Come Here To Me!

A friend linked me to this story earlier on from breakingnews.ie. Work on the Metro means that the statues on O’Connell Street are going to be moved to Collins Barracks from next year.

“Tom Manning from the Railway Procurement Agency said it is hoped to have the statues back on O’Connell Street in 2016 for the 100th anniversary of 1916.”

One-hundred years on from the great strike of 1913, O’Connell Street could be without Big Jim? Interesting. Tour guides all over the city dread the day O’Connell himself is moved no doubt, though the arrival of a construction site on O’Connell Street once more means we can at least expect an Orange Order march.