This nice 6 meter high leprechaun statue, designed by Paul Mccarty, was placed in a Rotterdam suburb a couple of years ago. People found it offensive, since the christmas tree it is holding, resembled a buttplug (hence the nickname), they said. Anyways, long story short, the leprechaun got replaced to a museum square, but some local city governement officials want it back in the public domain.

They are going to replace the leprechaun, which is a call against consumorism, to the Eendrachtsplein area. The city officials and local shop owners stated that the placing of the leprechaun “will generate new groups of consumers, finding the stores at Eendrachtsplein”. Are we the only ones who think this is rather paradoxal?