# 120 meter spire in Dublin **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2002, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811 "2002-12-19T15:14:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![manwithaplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@manwithaplan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manwithaplan)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/21 "2002-12-20T17:23:59Z")
I can’t wait to see it unveiled, or maybe unwrapped. I like the way it represents absolutely nothing. Just a big stupid stick - perfect. The last thing O’Connell Street needs is another statue of some dead fecker. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/22 "2002-12-20T17:45:20Z")
Sure and 'twould have been better if it looked like a shillelagh, begorrah. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/23 "2002-12-20T18:44:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manwithaplan \* > \*\*I can’t wait to see it unveiled, or maybe unwrapped. I like the way it represents absolutely nothing. Just a big stupid stick - perfect. The last thing O’Connell Street needs is another statue of some dead fecker. \*\* Anything shaped like that should_stay_ wrapped. safe sex, ya know…😃 ---
**Author:** ![hibernicus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hibernicus/32/2802_2.png) [@hibernicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hibernicus)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/24 "2002-12-21T00:04:24Z")
I’ll have to go and take some pictures of the work in progress. It’ll be something to look back on when the spire’s been there for decades and everyone’s grown to love it. Hi Curly Chick! ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/25 "2002-12-22T04:40:28Z")
Waste of money. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/26 "2002-12-22T06:14:04Z")
Very large cartoon characters should beware, as should very large bad guys from science fiction movies. Praetor Shinzon, I’m looking at _you_. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/27 "2002-12-22T07:10:30Z")
Whatever you do, don’t sit on it! ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/28 "2002-12-22T11:30:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimbo \* > \*\*[http://www.wolkenkrabbers.nl/forums/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=3&topic=783](http://www.wolkenkrabbers.nl/forums/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=3&topic=783) > > It’s a foreign site but the pics are the best I could find.\*\* There’s nothing foreign about that site, man! I could read it all. 🙂 My vote’s for _The Stiffy by the Liffey_. That’s just hilarious. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/29 "2002-12-23T11:24:47Z")
It looks like the 2nd section is going up today. The crane is at full height. While I’m here check out [http://www.thinkzoo.com](http://www.thinkzoo.com) it’s a pisstake of Big Brother Irish style. One of the funniest things I’ve heard in a long time. The episodes and profiles are brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/30 "2002-12-23T14:13:56Z")
Yep 2nd section up. No wrapping on this. Looks cool. TV3 are filming beside it and all I could hear were people giving out about it. Maybe I should have let myself be interviewed to give a positive reaction but I’m a waste of spece when it comes to things like that so I went away and finished my Chrimbo shopping. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/31 "2002-12-23T15:28:33Z")
I think it would be cool if they turned it into a giant sundial. Brian ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/32 "2002-12-23T15:31:54Z")
I’m gradually coming around to the idea. It certainly beats another statue, and any of the people who I’d like to see get a statue probably wouldn’t anyway 🙂 Feck it. Its going up wether we like it or not, so we might as well enjoy it. The sundial Idea would be brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/33 "2002-12-23T17:37:23Z")
Does this qualify as the world’s largest toothpick? If only someone were to build other such devices so that other planets could remove unsightly tartar build-up on a global scale… On the other hand, if it is a knitting needle, I think we should make a Pluto cozy. It must be awfully cold out there. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/34 "2002-12-23T19:55:01Z")
Glad to see the green country catching up with the current Euro trend of wasting money on silly grand statetments of…er… well what exactly ? The UK has had to carry Europe lately in the stupid idea stakes, so now we have a brick train, an upturned Wok, a lump of rusting steel standing on a northern hilsside and looking nothing at all like and “Angel” and more like an industrial Playmobile on a huge scale. Unfortunately we solved our wobbly bridge problem so there is less to sugh about, but at least it leaves a silliness vacancy, maybe you boys over dere could take the the flaming torch of ineptitude. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/35 "2002-12-24T03:37:52Z")
I’d call it the Great Shillelagh of Dublin. This way you have a goofy tower and wretched name. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/36 "2003-01-21T10:39:13Z")
After a lot of delays because of wind it looks like today is the day when the spire gets finished. I’m looking at it now and all but the last 35meter section is in place. I can really get an idea of how it will dominate the skyline from my office. I’m going to go to underneath it when I start to see the crane moving again. I want to be there when it comes together for the first time. The final section will be bolted into place by a guy who is inside the spire (There must be a way out at the base). They say it’s the tallest sculpture/monument in the world. Is this true? I can’t think of any bigger? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/37 "2003-01-21T10:49:42Z")
I drove past it this morning. The top section was lying on the ground next to the base. I noticed that the last few metres before the tip are like a cheese grater, presumably to allow light to pour out horizontally. The other sections seemed to have solid ends, so I’m guessing if someone’s inside, there must be a maintenance hole further up (or he’s sacrificing himself for the benefit of the skyline). But what about that crane, eh? It’s looking great so far, apart from the reflectiveness that “will bleedin’ cause accidents”, according to several cabbies I’ve spoken to on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/38 "2003-01-21T11:47:23Z")
I just got an SMS from my man on the scene ( **yojimbo** ), who tells me the final section is currently being lowered into place. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/39 "2003-01-21T12:05:31Z")
[Here’s a webcam](http://www.camvista.com/ireland/dublin/liffey.php3) of the construction in progress. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811/40 "2003-01-21T13:23:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jjimm \* > \*\*I just got an SMS from my man on the scene ( **yojimbo** ), who tells me the final section is currently being lowered into place. \*\* Cool. This is like watching CNN. But less irritating, of course. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/120-meter-spire-in-dublin/143811.md?page=3)