Luke Kelly statue vandalised

mikhail · 20-04-2020 1:32pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

Nothing a good dose of napalm and Agent Orange wouldn't sort.

Even a place like that has maybe 5% ****heads. Most people don't cause trouble.

selectamatic · 20-04-2020 1:35pm

CrankyHaus wrote: »

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/statue-of-singer-luke-kelly-may-be-moved-from-dublins-docklands-after-it-was-vandalised-for-fourth-time-39141086.html

“This isn’t people from Sheriff Street that are doing this. You should be completely ashamed of yourselves,” said Anthony Flynn of Inner City Helping Homeless.

Who are these sinister elements traveling to Sheriff Street during a pandemic lockdown with the sole intention of drawing glasses on the Luke Kelly Statue?
Trinity Students, Kerry GAA Ultras smarting at their persistent All-Ireland defeats, the Alt-Right?

The Amish.

holyhead · 20-04-2020 1:35pm

Very sad to see the blatant disrespect to such an Irish icon. It's a sad reflection of our society that some people have such a lack of respect. Ultimately the sanctions for anti social behaviour in Ireland are not sufficient to provide an incentive for people to show respect.

MrMusician18 · 20-04-2020 1:38pm

kravmaga wrote: »

And guess what folks the street art piece/ bust / sculpture of Luke Kelly The Dubliners has just been vandalised again with red spray paint as sunglasses.

This is the 4th time its been vandalised since it was officially unveiled to the public in Jan 2019.

Vera Klute has done some good work in the past but I really don't like this sculpture of Luke Kelly.

Is it time for D.C.C. to face up to the reality that the sculpture should be moved to their Head office or a Museum instead of its current location.

I have driven past it on my way to work and there does not seem to be any CCTV cameras covering the area where the statute is located.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2020/0420/1132529-luke-kelly-statue/

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/luke-kelly-statue-guild-street-18116060

https://president.ie/en/diary/details/president-and-sabina-unveil-a-sculpture-of-the-late-luke-kelly-by-vera-klute

They installed CCTV after the first attack. It's pointing at it 24/7

The statue should be moved. If the community can't appreciate nice things then it shouldn't get them.

Man Vs ManUre · 20-04-2020 1:40pm

In life he would have had roadies and bouncers to protect him from the riff raft attending his gigs, as well as the supporting band. I think if you also had head statues for all of these then Luke would be better protected.

MrMusician18 · 20-04-2020 1:45pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

People from places like Sherrif Street, Ballymun, Ballyfermot love to go on about how ‘salt of the earth’ they are, and how much pride they have in their communities. The reality is they don’t give a shïte about anyone only themselves, and let their packs of semi-feral kids roam about all night.

You just have to see the state of the streets, with litter and graffiti everywhere to know that the people there have no pride in their community.

Bobblehats · 20-04-2020 1:52pm

Man Vs ManUre wrote: »

In life he would have had roadies and bouncers to protect him from the riff raft attending his gigs, as well as the supporting band. I think if you also had head statues for all of these then Luke would be better protected.

It really is prone. The danger is it could become more of a monument to defacement it’s not like some kid havin a few cans down on the lock isn’t going to get happy with a spraycan once in a while. Tarnishing an entire community..

whisky_galore · 20-04-2020 1:53pm

MrMusician18 wrote: »

They installed CCTV after the first attack. It's pointing at it 24/7

The statue should be moved. If the community can't appreciate nice things then it shouldn't get them.

Cctv only works to deter normal people, not feral teens or ballbags.

Bobblehats · 20-04-2020 1:56pm

At least the hair went untouched. Would be hard pressed gettin whatever out of that...

Thelonious Monk · 20-04-2020 2:04pm

Bobblehats wrote: »

It really is prone. The danger is it could become more of a monument to defacement it’s not like some kid havin a few cans down on the lock isn’t going to get happy with a spraycan once in a while. Tarnishing an entire community..

D1 is the most littered area in Ireland, simply down to the locals putting their rubbish out on the streets and not giving a sh*t about anything.
Funny how the marvelous Easter Island statue in Clontarf has never been vandalised.

dvcireland · 20-04-2020 2:07pm

art is very subjective:

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BorneTobyWilde · 20-04-2020 2:10pm

I seriously thought that statue was Phil Lynott, no bull.

nthclare · 20-04-2020 2:11pm

I think it's time for internment, I was talking to an old Kerry man today and he had the right Idea.

No doubt if I shared it, the headbanger SJW lefties would be reporting the post.

You know the colorful fillers in society, always cranky and tired.

SJW's the other scourge of society besides the scumbag White collar criminals and the other components who disregard the civility of society...

MarkY91 · 20-04-2020 2:12pm

Vandalisation aside, it is the most hideous looking statue I've ever seen. Best just to remove the monstrosity.

BorneTobyWilde · 20-04-2020 2:12pm

Luke Kelly was white, and ginger, statue looks like a black guy with a Afro. I don't get it at all

Horsebox9000 · 20-04-2020 2:14pm

Zebra3 wrote: »

If they want to reduce crime and the corporate welfare bill, set up snipers outside the HQs of banks.

Genius.
Please tell us more about jailing bankers haven't heard about that ad nausiem since 2008

Deebles McBeebles · 20-04-2020 2:17pm

Its quite a good likeness actually. Shame its in a place where it can't be left alone.

Ulmus · 20-04-2020 2:18pm

It's awful looking. It reminds me of an ISIS video. Luke Kelly is immortalised in his music. Why do we have to make statues of everyone?

CrankyHaus · 20-04-2020 2:18pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Funny how the marvelous Easter Island statue in Clontarf has never been vandalised.

It had graffiti on it when I passed it last week.

PointHop123 · 20-04-2020 2:40pm

The obvious solution is to raise the plinth to about 2.5 meters and ti surround it with metal bars.

The third defacement of the statue was in March about 6 weeks ago - the culprit was seen on a bike in a hoodie and cycled off towards East Wall - is that as horrible a neighnourhood as Sheriff Street?

Thelonious Monk · 20-04-2020 2:42pm

CrankyHaus wrote: »

It had graffiti on it when I passed it last week.

Saturday before last it didn't anyway, I'll have a look later or tomorrow

Thelonious Monk · 20-04-2020 2:43pm

PointHop123 wrote: »

The obvious solution is to raise the plinth to about 2.5 meters and ti surround it with metal bars.

The third defacement of the statue was in March about 6 weeks ago - the culprit was seen on a bike in a hoodie and cycled off towards East Wall - is that as horrible a neighnourhood as Sheriff Street?

Not quite as horrible, used to be worse, more settled now

Beanntraigheach · 20-04-2020 4:32pm

The real culprit was Luke Kelly's ghost!
Outraged that this grotesque gargoyle should have been erected in his memory he returned from the afterlife to make his displeasure known.

MrMusician18 · 20-04-2020 4:34pm

PointHop123 wrote: »

The obvious solution is to raise the plinth to about 2.5 meters and ti surround it with metal bars.

No, the obvious solution is to raze the whole of Sheriff.St.

Zebra3 · 20-04-2020 4:35pm

Horsebox9000 wrote: »

Genius.
Please tell us more about jailing bankers haven't heard about that ad nausiem since 2008

Well, genius, if you could actually read, you'd see there was no proposal to jail bankers.

Corben Dallas · 20-04-2020 5:21pm

Time to move it out of the area.. I know that's were he lived but its a waste of public money repairing it after its been vandalized 4 times, ...most likely by feral teenage locals.

It needs a new location ...one where its respected as a Dublin Icon.

Rothko · 20-04-2020 7:02pm

MarkY91 wrote: »

Vandalisation aside, it is the most hideous looking statue I've ever seen. Best just to remove the monstrosity.

It's horrible. It looks like he was just beheaded.

SeanW · 20-04-2020 10:06pm

As an aside, there were 4 members of the Dubliners and the entire band was really good. Why are there two statues of Luke Kelly and none of Ronnie Drew?

20-04-2020 10:52pm

SeanW wrote: »

As an aside, there were 4 members of the Dubliners and the entire band was really good. Why are there two statues of Luke Kelly and none of Ronnie Drew?

The statues were commissioned in 2014 to mark the 30th anniversary of Kelly's death by the then lord mayor if I remember correctly, so will have to see if they do some of the others.

Are you saying four members total including Kelly to mean the original founding members and your not including Sheahan?

Bobblehats · 20-04-2020 10:58pm

SeanW wrote: »

As an aside, there were 4 members of the Dubliners and the entire band was really good. Why are there two statues of Luke Kelly and none of Ronnie Drew?

Ronnie Drew without his hair was like Darth vAder without the mask

fryup · 20-04-2020 11:04pm

SeanW wrote: »

Why are there two statues of Luke Kelly and none of Ronnie Drew?

twice as popular ?

whisky_galore · 21-04-2020 12:00am

Weird obsession for "statchas" in this country.
Someone famous or even remotely famous? Oh they'd have to have a "statcha" put up.

Some are ok or just about bearable, many are plain awful looking, a pox on the streetscape, this one is just a bizarre, oversized disembodied head.

touts · 21-04-2020 1:10am

The statue itself is vandalism. Very very expensive vandalism.

Larbre34 · 21-04-2020 1:16am

My fav tweet from today commenting on today's most recent daubing of the bauld Luke, went something like

'the more the statue gets vandalised, the louder the scream will be from it when they eventually enable that feature'

MarkY91 · 21-04-2020 9:35am

whisky_galore wrote: »

Weird obsession for "statchas" in this country.
Someone famous or even remotely famous? Oh they'd have to have a "statcha" put up.

Some are ok or just about bearable, many are plain awful looking, a pox on the streetscape, this one is just a bizarre, oversized disembodied head.

Name another statue that's as bad as this one.

Thelonious Monk · 21-04-2020 9:39am

MarkY91 wrote: »

Name another statue that's as bad as this one.

This isn't as bad but it was hilarious

21-04-2020 9:40am

The greatest Dubliner of them all but put it out of reach.

KevRossi · 21-04-2020 9:44am

SeanW wrote: »

As an aside, there were 4 members of the Dubliners and the entire band was really good. Why are there two statues of Luke Kelly and none of Ronnie Drew?

I think 20 years have to pass from the death of a person in Dublin for them to be commemorated. But maybe this only applies to naming streets, bridges etc after them.

I would also argue that there were 5 Dubliners;

Ronnie Drew
Luke Kelly
Ciaran Bourke
Barney McKenna
John Sheehan

Obviously others like Jim McCann and Sean Cannon who joined and left after Ciaran Bourke's illness and Luke Kelly's death, but there were always 4 of the above 5 in it for the first two decades.

yosser hughes · 21-04-2020 9:51am

Corben Dallas wrote: »

Time to move it out of the area.. I know that's were he lived but its a waste of public money repairing it after its been vandalized 4 times, ...most likely by feral teenage locals.

It needs a new location ...one where its respected as a Dublin Icon.

He lived on Dartmouth Square for a time. Lovely spot.
Move it where it will be respected. Or leave it there and don't clean it. If the locals have any respect for their area or themselves they will sort this out themselves.
The idea that the council will always clean up after you is half the problem.
Leave it to them as a reminder of what they have done

Squeeonline · 21-04-2020 10:29am

I've never understood this "salt of the earth" being a compliment. If you salt earth nothing grows. Salt ruins soil.

Oh maybe that's it.

Thelonious Monk · 21-04-2020 11:24am

yosser hughes wrote: »

If the locals have any respect for their area or themselves they will sort this out themselves.
The idea that the council will always clean up after you is half the problem.
Leave it to them as a reminder of what they have done

These people just put their rubbish on the street instead of paying for bin tags. The place is filthy. They would happily live in their own filth.

suicide_circus · 21-04-2020 11:56am

In Luke Kelly's time, the area's inhabitants were really a salt of the earth community, dirt poor but dignified. Drugs and welfare dependence destroyed all that.

Edgware · 21-04-2020 12:25pm

suicide_circus wrote: »

In Luke Kelly's time, the area's inhabitants were really a salt of the earth community, dirt poor but dignified. Drugs and welfare dependence destroyed all that.

Salt of the earth
"We were poor but we were happy" More of the rare old times bull****.
Tenements, high child mortality rates, rampant T.B. Kips such as Phil Shanahan House.
Nothing dignified about that

Larbre34 · 21-04-2020 2:44pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

These people just put their rubbish on the street instead of paying for bin tags. The place is filthy. They would happily live in their own filth.

Indeed. There is no self respect in this area. And its not a question of deprivation or not, i know lots of disadvantaged areas that have built proud and well kept neighbourhoods.

Both the carrot and the stick have failed in Sheriff Street and areas around, they should be given nothing more until they step up as a whole.

I somehow don't see the statue going down too well in Dartmouth Square! In fairness the funding for it mostly came from a friend of Kelly's in the area, so it should stay down there, but it needs to be in a protected location, maybe as part of one the newer developments where there is a constant security presence.

Muahahaha · 21-04-2020 7:06pm

Should stick it on top of the Spire, it'll be safe then

whisky_galore · 21-04-2020 7:13pm

MarkY91 wrote: »

Name another statue that's as bad as this one.

The Nazi collaborator in the trenchcoat in Fairview Park, both for being aesthetically awful and for having been in bed with Nazi Germany.

Esel · 21-04-2020 7:20pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

The Nazi collaborator in the trenchcoat in Fairview Park, both for being aesthetically awful and for having been in bed with Nazi Germany.

Interesting read on the unveiling of that statue:

http://homepage.tinet.ie/~eirenua/2001/sep01/50yrsago.htm

MrMusician18 · 30-05-2020 1:52am

It's after happening again tonight
https://twitter.com/AnthonyICHH/status/1266482065652027393?s=19

Time now to take it away imo.

eagle eye · 30-05-2020 1:56am

MrMusician18 wrote:

It's after happening again tonight

What needs to be done is those fools getting a good hiding.

Atlantic Dawn · 30-05-2020 1:59am

They should find out who did it and level the house they live in to dust.

Luke Kelly statue vandalised

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