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Stephen Gately sculpture to be erected at train station

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  • #152
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    The Diceman had talent.

    Loving all these talent evalutators on here. Quite the in depth review you made here.
    Einhard wrote: »
    Congrats rovert. Rarely am I rendered speechless by the idiocy of a remark, but you've succeeded.

    Why else bring people who already have tributes to them? A knowing display of your our ignorance?
    purpur1 wrote: »
    Well i don't agree with how he's being awarded a statue but I definitely wouldn't like to see his statue vandalized, nor any of them. It's a sad truth that it more than likely will be. Being Dublin and all...

    Maybe, maybe celebrating achievement on a local level will change that?


  • #153
    purpur1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭purpur1


    rovert wrote: »
    Maybe, maybe celebrating achievement on a local level will change that?

    Well it's a fair point, (the locals were extremely respectful towards him and his family at the time of the funeral and Stephen's always spoke very highly of the residents in and around the Sheriff St area), so you never know. Maybe that's what Boyzone's thoughts are.... Could be wishful thinking.


  • #154
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    rovert wrote: »
    Loving all these talent evalutators on here. Quite the in depth review you made here.

    That from the person who posted this (post quoted in full):
    Gately was more than (Dublin Entertainer)

    Ignore him, folks.


  • #155
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    That from the person who posted this (post quoted in full):



    Ignore him, folks.

    So Gately was just a local celebrity?

    So he sold 15 million albums in Sheriff Street?


  • #156
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Anyone who is seriously interested in who should be commemorated with a statue in Dublin should have a read of this tribute to the Diceman by Alan Stanford.

    http://www.independent.ie/unsorted/features/erect-a-statue-to-the-man-who-made-grafton-street-stand-still-245718.html


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  • #157
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    I couldn't care less if Boyzone want to pay for it. Although it's the equivilent of them building a statue of Bros in England when one of them die.


  • #158
    Yawns
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭Yawns


    Could they not have named a bench for him instead?


  • #159
    scudzilla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,944 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    erecting a statue to this prick demeans all the other statues in the city to the great men like Larkin


  • #160
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    scudzilla wrote: »
    erecting a statue to this prick demeans all the other statues in the city to the great men like Larkin

    And Molly Malone of course


  • #161
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,627 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Osu wrote: »
    Why? What a waste of money. Obviously his death was sad but to commemorate him through a statue is a disgrace. A clear waste of money, he doesn't deserve a statue.

    Better be careful how I post on Steo. The last time I posted on his "suspicious" death I was eaten alive.

    What a complete joke. You can bet one thing, Ro and the boyz will get another heap of mileage out of this one.


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  • #162
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    rovert wrote: »
    And Molly Malone of course

    Considering the song has become an anthem for the city I think Molly Malone is fair enough.
    Gately is the "cute one" in manufactured pop band that did bad cover versions.


  • #163
    bazza1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭bazza1


    statue?

    Who next? Jedward.


  • #164
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    They're pretty much moving statues already ... :pac:


  • #165
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    walshb wrote: »
    Better be careful how I post on Steo. The last time I posted on his "suspicious" death I was eaten alive.

    What a complete joke. You can bet one thing, Ro and the boyz will get another heap of mileage out of this one.

    ^ Hasnt said milking yet, he is slipping


  • #166
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,627 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    rovert wrote: »
    ^ Hasnt said milking yet, he is slipping

    Well said, rovert (Steo&Boyzone's No 1 fan).


  • #167
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    walshb wrote: »
    Well said, rovert (Steo&Boyzone's No 1 fan).

    Says the guy who flocks to every thread about them.


  • #168
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,627 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    rovert wrote: »
    Says the guy who flocks to every thread about them.

    Only after you, but!


  • #169
    purpur1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭purpur1


    walshb wrote: »
    Better be careful how I post on Steo. The last time I posted on his "suspicious" death I was eaten alive.

    What a complete joke. You can bet one thing, Ro and the boyz will get another heap of mileage out of this one.

    I wont eat you for speaking the truth.


  • #170
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    walshb wrote: »
    Only after you, but!

    Funny if true


  • #171
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,627 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    I wonder if Steo's widow, that is correct, isn't it, will be there, and the Bulgarian?

    Edit: Widower


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  • #172
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    bazza1 wrote: »
    statue?

    Who next? Jedward.
    They could rename O'Connell Street "Jedward Street". Nice ring to it.
    At least the statues would give people a laugh when they went past them! A Gately statue is just pathetic.


  • #173
    bazza1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭bazza1


    Paparazzo wrote: »
    They could rename O'Connell Street "Jedward Street". Nice ring to it.
    At least the statues would give people a laugh when they went past them! A Gately statue is just pathetic.

    We already have a Lord Jedward St!


  • #174
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    walshb wrote: »
    I wonder if Steo's widow, that is correct, isn't it, will be there, and the Bulgarian?

    Edit: Widower

    What does this have to with anything besides showing how much you are titulated by it?


  • #175
    Rhyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    Superbus wrote: »
    A plaque would have done imo...

    Read this as plague.

    :pac:


  • #176
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,627 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    rovert wrote: »
    What does this have to with anything besides showing how much you are titulated by it?

    Well, seeing as Cowles was his 'husband,' and they were together when Steo died, as Cowles claims, I was just wondering if he'd be there. I mean, surely he should be, if the Boyz are gonna' be there, then he should, no?

    Titulated? That a new one for you, rovert?


  • #177
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    walshb wrote: »
    Well, seeing as Cowles was his 'husband,' and they were together when Steo died, as Cowles claims, I was just wondering if he'd be there. I mean, surely he should be, if the Boyz are gonna' be there, then he should, no?

    Titulated? That a new one for you, rovert?

    Again what does this have to with topic?


  • #178
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,627 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    rovert wrote: »
    Again what does this have to with topic?

    It was a question. I asked if anyone thought Cowles would make an appearance. A question, that is all:rolleyes:


  • #179
    purpur1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭purpur1


    walshb wrote: »
    It was a question. I asked if anyone thought Cowles would make an appearance. A question, that is all:rolleyes:

    His attendance might hog Ronan's camera time, so maybe he wont be invited!!


  • #180
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    walshb wrote: »
    It was a question. I asked if anyone thought Cowles would make an appearance. A question, that is all:rolleyes:

    Of course that what is. What ever issues you have in regards to morality or your own sexuality please address them.

    Thanks

    None of this has anything to do with the topic.


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  • #181
    purpur1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭purpur1


    Now back to topic please......

    I asked earlier, does public planning permission have to be approved for a statue such as this? Anybody know?


  • #182
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    rovert wrote: »
    So Gately was just a local celebrity?

    So he sold 15 million albums in Sheriff Street?

    Yawn......still going on about those 15 million albums.
    Golden discs and tower records will be getting a statue too the way you are going on.


  • #183
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,627 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    rovert wrote: »
    Of course that what is. What ever issues you have in regards to morality or your own sexuality please address them.

    Thanks

    None of this has anything to do with the topic.

    Ok, Cowles, Steo's long term partner and then husband, has nothing to do with his dead husband getting a statue erected in his hometown...Yeh, rovert, you must be right:confused:

    Jeez, I better not ask if anyone thinks Steo's mam and dad wll be there, they probably have nothing to do with this either.


  • #184
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    mikom wrote: »
    Yawn......still going on about those 15 million albums.
    Golden discs and tower records will be getting a statue too the way you are going on.

    How else do you quantify success in his profession?


  • #185
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    walshb wrote: »
    Ok, Cowles, Steo's long term partner and then husband, has nothing to do with his dead husband getting a statue erected in his hometown...Yeh, rovert, you must be right:confused:

    Jeez, I better not ask if anyone thinks Steo's mam and dad wll be there, the probabl have nothing to do with this either.

    No you were making a sly comment about the night of his death. Stop trolling and resolve whatever issues you have.


  • #186
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    rovert wrote: »
    How else do you quantify success in his profession?

    Him or the group?
    There were 4 others.


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  • #187
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    mikom wrote: »
    Him or the group?
    There were 4 others.

    Good one mate


  • #188
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    rovert wrote: »
    Good one mate

    Not your mate....... bud.


  • #189
    Lily Flabby Beekeeper
    Posts: 0 ✭ Lily Flabby Beekeeper


    Mr Cawley wrote: »
    worthy of being remembered for all time in irish history?

    Come to austria, see our nations finest-- a statue of mozart,
    come to Ireland,............................--a statue of stephen gately

    how proud you be of ireland internationally then?

    just beacause you've money you shouldn't erect a statue.

    that councillour should be ashamed, Joe

    What's your point? Just because other Irish people might have 'achieved more' than Stephen doesn't mean he shouldn't get a statue that the rest of Boyzone are paying for. I went to Texas a few years ago and there I saw a statue of the late singer Selena. She wasn't the most famous Texan of all time, but that doesn't mean she didn't deserve a statue. She made a lot of contributions to the local music scene, did charity work etc. Her family paid for it. It's just a nice little tribute.


  • #190
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Four of them collectively don't have enough talent to merit a statue, let alone one of them.
    walshb wrote: »
    Ok, Cowles, Steo's long term partner and then husband, has nothing to do with his dead husband getting a statue erected in his hometown...Yeh, rovert, you must be right:confused:

    Given your history of comments on the subject, yes, he is.


  • #191
    crowdflash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭crowdflash


    There should be no statue. Burke is a fool.

    Let's not forget that Gately and co's security locked out the locals in his constituency from the church.

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6879602.ece

    "After the celebrities drifted off, with some heading to the Four Seasons hotel in Ballsbridge for a party to celebrate Stephen Gately’s 33 years of life — a small number of Sheriff Street residents were prevented from entering the church by hired security guards. The gates were locked."


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  • #192
    guybague
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭guybague


    Crowdflash, that is a disgusting homophobic comment. You should be ashamed. You know NOTHING about the Sherriff St community.

    Don't you know that Sherriff Street is a gay mecca (praise be allah, blessed be her name), a veritable Celtic Castro of our very own, rivaling San Francisco, Amsterdam, and various Greek islands as a world centre of homosexual thought and deed by day and night. Check out the evidence....

    What about the local Judy Garland Community Resource Center, the Lisa Murphy Transgender Quilt project, Panti's Burlesque Cabaret Handle Bars (Twink residency) incorporating the Peter Mandelson Mushy Peanis Sauna Centre , the new Up To His Hilton Edwards Five Star Hotel, the Our Ladyboys of Mercy Spiritual Retreat (formerly Tesco Express) where Mother Mary Bernadette (formerly Sinead O'Connor) performs same sex marriage ceremonies on the hour, every hour?

    And just throw a stone in Sherriff Street and it's impossible to hit several dozen leather chaps-wearing moustachioed artists busy writing poetry about the Stonewall riots, why Cathal O'Searchaigh is loike, a victim of heterosexist patriarchal crap, and why that Brenda Power is such a bitch.

    Yes, clearly this statue will fit right in (ooh matron).


  • #193
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,627 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Nodin wrote: »
    Four of them collectively don't have enough talent to merit a statue, let alone one of them.



    Given your history of comments on the subject, yes, he is.

    Another classic one liner....


  • #194
    crowdflash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭crowdflash


    How much did Gately put back into his community? SFA.

    The Headmistress of the National School attached to the Church afforded Ronan Cheating and the other tossers every facility when they were waking in the Church overnight. She suggested that they might make a little contribution to the school fund in return. Last I heard she's still waiting. Not just Gately who made no contribution...

    Of course Shinners like Burke have a track record of supporting the erection of Northside statues of people who contributed **** all to Ireland, haven't they?


  • #195
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    guybague wrote: »
    Crowdflash, that is a disgusting homophobic comment. You should be ashamed. You know NOTHING about the Sherriff St community.

    Could you not say this to his face seeing as he's sitting right beside you.


  • #196
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    walshb wrote: »
    Another classic one liner....

    Two lines.

    2. 1+1=.

    II.


  • #197
    Sonnenblumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    What's all the fuss about? Let them erect a statue, it'll probably get stolen, and then we can have 2 discussions?


  • #198
    genericguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    rovert, stop trying to justify this bullshít. the man lived as somebody whose name most people couldn't remember, and died by drinking so much that he drowned in his own puke. hardly any role model to society now, was he?


  • #199
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    genericguy wrote: »
    rovert, stop trying to justify this bullshít. the man lived as somebody whose name most people couldn't remember, and died by drinking so much that he drowned in his own puke. hardly any role model to society now, was he?

    Rip down the Phil Lynott statue then using that logic.

    Im not justifying anything beyound most arguments here are either stupid and/or homophobic.


  • #200
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    rovert wrote: »
    Rip down the Phil Lynott statue then using that logic.

    Im not justifying anything beyound most arguments here are either stupid and/or homophobic.
    What are the homophobic arguments?


  • #201
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    Are you seriously suggesting that he who is generally regarded as one of the greatest drummers of all time , isn't famous?
    rovert wrote: »
    Nice story mate.

    John Bonham is a bit more famous than you give him credit for.

    Ugh...
    Nevermind,

    My point got lost somewhere and I'm not really bothered trying to explain it anymore :)

    Of course John Bonham is famous...

    Long story short.... I think the statue s a waste of money.


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