Dublin portal is woken up with restricted hours and new measures to curb antisocial behaviour

between Dublin and New York City has reopened but the transatlantic link between the two cities will only be active for set hours during the day in order to restrict the level of antisocial behaviour the installation attracts.and the Flatiron NoMad woke up the Portal, which has been “sleeping” for days, at 2pm Irish time and said from now on it would only be active between 11am and 9pm Irish time.

.Cyclist dies following road crash involving car on Dame Street in DublinHowever, the novel project has not been incident free with people on both sides of the Atlantic standing accused of exposing various parts of their bodies to people thousands of kilometres away and winding each other up by holding up pictures of the World Trade Center in flames and images of potatoes to bring to mind the Famine.

In a statement it stressed that the sculptures are “not meant to be touched or stepped upon” and announced that it had “taken steps to limit instances of people stepping on the Portal and holding phones up to the camera lens”. The New York site will continue to have on-site security during all hours of operation, as it has had since the Portal debuted.

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