Sir, – My heart leaped with joy at the prospect of David Clinch’s proposal to move the O’Connell street awfulness known as the Spire.
On a recent visit to our lovely capital I passed through the garden which fronts the national museum near Heuston station. There is all its lonely ugliness I spotted the “Floozie in the jacuzzi”. It was a letter campaign to your newpaper, as I recollect, which initiated the popular movement to remove it from general public gaze. It now takes effort to view her tormented countenance.
May I suggest that the Spire be moved to similiar obscurity. Actually a positive outcome would be for it to be used to house some of the underground tunnelling which is proposed for the high tension electric cables. Yours, etc,
SEAN OhOGAIN
Bishopsfurze,
Kilkenny
A chara – As the Spire is not political, religious or military we were spared the usual whining by self-appointed experts telling us who should or shouldn’t be commemorated so as to confirm their own prejudices. Leave it where it is. Is mise,
LOMAN Ó LOINGSIGH
Ellensborough Drive
Kiltipper Road
Dublin 24
Sir, – The spire absolutely must stay as a fitting monument to the hubris of the “happy time”. We need a constant and necessarily obtrusive reminder of our recent national lapse into blind greed and idiocy. Yours, etc,
JOHN O’DWYER,
Two Mile House ,
Naas