Man’s axe attack on TV set was ‘conceptual artwork’

A man arrested in a busy town square after smashing a TV set with an axe has claimed he was engaging in “conceptual artwork”.

Dermot Mulqueen was arrested at lunchtime on Friday in O’Connell Square in Ennis, Co Clare, after gardaí received several calls reporting that a man with an axe was pacing up and down in front of the O’Connell monument.

At the time, the area was busy with shoppers as well as dozens of children on their lunchtime break from local schools.