In recent weeks, an art installation in Temple Bar at Exchange Street made a re-appearance. Where once pages of the Ryan Report were pasted onto the hoardings, it was pages from the Cloyne Report which were pasted up recently, with the haunting words ‘CHILD RAPE’ pasted above the report.
Unsurprisingly, someone took a disliking to the piece, and it appears many of the pages have been scraped from the hoardings. On more than one occasion I have seen individuals scraping pages from the piece. It’s been interesting to watch visitors stop to read from the report, or to see native Dubliners breakdown to tears reading it as I have passing by. It’s powerful stuff.
….the Cloyne Report excavates the dysfunction, disconnection, elitism….the narcissism that dominate the culture of the Vatican to this day.
The rape and torture of children were downplayed or ‘managed’ to uphold instead, the primacy of the institution, its power, standing and ‘reputation’
– Enda Kenny.
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Donal
Ciarán
Sam
Come Here To Me! 
Don’t lose that top picture. The symbolism is mighty.
I think that’s Mannix Flynn and a few other people who’ve been pasting those up at the location for quite a while now.
Mannix is indeed behind it, and its predecessors. The first artwork I can recall from him there was named ‘site of desire and death’ (or something similar), inspired by the fact that a drug addict had climbed behind the hoarding to fix and had died undiscovered on the site. I saw people trying to remove pages of the current piece as recently as 9.30 this morning!
Are they vandalising it or taking souvenirs? At this stage I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the latter. I think when it comes to child rape and torture by the catholic church the entire population has pulled it’s jumper over it’s head.