MATT DOYLE,
A chara, - I read with interest James Murphy's letter on the "The Spire of Dublin". The name means nothing surely we can come up with something that reflects our Irish culture.
There needs to be some Irish identity. The National Graves Association would like to suggest the following name An Claidheamh Soluis (The Sword of Light). This name would recognise our Irish language and honour Padraic Pearse at the same time. Its proximity to the GPO would create a historical link. - Is mise,
MATT DOYLE, National Graves Association, 74 Dame Street, Dublin 2
Madam, - "The Spire of Dublin"? Your correspondent James Murphy (November 16th) rightly asks "Is that the best we can do for a name ?", and advises the choice of that of some great figure or event of the past. If they don't do better you can guarantee that within two or three years some chirpy colloquial soubriquet will have become common parlance.
I would like to suggest "The Clontarf Spike" or simply "The Brian Boru". - Yours, etc.
DAVID HOUGH, The Glebe, Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
Madam, - Mr Murphy of provincial Kilcock, Co Kildare, worries at the lack of imagination and of message in the name "The Spire of Dublin" (November 16th).
He has not however allowed for the influence of those true Dubliners who have never accepted the Dublin Zoo, but chose instead to recognise the "Azoo" as their very own. So let's fast-forward it now so that we can enjoy the inevitable and the meaningful combined from the start as in ... "The Aspire of Dublin".
Springing out of the peculiar genius of Dubliners past, and soaring confidently to whatever future, why not the Dubliners' "Aspire"? - Yours, etc.,
BRIAN P. MALONE, Chapelizod Hill, Dublin 20.