Gardaí are investigating after a statue commissioned to commemorate the royal visit of Queen Victoria to Dún Laoghaire in 1900 was vandalised with red paint on Wednesday. Queen Victoria is detailed in profile on the monument, together with birds and other ornamentation. The board of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company voted unanimously in 2000 to restore the fountain as part of the programme of upgrading the harbour. Donal Marren of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company and chairman of Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council, told The Irish Times at the time of his regret that work on the Victoria Fountain had to be suspended. “An exact cast-iron replica of the original fountain is now completed and ready for delivery to Dún Laoghaire Harbour.

Source: The Irish Times June 25, 2020 10:52 UTC