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Luke Kelly statue vandalised

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  • #92
    dotsman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,635 ✭✭✭dotsman


    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.


  • #93
    Zebra3
    Registered Users Posts: 13,846 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


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


  • #94
    pgj2015
    Registered Users Posts: 8,837 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    imagine what they would do to a statue of someone like Bono, if they can do that to one of their own.


  • #95
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Outrageous!


  • #96
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    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.


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  • #97
    Pkiernan
    Registered Users Posts: 4,315 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    The entire area should be crop dusted with aersolised contraceptives.


  • #98
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,702 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    I've spent a fair bit around that area of late, well up until covid, and they really are a breed unto themselves. Litter everywhere, roaring and shouting constantly, open drug dealing... My partner's flat looks onto the Sheriff St estate and there have been street parties since the restrictions, constant gangs of kids going around, everything just going on as normal.
    I don't care if it's snobbish or unfair but they should not be given social housing in the city centre if it's at the determent of the lives of normal people in the area. That whole estate should be leveled.


  • #99
    CrankyHaus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus


    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?

    Mr Flynn of course is the man who presented Margaret Cash to the nation as a homeless Martyr so you can trust his words as the absolute truth.


  • #100
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,720 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Pkiernan wrote: »
    The entire area should be crop dusted with aersolised contraceptives.

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


  • #101
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    The monument’s goofy as hell, it’s literally crying out to be defaced don’t act like it wouldn’t happen around yours ways. I know if they put one similar of Phil Lynott or Conor mac G in the local parks somebody would have their fun with it. And that’s all that matters


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  • #102
    mikhail
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    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.


  • #103
    selectamatic
    Registered Users Posts: 3,887 ✭✭✭selectamatic


    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.


  • #104
    holyhead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭holyhead


    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.


  • #105
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users Posts: 7,186 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    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.


  • #106
    Man Vs ManUre
    Registered Users Posts: 5,064 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    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.


  • #107
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users Posts: 7,186 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    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.


  • #108
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    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..


  • #109
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,720 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    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.


  • #110
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


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


  • #111
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,702 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    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.


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  • #112
    dvcireland
    Registered Users Posts: 13,440 ✭✭✭✭dvcireland


    art is very subjective:

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    "...no Joe, you rang me !..." A.Caller.



  • #113
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users Posts: 35,573 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


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

    tumblr_mt1enggbjB1r37rfro3_400.jpg

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  • #114
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭nthclare


    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...


  • #115
    MarkY91
    Registered Users Posts: 7,067 ✭✭✭MarkY91


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


  • #116
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users Posts: 35,573 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


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


  • #117
    Horsebox9000
    Registered Users Posts: 367 ✭✭Horsebox9000


    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


  • #118
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


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

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  • #119
    Ulmus
    Registered Users Posts: 187 ✭✭Ulmus


    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?


  • #120
    CrankyHaus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus


    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.


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  • #121
    PointHop123
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭PointHop123


    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?


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