Statue of Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria, in the grounds of Leinster House
Further to the direct action taken against his wife earlier this week.
Via Ken Foxe:
Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin urging the bronze statue of Prince Albert be taken to a museum to ‘make more room for parking’.
Which elicited the following….
The statue is a ‘protected structure’, says the Superintendent of The Houses of the Oireachtas
Protected?
FIGHT!
Meanwhile…
Ken writes:
Response from Oireachtas also shows how some TDs and Senators are not parking where they are supposed to….
Prince is blocking my parking space, TD complains (The Times Ireland Edition)
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Socialists my bum area.
Why can’t they be like the rest of the plebs and get the bus in? Wouldn’t have to worry about parking at all then.
Nail on the head there. How can we expect any decent public transport or cycling infrastructure if the TDs are more concerned about parking their motors?
Ah now – I am into cycling activism, and have absolutely no time for SF, but I can see how a TD living in a rural constituency could justify sometimes taking their car into Leinster House.
Many constituents of rural TDs have to commute to Dublin for work without the benefit of free city centre parking and not all the TDs that drive are rural.
You’re not Willie Penrose, are you?
I am not.
There are very few people who work in the city centre who have access to permanent and free parking. I agree that the bus is not an option, but there are lots of pay parking options that can be utilised. No, he’s looking for free, easy and privileged parking based on his perception that his job as a TD should afford him.
Am pretty sure their reasoning is more about bigotry than parking.
Should have been skipped many moons ago.
i’m sure he knows someone, who knows someone, who knows where to get their hands on a wee smidge of semtex..
ahaha
He was a bit of a bell-end!
*golf clap*
Cian, you’ll be accused of being homophobic, just as BB was yesterday, prepare for an onslaught of “Scream it from the rooftops” postings.
Whuuuuuuuut? Bell-end isn’t a gay slur. It’s a great slur.
Andy, certain posters look for offence in everything, it’s attention seeking is all.
A Prince Albert is a well known item of jewellery predominantly worn by gay males.
NSFW
Not Safe For Work?
Not Safe For Work! As in: don’t use google-image
Wikipedia, on the other hand…
Is everyone drunk here?
I’m certainly a bit squiffy.
Thanks for the heads-up, definitely won’t be googling lol.
moi?
Yes BB, some reference to lions.
oh right… yer man
of all the things I’ve been called on BS – many true – that one is completely wrong
i think i started that. i learned later on that the heraldic lions are in fact leopards. go figure, eh?
Bb wasn’t accused of anything yesterday Bernie as you well know, it was pi$$ take of that other clown johnny and bb was well in on the joke.
Actually it was him who made the joke.
BB It was uncalled for, it was clear it was said with humour.
SOQ No need backtrack a day later. Another drunken rant? Now there’s a surprise. Doesn’t sound as though he was in on the ‘joke’ to me. Only one clown here.
Drunken rant? Err yes dear.
All I asked was if he had contracted something anti social, like homophobia. If you don’t see the humour in that then no hope
Anyways back to the Prince Albert, bloody uncomfortable if you ask me.
Now now Bernie, a bit less smarm out of you sweetie.
Sorry, that was cheeky. I take it back. I’m a fraction giddy today.
Can some of them not car pool, take public transport or walk/cycle in?
Interesting the latter part of the letter about the history of the two statues – funny that Victoria (the Famine queen, after all) was removed, but inoffensive Albert was able to ‘brazen it out’, as it were.
if they removed the hedging either side of the offensive statue, then the deputy could freely park in aice le Prince Albert
Yes! Trim the bush around the Prince Albert!
Great singer though, I loved raspberry beret…..
What does listed actually mean anyways?
The arches at Stephen Green are listed but so are other things in that Park which could not possibly have been returned once the Metro North station was built.
It’s a genuine question btw.
Would Germany be a better place to send Mr. Albert Saxe-Coburg as he was from there, unlikely that they would want him though, being a proper, relatively well-run Republic and all..
Any chance Caoimhghínimhghín could be removed to a museum?
I would have gone with “It Belongs in a Museum” as a heading.
“forenoon”
Never heard of that before. I like it.