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Pro-life group says the 'No' on Ben Bulben was 'vandalised' and removed

Pictures from this morning show only remnants of the sign remaining.

Updated 3.12 pm

PastedImage-25330 Ben Bulben this morning. Twitter / anniewestdotcom Twitter / anniewestdotcom / anniewestdotcom

THE 100M TALL ‘No’ banner that was placed on Ben Bulben in Sligo has been removed overnight.

The sign had been placed there by the Sligo for Life group in the early hours of yesterday morning but it provoked controversy in the 24 hours it was up.

The National Parks and Wildlife Service had called for its removal, stating that: “The insinuation of alien materials such as this onto a special area of conservation is insensitive  to its conservation status and incompatible with the habitat.”

An Taisce also submitted a legal complaint to Sligo County Council regarding the sign.

This morning, a number of Sligo locals have posted images of the mountain showing that most of the lettering has been removed.

Tommy Banks of Sligo for Life said yesterday that the letters were made of cladding and pictures from this morning show only debris remaining.

Speaking to local broadcaster Ocean FM this morning, Banks said that the No sign was “vandalised” and that that Yes campaigners had threatened to remove it.

“A threat was made from some of the Yes people, one of them came to me and said: ‘That will come down’. So that was reported to the guards. It was private property,” Banks said.

image1 (1) This is what the sign looked like yesterday. Daniel Horvath Daniel Horvath

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    Mar 5th 2024, 12:07 AM

    After the unanimous verdict by the Supreme Court in vindicating the President of Peace & the confirmation that the Democrats waged a 2year baseless witch-hunt against him the juggernaut of peace is careering towards the White House Nov5th.

    Let’s STOP the wars & killing.

    Let’s turn tye economy around.

    Let’s MAGA

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    Mar 5th 2024, 12:33 AM

    @Ken Mc Carthy: After peeing off The Women, the Military, the Black’s, the Jews….58% of Women won’t vote for him, Generation Z Will be first time registrerd voters , the majority Won’t Vote for him, the Swifties Won’t vote for him…Get THE message!!!

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    Mar 5th 2024, 12:43 AM

    @Mick Hanna: lol, if you lefties & biden.bots going to have a meltdown after super Tuesday in March….. imagine what ye’ll be like Nov5th ??? Regardless of sex, sexual orientation, colour, religious beliefs, whether you like Taylor swift or not…… EVERYONE wants an end to the needless wars & deaths in Ukraine,Palestine,Israel etc. & the republicans have a proven leader that’s willing to take the ( big) task again. The world had Ghandi, we had Nelson Mandela….. we need / deserve a President of Peace for our time…..

    & he’s coming like a juggernaut.

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    Mar 5th 2024, 12:45 AM

    @Ken Mc Carthy: Boo hoo, hoo, Jack is Coming for him, NO WAY OUT!!!

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    Mar 5th 2024, 1:07 AM

    @Mick Hanna:He is a Trumpard ,so like talking to a brick wall.

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    Mar 5th 2024, 1:20 AM

    @Ken Mc Carthy:He may be built like a juggernaut,but man of peace He most certainly is not.
    In his delusions of becoming President again,which I do not believe for one minute.,he has threatened to jail destroy,and break every person that objected to him and his crackpot views.
    He is a menace,and a danger to the American people,he is practically illiterate,and the most unstable person to ever set foot in the W.H.
    He is aggressive,vicious, and totally dishonest.
    A bumbling disaster.

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    Mar 5th 2024, 1:38 AM

    @Mary.E.: The only President in modern history that NEVER started a war( stopped a few though) & jobless figures dropped EVERY month during his time at the ‘helm’. He’s a ‘doer’ … not a political mouthpiece in the pockets ofvthe arms industry. Imagine, just imagine….. we can have that AGAIN….. sadly, its too late for all those widows & orphans in Ukraine, Palestine,Israel etc……. but think of the future generations that will speak his name with awe & reverence. As regards retribution for those corrupt judges & DA’s that perpetrated the vile witch hunt against him….well, they got it coming….what’s ‘good for the goose… etc’ . Super Tues WILL hurt ye biden.bots a lot but peace& prosperity is coming… suck it up!!.

    Let’s MAGA

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    Mar 5th 2024, 5:47 AM

    @Ken Mc Carthy: Putting Gandhi, Mandela and Trump together is just wrong on ANY metric

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    Mar 5th 2024, 7:27 AM

    @Ken Mc Carthy: man of peace lol. He would hand ukraine to Russia on a plate. The man is a dictator in the making. He would destroy the world.

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    Mar 5th 2024, 8:08 AM

    @Mick Hanna: Don’t bother with Ken. Tro!! Of the higher order

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    Mar 5th 2024, 10:55 AM

    @Ken Mc Carthy: Just checked in to see if “Ken” embarrassed himself yet. Of course it’s top comment.

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    Mar 5th 2024, 2:55 PM

    @Ken Mc Carthy: just curious to know. If everyone as you say wants to see peace then why have the Republicans held up the aid package for ukraine. It’s not a dig just curious to know that could be. He also said he would let nato allies be invaded if they don’t ramp up their spending on military.
    He also told a reporter that you just need to grab em by the pussy.
    Do you genuinely want a person of his character in the Whitehouse.
    Biden is no prize either but I just don’t understand the logic.

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    @Ken Mc Carthy: You really need to up your trolling game. Sad.

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    Mar 5th 2024, 7:50 AM

    So inspiring that the vote to be elected as the commander-in-chief of the greatest fighting force ever assembled, and the guardian of the most influential economy on Earth, has boiled down to a slagging match about who’s candidate is suffering least from dementia.
    It’s even more depressing seeing commenters on here, in support of both sides, repeating platitudes verbatim which were made up in American PR firms.

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    Mar 5th 2024, 8:02 AM

    @Louis Jacob: I think that’s exactly how the majority of people (outside the US at least) feel. Very well expressed.

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    Mar 5th 2024, 10:40 AM

    @Louis Jacob: That’s more than disingenuous to just look at age, as if both are comparable otherwise. As Joe Biden says “Don’t compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative.” The alternative is a proven rap ist and fraudster. Here’s what one of his top officials had to say about him.

    “He lacks any shred of human decency, humility or caring. He is morally bankrupt, breathtakingly dishonest, lethally incompetent, and stunningly ignorant of virtually anything related to governing, history, geography, human events or world affairs. He is a traitor and a malignancy in our nation and represents a clear and present danger to our democracy and the rule of law.”

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    Trump gonna win bigly
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    Has any other candidate ever received so much airtime and media coverage? It’s bananas to think of how little time it takes watching, listening to or reading Trump’s statements for his almost complete lack of substance or decency to register. His 2016 campaign should have flamed out after his announcement he was running. His 2024 campaign is like investing your life savings in airships the day after the Hindenburg disaster.

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    @Numinous20111: Okay, a better analogy has occurred to me. Think of the movie ‘Alien’, but the alien creature spends all its time in the Nostromo’s airlock and the human crew just can’t piece together that they should hit the Open Airlock button.

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    There seems to be an epidemic of incompetent leaders around the world.

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    @InTheHead: Incompetent isn’t too bad. Competent and evil is worse.

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    @Brendan O’Brien: The toxic negativity of climate change modelling and the dire predictions based on the imperative that a nation must control the weather /temperatures by controlling human behaviour is responsible for the emergence of the narcissist and his toxic popularity.

    Our society is exposed every evening to the same toxic negativity long after the electorate has become disinterested, apart from the self-serving modelling community promoting it and hapless political ideologues influencing the direction of Government.

    The direction of the media is also important as environmental and pollution concerns are important. It should not come at the expense of the Earth science of climate and the modelling misadventure imposed on it.

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    @Brendan O’Brien: Also willing to sell America down the swanee to enrich himself, This is dangerous for the whole planet.

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    @Gerald Kelleher: Back for more?

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    Mar 5th 2024, 8:42 AM

    I feel for the US Americans, a people that I admired deeply when I was a kid. Not their tendency of making a circus, mind. But sadly the circus is all that’s left today.

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    @smatrix mantra: Yeah there’s a really good reason their passports look like circus tickets.

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    Wish we’d a TRUMP here..

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    @tara tevlin: A turkey wishing for Christmas.

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    @tara tevlin: Plenty of goms at anti immigrant rallies to choose from.

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    Mar 5th 2024, 10:15 AM

    He means Biden when he says Obama.

    Nancy when he says Nikki.

    Erdogan when he says Orban.

    Milei when he says Argentina.

    Polls when he says bills.

    Bing when he says ding, boom, woosh.

    Trump is a ticking time bomb of cognitive collapse.

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    @Conrad Stapletwin: Haha,
    Couldn’t have said it better mersherf,
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    Mar 5th 2024, 10:47 AM

    @Conrad Stapletwin: the latest defence is that it’s all deliberate for comedic effect. 4D chess from a man who had to have a list of words hand picked for him to ‘ace’ a cognitive test.

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    @Bobby Digital: “Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV”

    4D chess?! Trump would struggle to win a game of Tiddlywinks against a toddler – especially with those tiny little hands.

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    Mar 5th 2024, 9:20 AM

    Thankfully the Trumpy nitwits don’t have too much upstairs.Just imagine if they had. USA is a basket case.

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    @carol mullen: I’m just glad their online profiles don’t all get votes. The ones on here don’t even get a vote, Imagine being Irish and shouting MAGA all day every day. Pathetic stuff.

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    Mar 5th 2024, 9:26 AM

    The media plays a large role in the popularity of the narcissist.

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    Mar 5th 2024, 11:55 AM

    @Gerald Kelleher: A lack of education is the biggest issue here.

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