Callaghan poster ‘disappears’ in record time

IT WAS a case of ‘now you see it, now you don’t’ for a poster featuring Fine Gael candidate Catherine Callaghan at the weekend as party faithful were left scratching their heads by its removal in record time! 

It is customary for politicians to place posters on approach roads in the run-up to Tullow Agricultural Show, so on Saturday evening, Fine Gael party members Derek Conry and Pete Murphy were out hanging Catherine’s posters in the vicinity of the show’s Coppenagh grounds.

But it was the disappearance of Catherine Callaghan’s poster placed at Kill Cross, at the junction of the N81 and the R727, that left party members baffled. “I put a poster up at 8pm on Saturday night and when I passed back by it at 10.15pm it was gone – all that was left were the two cable ties and a bare pole,” said Derek.

“I mean, everyone is entitled to their opinion, live and let live, but to take down a poster … it was just the speed in which it was done; I mean, record time,” added Derek. Thankfully other similar posters featuring Fine Gael’s candidate in the upcoming general election remained untouched, although the whereabouts of the disappeared poster remains a mystery.