Peter Kelly (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)

It may have been, I do not know although I was told that those who did it would not do so if I asked them. Nobody wants posters to remain on display after an election.

Local elections are important for democracy. I wish all candidates well. Democracy is what the people want. The vast majority of people want to live in peace, not war. No one in their right mind wants murder. Many innocent people were killed in the Omagh bombing, including a pregnant lady. How savage was that mass murder and the murder at the weekend of other people? I call on those involved, in the name of the Irish people, to stop this murder and to contest elections and become part of democracy, which is what the majority of us want.

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