Article: AIMING HIGH: CALL TO MAKE LIFESIZE STATUE OF 'BANG BANG' CHARACTER.(NEWS)

Byline: - AOIFE FINNERAN

HE'S the eccentric Dubliner who happily terrorised the city with his fake shoot-outs, and now the popular character Bang Bang could be immortalised in a new sculpture.

Liberties artist Joey Honan has created a 28in bronze statue of the famous Bang Bang, who was a regular feature of life in the city during the 1950s and 1960s.

And he is now petitioning for a commission to create a lifesize version which would be situated in a Dublin street.

He explained: "I'm 55 now but I remember Bang Bang from when I was around six-years-old. He used to go around on the back of buses, pretending to shoot people. Even bank managers used to feign being ...

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