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Fri 01 Jan 2009Wire man set to wade in to Liffey as 10-year planning permission granted
THE ERECTION in the river Liffey of a 46m (150ft) sculpture of a human figure – almost the same height as the Statue of Liberty – has been granted planning permission by An Bord Pleanála.
The steel-lattice figure was designed by British sculptor Antony Gormley, most famous for his Angel of the North, another figure-based statue, in Gateshead, England.
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