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Public art can be a contentious business and that's something the Irish sculptor Aidan Harte knows all about.

A year and a half ago, he was commissioned to create a two-metre high bronze statue of a mythical spirit -- called a p煤ca -- for the town of Ennistymon, Co Clare.

The p煤ca can - according to mythology - take the shape of a horse, and so Aidan created a piece with a human body and a horse's head - cavorting in a puckish fashion.

That was when the mischief really began. Aidan described the p煤ca and the controversy it generated to Newshour's Tim Franks.

(Photo shows the head of the sculpture of the p煤ca by Aidan Harte. Credit: Aidan Harte)