Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
If we do not hit our goal we will be forced to close the site.

Current status: https://keepboardsalive.com/

Annual subs are best for most impact. If you are still undecided on going Ad Free - you can also donate using the Paypal Donate option. All contribution helps. Thank you.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.

Luke Kelly statue vandalised

12357…16

Comments

  • #122
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,790 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #123
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,790 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #124
    Beanntraigheach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 795 ✭✭✭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.


  • #125
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,241 ✭✭✭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.


  • #126
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,167 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Advertisement
  • #127
    Corben Dallas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭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.


  • #128
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,979 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #129
    SeanW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭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?

    https://u24.gov.ua/
    Join NAFO today:

    Help us in helping Ukraine.



  • #130
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,583 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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?


  • #131
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭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


  • Advertisement
  • #132
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    SeanW wrote: »
    Why are there two statues of Luke Kelly and none of Ronnie Drew?

    twice as popular ?


  • #133
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,128 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #134
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭touts


    The statue itself is vandalism. Very very expensive vandalism.


  • #135
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,311 ✭✭✭✭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'


  • #136
    MarkY91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭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.


  • #137
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,790 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    MarkY91 wrote: »
    Name another statue that's as bad as this one.

    This isn't as bad but it was hilarious

    stream_img.jpg


  • #138
    Janelle Chilly Transition
    Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Janelle Chilly Transition


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


  • #139
    KevRossi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,578 ✭✭✭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.


  • #140
    yosser hughes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,966 ✭✭✭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


  • #141
    Squeeonline
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,585 ✭✭✭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.


  • Advertisement
  • #142
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,790 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #143
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #144
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭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


  • #145
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,311 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #146
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,778 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


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


  • #147
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,128 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #148
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,295 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    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

    Not your ornery onager



  • #149
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,241 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


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

    Time now to take it away imo.


  • #150
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,433 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    MrMusician18 wrote:
    It's after happening again tonight
    What needs to be done is those fools getting a good hiding.


  • Advertisement
  • #151
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,568 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


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


Advertisement