Caoilfhionn (Ciarán) Gallagher
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
Caoilfhionn (Ciarán) Gallagher’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I love this euphemism.
There's a reference to the stiletto in the ghetto was another one for the spire.
So there's the portal between Dublin and New York, if you remember, where there was the dropped trousers issue, as it's referred to here.
It's described here by Julia as it became a theatre for public disorder and had to be shut for a time.
And the New York Post, you might remember, pleaded to the people of Dublin to try to keep your arses in your trousers.
Yeah.
But it fell on deaf ears.
But the piece, it makes a couple of points that I thought were worth flagging.
The first thing is it's just talking about that attitude to public art and how actually sometimes that comes from a situation where public artworks have been imposed rather than being grassroots supported.
And there's a good reference also to the kind of backlash that you had, if you remember, with two controversial city statues in Limerick.
and terry wogan and richard harris where they were called to be melted and in comments made i think people felt that they didn't look like either well exactly icons yeah from two miles away i think i mean they were pretty they were they were quite they were quite um poor depictions i think it's fair to say and uh if you remember the artist uh john shinor's remarked at the time and that the people who'd commissioned it wouldn't know a turner from a turnip
But there's quite a serious point made in the piece as well, which is important to flag and something that's been of concern to me for a long time.
There's around 200 statues in Dublin City and only seven represent women.
Three of those are Constance Markievicz.
Precisely, or street names.
And what we have in our public spaces reflects a kind of patriarchal old history.
And there is an important point in this piece, as well as the kind of jokes, there's an important point in this piece about what our public space says about us and thinking more in a more considered way about how we change our public space to reflect a diverse society.
I thought this was really important because the story, the legal aid story dominates the front pages of some of the papers.
So lead story on the Sunday Times and the Independent are talking about one particular angle on the story about Minister Jim O'Callaghan having been contacted by a firm saying,
who said they were getting a backlash for accepting his deal.
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