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Pointless roadside art.

  • 01-04-2019 10:06am
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    Registered Users Posts: 15,630 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Just passed that roofless house type thing at Junction 10 in Co Tipp. Has a small plaque in front that obviously you can't see travelling at any speed.

    What the hell is it, and what's your favourite pointless piece of roadside art?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 20,393 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    A lot of it is good in fairness. Not sure what it adds to humanity though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    M4 Triffids

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  • Registered Users Posts: 19,587 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Has to be the Naas ball. Like after an hour plus long slog of a commute do people really want to be looking at a giant ball covered in road markings?

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    Whats worse is the 'artists' stiffed the local county council for €110,000 for that abomination, its like some sort of Celtic Tiger joke that has gone on for too long


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,587 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Red Hugh on the horse outside Sligo is cool, everything else I've seen up and down the country is meh with the exception of the three lads with their arms raised between Tullamore and Mullingar.

    On the M4 there is a circle and a ring each side of the road as one approaches the toll from the West side. What was the point!??

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,412 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Has to be the Naas ball. Like after an hour plus long slog of a commute do people really want to be looking at a giant ball covered in road markings?

    ?width=500&version=2461808

    Whats worse is the 'artists' stiffed the local county council for €110,000 for that abomination, its like some sort of Celtic Tiger joke that has gone on for too long

    I think the ball is really cool, some of the stuff is better than others obviously...
    The fake ruined cottage... Not so great imo...

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    Think it's on the motorway to carlow, but there's these windmill type things, most of them look half finished as if the artist said fcuk this and just left it that way


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,762 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    The sculpture of a rearing horse with a unicorn helmet and broken chains hanging from his front legs is the most awesome piece of roadside work I've seen anywhere.

    The actual statue itself is a thing of beauty but the placement of it was another stroke of genius.

    It's on the N22.

    Not too far away from it on the opposite side of the road there is a now barely visible carving of a herd of deer in some of the flat rocks, another mighty piece of work.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭von Smallhausen


    There is this on the Strokestown road in Longford called "IF"
    If-Strokestown-Road-Longford.jpg

    And then the infamous violin on the N5 Bypass in Longford.
    the_violin.jpg


    The "IF" one really puzzles me....


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,643 ✭✭✭storker


    I like it. Anything that brightens up a drive is good.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    There's a bunch of giant metal Butterflies on the hillside when driving down to Wexford from Dublin.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭jim o doom


    I quite like kildare bypass sculptures myself, the way the line up as you are a distance away: https://images.app.goo.gl/8dWuTswtHcfUSBo39

    Any piece of art could be considered pointless, regardless of being placed by the side of the road. If you are asking questions about it, it's pretty much doing its job. Espacially if you appreciated it! :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    jim o doom wrote: »
    I quite like kildare bypass sculptures myself, the way the line up as you are a distance away: https://images.app.goo.gl/8dWuTswtHcfUSBo39

    Any piece of art could be considered pointless, regardless of being placed by the side of the road. If you are asking questions about it, it's pretty much doing its job. Espacially if you appreciated it! :)

    That's the windmill type things I was on about..


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭irishgrover


    there is no competition, the award must goto Ballindine

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  • Registered Users Posts: 930 ✭✭✭tgdaly


    There's a thing in the regulations regarding road developments like this that 0.1 % (or something like that, could be wrong on the figure) of the budget has to be allocated for roadside art, so that explains all the random stuff you see!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,494 ✭✭✭Beta Ray Bill


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Has to be the Naas ball. Like after an hour plus long slog of a commute do people really want to be looking at a giant ball covered in road markings?

    ?width=500&version=2461808

    Whats worse is the 'artists' stiffed the local county council for €110,000 for that abomination, its like some sort of Celtic Tiger joke that has gone on for too long

    The only thing "The Ball" was ever good for, was for directions.
    Pre-Google Maps, large amounts of people moved to Naas.

    When they had visitors the instructions were always: Get off at the big ball

    But yeah it's an eye sore now


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    I like the lad pulling the bull across the M7 and the flowers in the window on the M9.

    I'm not sure if the M11 hedgehog is supposed to be rusty.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,057 ✭✭✭.......


    The Naas ball is actually a time capsule and has some stuff inside it.

    As another poster mentioned, it annoys me that I just whizz past and dont get to read the info or even get the name.

    Theres a boot Ive seen on the roadside in Carlow before - at least I think its a boot. I heard it was Leighlins boot - but who knows?

    Micheal D Higgins is responsible for a lot of it.

    I like it - I think public art is a good thing.


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    I like the lad pulling the bull across the M7 .

    the one near nenagh? i like that as well

    01-Bull.jpg

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  • Registered Users Posts: 34,283 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Danny_B wrote: »

    The "IF" one really puzzles me....

    It's the negative space between the letters 'I' and 'f' ..I think!


  • Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    There's a stainless steel tree with random stuff on it between Enniscorthy and New Ross. There's an unfathomable installation between New Ross and Wexford nobody can make sense of.

    I actually like that ball in Naas ;)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    fryup wrote: »
    the one near nenagh? i like that as well

    01-Bull.jpg

    46222423525_c44010b08d_m.jpg

    Is that the bull that some GAA supporters spray painted the final score of a match on its ass for rival supporters to see?


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,760 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    jim o doom wrote: »
    I quite like kildare bypass sculptures myself, the way the line up as you are a distance away: https://images.app.goo.gl/8dWuTswtHcfUSBo39

    Any piece of art could be considered pointless, regardless of being placed by the side of the road. If you are asking questions about it, it's pretty much doing its job. Espacially if you appreciated it! :)

    I like that too ...when I realised they made a St Brigids cross, appropriate for Kildare!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 547 ✭✭✭Duffryman


    tgdaly wrote: »
    There's a thing in the regulations regarding road developments like this that 0.1 % (or something like that, could be wrong on the figure) of the budget has to be allocated for roadside art, so that explains all the random stuff you see!

    It's actually up to one per cent - https://publicart.ie/main/commissioning/funding/per-cent-for-art-scheme/

    Think it's a horrendous waste of money myself. Could provide extra facilities for local communities instead. Maybe a playground or a riverside walk or upgraded community hall or sports facilities or the like.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    How do I get in on this roadside are boondoggle? Have some scrap metal in the garage that I can throw together into something resembling a pegasus. Gotta get that sweet pointless art money.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,915 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    I like them. As said, anything to break up the monotony of the road. As a matter of fact, isn't there some study explaining that this is the exact reason for these? To stop people zoning out.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭denismc


    I do like the "Pegasus" sculpture near Cork airport, it's actually 3 separate pieces that form into the Pegasus as you drive past.

    23.-Pegasus.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    I like them. As said, anything to break up the monotony of the road. As a matter of fact, isn't there some study explaining that this is the exact reason for these? To stop people zoning out.


    What happens when they commission something so offensively crap and people start vomiting over their windscreen and having convulsions at the wheel?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,057 ✭✭✭.......


    Yurt! wrote: »
    What happens when they commission something so offensively crap and people start vomiting over their windscreen and having convulsions at the wheel?

    Then it would be considered a fantastic piece of art and worth millions.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    denismc wrote: »
    I do like the "Pegasus" sculpture near Cork airport, it's actually 3 separate pieces that form into the Pegasus as you drive past.

    23.-Pegasus.jpg


    I don't believe it, someone beat me to my pegasus filthy lucre scheme. I'll re-purpose it into a griffin or cerberus.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 20,026 ✭✭✭✭neris


    On the M2 Northbound theres whats meant to be a giant metal rabbit but it spends most of its life hidden behind the trees and bushes


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