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Week commencing Thursday, 14 July | 2016 | Edition 837
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THE latest attraction at the Killarney Historical Society was unveiled at the weekend - a tribute to wellknown local bullocky the late Eric Reis. However just hours after being dropped off at the Historical Society by local sculptor and artist Paul Stumkat, “the bullocky”, one of two statues he had just finished for the group had been damaged by someone trying to steal the “whip”. “I was a bit upset,” Mr Stumkat said. “I used a real piece of wood for the whip, there is always someone. I’m going to have to fix it.” He said he would look at using a steel rod this time and attaching it to the bullocks. “It would be nice to think I didn’t have this,” Mr Stumkat said. The statue of Mr Reis is the latest sculpture in a major display that the Killarney Historical Society have been putting together. Two years ago Mr Stumkat completed fibreglass bulls to haul a log on a wagon that the society had restored. Mr Stumkat said the bulls had become a major tourist attraction for the town and it was hoped that the new sculpture (also fibreglass) and a statue of an axeman that was also completed and handed over at the weekend would add to the display. The axeman is on a piece of tallowwood and, Mr Stumkat said, out of harm’s way. He said the Bullocky had been a project that he and the society had in mind for several years and had taken
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