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"?