TOM MATHEWS,
Madam, - Down this main street a man must go to see a thing both mean and tarnished. What a miserable tent-pole sans big top the spire turns out to be. And costing us only a little over 9,000 times what it would have taken to stop a man freezing to death a short distance away.
How could the money wasted be recouped? Here's my suggestion: hire the spire out as advertising space. No doubt a kebab concern would leap at the chance and a gigantic realistic revolving smoking slab of plastic lamb would meld seamlessly into the go-ahead, fast-food ambience of our nation's capital thoroughfare. - Yours, etc.,
TOM MATHEWS, Clareville Road, Dublin 6W.