Love Locks on Ha’penny Bridge

The TOG Lockpicking Group were in the press a few times over the last few weeks. Mainly over the Love Locks removal from the Ha’penny Bridge. At first we got some mixed responses from family members and colleagues but eventually we got them to see us as helping the bridge and not destroyers of love!

If you missed any of the coverage, a TOG member running the @LoveLockNoMore account documented the adventure.

It all started with a quick visit to the bridge to remove 8.7KG of locks:

After a quick session on the bridge last night I liberated 8.7KG of locks from the Ha’penny Bridge. pic.twitter.com/mecWpknDQP

— LoveLockNoMore (@LoveLockNoMore) February 18, 2015

Then of course Broadsheet.ie pick up on it:

You know your doing something right when @broadsheet_ie write about it and the commenters have something to agree on! http://t.co/OfWcj0sZaw

— LoveLockNoMore (@LoveLockNoMore) February 18, 2015

Then the newspapers picked up on it:

Irish Examiner

The Sunday Times

The Hearld

The Irish Sun

We even managed to squeeze in a bit of run with a quiz :

Would anyone like to guess the number of locks in 13.4kg? Answers on a postcard! Pics were sent out yesterday. Counting tonight for @DCCbeta

— LoveLockNoMore (@LoveLockNoMore) February 19, 2015

Even getting into the Social Media Column in the Irish Examiner:

This week’s @irishexaminer social media column features @bodywhys @LoveLockNoMore and @edsheeran 🙂 pic.twitter.com/sUJ2YarbMm

— Kelly O’Brien (@Kellingtondawg) March 2, 2015

And what is the best result of it all? The Dublin City Council visited the bridge with their cutting tools, and cleared the bridge! I job well done if I do say so myself 🙂

Look at the difference last night! Look at what the @DCCbeta were up to on Monday! Bridge looks so much better now. pic.twitter.com/TwURsrMNRK — LoveLockNoMore (@LoveLockNoMore) February 25, 2015

 

Update On 98FM talking to Ray Foley from 1:10:25