Luke Kelly statue vandalised

Thelonious Monk

CrankyHaus wrote: »

It had graffiti on it when I passed it last week.

Saturday before last it didn't anyway, I'll have a look later or tomorrow

Thelonious Monk

PointHop123 wrote: »

The obvious solution is to raise the plinth to about 2.5 meters and ti surround it with metal bars.

The third defacement of the statue was in March about 6 weeks ago - the culprit was seen on a bike in a hoodie and cycled off towards East Wall - is that as horrible a neighnourhood as Sheriff Street?

Not quite as horrible, used to be worse, more settled now

Beanntraigheach

The real culprit was Luke Kelly's ghost!
Outraged that this grotesque gargoyle should have been erected in his memory he returned from the afterlife to make his displeasure known.

MrMusician18

PointHop123 wrote: »

The obvious solution is to raise the plinth to about 2.5 meters and ti surround it with metal bars.

No, the obvious solution is to raze the whole of Sheriff.St.

Zebra3

Horsebox9000 wrote: »

Genius.
Please tell us more about jailing bankers haven't heard about that ad nausiem since 2008

Well, genius, if you could actually read, you'd see there was no proposal to jail bankers.

Corben Dallas

Time to move it out of the area.. I know that's were he lived but its a waste of public money repairing it after its been vandalized 4 times, ...most likely by feral teenage locals.

It needs a new location ...one where its respected as a Dublin Icon.

Rothko

MarkY91 wrote: »

Vandalisation aside, it is the most hideous looking statue I've ever seen. Best just to remove the monstrosity.

It's horrible. It looks like he was just beheaded.

SeanW

As an aside, there were 4 members of the Dubliners and the entire band was really good. Why are there two statues of Luke Kelly and none of Ronnie Drew?

SeanW

SeanW wrote: »

As an aside, there were 4 members of the Dubliners and the entire band was really good. Why are there two statues of Luke Kelly and none of Ronnie Drew?

The statues were commissioned in 2014 to mark the 30th anniversary of Kelly's death by the then lord mayor if I remember correctly, so will have to see if they do some of the others.

Are you saying four members total including Kelly to mean the original founding members and your not including Sheahan?

Bobblehats

SeanW wrote: »

As an aside, there were 4 members of the Dubliners and the entire band was really good. Why are there two statues of Luke Kelly and none of Ronnie Drew?

Ronnie Drew without his hair was like Darth vAder without the mask

fryup

SeanW wrote: »

Why are there two statues of Luke Kelly and none of Ronnie Drew?

twice as popular ?

whisky_galore

Weird obsession for "statchas" in this country.
Someone famous or even remotely famous? Oh they'd have to have a "statcha" put up.

Some are ok or just about bearable, many are plain awful looking, a pox on the streetscape, this one is just a bizarre, oversized disembodied head.

touts

The statue itself is vandalism. Very very expensive vandalism.

Larbre34

My fav tweet from today commenting on today's most recent daubing of the bauld Luke, went something like

'the more the statue gets vandalised, the louder the scream will be from it when they eventually enable that feature'

MarkY91

whisky_galore wrote: »

Weird obsession for "statchas" in this country.
Someone famous or even remotely famous? Oh they'd have to have a "statcha" put up.

Some are ok or just about bearable, many are plain awful looking, a pox on the streetscape, this one is just a bizarre, oversized disembodied head.

Name another statue that's as bad as this one.

Thelonious Monk

MarkY91 wrote: »

Name another statue that's as bad as this one.

This isn't as bad but it was hilarious

The greatest Dubliner of them all but put it out of reach.

KevRossi

SeanW wrote: »

As an aside, there were 4 members of the Dubliners and the entire band was really good. Why are there two statues of Luke Kelly and none of Ronnie Drew?

I think 20 years have to pass from the death of a person in Dublin for them to be commemorated. But maybe this only applies to naming streets, bridges etc after them.

I would also argue that there were 5 Dubliners;

Ronnie Drew
Luke Kelly
Ciaran Bourke
Barney McKenna
John Sheehan

Obviously others like Jim McCann and Sean Cannon who joined and left after Ciaran Bourke's illness and Luke Kelly's death, but there were always 4 of the above 5 in it for the first two decades.

yosser hughes

Corben Dallas wrote: »

Time to move it out of the area.. I know that's were he lived but its a waste of public money repairing it after its been vandalized 4 times, ...most likely by feral teenage locals.

It needs a new location ...one where its respected as a Dublin Icon.

He lived on Dartmouth Square for a time. Lovely spot.
Move it where it will be respected. Or leave it there and don't clean it. If the locals have any respect for their area or themselves they will sort this out themselves.
The idea that the council will always clean up after you is half the problem.
Leave it to them as a reminder of what they have done

Squeeonline

I've never understood this "salt of the earth" being a compliment. If you salt earth nothing grows. Salt ruins soil.

Oh maybe that's it.

Thelonious Monk

yosser hughes wrote: »

If the locals have any respect for their area or themselves they will sort this out themselves.
The idea that the council will always clean up after you is half the problem.
Leave it to them as a reminder of what they have done

These people just put their rubbish on the street instead of paying for bin tags. The place is filthy. They would happily live in their own filth.

suicide_circus

In Luke Kelly's time, the area's inhabitants were really a salt of the earth community, dirt poor but dignified. Drugs and welfare dependence destroyed all that.

Edgware

suicide_circus wrote: »

In Luke Kelly's time, the area's inhabitants were really a salt of the earth community, dirt poor but dignified. Drugs and welfare dependence destroyed all that.

Salt of the earth
"We were poor but we were happy" More of the rare old times bull****.
Tenements, high child mortality rates, rampant T.B. Kips such as Phil Shanahan House.
Nothing dignified about that

Larbre34

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

These people just put their rubbish on the street instead of paying for bin tags. The place is filthy. They would happily live in their own filth.

Indeed. There is no self respect in this area. And its not a question of deprivation or not, i know lots of disadvantaged areas that have built proud and well kept neighbourhoods.

Both the carrot and the stick have failed in Sheriff Street and areas around, they should be given nothing more until they step up as a whole.

I somehow don't see the statue going down too well in Dartmouth Square! In fairness the funding for it mostly came from a friend of Kelly's in the area, so it should stay down there, but it needs to be in a protected location, maybe as part of one the newer developments where there is a constant security presence.

Muahahaha

Should stick it on top of the Spire, it'll be safe then

whisky_galore

MarkY91 wrote: »

Name another statue that's as bad as this one.

The Nazi collaborator in the trenchcoat in Fairview Park, both for being aesthetically awful and for having been in bed with Nazi Germany.

Esel

whisky_galore wrote: »

The Nazi collaborator in the trenchcoat in Fairview Park, both for being aesthetically awful and for having been in bed with Nazi Germany.

Interesting read on the unveiling of that statue:

http://homepage.tinet.ie/~eirenua/2001/sep01/50yrsago.htm

MrMusician18

It's after happening again tonight
https://twitter.com/AnthonyICHH/status/1266482065652027393?s=19

Time now to take it away imo.

eagle eye

MrMusician18 wrote:

It's after happening again tonight

What needs to be done is those fools getting a good hiding.

Atlantic Dawn

They should find out who did it and level the house they live in to dust.