Top 5 faces for Murals

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Micky Marley!

[Bensars]

Daniel O Donnel 

[BallyhaiseMan]

on Nationalist Side

1.Neil Lennon in Celtic Shirt??

2.Terence McNaughton, more GAA murals around Belfast would be welcome

On Unionist Side???

1.David Healy

2.George Best

[Hurler on the Bitch]

Nothing wrong with a Sambo mural but we are trying not to scare tourists off!

[inisceithleann]

on Nationalist Side

1.Neil Lennon in Celtic Shirt??

2.Terence McNaughton, more GAA murals around Belfast would be welcome

On Unionist Side???

1.David Healy

2.George Best

There's no chance neil lennon would ever make an apperance on a mural. It's not just because he has played for celtic but he has become a hate figure for rangers supporters and is it fair to say he hasn't helped healing the sectarian divide in belfast or glasgow? If you could only get away with putting a certain mural up in either a unionist or nationalist area then it defeats the whole idea of having a mural that everyone can appreciate. Anyone controversial should be avoided. Seamus Heaney is an obvious choice. What about Oscar Wilde, educated in Enniskillen?

[BallyhaiseMan]

is there any murals that both sides can appreciate though?

Seamus Heaney is a Catholic,dont know how well that would go down in hardline loyalist areas.

Oscar Wilde would be a possibility alright though.

[inisceithleann]

Seamus Heaney is a Catholic,dont know how well that would go down in hardline loyalist areas.

I can't see Heaney being a problem, he's never being affiliated with either side. Equally a mural of John Hume and David Trimble should be welcomed in either area. 3 Nobel prize winners from a population as small as the North should be recognised, if anything their achievements could be appreciated at an international level, whereas lennon and sambo would not.

[Hardy]

Five, isn't it?

[BallyhaiseMan]

Five, isn't it?

i ran out of ideas after 2 on each side Hardy.

[Sky Blue]

5 industrialists.  Harry Ferguson, Shortt, Dunlop, Harland and Wolf

[BallyhaiseMan]

Seamus Heaney is a Catholic,dont know how well that would go down in hardline loyalist areas.

I can't see Heaney being a problem, he's never being affiliated with either side. Equally a mural of John Hume and David Trimble should be welcomed in either area. 3 Nobel prize winners from a population as small as the North should be recognised, if anything their achievements could be appreciated at an international level, whereas lennon and sambo would not.

would the whole idea though not be to get away from the whole political question,would be better designing murals with no political baggae even if they did did good in my opinion.

Wayne McCullagh would be a great example,
Came from a hardline loyalist area,yet faught for the whole Island of Ireland with pride.

Joey Dunlop also makes sense.

[Hardy]

Ballyhaise Man - sorry - I meant (in response to Inis Ceithleann) that there are five nobel laureates from The North. They could nearly claim seven - Beckett was partly and Walton practically wholly educated in The North.

[Sky Blue]

Joey Dunlop also makes sense.

Was he the man who invented rubber tyres? He's the one I meant. If they use industrialists it may set an example and help them get off their fat arses and start working for a living rather than spounging off the Brtish & Irish states.

[inisceithleann]

Seamus Heaney is a Catholic,dont know how well that would go down in hardline loyalist areas.

I can't see Heaney being a problem, he's never being affiliated with either side. Equally a mural of John Hume and David Trimble should be welcomed in either area. 3 Nobel prize winners from a population as small as the North should be recognised, if anything their achievements could be appreciated at an international level, whereas lennon and sambo would not.

would the whole idea though not be to get away from the whole political question,would be better designing murals with no political baggae even if they did did good in my opinion.

Wayne McCullagh would be a great example,
Came from a hardline loyalist area,yet faught for the whole Island of Ireland with pride.

Joey Dunlop also makes sense.

I couldn't agree more about avoiding the political baggage. The problem is using figures that are easily identiable by the public. I like sky blue's suggestion of industrialists but would any of us recognise any of their images? If not any point in using them?

[Lecale2]

Jesus, Mary & Joseph with a wee donkey and the Holy Ghost.