Molly Malone Statue Vandalised Just Days After It Had Been Cleaned And Relocated

Barely a few days after the Molly Malone statue had been moved to her new location, Dublin City Business Improvement District reported on their Twitter page that the statue had been vandalised. The statue was removed from her original location at the bottom of Grafton Street to outside St. Andrew's Church on Suffolk Street in order to make way for the new Luas building project. Dublin City BID claimed that spend thousands each year on monuments only for them to be vandalised with graffiti like the Molly Malone statue.

We spend thousands each year removing graffiti from businesses. Now much loved public monuments targeted #disgrace pic.twitter.com/97xrw8zQAk — Dublin City BID (@DublinCityBID) July 23, 2014

The Council have since begun work cleaning the statue again but the graffiti followed improvement work on the statue which involved welding and steam-cleaning.

Fair play to @DubCityCouncil staff who are cleaning Molly Malone this minute after she was graffiti tagged earlier. pic.twitter.com/xR9Plt7UEt — Dublin City BID (@DublinCityBID) July 23, 2014

  This is why we can't have nice things.