{"id":4065,"date":"2025-08-17T04:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T04:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4065\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T04:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T04:18:20","slug":"vandalism-of-drogheda-sculpture-condemned-as-hypocritical-and-misinformed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4065\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandalism of Drogheda sculpture condemned as \u2018hypocritical and misinformed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"New Drogheda Sculpture\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/b277a300-da1b-4182-93e6-4034b6dcd3a7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">New Drogheda Sculpture<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A local resident has spoken out strongly against the recent defacement of public sculptures on the Dublin Road in Drogheda, recently installed by Drogheda Tidy Towns, calling the act \u201cone of the most conservative acts of defiance in the history of the State.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The vandalism which involved the spraying of a Christian cross over a newly installed sculpture, appears to have been carried out by individuals claiming to act in the name of Irish patriotism. But Ois\u00edn Greene, from Newfoundwell, says the action reflects a deep misunderstanding of both Irish history and the local significance of the star and crescent symbol that featured on the artwork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Drogheda Sculpture A local resident has spoken out strongly against the recent defacement of public sculptures on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17,4457],"class_list":{"0":"post-4065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-katie-finnegan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}