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DUP urinal installed in Belfast Holyland destroyed

A urinal featuring the logo of the DUP made a brief appearance in the Holyland area of Belfast this week before being destroyed.
A urinal featuring the logo of the DUP made a brief appearance in the Holyland area of Belfast this week before being destroyed.

A urinal featuring a DUP logo that was installed on an outside wall in the Holyland area of Belfast has been destroyed.

The Irish artist Adam Doyle, aka Spicebag, and the Bristol based art-collective Patternup announced the unusual addition to the junction of Rugby Avenue and Palestine Street on Instagram, stating it was their reaction to the DUP reaching an agreement on a deal to restore Stormont.

“We celebrated the DUP re-entering Stormont with this public install,” they wrote on Wednesday.

“While a lot of people in Belfast haven’t a pot to p*** in they have this at least.

“Hope (DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson) enjoys his time as (deputy first minister).”

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Spicebag and Bristol based art collective install a porcelain toilet with the DUP logo on the corner of Palestine Street and Rugby Avenue marking the DUP agreeing to return to the Stormont has now been smahed. PICTURE:  MAL MCCANN
Spicebag and Bristol based art collective install a porcelain toilet with the DUP logo on the corner of Palestine Street and Rugby Avenue marking the DUP agreeing to return to the Stormont has now been smahed. PICTURE: MAL MCCANN


While Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill is now set to make history as Stormont’s first nationalist first minister, it is widely expected that Emma Little-Pengelly will be the DUP’s choice for the role of deputy first minister.

Mr Doyle from Co Wicklow later told BelfastLive: “I have had the idea to do this before and seeing as they are now agreeing to go back we felt that it would be a good time to put up the piece after ‘assemblying’ it in a flat.”

By Thursday, pictures showed the new outdoor facility had already been destroyed.

Spicebag and Bristol based art collective install a porcelain toilet with the DUP logo on the corner of Palestine Street and Rugby Avenue marking the DUP agreeing to return to the Stormont has now been smahed. PICTURE:  MAL MCCANN
Spicebag and Bristol based art collective install a porclein toilet with the DUP logo on the corner of Palestine Street and Rugby Avenue marking the DUP agreeing to return to the Stormont has now been smahed. PICTURE: MAL MCCANN