Light The Spire Green for Paddys Day

Pal · 13-02-2008 8:17am #1

Friend in the know says it would cost them only 2k.
Given that they can throw 500k at fireworks and even NYC can light the Empire State Building green, then shouldn't they make a little effort ?

whiskeyman · 13-02-2008 9:39am

Pal wrote: »

Friend in the know says it would cost them only 2k.
Given that they can throw 500k at fireworks and even NYC can light the Empire State Building green, then shouldn't they make a little effort ?

Great idea!
Wonder if the lights at the top could have been changed to green too...

Pal · 13-02-2008 10:33am

thats what I mean.
they can change the tubes inside the Spire to green ones for very little money.
takes very little time to hoist down the white ones and up the green ones.
(and they can use them next year too)

markpb · 13-02-2008 10:34am

If the lit it at all, it'd be a big improvement!

whiskeyman · 13-02-2008 10:35am

oh right... thought you meant using those massive search lights to floodlight the whole thing up green.
Would really be a nice touch. They should do more 'ambience' things like that. It's something Dublin really lacks IMO.

BaconZombie · 13-02-2008 12:50pm

It cost over 2K€ per day to change the light on the top of the blood thing, I think changing the inner tube will cost a hell of a lot more.

Pal wrote: »

thats what I mean.
they can change the tubes inside the Spire to green ones for very little money.
takes very little time to hoist down the white ones and up the green ones.
(and they can use them next year too)

Pal · 13-02-2008 2:50pm

EUR 600 for a green tube set
EUR 500 for a bracket
EUR 500 to hoist down white tubes
and pull up green ones (or double time 1,000 if done at night)

Thats what my friend in the know says

jdivision · 13-02-2008 3:08pm

The lights they use aren't very strong because of fears O'Connell St might look like airport runway. Green lights that couldn't really be seen wouldn't be worth the effort.

baztard · 15-02-2008 10:07am

jdivision wrote: »

The lights they use aren't very strong because of fears O'Connell St might look like airport runway.

Your joking right!? A small line of lights a mere 120 metres in the air, in the middle of a city would hardly look like an airport.

jdivision · 15-02-2008 12:08pm

. That's the reason they give for not having the full lights that they originally promised. Don't forget a plane recently though Santry Cross - a 16-storey tower in Ballymun was the airport!!

IanCurtis · 15-02-2008 2:23pm

The hotel in Ballymun has four red lights - one on each corner and is close to the airport.

From an angle I can see why this could look like a runway.

O'Connel St - I don't think the same mistake could happen.

jdivision · 15-02-2008 4:45pm

I agree it sounds unlikely but that's the way it was explained to me.

ian_m · 16-02-2008 9:33pm

Sounds like a good idea. Bounce a some green light upwards from the surrounding buildings would look good.

flogen · 17-02-2008 10:04pm

jdivision wrote: »

. That's the reason they give for not having the full lights that they originally promised. Don't forget a plane recently though Santry Cross - a 16-storey tower in Ballymun was the airport!!

Ah... I see... I just thought the final result was far less impressive than it was expected to be. I always expected the Spire would some how be luminous or would have spotlights shining on it and reflecting off it as a result.

Instead it has two fecking fairy-lights at the top and middle.

afatbollix · 19-02-2008 12:13am

just put green gel on the white lights... its what they do for tv to make lights different color a meter of the stuff is a 10er.. cover all the lights in it and it should give off a green glow

Hal1 · 19-02-2008 12:17am

It will cost too much and take months of planning ffs. Anything they try to do is a farce, take anything for example :rolleyes:.

Pal · 04-03-2008 2:01pm

it will take them a couple of hours

bushy... · 04-03-2008 2:12pm

Diy way , don't know if they'd stick to the spire though:
http://www.dotlight.de/shop/product_info.php/cPath/244/products_id/757

Dinter · 04-03-2008 5:43pm

I think that's a great idea and should have been included.

You could email the festival organisers with your suggestion and see what sort of response you get.

http://www.stpatricksday.ie/cgi-bin/feedbackControl.cgi?Site__site_id=4&Page__page_id=384

That link mightn't work but it's in the feedback section at www.stpatricksday.ie

Furkin_Bastage · 17-03-2008 2:04pm

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Pal · 17-03-2010 9:57am

http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S1470431.shtml?cat=10054

The Tourism Ireland agency wangled a deal for major world landmarks _ including the Sydney Opera House, London Eye, Toronto’s CN Tower and New York’s Empire State Building _ to be bathed in green floodlights as part of a marketing push on four continents.

WHAT ABOUT THE SPIRE ?

Jesus Wept · 17-03-2010 12:58pm

I could only imagine how much they'd spend doing that.
My brother in the know informed me that the company he worked for at the time charged the government €250,000 to package the spire (in segments) before it was moved to O'Connell Street.

Butch Cassidy · 17-03-2010 2:23pm

All of these "light xyz up with with green lights" ideas are awful. I wish Leprachaun day would go away.

Does anyone remember when they tried to make the Liffey green? And all of the other stupid Oirish things.

Butch Cassidy · 17-03-2010 2:26pm

The-Rigger wrote: »

I could only imagine how much they'd spend doing that.
My brother in the know informed me that the company he worked for at the time charged the government €250,000 to package the spire (in segments) before it was moved to O'Connell Street.

Charged the state more like. Fianna Fail didn't pay for the spire out of their own pockets!

Light The Spire Green for Paddys Day

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