Knock the Spike: let’s topple this monument to Celtic Tiger profligacy

THE statues go first.

When a dictatorship or rotten regime ends, people take to the streets and someone clambers up on the plinth of the statue, wraps chains or ropes around the head of the former ruler, while pals attach the other end of the rope or chain to a tow-bar or a tank and pull the discredited guy down.

Lenin landed in the street that way as, less than a century earlier, his followers had overturned statues of Tsars. A sculpted Saddam Hussein fell in like fashion as, a little earlier and nearer home, did Queen Victoria and Lord Nelson.