Idiot vandals wreck 5,500-year-old Meath monument

Teyla Emmagan · 13-06-2012 10:13PM

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

surely monument is a bit much for a big bloody rock in the ground with some scratches on it

its not like they dynamited newgrange

It's the Lia Fail! It's not a rock in the ground with some scratches in it. Do you know nothing about our history, or Celtic mythology.

This type of wanton stupidity and destruction really annoys me.

WindSock · 13-06-2012 10:13PM

squod wrote: »

Several witnesses have said bahh

Not much use in hoping for a definate line of inquiry with sheep.

Trigger13222 · 13-06-2012 10:18PM

WindSock wrote: »

Offer an incentive or reward on info leading to the identities of the crims. I just said it there in my last post which you addressed there in yours.

Where do you draw the line at offering a reward for catching the offenders, damage like this happens all over the country. It would be more appropriate for the guards to try catch them.

Maudi · 13-06-2012 10:23PM

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Seeing as the govt wrecked the Boyne Valley, it's no surprise that others don't respect the area.

arts minister dosent care/will do nothing. and i actually laughed out loud when i think of the guards getting involved...i brought the vandalism of a local 14c castle to the attention of our county heritage office...HERITAGE officer in fact...and they just completely passed the buck...mmnahh...dont care response...but hey...lay on a dinner and a photographer and the same people will bleat on about our heritage and tourism...

gurramok · 13-06-2012 10:33PM

http://www.joe.ie/news-politics/current-affairs/idiot-vandals-wreck-5500-year-old-meath-monument-0025841-1

That monument looks very erect

Markcheese · 13-06-2012 10:43PM

whatdoicare wrote: »

danniemcq wrote: »

March parents and children up and down the road with a massive sandwich board sign saying what they did.

Shame is one of the most powerful weapons

I quite like that idea, I hope they catch this idiot and televise his/her shame.
They should go traditional with the rotten veg and cow poo thrown at them in the streets.[/Quote

You can't do that what about the scrotes human rights....?

Pedant · 13-06-2012 10:44PM

A lot of these objects are just counterfeits or make up anyway. Newgrange, for instance, is heavily renovated ands looks nothing like it would have done 5000 years ago - a lot of the renovation design is just guess work. The Céide Fields in Mayo were just invented and never actually existed.

Pedant · 13-06-2012 10:46PM

gurramok wrote: »

http://www.joe.ie/news-politics/current-affairs/idiot-vandals-wreck-5500-year-old-meath-monument-0025841-1

That monument looks very erect

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

ejmaztec · 13-06-2012 10:51PM

WindSock wrote: »

The minister is a useless prick.

A lot of people can vouch for that, but he still manages to elected as a TD in Listowel every time, and has even been voted "Kerry Person of The Year", for some reason which escapes me.

He'll do what he normally does after issuing an announcement, feck all.

Kess73 · 13-06-2012 11:19PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Minister Deenihan need not worry the Tuatha Dé Danann will sort them out in due course & their seed, breed and generation will pay dearly for this vandalism. Wouldn't want to be in their shoes some dark night & the Tuatha have long, long memories & ingenious punishments.

Maybe Danu will call on Sláine to have a word with the vandal.

Cookie_Monster · 13-06-2012 11:37PM

all those ghost estates to trash and they out of the way to find some ancient stones, kids these days...

retroactive · 13-06-2012 11:37PM

One has to ask "Why?" This appears to have been completely senseless and unmotivated.

Also, using a hammer to destroy a rock? Whomever is responsible wasn't the brightest spark. It isn't very close to anything either - They must have walked out to it with a hammer and the intention of causing damage, again why? Only swung eleven time too.. smacks of laziness after all that preparation.

Shryke · 13-06-2012 11:55PM

There is something abjectly pathetic about the whole thing. It doesn't even make sense when you figure drink into the mix.
It's not shocking though. Plenty of apes roaming the streets.

o1s1n · 13-06-2012 11:59PM

Kess73 wrote: »

Maybe Danu will call on Sláine to have a word with the vandal.

WARP SPASM!

Monty Burnz · 14-06-2012 12:02AM

I imagine it's a religious nutter trying to delay the apocalypse or something - the Lia Fail features in lots of New Agey horse****, and I doubt your average vandal would bother travelling there to smash some old rock.

hooradiation · 14-06-2012 12:09AM

Ahh now, it's not like what happens in Meath matters to anyone.

gavinbell · 14-06-2012 12:15AM

how many people are unemployed in this country? how many people have to leave this county every day through no fault of their own, leaving their families through necessity to havea standard of living, a sense of pride, a roof over their head.......and you are talking **** about some poxy stone in smelly meath....is that stone going to put food on somebodys table. get a life or crawl back in your hole.

Wattle · 14-06-2012 12:25AM

gavinbell wrote: »

how many people are unemployed in this country? how many people have to leave this county every day through no fault of their own, leaving their families through necessity to havea standard of living, a sense of pride, a roof over their head.......and you are talking **** about some poxy stone in smelly meath....is that stone going to put food on somebodys table. get a life or crawl back in your hole.

FFS :rolleyes:

Cookie_Monster · 14-06-2012 12:39AM

gavinbell wrote: »

how many people have to leave this county every day through no fault of their own, leaving their families through necessity to havea standard of living, a sense of pride, a roof over their head........

best decision I ever made, you should try it! Maybe all that resentment will disappear once you're livin it up abroad...

gavinbell · 14-06-2012 12:43AM

great contribution wattle. muppet

Ambient Occlusion · 14-06-2012 12:44AM

gavinbell wrote: »

how many people are unemployed in this country? how many people have to leave this county every day through no fault of their own, leaving their families through necessity to havea standard of living, a sense of pride, a roof over their head.......and you are talking **** about some poxy stone in smelly meath....is that stone going to put food on somebodys table. get a life or crawl back in your hole.

Infallible logic here! I agree, we should have free reign to smash up whatever doesn't benefit us personally with a lump hammer. Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ... what has it ever done for me? It's just a piece of canvas with paint on it, it's not putting food on my table. I may as well throw a cup of coffee over it. Newgrange is nice but it doesn't provide me with employment. We may as well level it. The Book of Kells, sure it's only a few pieces of paper with fancy scribbles it'd see better use in a fireplace.
The stone provides tourism and indirectly benefits you via it's contribution the national economy. It should be criminal to have such narrow-minded outlook as this.

partyatmygaff · 14-06-2012 12:45AM

gavinbell wrote: »

how many people are unemployed in this country? how many people have to leave this county every day through no fault of their own, leaving their families through necessity to havea standard of living, a sense of pride, a roof over their head.......and you are talking **** about some poxy stone in smelly meath....is that stone going to put food on somebodys table. get a life or crawl back in your hole.

Here's a novel idea, why don't we sell the country's antiquities and the rights to the country's heritage sites?

It sure beats preserving them for cultural/historical reasons and tourism. That doesn't make any sense at all.

Micky Dolenz · 14-06-2012 12:46AM

gavinbell wrote: »

great contribution wattle. muppet

Mod

Troll Banned.

blindside88 · 14-06-2012 12:56AM

In before Godwins law

Who ever did this should be given a job in a quarry full time breaking rocks for the remainder if his/her days and when they eventually become too old and infirm to break any more rocks they should be stoned to death with said rocks. I'll happily cast the first stone

oxo_ · 14-06-2012 01:03AM

Some amount of waffle in the media about this shíte.
It's not even the real or original stone, it's a replacement for the original which was "loaned" to England to crown their kings and which they then refused to return. Apparently that too was stolen by Scottish students, whereabouts now unknown.
This one that was damaged is the phallic replacement introduced by pagans for whatever weird ritual crap they did in their days.
It means nothing, it symbolises nothing it is and was only ever nothing more than a large stone cock.

Probably some bald bearded feminist that did it then.

The lia fail, stone of destiny, if you are to believe the stories of it's origin, was the stone with which Jesus Christ laid his head upon when he died. Unless you also want to believe now that that stone was a giant penis.

oppenheimer1 · 14-06-2012 01:05AM

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Seeing as the govt wrecked the Boyne Valley, it's no surprise that others don't respect the area.

Well thats bullshit for starters.

maddragon · 14-06-2012 01:08AM

Can it now be upgraded to a class 2 relic Ted.

Oranage2 · 14-06-2012 01:37AM

Maybe not vandals - Have the gardai ruled out vikings?

MadsL · 14-06-2012 02:35AM

Oranage2 wrote: »

Maybe not vandals - Have the gardai ruled out vikings?

or visigoths?

but seriously, shocking piece of news.

Feelgood · 14-06-2012 02:58AM

Idiot vandals wreck 5,500 year old giant stone penis in Meath. There is even a line of jizz down the side.

Though seriously, those lads or lassies need a clip around the ear.

Idiot vandals wreck 5,500-year-old Meath monument

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