Luke Kelly statue vandalised

gormdubhgorm · 30-05-2020 2:01am

Scorn not their simplicity?

Strumms · 30-05-2020 3:29am

Simplicity won’t have anything to do with it. You’ll probably find the culprits have enough savvy to know the social welfare system, their entitlements and so on back to front, also the concept of free legal aid and free everything.. maybe if they are caught and convicted a free spell down the joy for a week or two would be money well spent, might find an outlet for their artistic leanings other then trying to ruin what someone worked hard to create for the potential enjoyment of others...

dmc17 · 30-05-2020 8:50am

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

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

And then build them another free one?

30-05-2020 8:53am

The penmanship you'd expect from the likes.

murphyebass · 30-05-2020 8:57am

MrMusician18 wrote: »

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

Time now to take it away imo.

Either that or put a fence around it and booby trap it.

aido79 · 30-05-2020 9:06am

murphyebass wrote: »

Either that or put a fence around it and booby trap it.

The statue or Sheriff street?

whisky_galore · 30-05-2020 9:06am

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

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

Yes because that happens all of the time here.

yosser hughes · 30-05-2020 9:15am

Leave it there and don't clean it. Leave it as a monument to the area. If those living there have any decency, they'll sort it out themselves. Let the community pay for the cleaning themselves.If they don't clean it, then they're not the salt of the earth they claim to be and it will serve as a constant reminder to them.
They get everything else for free. They don't realise how lucky they are.
Free housing in a city centre location, free education, free healthcare. They are spoiled and have a learned helplessness due to life long and inter generational welfare dependency.

Beechwoodspark · 30-05-2020 9:15am

Oh ffs not again

Beechwoodspark · 30-05-2020 9:27am

Why not move it and place it at a position of prominence on o Connell st maybe 10 foot up on a stand with railings/bars so that ppl cannot “attack” it

Beechwoodspark · 30-05-2020 9:29am

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.

Did his concerts attract a “troublesome” clientele back in the day?

pgj2015 · 30-05-2020 9:49am

Albert Einstein: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Thelonious Monk · 30-05-2020 9:53am

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Why not move it and place it at a position of prominence on o Connell st maybe 10 foot up on a stand with railings/bars so that ppl cannot “attack” it

That f*cking thing on our main street?

whisky_galore · 30-05-2020 9:59am

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Why not move it and place it at a position of prominence on o Connell st maybe 10 foot up on a stand with railings/bars so that ppl cannot “attack” it

It would want to be behind bulletproof glass.

JDxtra · 30-05-2020 9:59am

I had to Google who Luke Kelly was. Do we honestly think kids from the area will know who he is and therefore respect the statue?

It's a massive severed head! It gets on the news any time someone spray paints it. Prime target.

Atlantic Dawn · 30-05-2020 9:59am

What is the hair and beard made of? Surprised that never seems to get wrecked, looks a fragile part of it.

Beechwoodspark · 30-05-2020 10:04am

Why not put high powered flood lights on it and hi def cctv cameras monitored by store st garda station and an ear splitting alarm if anyone touches the statue

tastyt · 30-05-2020 10:09am

Anyone who didn’t expect this to happen to a statue up there is very naive

I mean honestly, what did people think was going to happen. As someone else said either move it or just leave it and don’t clean it

Pkiernan · 30-05-2020 10:11am

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Why not put high powered flood lights on it and hi def cctv cameras monitored by store st garda station and an ear splitting alarm if anyone touches the statue

The alarm should play The Rare Ould Times at 140 dB

Quantum Erasure · 30-05-2020 10:13am

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

This isn't as bad but it was hilarious

When did Niall Quinn get a statue??

Pkiernan · 30-05-2020 10:13am

The spray paint should be analysed to find out what hardware shop sold it.

Then it's a simple matter to find the nearest Post Office, where the dole money came from that bought the paint.

Then they'll have the culprit!

Retro. · 30-05-2020 10:19am

Replace it with a hologram

Kermit.de.frog · 30-05-2020 10:44am

To be honest the Luke Kelly statue is a bit creepy.

A decapitated head, don't like it myself regardless of the idiot who keeps vandalising it.

Kermit.de.frog · 30-05-2020 10:48am

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

This isn't as bad but it was hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhNNrhze3vs

Pinch Flat · 30-05-2020 11:29am

They should plug it into the mains. Zap any scrote like a fly that goes near it.

whippet · 30-05-2020 11:30am

Sure only the salt of the earth type people live up there

30-05-2020 11:52am

Yeah, it's not a great statue really.. should have just been left at the other one..

Edgware · 30-05-2020 11:56am

Strumms wrote: »

Simplicity won’t have anything to do with it. You’ll probably find the culprits have enough savvy to know the social welfare system, their entitlements and so on back to front, also the concept of free legal aid and free everything.. maybe if they are caught and convicted a free spell down the joy for a week or two would be money well spent, might find an outlet for their artistic leanings other then trying to ruin what someone worked hard to create for the potential enjoyment of others...

Probably someone from another area did it. That's who always commit the crimes

pauliebdub · 30-05-2020 11:59am

It's actually quite a nice statue, I think it's quite unusual and striking. It will probably have to be moved at this stage as it keeps getting vandalised. Put it somewhere nice like in a park or somewhere where people can admire and appreciate it.

Ronaldinho · 30-05-2020 12:35pm

Put a sniper on overwatch and next time they try vandalizing it, drop them.

****heads who go around doing this sort of stuff are no loss to society.

mrcheez · 30-05-2020 12:40pm

The original paintjob actually looked better...perhaps get them back to spray paint the black over it?

Seth Brundle · 30-05-2020 12:43pm

Has Christy Burke graced us with a statement yet?

suicide_circus · 30-05-2020 12:49pm

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Has Christy Burke graced us with a statement yet?

LilacNails · 30-05-2020 12:54pm

Such a shame, a masterpiece of a master. Ignorance at its best. Would this have happened back in his time? No. Why? Because people back then had the cop on and respect to actually appreciate the man and his talent.

Scum who did this.

dd973 · 30-05-2020 1:00pm

They should have put it in the city centre, outside Sinnotts Pub and the Stephen's Green shopping centre, plenty of footfall and opportunities for tourists to take snaps near it, he wasn't in Swedish House Mafia so does anyone really think John-Paul or Jordan from East Wall would have even heard of him?

Fred Cryton · 30-05-2020 1:04pm

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Has Christy Burke graced us with a statement yet?

Is that Christy Burke ...aka "one of our own".

Wonder what he means by "one of our own".....middle class salaried professionals working in IT perhaps?

suicide_circus · 30-05-2020 1:08pm

its probably people coming in from Foxrock and Dalkey doing the vandalizing

Beechwoodspark · 30-05-2020 1:20pm

dd973 wrote: »

They should have put it in the city centre, outside Sinnotts Pub and the Stephen's Green shopping centre, plenty of footfall and opportunities for tourists to take snaps near it, he wasn't in Swedish House Mafia so does anyone really think John-Paul or Jordan from East Wall would have even heard of him?

No joke but there’s a different statue of Luke Kelly also in that location

The Nal · 30-05-2020 1:23pm

LilacNails wrote: »

Such a shame, a masterpiece of a master. Ignorance at its best. Would this have happened back in his time? No. Why? Because people back then had the cop on and respect to actually appreciate the man and his talent.

Scum who did this.

Yeah it would have. That area has always been a total sh1thole. From the rampant drug dealing to the car theft and vandalism to the decades of mugging concert goers on the way to the Point. Horrible. The entire "community" is a spectacular failure and should've been broken up when the IFSC went in.

Jerry Atrick · 30-05-2020 1:26pm

Whip it out of pikeyville and let it be appreciated somewhere else

Edgware · 30-05-2020 1:32pm

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Has Christy Burke graced us with a statement yet?

He's consulting with the Mexican ambassador to seems if he can get Pancho Villa in to guard it.

Edgware · 30-05-2020 1:34pm

The Nal wrote: »

Yeah it would have. That area has always been a total sh1thole. From the rampant drug dealing to the car theft and vandalism to the decades of mugging concert goers on the way to the Point. Horrible. The entire "community" is a spectacular failure and should've been broken up when the IFSC went in.

Buh wharra bout the rayer oul toimes and Bang Bang?

Central Services · 30-05-2020 1:37pm

What they could do is pepper the area with replica memorials. So alike that you can't tell the difference. Have At least one on every street. The chances of finding the real one to deface would be minuscule.
They could be shuffled around occasionally to keep the vandals on the back foot.

dotsman · 30-05-2020 1:40pm

The actions of Dublin City Council are the very definition of insanity (doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome).

For me, I refer back to my previous post from the last time it was vandalised.

dotsman wrote: »

What do people expect?

The native population can't help themselves. Of course it is going to get destroyed.

Now, if they wanted to reduce crime in the city (and the welfare bill), they could deploy snipers in the vicinity and use the statue as bait. Basically one big mouse trap for scumbags.

MrMusician18 · 30-05-2020 1:42pm

Edgware wrote: »

Buh wharra bout the rayer oul toimes and Bang Bang?

I never understood the eulogizing of that period of great poverty, hardship and crime.

brucky · 30-05-2020 1:56pm

Dublin City Council are playing a blinder in refusing to relocate the statue. A case is always made by others on behalf of so called disadvantaged areas that such areas are always left out, that they never have any public money spent in the locality,, don’t have enough “facilities”. By DCC standing firm it is highlighting very clearly how certain sectors from within the local community treat investment in their own community. It doesn’t matter if it’s a phone box or a piece of high quality public art. An old adage used to go that such types “didn’t sh1t in their own area/doorstep” It would appear that the IQ has dwindled with successive generations, despite the vast amount of public money invested within such areas in social workers, treatment centres, community centres etc. Keep it going as it highlights what is never talked about in the left wing media. Scumbags that deserve nothing from the rest of society as they are a blood sucking cancer.

whisky_galore · 30-05-2020 2:03pm

Edgware wrote: »

Buh wharra bout the rayer oul toimes and Bang Bang?

The ancestors of the locals were probably the very ones who went on a looting spree in 1916.

daheff · 30-05-2020 2:10pm

Surely after the 2nd or 3rd time they'd put up CCTV to catch the culprits?

Any community 'representative' provide a reason for the constant vandalism?

brucky · 30-05-2020 2:18pm

daheff wrote: »

Surely after the 2nd or 3rd time they'd put up CCTV to catch the culprits?

Any community 'representative' provide a reason for the constant vandalism?

Hoodie up renders CCTV useless, especially at night. And a CCTV system is just “investing” more money in the area. I suspect the dogs in the street know who’s doing it.

Rothko · 30-05-2020 2:19pm

No surprise that the people who do it can't even spell.

Luke Kelly statue vandalised

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