Floozy in the Jacuzzi moves

Dateline Dublin: Floozie in the Jacuzzi finally given new home.

The Anna Livia statue and fountain that once stood in the middle of O’Connell Street in Dublin is to be relocated to a site beside the River Liffey.

It will end an ignominious period for the famous work which has spent the past four years in a crate in a council depot in Raheny.

Anna Livia was erected in O’Connell Street in 1988. It was named after Anna Livia Plurabelle — a character in James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake.

But it became a target for litter and graffiti and drunken revellers frequently dumped washing up liquid into the fountain at weekends — covering the street in froth and foam.

Graffiti on such lovely public art is appalling, but the foam revelry sounds like fun and perfectly in spirit.

Risqué, rhyming nicknames for public sculptures is apparently a Dublin tradition. Others include "the tart with the cart", "the hags with the bags" and "the stiletto in the ghetto".

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