galway City Council meeting, Independent Cllr Donal Lyons will call for a “voluntary ban on all political posters in the city area for the forthcoming Local and European elections”.

At next Monday’s Galway City Council meeting, Independent Cllr Donal Lyons will call for a “voluntary ban on all political posters in the city area for the forthcoming Local and European elections”.

There is a growing movement - or, more accurately, a growing feeling - that the day of the election poster is coming to an end.

The voluntary ban on all election posters during the Volvo Ocean Race is a chance for candidates to show they have the interests of the city at heart by refraining from “plastering their own faces up and down the length” of the Green Dragon Route.

Five Independents will stand for election in Galway City West for June’s Local Elections, however one of those candidates claims he is the only truly non-aligned Independent with no party past.

Back in the 1980s I was a huge fan and avid reader of Oink! comic. It was like a children’s version of Viz, but where Viz is vulgar and boorish, Oink! was anarchic, witty, and had clever satire of society and politics in a way adults could also appreciate.