The Sunday Times

The Floozie in the Jacuzzi is to be given a new home. Dublin's most controversial monument, the Anna Livia fountain, is to be moved from O'Connell Street by the city council. The fountain was a gift from the Smurfit family to the people of Dublin in 1988, but is best known as an eyesore clogged with litter and a meeting point for drug dealers. Dublin corporation will not specify where the fountain is going, but it is thought that a green space beside Pearse Street garda station, on the southside of the city, is the most likely location. Ciaran McNamara, the corporation official in charge of revitalising O'Connell Street, said it was decided that the fountain did not work at its present home. "It will have to go somewhere where it does not attract litter, because it costs a fortune to maintain, and to a spot where it can function as a fountain," he said.