Father Pat Noise

Father Pat Noise

Father Pat Noise is a fictitious Roman Catholic priest, described on a hoax commemorative plaque installed by two brothers on O'Connell Bridge in Dublin. The full text of the plaque reads:

The hoaxers installed it in 2004, and owned up in May 2006 after it was brought to the attention of Dublin City Council by a journalist for the "Sunday Tribune". They claimed the work was a tribute to their father, and that the name 'Father Pat Noise' is a play on "pater noster", Latin for "our father". The 'HSTI' is also fictitious. Peadar Clancy (misspelled on the plaque) was a genuine Irish Republican Army officer killed on the evening of Bloody Sunday, 1920 cite web |url=http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/4142/ |title=In Memory of Father Noise |publisher=Museum of Hoaxes |date=May 9 2006 |accessdate=2007-03-23]

The plaque was laid in a depression left by the removal of the control box for the "Millennium Countdown" clock installed in the waters of the Liffey in March 1996 as a countdown to the Year 2000. The clock and control box were removed in December 1996 after persistent technical and visibility problems. [cite news |url=http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=45&si=1591065&issue_id=13868 |title=The Millennium Clock |first=Rory |last=Egan |work=Sunday Independent |date=April 2 2006 |accessdate=2007-03-24 ] Dublin City Council stated when the story broke that the Pat Noise plaque would be removed, as it was unauthorised. Several ironic tributes of flowers and messages were left by the plaque. [ [http://www.archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=4896%3EThread%20on%20archiseek%3C/a%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ca%20href=#td_post_50810 photograph of tributes] from Archiseek Forum thread] A meeting of the South East Area Committee of the Council in December 2006 supported leaving it in place. [cite web |url=http://www.dublincity.ie/Images/January%202007%20Agenda_tcm35-48014.doc |title=Minutes of South East Area committee meeting held on 11th December 2006 |publisher=Dublin City Council |format=Microsoft Word |quote=Motion from Councillor Dermot Lacey: "This Committee agrees to discuss and supports the case for leaving the “Fr Noise” Plaque in situ on O’Connell Bridge." Order: Leave plaque in place or provide further report to Committee. |accessdate=2007-03-24 (the December meeting's minutes are attached to the agenda for the January 2007 meeting)]

On 22 May 2007, Dublin City Council engineers intended to remove the plaque, but were stopped by City Councillor Dermot Lacey, who insisted the Council's Order should stand. [cite news|url=http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2007/0524/1179498727032.html |title=Hoax Plaque on Bridge Will Now be Left In Place |first=Alison |last=Healy |work=The Irish Times |date=24 May 2007 |accessdate=2007-06-27 ]

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