Green Party election candidate ‘devastated’ after learning on polling day thousands of leaflets undelivered by An Post

Green Party candidate Cllr Carolyn Moore, who is seeking re-election in Dublin’s Kimmage-Rathmines local electoral area said she paid for An Post’s Publicity Post express service three weeks ago.

Cllr Moore said nothing will surpass the “crushing blow” of finding out on polling day that thousands of leaflets she paid for and which accounted for a substantial amount of her campaign finances, weren’t delivered.

“The failure of a state owned company to have appropriate checks and reporting structures in place for the delivery of election materials is quite shocking,” she said.

“Despite being more costly that a standard leaflet drop company, I figured it was worth the extra cost for that assurance that it is going out in the mail… there is a system there already,” she said.

Cllr Moore paid for the service on May 20, after which labels were sent out and she brought two boxes containing 5,900 leaflets to An Post’s sorting centre to be delivered to the areas she…