Luke Kelly statue vandalised

Looks like Bono with shades 😎

Well...I've no time for a hideous piece of 'art' like that, but I do enjoy a moan about little scrotes.

Hang 'em all, I say.

Haha they are in while I was typing...

The state of the thing in fairness. Plus what do they expect if you put anything in that area.

Luke would find it funny

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

The state of the thing in fairness. Plus what do they expect if you put anything in that area.

Not condoning the vandalism for one minute....

But it really wasn't much to look at anyway. They could and should have done Luke's memory better service with something more dignified.

Duffy will be looking to get some coverage with this on the Lahvlahn.

"Its a wunderful statue.......sure isn't it great.......wasn't he marvelous etc etc"

It's in bits FFS..... before it was vandalised.

Surprised it lasted this long. Awful piece of "art". Of the two statues the taxpayers funded that one was more about the artist showing off than a celebration of the subject. Apparently the Kelly family themselves hated it. I don't condone vandalism but arguably that thing was vandalism to start with.

Jog on Burke, you couldn't keep a boulder nice down Sheriffer way and you bloody well knew that all the time you lobbied for this. (spare me the Joe Duffy salta dee eart community shyte too, if a community can't put a leash on its own then thats all you need to know about it)

The notion of putting a statue of Luke in Dublin 1 was always daft, famous people get prominent positions, not outside the front door they grew up in and they could have saved themselves all this bother by not having the Sheriffer statue and moving the Stephens Green one down to either O'Donoghues or Raglan Road a lá Phillo Lynott or Patrick Kavanagh.

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

God know what the little ****es will do to the Michael Jackson statue.

Stay the feck away. Just in case.

sabat wrote: »

And of course Christy "one of our own" Burke has to chime in with another worthless opinion about how the community was wronged, as if a gang of businessmen from Dalkey did it. He was curiously unavailable for comment when his family members were convicted of possessing weapons in the area though.

What the hell are you on about? That is not the impression I got from his statement


From the article: "Now, I'm not pointing the finger at anybody but I'm hoping that CCTV is hoping to pick up the culprit or culprits. I know that the community is outraged."

“I know that the family will be hurt and devastated tonight and I know that the community is absolutely devastated,” he said.

“I am absolutely outraged; I actually feel so disturbed inside that I am virtually shaking."

“Really and truly, I never dreamt that this would happen.”

He called on anyone in the local community with any information on the culprits to pass it on to Gardaí.

“It is a sad evening at the end of the day but we won’t give up,” he said.

“The graffiti will be removed; the community will stand together, stronger and stronger and I know that they will continue to police the Luke Kelly statue.”

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

Word on the street is that a local lad called Ronnie drew it on.

A good few years ago When I was well cut backstage at a Pogues gig, I got chatting to Ronnie. I told him I thought Luke was a far better singer than he was.

He said, "Well it's a good job I'm not depending on c*nts like you to make a living then." and walked off.

Terrible looking thing, like a giant latex severed head. Like something you'd see in a chamber of horrors.

I'm not a great fan of littering streetscapes with lifesize bronze statues of notables who look like they've been dipped in chocolate but this artistic atrocity is in a league of its own.

Unfortunately I’d say it’ll be vandalized regularly from now on

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Horrible statue but it's a matter of taste etc.

Have a bit of respect.














Thousands of Brillo pads died to make that statue.