Council wanted to 'go quiet' over controversial ‘Púca of Ennistymon’ artwork

The Púca of Ennistymon in Clay by Aidan Harte. 

A local authority wanted to “go quiet” about a controversial Púca sculpture to “let the rhetoric blow over” before making any decision on what to do with the €30,000 artwork.

The mythical bronze sculpture caused an international stir last month when some residents of Ennistymon in Co Clare objected to it with one email to the council calling it “fearful, grotesque, [and] obnoxious”.