Fr Pat Noise Memorial
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:rolleyes: …and did you notice that “fr pat noise” is an anagram of “pater of sin”?….the plot thickens
@lostcarpark wrote:
Agreed. I can’t believe it could be there for three years without somebody noticing and it becomming public knowledge. Even three months is probably pushing it.
If you wake past it, even stopped and read it. Would you think it was anything other than a legitimate plaque. May of thought it strange that you never heard of “Fr Pat Noise”. But would you of doubted it. Ands thats only if you have a change to stop and wait on the bridge, most people are hurrying accross it.
@jackwade wrote:
:rolleyes: …and did you notice that “fr pat noise” is an anagram of “pater of sin”?….the plot thickens
I was thinking along the anagram lines earlier. If you expand pat to patrick or Fr. to father the lsit goes on and on. I think we may need to wait to hear the cause.
It’s been there a few months, and I’m sad that the story is finally out. I liked the idea of it being there quietly for years. I was going to post about it in the O’Connell Street thread a few months ago after it first came to my attention, but a friend thought that doing so might blow its cover.
Fr Pat Noise, RIP.
I found a photograph of it dating from February.
If anyone’s interested, the photos I took today are here.
I wonder who the jokers were who did this and what was the purpose….Is there a hidden meaning in the name ‘Fr. Pat Noise’…..need the Da Vinci Code breakers here ………Fr.Pat Noise….. aka Patronise. Could be someone taking the piss outta our attitude to our Irish history.
Funny all the same 😀
A clever, if rather bizarre prank. Can’t claim to have noticed the plaque itself, but certainly know the gap that it fills – a nasty rectangular hole with an even deeper smaller hole set into it as I recall. Been there for a while, often stuffed with crisp packets and the like. It always looked rather strange being just right of centre on the parapet, and of course it being there in the first place :rolleyes:
It ought to be removed though – you can’t have such a leg-pulling plaque in such a prominent location. It also makes a mockery of commemorative structures erected with genuine intentions, even with the good spirit it seems to have been made in – I like the ‘erected by the HSTI’ part 🙂
The amount of attention this was receiving yesterday on the bridge was remarkable, all seemingly on the back of a single news report the night before at the bottom of this page:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0508/9news.htmlNow if the CC would lavish the same professional resources on the simple matter of the missing baluster we might actually get somewhere. The same goes for filling the nasty hole the plaque is neatly tidying up.
Also just thinking – 1919 is the date the CC have (incorrectly) published for the reduction of all the O’Connell Bridge lanterns due to ‘safety concerns’. Maybe this is where the date came from to lend the story some credibility.
The moral of this is that if the City Council cared for the bridge a bit better, these things wouldnt happen.
I’m closing this thread as I don’t believe these vandals deserve anymore publicity.
I agree with the site stance;
someone hacked a chunk out of one of the finest bridges in the City as a joke they do not deserve oxygen
@Thomond Park wrote:
I agree with the site stance]
somebody already pointed out
the plaque is filling in a hole left when the millennium clock (“the chime in the slime”) was abandoned.
So I’d blame them for hacking out a chunck of the bridge, not the hoaxer, there was no vandalism involved.
hmm I can’t find a picture of it anywhere
Has it been proven that the millenium clock damaged the bridge?
I’m not so sure that damage to the bridge is in fact negligible as the extent of the damage will not be known until the plaque is removed.
A story like the Carravagio or the BMW paint bombed by a greived lover is funny but when it comes to errecting a plaque on a historic bridge the line has been crossed for me.
Mr Clerkin, Thank you for re-opening this thread; it reflects well on you and the running of this site all the better to do so…even if it does aNoise Thomond Park 😀
But I shall adopt a diginified stance and not create a commotion as a result of my aNoise-ance at this juvenile and misplaced act
The crusading left have at last latched on to an issue of great importance…and so have put up a website looking for suggestions as to what should be done with the Pat Noise plaque. So far there are more than 100 replies!
From: http://www.oconnellbridge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2
The Dublin South East Labour Party invite your suggestions for the proposed new plaque on O’Connell Bridge.
The recent removal of the “Father Noise” plaque (placed there as part of an art experiment) has made space for a new plaque to be erected on O’Connell Bridge. Who or what should it comemmorate? A person of significance to Dublin? A symbol to recall an important event in Dublin’s history? Should any plaque be placed there at all?
All (suitable!) submissions made here will be presented to the Arts Committee of Dublin City Council.
With best regards,
Ruairi Quinn TD, Cllr Kevin Humphreys, Cllr Dermot Lacey, Cllr Mary Freehill, Cllr OisÃn Quinn, and all the Labour Party Group on Dublin City Council.
@The Denouncer wrote:
Who should be on the plaque? Why, Fr. Ted Crilly of course!
Ah Denouncer you are not living up to your name…I was at least expecting you to denounce this thread, or the joke – the plaque, that is, not the labour party:D
It is an interesting idea to let the public express an opinion on what should replace it if not a simple restoration
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