Ballymun statue

stevoman

So the statue of a girl in a tracksuit astride a horse is going ahead in Ballymun and is to be erected. How nice! Whats next, when is Dundalk going to get its statue of 2 IRA volunteers sneaking across the boarder and Cavan town going to get its statue of a man holding on to is Ten Pound note for dear life and Trallee getting its statue of a Kerryamn listening to the match and burning his ear?

Abortions for some, stereotypical statues for all!

Dragan

stevoman wrote: »

So the statue of a girl in a tracksuit astride a horse is going ahead in Ballymun and is to be erected. How nice! Whats next, when is Dundalk going to get its statue of 2 IRA volunteers sneaking across the boarder and Cavan town going to get its statue of a man holding on to is Ten Pound note for dear life and Trallee getting its statue of a Kerryamn listening to the match and burning his ear?

Abortions for some, stereotypical statues for all!

Well we have a statue of a prozzie at the bottom of Grafton Street.

Whats your point?

qz

Proposal to name said statue the Statute of Yore Ma.

stevoman

Dragan wrote: »

Whats your point?

that you enjoy the intimate company of other men!

Genghiz Cohen

stevoman wrote: »

that you enjoy the intimate company of other men!

Oh!!
Sick burn yo!

Dragan

stevoman wrote: »

that you enjoy the intimate company of other men!

Yore Da?

prendy

its supposed to represent where ballymun came from, personally i think it's terrible idea. I mean it's not the best image is it?

qz

stevoman wrote: »

that you enjoy the intimate company of other men!

lulz

Puddleduck

So there putting a giant man in the liffey somewhere in town and a howya on a horse in ballymun.....seems like the statue building people dont know their arse from their elbows

stevoman

Dragan wrote: »

Yore Da?

i said intimate! :pac:

Quazzie

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/city-news/new-sculpture-bad-for-ballymun-1505190.html

This is gonna be GREAAAATTTT!!

Dinter

Hehe, apparently it represents the "history and future" of the area.

Council obviously doesn't think much of their prospects.

stovelid

Also should name the street to youreinmefuckin way.

Gone Drinking

I'd like to see the people who are disagreeing think of a statue that better describes the area..

I think "towny in kappa on horse" suits it down to the ground.

Gummy Panda

Gone Drinking wrote: »

I'd like to see the people who are disagreeing think of a statue that better describes the area..

I think "towny in kappa on horse" suits it down to the ground.

Yeah because Ballymun has always been about howyas on horses.:rolleyes:

I think it should be named "The happy knacker" though :pac:

Gran Hermano

What's next, a statue of a Ballymun resident hot-wiring a car?
Maybe if the car is a Porsche it will show how aspriational they are.

Heisenberg.

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humanji

"The C*nt on the Colt"?

Dyr

Yeah i live in ballymun and its a f***ing joke. wankstain artists always come up with this kind of patronising stereotypical buls**t.."ooh balymun...horses..the urban cowboy..where's my grant?"
Still if it clebrates scummers making horses lives a misery then it must be a good thing

If this guy suggested a statue a staute for parnell street of two black lads playing basketball he'd a been strung up for perpetuating stereotypes but apprently some tracksuited knackbag on a geegee is okay. Go die in a chip pan fire BRL and take Roddy Doyle with ye :mad:

Dinter

Good point Bambi. I actually don't understand how this isn't perpetuating a stereotype and tbh a pretty negative one at that.

Still it's in Ballymun, it'll be broken up and sold for scrap quick enough!! (I kid, I kid)

stovelid

humanji wrote: »

"The C*nt on the Colt"?

The slag on the nag?

Slow Motion

I don't think it is representative at all! Now if she had her fatherless baby in one hand and her methodone in the other while guiding the horse with her knees.......

As for a name, The knack on the hack?

syklops

the tomb of the unknown gurrier springs to mind.

Would they not save the money??? Times are hard and they want to erect a bird on top of a horse??? Madness.

The Scientist

The Scientist wrote: »

lol, immortalizing knackers.
What will ye crazy dubliners think of next...

We're putting a statue of 5 plough-jockeys in assorted GAA jersies eating: 1) a head of cabbage, 2) Their own excrement, 3) curry-cheese-chips, 4) Supermacs and 5) will be drinking a bottle of Tanora.

It's going outside Heuston, just to remind yiz.....like.

WindSock

Dragan wrote: »

Well we have a statue of a prozzie at the bottom of Grafton Street.

Whats your point?

I believe Phil Lynott was a musician. What he did for a day job, I don't know :pac:

WindSock

I don't think this statue is stereotyping at all. Surely she would be in Pyjamas if this was the case?

Cookie_Monster

A spokesman for Ballymun Regeneration Ltd (BRL), which has overseen the revamp of the suburb, said the bronze sculpture will look like it has been in Ballymun "for 200 years".

I didn't know tracksuits were invented in the 1800s in Ballymun

hopalong85

this is funny. i look forward to laughing at it on my way into college!

Rowley Birkin QC

They should put it facing in the direction of the nearest social welfare handout location just in case it comes to life at night and is looking for its natural habitat.

Morlar

If they are going to have a statue of a horse shouldnt that be pissing in the lift ? Or maybe a statue of the tracksuit bint pushing a pram to the dole office.

Pompey Magnus

humanji wrote: »

"The C*nt on the Colt"?

"The Gee on the Gee-Gee"?

Dyr

the slag on the nag of course

sazz

hahah here im from ballymun and i dont wear tracksuits or ride horses its a sterotype... i havn heard anythin bout a statue being put up..?? strange hope they dont, that would be horrific!! eeek :eek:

DrumSteve

Dragan wrote: »

Well we have a statue of a prozzie at the bottom of Grafton Street.

Whats your point?

Philo?

GTFO

Hagar

Monument to the Unknown Father.

Cookie_Monster

sazz wrote: »

its a sterotype...

Never:eek:

funk-you

Mmmm, sexy necrothread.

-Funk

KTRIC

is there any pics of it yet ?

An Fear Aniar

If you see it as a quirky humourous variation on the traditional (military) equestrian statue it's actually not a bad idea.

It fits in nicely with Ireland's traditional iconoclasm and our history of neutrality.

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Nodin

stevoman wrote: »

So the statue of a girl in a tracksuit astride a horse is going ahead in Ballymun and is to be erected.

I think it won't be complete till they put in the two Gardai on foot tearin after her....

lostexpectation

its a really well made bronze satute

cornbb

It sounds good to me. Statues can be funny things, people's reactions to them can be pretty unpredictable. What do the people of Ballymun think? Also, shame on those of ye painting everyone in the area (including the girl on the statue) as some sort of subhuman skobes.

Adamcp898

This been put up yet? Thread is nearly a year old like............

Diabhal Beag

Late Slip

Dyr

Nope.

the_syco

prendy wrote: »

its supposed to represent where ballymun came from, personally i think it's terrible idea. I mean it's not the best image is it?

It is. That's the problem.

=-=

I don't see hte point. It'll be nicked whilst it's being unveiled...

phasers

That statue will last about ten minutes

Quint

Check out the best statue ever. Ted Bates. They had to take it down, there was uproar from the Southampton fans:

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/resources/images/447434/?type=display

Degsy

Bambi wrote: »

Yeah i live in ballymun and its a f***ing joke. wankstain artists always come up with this kind of patronising stereotypical buls**t.."ooh balymun...horses..the urban cowboy..where's my grant?"
Still if it clebrates scummers making horses lives a misery then it must be a good thing

If this guy suggested a statue a staute for parnell street of two black lads playing basketball he'd a been strung up for perpetuating stereotypes but apprently some tracksuited knackbag on a geegee is okay. Go die in a chip pan fire BRL and take Roddy Doyle with ye :mad:

AND the cnunt who designed the statue is a nordie..what the hell would he know about ballymun?

genericguy

ah sure it'll bring tourism to the area. like when the commitments came out, all those american toffs going to ballymun to take a trip up and down the lifts in the flats on a horse.

"hey, sheldon, take a foter of me beside the burning skip"
"jest a seckind marilyn, looky here, some guy bo-lox autographed the wall."