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Large Sculpture Proposed for Croagh Patrick

  • 25-03-2013 5:25pm
    #1
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭


    I like this guy. By the way this is to go up on TOP after planning permission is granted. By way of explaining scale. :D
    1903_croagh-patrick-sizes_290.jpg

    I don't see any problem with this, after all had St Patrick not gone a Reeking in the first place then Western Civilisation could not have started off could it. :D

    Story Here. Fair play, can we bring it up one brick at a time then???


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  • #2
    AngryLips
    Registered Users Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭AngryLips


    Is it meant to look like it fell off a Warhammer games board?


  • #3
    sanbrafyffe
    Registered Users Posts: 680 ✭✭✭sanbrafyffe


    great,,if its a 100ft tall i bet i can see it here from north mayo


  • #4
    grey_so_what
    Registered Users Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    I thought is was a statue of the man himself....

    I think it is a great idea if so.

    Pity I won't ever get to see it if it comes to fruition......:(.......it's kinda a long way up!


  • #5
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Another feckin Bertie bowl! The idea of that mountain is that we praise god by climbing it not by sitting around in Starbucks at the top looking at a monument.


  • #6
    grey_so_what
    Registered Users Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    foggy_lad wrote: »
    Another feckin Bertie bowl! The idea of that mountain is that we praise god by climbing it not by sitting around in Starbucks at the top looking at a monument.

    I once heard a man tell a woman it was a Bureau de Change with a small shop attached for drinks etc. on the top when she asked what was the building was she could see through the binoculars.....(yes, she believed him, no, she was not American.....:eek:)

    I can see your point f-l but it would be a lovely sight to see ("from a distance" in my case) imo! :)


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  • #7
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    AngryLips wrote: »
    Is it meant to look like it fell off a Warhammer games board?

    It is, that is part of the coolness of it all though.

    The aircraft warning beacon should be 40 shades of green as well. :D


  • #8
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 4,823 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    Mental looking thing! Can't see it ever happening!


  • #9
    lucernarian
    Registered Users Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    A thread in Infrastructure for a sculpture to be placed on top of a Catholic site of pilgrimage. Only in Ireland:p

    Then again, according to the sculptor "we are all Christians here in the west". Give generously in other words!


  • #10
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    I'm sure the mods'll be happy to lock this one up on the day that's in it so. :D

    http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17430:sculpture-plans-tumble&catid=23:news&Itemid=46
    Speaking to The Mayo News yesterday, Timothy Schmalz said: “I have decided not to continue to build the world’s largest Saint Patrick on the Reek, as I have received so much hateful opposition to a project in which I intended to celebrate Irish culture and spirituality.


  • #11
    fullgas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭fullgas


    Good, it looked like shíte.


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