City's landmark statues to get €300,000 facelift

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2005 / April 6

The famous landmark statues along Dublin's O'Connell Street are to get a €300,000 makeover starting next Monday which aims to restore them to their former glory. The city authorities have decided to leave the many bullet holes from the 1916 Easter Rising in the statue of Daniel O'Connell, which are part of the capital's history. And they have also decided not to replace the missing fingers on the statue of Fr Matthew. They were blown off when the nearby Nelson's Pillar was destroyed in a bomb blast. Some of the seven statues and monuments are badly damaged from air pollution or have become defaced by decades of bird droppings. From Monday, scaffolding and hoarding will be erected around the monuments to allow work to get underway.

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