'He'd look like the Blair Witch Project': Proposal to install uplighting at Luke Kelly sculpture for security rejected

PLACING ADDITIONAL LIGHTING at Guild St.’s Luke Kelly statue in Dublin will make the Dubliners singer “look like the Blair Witch Project at night”, according to internal Dublin City Council emails.

Measures considered by Council Officials in recent weeks include increased lighting and CCTV, erecting fencing around the sculpture to deter vandals and placing Luke Kelly atop a two-metre high plinth, emails show.An uplighter, said Klute in an email, could make Kelly look like a scene from 1999 horror film The Blair Witch Project after dark. Ó’Cuív suggested instead a spotlight on a nearby lamppost.

O’Cuív argued the impact of Klute’s sculpture at ground level on Guild St. would be “completely lost” if it were raised at a height. Between May and June, several members of the public wrote to Ó’Cuív to express their frustration at recent acts of vandalism. The Viking Boat sculpture on Wood Quay is awaiting repair after being damaged. It is likely that will cost €5,000, Ó’Cuív said.

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