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Luke Kelly statue vandalised

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  • #2
    doughef
    Registered Users Posts: 734 ✭✭✭doughef


    Looks like Bono with shades 😎


  • #3
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Looks like they painted on a pair of sunglasses. ****ty thing to do, but probably not the worst case of vandalism I’ve seen.


  • #4
    McDermotX
    Registered Users Posts: 14,592 ✭✭✭✭McDermotX


    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.


  • #5
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 14,542 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Wait for the excusers........


  • #6
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 14,542 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Haha they are in while I was typing...


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  • #7
    ctrl-alt-delete
    Registered Users Posts: 13,768 ✭✭✭✭ctrl-alt-delete


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


  • #8
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    I honestly thought it would be worse TBH but it's still disgraceful.

    Oh and those of you who have no knowledge of the great Luke Kelly and think this is all a bit of craic; shame on you.


  • #9
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    No respect for anybody. Including one of their own


  • #10
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,690 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


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


  • #11
    Chicken George
    Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭Chicken George


    One mans art is another mans vandalism.


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  • #12
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Luke would find it funny


  • #13
    sabat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,896 ✭✭✭sabat


    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.


  • #14
    Zeek12
    Registered Users Posts: 13,379 ✭✭✭✭Zeek12


    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.


  • #15
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    doughef wrote: »
    Looks like Bono with shades ��

    Looks like Bono with Aids


  • #16
    Oink
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,150 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    Chicken George wrote: »
    One mans art is another mans vandalism.

    I think the statue itself was vandalism in a first place.

    I still want the arshwipes to be made to lick the paint off until the statue is clean again but that’s a different debate.


  • #17
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,690 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Zeek12 wrote: »
    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.

    It's an awful yolk, looks like he's about to vomit or blow someone


  • #18
    McDermotX
    Registered Users Posts: 14,592 ✭✭✭✭McDermotX


    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.


  • #19
    eagle eye
    Registered Users Posts: 37,482 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Disgusted by the idiots that would do something like that.
    Luke Kelly is probably the greatest Irish singer of all time, a true legend.
    It's just sickening that somebody would do this.


  • #20
    dd973
    Registered Users Posts: 625 ✭✭✭dd973


    eagle eye wrote: »
    Disgusted by the idiots that would do something like that.
    Luke Kelly is probably the greatest Irish singer of all time, a true legend.
    It's just sickening that somebody would do this.


    They've probably never heard of him given the breadth of their cultural and intellectual scope.


  • #21
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,617 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    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.

    Sounds like yoube just been waiting to have a go tbh, he was involved with commissioning the statue apparently so of course he's going to comment on it, and he implied nothing of the sort


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  • #22
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    riffmongous wrote: »
    Sounds like yoube just been waiting to have a go tbh, he was involved with commissioning the statue apparently so of course he's going to comment on it, and he implied nothing of the sort

    Auld Christy defaced many a city centre and innocent bystander in his time, so I’m sure he’ll have the awareness to keep his outrage to a minimum.


  • #23
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    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.

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  • #24
    touts
    Registered Users Posts: 6,430 ✭✭✭touts


    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.


  • #25
    The Enbalmer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭The Enbalmer


    Looks like the Beheading Of Lino Ritchie


  • #26
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,776 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    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.


  • #27
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


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


  • #28
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,776 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    God know what the little ****es will do to the Michael Jackson statue.

    Stay the feck away. Just in case.


  • #29
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Whoever did that is a scumbag of the lowest order :mad:


  • #30
    Berserker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Berserker


    I'm shocked to hear that it lasted that long if I'm honest. Pointless putting a statue like that in that part of town.


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  • #31
    Dual wheels
    Registered Users Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Dual wheels


    mfceiling wrote: »
    https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/community-outraged-as-luke-kelly-statue-is-vandalised-932988.html

    It was only a matter of time. Probably the most famous person from the area (go on out of that Gately) and that's the respect he's been given.
    Little scrotes up to no good as usual....But but but they've no amenities, it's not their fault etc.
    It was a truly striking piece of art that couldn't be appreciated.
    Knackers.
    Couldn’t agree more, ah but the poor little chislers there’s nothing in the area for them sure they have to turn to vandalism, I blame the government...
    In fairness it’s probably the worst place you could put anything as it’s just a knacker hole and you can talk about all the urban regeneration horse**** you like, a knacker is a knacker


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