Maser’s repeal mural is back up in Temple Bar and it looks better than ever

Maser's repeal mural is back in Temple Bar after being removed from the Project Art's Centre last week.

The mural was reinstalled above Amnesty International's Dublin headquarters earlier today. It differs from the murals that came before it in that the heart is now coloured yellow and the background remains white. This is the third time the mural has appeared on a wall in Dublin's city centre. Amnesty International's Colm O'Gorman announced the return of the mural today on social media writing: "So this happened." He included the hashtags '#ItsTime', '#Repealthe8th,' and #'Together4Yes.' https://twitter.com/Colmogorman/status/989857633610928128?tfw_site=joedotie&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.joe.ie%2Fnews%2Frepeal-mural-amnesty-ireland-624032 O'Gorman shared a photo of himself, The Hunreal Issue's Andrea Horan, Maser, and artistic director of the Project Arts Centre Cian O'Brien in front of the mural. The mural was originally commissioned by The Hunreal Issues in 2016. It was first removed over complaints made by Dublin City Council that the artists had not sought planning permission for the artwork. The second time the mural was removed, just last week, the Project Art's Centre was informed that the piece was in violation of regulations put in place by the Charities Regulator. https://twitter.com/AmnestyIreland/status/989861676307578882 Amnesty International's headquarters are situated on Temple Bar's Fleet Street. The group has taken a pro-repeal stance in the upcoming referendum on Ireland's abortion law. Today during an Amnesty International press conference, Irish woman Claire Malone spoke of how she believed she could have died because of the eighth amendment. Malone has pulmonary hypertension - a condition which can be fatal if a woman becomes pregnant - but she said that despite her condition, she was not permitted to terminate her pregnancy. She said:

“If I could have safely continued with the pregnancy, then I wanted to, but I needed to protect the children I already had who’d been through so much. "They had seen me in and out of hospital for years, and they knew what was happening. They asked me outright, ‘are you going to die?’ "I told them I had to do everything the doctors said and it would be okay, but it got to the point where I had to prepare them for the worst. I had to prepare for it myself. I went into labour believing I was going to die.”

The referendum takes place on May 25.