Dublin City Council is considering steps to protect Molly Malone’s statue after so many tourists have rubbed her breasts ‘for luck’ that they have become discoloured. The Telegraph has more.
Tourists traditionally touch the iconic artwork, which represents a fictional street seller who died of a fever, for good luck.
But so many people have copped a feel that her bronze bust has now become discoloured, leading to a campaign to stop the “disrespectful” and “misogynistic” practice.
Student Tilly Cripwell, who busks in the area for about 10 hours each week, has launched a campaign calling on people to “leave Molly mAlone”.
The 22-year-old singer said: “The majority of people will touch her boobs for good luck, that’s a misogynistic tradition.
“A lot of people clamour around her, kiss her on the cheek, kiss her boobs, it’s all inappropriate. It’s reducing her to this derision and not giving her the status of being a national treasure.”
“This tradition is notorious to those within and without Dublin, with the discoloration of Molly’s breasts being the visual representation of such harassment,” she told the Irish Independent.
In response, Dublin city council is considering ways to protect the statue, which is in a revealing 17th-century dress.
“We are going to consider what to do and report back to our elected representatives,” Ray Yeates, Arts Officer at the council, told the Telegraph.
“It may be that education may be the answer but we will also consider protecting the statue.”
Among the options which will be considered are fencing, using seating or plants to form a barrier or even moving it to another location, although the council is very reluctant to take that step with the popular attraction.
Even statues are to be protected from harassment now, it appears.
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Disgusting, foul, vile, inhuman zombie cruelty.
I absolutely agree with you – but I wish you wouldn’t sit on the fence!
If some miracle happens and legally backed restrictions end, the legacy of the madness will last for years as organisations choose to be “cautious”, making life difficult for anyone sane who wants or needs to have anything to do with them. Fine where there is a choice and you can choose organisations that get back to normal, but there will not always be a choice.
The SAGE and govt psychopaths have opened Pandora’s Box and even if they wanted to they could not close it. They may not even have spent any time thinking about the long term societal damage to a society already weighed down by often irrational safetyism.
I used to work in a building where our council does marriage ceremonies so I was curious what the rules are. It is quite a small room, so they limited it to 15 people, usually it would hold 36.
The registrars and a photographer are additional, and prams and pushchairs are not allowed (what about wheelchairs or walkers?)
Guests are not allowed to use the on-site toilet facilities, but have to go down the road to the public one in the park.
So silly.
Considering the mother in question here will expect many guests who are one household, the venues insisting on restrictions just shows how scared they are of the extreme unlikely event that something happens or they get snitched on.
A list of funeral locations that will follow new guidelines should be made know so people can appropriately send off their loved ones. Hope someone is working on such.
Well, I used to think our “traveller communities” were a bit out of order in their view of the law.
But they don’t stand for this rubbish. They turn up in thousands at funerals which matter to them, and the police are so outnumbered and intimidated they stand aside.
Time to learn from them.
Last year in April a well know local died (not of or with Covid).
I can’t remember what the limit was then but very small. Over 200 locals descended on the church! As far as is known there was no super spreader event. Surprise!
Having had to go through the horrible processing of hand picking 30 people to attend mum’s funeral back in November, I can only sympathise and relate to this.
It’s also causing rifts in friendships in all areas. My birthday on Sunday and the local pub can only accommodate 2 x tables of six in the rain and wind outside. So I’ve had to turn down three dear friends because they didn’t respond fast enough. It’s just horrible. Esp. when there is an empty pub inside and we’ve been Covid free for two months.
Spot on.
We can expect a whole range of jobsworths and organisations who will not want to let go of their new-found control and make up all sorts of silly rules to bolster their anti-social sense of self-importance.