Luke Kelly statue vandalised

gormdubhgorm

Scorn not their simplicity?

Strumms

Simplicity won’t have anything to do with it. You’ll probably find the culprits have enough savvy to know the social welfare system, their entitlements and so on back to front, also the concept of free legal aid and free everything.. maybe if they are caught and convicted a free spell down the joy for a week or two would be money well spent, might find an outlet for their artistic leanings other then trying to ruin what someone worked hard to create for the potential enjoyment of others...

dmc17

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

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

And then build them another free one?

The penmanship you'd expect from the likes.

murphyebass

MrMusician18 wrote: »

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

Time now to take it away imo.

Either that or put a fence around it and booby trap it.

aido79

murphyebass wrote: »

Either that or put a fence around it and booby trap it.

The statue or Sheriff street?

whisky_galore

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

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

Yes because that happens all of the time here.

yosser hughes

Leave it there and don't clean it. Leave it as a monument to the area. If those living there have any decency, they'll sort it out themselves. Let the community pay for the cleaning themselves.If they don't clean it, then they're not the salt of the earth they claim to be and it will serve as a constant reminder to them.
They get everything else for free. They don't realise how lucky they are.
Free housing in a city centre location, free education, free healthcare. They are spoiled and have a learned helplessness due to life long and inter generational welfare dependency.

Beechwoodspark

Oh ffs not again

Beechwoodspark

Why not move it and place it at a position of prominence on o Connell st maybe 10 foot up on a stand with railings/bars so that ppl cannot “attack” it

Beechwoodspark

Man Vs ManUre wrote: »

In life he would have had roadies and bouncers to protect him from the riff raft attending his gigs, as well as the supporting band. I think if you also had head statues for all of these then Luke would be better protected.

Did his concerts attract a “troublesome” clientele back in the day?

pgj2015

Albert Einstein: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Thelonious Monk

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Why not move it and place it at a position of prominence on o Connell st maybe 10 foot up on a stand with railings/bars so that ppl cannot “attack” it

That f*cking thing on our main street?

whisky_galore

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Why not move it and place it at a position of prominence on o Connell st maybe 10 foot up on a stand with railings/bars so that ppl cannot “attack” it

It would want to be behind bulletproof glass.

JDxtra

I had to Google who Luke Kelly was. Do we honestly think kids from the area will know who he is and therefore respect the statue?

It's a massive severed head! It gets on the news any time someone spray paints it. Prime target.

Atlantic Dawn

What is the hair and beard made of? Surprised that never seems to get wrecked, looks a fragile part of it.

Beechwoodspark

Why not put high powered flood lights on it and hi def cctv cameras monitored by store st garda station and an ear splitting alarm if anyone touches the statue

tastyt

Anyone who didn’t expect this to happen to a statue up there is very naive

I mean honestly, what did people think was going to happen. As someone else said either move it or just leave it and don’t clean it

Pkiernan

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Why not put high powered flood lights on it and hi def cctv cameras monitored by store st garda station and an ear splitting alarm if anyone touches the statue

The alarm should play The Rare Ould Times at 140 dB

Quantum Erasure

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

This isn't as bad but it was hilarious

When did Niall Quinn get a statue??

Pkiernan

The spray paint should be analysed to find out what hardware shop sold it.

Then it's a simple matter to find the nearest Post Office, where the dole money came from that bought the paint.

Then they'll have the culprit!

Retro.

Replace it with a hologram

Kermit.de.frog

To be honest the Luke Kelly statue is a bit creepy.

A decapitated head, don't like it myself regardless of the idiot who keeps vandalising it.

Kermit.de.frog

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

This isn't as bad but it was hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhNNrhze3vs

Pinch Flat

They should plug it into the mains. Zap any scrote like a fly that goes near it.

whippet

Sure only the salt of the earth type people live up there

Yeah, it's not a great statue really.. should have just been left at the other one..

Edgware

Strumms wrote: »

Simplicity won’t have anything to do with it. You’ll probably find the culprits have enough savvy to know the social welfare system, their entitlements and so on back to front, also the concept of free legal aid and free everything.. maybe if they are caught and convicted a free spell down the joy for a week or two would be money well spent, might find an outlet for their artistic leanings other then trying to ruin what someone worked hard to create for the potential enjoyment of others...

Probably someone from another area did it. That's who always commit the crimes

pauliebdub

It's actually quite a nice statue, I think it's quite unusual and striking. It will probably have to be moved at this stage as it keeps getting vandalised. Put it somewhere nice like in a park or somewhere where people can admire and appreciate it.

Ronaldinho

Put a sniper on overwatch and next time they try vandalizing it, drop them.

****heads who go around doing this sort of stuff are no loss to society.