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DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL said they hope to clean up the Molly Malone statue “as soon as possible” after it was vandalised with black paint.
In a statement to The Journal, a Dublin City Council spokesperson said it will be “removing the paint as soon as possible”.
The famous Molly Malone statue is located in Suffolk Street and is a short distance from Trinity College and Grafton Street.
Molly Malone was a semi historical, semi-legendary figure who was commemorated in the song ‘Cockles and Mussels’, which is something of an unofficial anthem for Dublin City.
Ray McAdam, a Fine Gael councillor for the North Inner City, told The Journal that he’s “annoyed and frustrated that a popular tourist attraction has been targeted and defaced”.
“This behaviour is not only childish but criminal and reflects poorly on the city as a whole,” said McAdam.
He added: “I know Dublin City Council will act swiftly in cleaning the statue if not today, tomorrow at the latest.”
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Wonder which sensitive group of girls abd boys did this
@Dave: far right crowd, they get easily upset about all sorts of things. Skin as thin as paper.
@Dave: Some alphabetical snowflake group no doubt?
@Nickb: why would the lgbt community have done this? It’s been around the corner from the biggest gay club in the country for decades and no one touched it. The fact that you went there in your head shows the kind of mentality you have. Far more likely to be local toe rags, probably of a similar brain deficiency to yourself.
@Martin Bishop: is Molly an illegal immigrant? Nah, more likely some vegan nutjob objecting to her barrowload of cockles and mussels alive aliveooooo.
Probably antifa wanting to rewrite history again to erase our culture.
@James murphy: You suspect that Molly Malone was a fascist of some kind?
@James murphy: Why would antifa (the Anti Fascist movement) want to do any harm.
All of us are anti-fascist (antifa).
Except fascists, of course.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: Molly Malone was actually a fishist.
What goes through the minds of the people that do this sort of thing? Do they even have a mind?
They should put the Flussy in the Jacuzzi back on O’ Connell street was great craic on a saturday night when someone poured in a bottle of washing up liquid
@Trent: ah I miss those days
@Gearóid MacEachaidh: Foam party;: and a big mac after it,, wouldn’t be able to it now sadly ;(
When criminals, drug addicts and the mentally ill are allowed to set up camp in the city centre, it’s no wonder law and order has disappeared.
I’d be less concerned about that and much more concerned about the fact that there are so many empty houses and yet people are existing on the streets with nowhere to live.
No doubt some weirdo did it
@2cents: shrewd detective work mate
Could it not just be done today?
@Nickb: exactly,a bottle of nitro mors and some white spirits and a rag.
@Nickb: but surely it needs to be proposed, agreed, seconded, put out to tender, meeting about agreeing on tender, meeting about negotiating the price, requesting money from finance dept. These things take time.
@Kevin Dillon: And changes to the rosters to free up enough staff to undertake the work.
Good ole FEARL skum
@tara tevlin: Feral?
Probably the tourist batterers or unhappy punchers
Hopefully, if they are caught, they should be made clean up all the graffiti in Dublin. It’s a
dirty thing to do.
@Annette: Why not make it a sponsored cleanup – proceeds to charity? Better publicity than any vandalism.
In fairness she was known to be dirty already, tis in the song.
@Luma plex: No, it’s not.
@Luma plex: not the point it vandalism plan & simply
@Tricia G: She reeked of fish, Tricia.
@Luma plex: A fishmonger reeking of fish?
My!
Whatever next?
Yer man that kept defacing the Luke Kelly statue must have moved house. Molly Malone must be on his way home from the pub now.
#Black statues matter.
Now even Molly Malone is painted as a black woman .
This is a racist attack on our heritage.
@Peter McCormack: Black Molloys matter
In Dublins fair city where the girl has black ti**ies
Now can w3 have a debate on eugenics please?
@alan mc grath: Yes: somebody named Eugene may have done this.
Dublin really is a kip
To all the prissy, offended by wokism commenters: your Ma!
Public Caning & Flogging is in dire need in Dublin for the anti social element.
I’d say we’ve had enough of the sadism of that generation, wouldn’t you? Parents took their abused children out of schools where they thought they could get away with that.
Not sure, but Antifa toe rags get a free ride on their bull
Ah the Malones were the original mob family in Dublin , as well as Molly – so was her father and mother and when she passed away they had a magic ghost do the rounds – all a racket – the son Bugsy went to America and became a gangster too – no need to glorify them at all
I don’t think it could have been The Donald; apparently he prefers throwing ketchup.
(By the way, there are reports he will be arrested and processed at the county jail.)
Rugby fans used to sing molly Malone at the internationals, pity they don’t anymore.
Gentrify already.
Ah,sure the tit rubbing tourists will clean it,unless it’s still sticky.
Typical. Between attacking tourists now their own landmarks are defaced
Dublin has really turned into a s***hole
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