Direct Action Against Statues ?

The Times yesterday carried a story on attempts by Séan Lemass to solve the thorny problem of Nelson’s Column by replacing the controversial statue with a statue of Saint Patrick. Several years later the statue was destroyed by a bomb.
In today’s Observer Henry McDonald reports that the controversial Dublin statue of Sean Russell , nazi ally, has been badly damaged by an unnamed group in memory of the victims of the holocaust.

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