In Sweden there is a phenomenon of roundabout dogs, where wooden models of dogs are placed in the centre of roundabouts as a sort of modern urban expressionism. There is even a Swedish artist who made a sketch of a roundabout dog with the head replaced by an alleged image of the Prophet Mohammad. He (the artist) has a Fatwa out on him now for his trouble and police found the plans of this artist guys house in a raid on suspect Islamic terrorists.
In the photo above you have an example of Irish roundabout stealth construction, I don’t know what it is with bricks but if you leave a pile of them around in Ireland they will be put to use as an impromptu building, be stolen or thrown through car windows all usually occurring in the hours of darkness. The Roundabout in question was built by the clever engineers in Wexford as a way to allow the traffic chaos to be moved closer to the centre of the town and gave it the name Corish (as Flann O’Brien said once Corish Iompar Eireann) to “honour” a former Wexford politician Brendan Corish, who was Tanaiste and Labour leader in the 1970’s. He used to live nearby the above construction and in his retirement he used to walk his dog around the area. I don’t know if he would be smiling or frowning at the above image, probably smiling at the cheek of these youngsters, and wondering when and by whom it would be repaired. What he would be shocked about though are the streams of traffic that have taken over the town and country but thats another story.
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