election posters

DUP Mid Ulster posters take a leaf out of Sinn Fein’s FST playbook…?

Mick Fealty on April 21, 2016, 12:24 pm | Readers 2040

The burden of incumbency and being at the fullest logistical stretch clearly leads to some awkward solutions. It seems that Sinn Fein is not the only party with what Tony Benn used to call ‘ishoos’ west of the Bann. Belfast’s hardest working pol hack Sam McBride reports… Last month the DUP announced that it was standing two candidates in the constituency – despite the fact that in last year’s general election its vote was less than the quota required for …

Sinn Fein unilaterally withdraw posters in #FST11…

Mick Fealty on April 7, 2011, 1:27 pm | Readers 7

I’ve not seen anywhere near as many posters this year as in previous years. Parties seem to be either investing their cash in the kind of bespoke pitches that Chris reports of Sinn Fein’s charm offensive in the loyalist Village area of Belfast (or more likely, just avoiding the high winds). Now the party is entering a non proliferation strategy by withdrawing posters in two electoral areas, Erne East (#LG2005) and Blackwater (#LG2005). Mick FealtyMick is founding editor of Slugger. …

Two photographs i had to take

Moochin Photoman on April 27, 2010, 10:44 am | Readers 3

It’d be remiss of me not to…..(and in the interest of balance it’s a dyptich) Moochin PhotomanPhotographer and visual artist based in Belfast. I have facilitated community based workshops with groups as diverse as visually impaired individuals in Dungannn, Travellers across Northern Ireland, Young Offenders and many community groups across Belfast. My work has exhibited extensively here in Northern Ireland in group and individual shows and has been shown in North America and i had my first solo international exhibition …