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24th March 2018
11:25am GMT

"Limerick city is very proud of art and of our class art college. The council here are fairly generous when it comes to spaces for murals too. Ps. I'm sure the ghost of Luke Kelly is pure sickened too." Titled 'Rocky Road to Dublin (City Council)', a dig at Dublin City Council after they demanded that a Stormzy mural in Smithfield be removed over a lack of planning permission, the painting was comprised of a mural of Blindboy Boatclub of Rubberbandits fame and Dubliners' singer Luke Kelly. This was in response to a backlash the collective received on Reddit when their Kendrick Lamar mural - painted to coincide with his sold-out 3Arena gig - was criticised as a marketing scheme and for featuring a non-Irish artist. The original mural, which included the Rubberbandits' Blindboy Boatclub next to Donald Trump, located outside the Hangar nightclub, was erected in January and included the following quote from the Limerick man: "Donny is more terrifying than a Jack Russell with human hands". JOE has reached out to Dublin City Council for comment who said: "There was a complaint on 8 March regarding murals at this location and since they were unauthorised, a notification issued. Murals have since been removed in compliance."Two iconic Irish men AKA “Unauthorised Development” #dublincity pic.twitter.com/Kjh8VrUmUd
— SUBSET (@SubsetDublin) March 23, 2018
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