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Tue 05 May 2007Complaints over posters blocking signsThe Road Safety Authority (RSA) has issued a warning about pedestrian safety and traffic signs being obscured by election posters. The RSA warning follows the unseemly haste with which election workers from every party strapped multiple posters to lamp posts in the hours following the Taoiseach's dawn visit to Áras an Uachtaráin to dissolve the Dáil.