{"id":443414,"date":"2026-05-11T15:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443414\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:12:09","slug":"concerns-raised-over-condition-of-socks-byrne-sculpture-in-drogheda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443414\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns raised over condition of Socks Byrne sculpture in Drogheda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sculpture of Socks Byrne, where concerns have been raised over visible damage and cracks to the popular landmark.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/61f3de54-9eb7-4343-b5d0-1127f9d08677.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sculpture of Socks Byrne, where concerns have been raised over visible damage and cracks to the popular landmark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Concerns have been raised over the condition of the popular Tony Socks Byrne sculpture at Scotch Hall following reports of visible damage to the statue in memory of the 1956 MelbourneOlympic bronze medal winning boxer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Debbie McCole said she contacted Louth County Council after becoming aware of what appeared to be cracks and damage around the feet of the sculpture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sculpture of Socks Byrne, where concerns have been raised over visible damage and cracks to the popular landmark.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,41886],"class_list":["post-443414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-katie-finnegan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}