A panel was removed from the base of the statue of the campaigner at Belfast City Council.

The statue was erected on Sunday to mark the 44th anniversary of Bobby Sands’s death.

He died on May 5th during the 1981 hunger strike, when he was aged 27.

Responding to the furore over the sculpture, Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council insisted social media can ‘amplify’ negative viewpoints.

The 'Man with Birds' statue is set to be put in storage to facilitate works on the new M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy road

The 16.5 meter statue will be installed at the second-biggest shopping mall in the US, American Dream Mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey

The theft is believed to have taken place on Monday

At a city council meeting on Monday, councillors voted almost unanimously to erect a statue of Collins, which will be donated to the council by the Collins 100 Committee.

The statue’s creator said that the setting was appropriate, remarking that it was ‘a wild place for a wild thing’

A crowd cheered as workers in Charlottesville removed a Confederate statue near the site of a violent white nationalist rally three years ago.

A bronze statute of an athlete saluting with an outstretched arm reminiscent of the gesture made infamous at rallies in Nazi Germany is to be removed from outside Amsterdam’s Olympic Stadium because the salute has links to fascism, a spokeswoman has ...

Residents of Tel Aviv have woken up to a pop-up exhibit depicting a life-size statue of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu enjoying a lavish meal by himself in a mock re-enactment of the Last Supper.

A proposal to bring back the statue of a French diplomat behind the idea to build the Suez Canal has caused controversy in Egypt.

President Donald Trump has called for two “anarchists” to turn themselves in after vandalising statues of George Washington in New York City. “We have them on tape,” President Trump tweeted.

Protesters have toppled the only statue of a Confederate general in the US capital and set it on fire on Juneteenth – the day marking the end of slavery in the US.

Demonstrators in Virginia have torn down another Confederate statue, news outlets reported.

Demonstrators in Virginia have torn down another Confederate statue, news outlets reported.