-First website, now posters; is the Party short on ideas, asks de Burca?

Green Party MEP candidate for Dublin Senator Deirdre de Burca has said she is flattered by the imitation of her poster campaign by Fine Gael’s Mairead McGuinness in an advert in today’s Farming supplement in the Irish Independent, saying ‘they obviously like my style’. The posters feature Ms McGuiness in a similar pose and clothing as the campaign posters launched by Senator De Burca on 23 March.

Senator de Burca said: “I’m quite flattered that Fine Gael has decided to use a similar poster campaign to my own. The Green Party always advocates reusing and recycling where possible – so I commend their decision to imitate my own. Of course, we’ve been witnessing much imitation from Fine Gael in recent times, most notably in the area of energy policy, but if we arrive at the same end, I’m not going to question the means.”

Controversy arose recently over the launch of the new Fine Gael website, which was similar in design to the BBC website. The Party was forced to backtrack after bloggers discovered that part of the website’s code had been copied and pasted. For more see Maman Poulet’s blog: http://www.mamanpoulet.com/?s=fine+gael+bbc&submit=

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