Because it’s a tourist thing…the exact same as Juliet in Verona.
im_on_the_case on
Replaced “under the horses head” outside the old Brown Thomas as my spot for meeting friends in town. “Meet me at the tart” was the new one. Things were different before mobile phones. Very different, considering I was getting on a bus to meet friends in town and knock around the shops at the age of 10. Never a problem as long as I was home for dinner.
SharkeyGeorge on
It’s a created thing. Started by tour guides around 2012 / 13. Presumably as a nod to kissing the Blarney Stone or other traditions. They just made it up and said it’s good luck.
Grave of Victor Noir, from a picture on reddit 13 years ago.
Acrobatic_Customer64 on
Yeah up until the americans thought groping a statue in public like a fuckin loser is a “tradition” or an “activity”, like nah you’re just being pervy in public for no reason other than that you’re a dumb tourist.
Jolly-Outside6073 on
Also note people sitting and not surrounded by needles. Better times.
Regina_Falangy on
Id pay good money for that vintage Suicidal Tendencies tee
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Sure it was only a year old then.
Too early for tarnishing
Because it’s a tourist thing…the exact same as Juliet in Verona.
Replaced “under the horses head” outside the old Brown Thomas as my spot for meeting friends in town. “Meet me at the tart” was the new one. Things were different before mobile phones. Very different, considering I was getting on a bus to meet friends in town and knock around the shops at the age of 10. Never a problem as long as I was home for dinner.
It’s a created thing. Started by tour guides around 2012 / 13. Presumably as a nod to kissing the Blarney Stone or other traditions. They just made it up and said it’s good luck.
Edit: link to IT article [here](https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/shining-example-an-irishwoman-s-diary-on-the-molly-malone-statue-and-inventing-a-tradition-1.4031633#:~:text=We%20do%20know%20that%20the,so%20some%20restoration%20was%20required).
And to RTE article [here](https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2025/0401/1505203-molly-malone-statue/#:~:text=behaviour%20last%20year.-,The%20tradition%20of%20rubbing%20the%20famous%20fishmonger's%20breast%20for%20luck,an%20April%20Fool's%20Day%20joke).
https://youtu.be/s__rX_WL100?si=b7rHsvVLSbTO5K2h
Designed by a Dublin Woman, Jeanne Rynhart! 👍
Why did they move her ?
Met my first girlfriend there 🤣
Where is it now?
That suicidal tendencies tshirt !
They put a ring of Holly bushes in front of the statue a few weeks ago to stop people getting up on the statue. They just destroyed the bushes.
No Internet back then.
People used to feel the knockers of real life women when shifting at the disco.
Used to be a (Spanish?) dude there who did cool spray can pics of planets with pyramids scifi stylee
Please let that awesome girl in the Suicidal Tendencies shirt be on this sub somewhere!!! 90s me would’ve been in love at first sight
ALL I WANTED WAS A PEPSI!!!
Thats the top of Grafton street.
It takes a while for the metal to fatigue and change colour..
Back then people believed in moving statues, they were probably afraid that Molly might grope back
Nice ST shirt
suicidal tendencies top in 80s dublin?? respect
Is it not there now?
Is there an equivalent label for her to the Floozie in the Jacuzzi?
Jonnies were banned till 1985, so it’s no surprise the public feeling of bronze boobies would be frowned upon more than it is now.
https://preview.redd.it/vdu4o6eccyfg1.png?width=214&format=png&auto=webp&s=cb831b3daccfb4082e9a48248082b026b9c6def3
Grave of Victor Noir, from a picture on reddit 13 years ago.
Yeah up until the americans thought groping a statue in public like a fuckin loser is a “tradition” or an “activity”, like nah you’re just being pervy in public for no reason other than that you’re a dumb tourist.
Also note people sitting and not surrounded by needles. Better times.
Id pay good money for that vintage Suicidal Tendencies tee
[“It’ll Bring More Visitors To The City” Dublin City Council Defends Updated Molly Malone Statue](https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/17/itll-bring-more-visitors-to-the-city-dublin-city-council-defends-updated-molly-malone-statue/)
Tren baby in the background
I am unaware of the statue fondling traditions of your fine country, but… I get it.
Great Suicidal shirt on that lass