Public says farewell to Hauntings Soldier

Hundreds of people gathered for a dusk ceremony in St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, yesterday to say farewell to the Hauntings Soldier on its final day on public view in Ireland.

Public says farewell to Hauntings Soldier

Hundreds of people gathered for a dusk ceremony in St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, yesterday to say farewell to the Hauntings Soldier on its final day on public view in Ireland.

The 6m-tall sculpture has been on loan from its British creators since early this month to mark the centenary of the ending of the First World War, in which an estimated 300,000 Irish served and 49,000 died.

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