Should we have a green Spire on St Patricks Day ?

Pal

The London Eye, New York’s Empire State Building, the Sky Tower in Auckland and Table Mountain in South Africa are among the world renowned buildings and attractions that will have a green light trained on them on 17 March.

Also the Puerta de Alcala in Madrid. Calgary Tower. The White House. The Chicago River and numerous more around the world.

But not the Spire of Dublin.

The clowns that run Dublin City Council will have a white one.



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Overheal

Pal wrote: »

The London Eye, New York’s Empire State Building, the Sky Tower in Auckland and Table Mountain in South Africa are among the world renowned buildings and attractions that will have a green light trained on them on 17 March.

But not the Spire of Dublin. The clowns that run Dublin City Council will have a white one.

Because those landmarks are posers

the spire is already Irish

Praetorian Saighdiuir

I think we should.



But I still cant believe we have that contraption!

Uriel.

I think we should have a green time machine and go back in time before the spire was constructed and assassinate it's creator... With a green gun and bullets of course... Or perhaps a green ninja suit

squod

We need something to reflect the culture of the people living near the spire. Chinese lanterns and Nigerian flags etc.

strobe

I like the spire. There, I said it.

partyatmygaff

Yes I agree with painting the spire in the colour of the Libyan flag.

Dangerous Man

I like it too. It's actually quite attractive.

barbarians

We should stick Sean Fitzpatrick on top of it to see how it feel to be raped while the population watches on.

I'm sure everybody would enjoy that.

Eathrin

We shall repel all giant city crushing feet with our big green thorn

Lapin

Whats The Spire ?

Alter-Ego

Clean it first.

strokemyclover

Why don't we dig out the digital clock we had in the Liffey all them years ago and just paint that green with a pleasant message......maybe we could get them to get it to spell out strokemyclover!!!

(It being the only time of the year I can say my username to someone else without the risk of being smacked upside the head and all!)

deathrider

Are you sure about this? It would mean (dun dun duuuuun!) changing the bulb.

bonerm

I love the way you can go up to the top of the spire and have a great view of the city. Oh wait, you can't.

chin_grin

Lapin wrote: »

Whats The Spire ?

That big eyesore\urinal\her'oin needle on O'Connell Street that I still don't 'get' the meaning of.

How exactly does a big pointy thing sticking out of the ground sum up the feeling of Irish pride and our history and blah blah blah blah rabble rabble etc.

But turn it green? F*ckin stick Twink (insert any annoying Irish "celebrity") at the top of it and see how far she goes down. RED. Turn it REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDD!

Pal

ask me arse. its not an eyesore

karlog

Ah the spire. The erection at the intersection, the stiffy by the liffey, the big heroin needle which represents the drug problem in Dublin which becomes obvious at O’Connell Street.

WindSock

The convention and centre will be green. IT is far more interesting and functional.

chin_grin

Pal wrote: »

ask me arse. its not an eyesore

Ok.

Hi Pals arse, is the Spire an eyesore? What's that? Oh, you spend most of the time looking at the ground like 90% of the Dublin population. Ok then.

It is. It's ridiculous and stupid. So THERE! <stomps>


Ok I'm sure it's some 'feat' of engineering. But lo and behold I don't have an Engineering Degree (gasp!). So if\when I do see it my feelings are still the same as when I first saw it.........and that was: meh.

Pal

chin_grin wrote: »

Ok.

Hi Pals arse, is the Spire an eyesore? .

NO

garv123

bonerm wrote: »

I love the way you can go up to the top of the spire and have a great view of the city. Oh wait, you can't.

well you could, if you found a way into the underground hatch thing where you get into it, climb the ladder thats all the way up the side of it so they have access to the light on the top, stick your lad out one of the holes and shower everyone in piss

Chaotic_Forces

It's Irish enough as it is: constructed with the permission of idiots in Government? Check. Waste of money? Check. Doesn#t serve any source of income (including tourist revenue)? Check. Took far too long to complete that what was quoted? Check. Looks like a piece of rubbish and has no place where it was constructed? Check.

Looks Irish enough as it is!

chin_grin

Pal wrote: »

NO

I think you're talking out your ar*e there pal.

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahah! (sorry)

Pretty_Pistol

I don't even notice the Spire except when I'm crossing O'Connell Street and it's in the way.

im invisible

Lapin wrote: »

Whats The Spire ?

ah, youll see it in town

Firefox11

I think we should blow up the spire for paddy's day. Hey it's not like it would be a first!:D

garv123

they should rename it as the queens dildo for her next visit.

Nothingbetter2d

no to green spire...reason is it will go way over budget and be delayed by 6 months.

Gillington

We should pay a truck full of money Ronan Keating to write a song about the Spire

strokemyclover

Gillington wrote: »

We should pay a truck full of money Ronan Keating to write a song about the Spire

Ronan Keating! Don't you mean "The Shpire"?

"Happy Shaint Patricksh Day Folksh!"

chin_grin

strokemyclover wrote: »

Ronan Keating! Don't you mean "The Shpire"?

"Happy Shaint Patricksh Day Folksh!"

He shaysh it besht. When he shayhs nothing at allshhhhhh.

stovelid

strobe wrote: »

I like the spire. There, I said it.

I love it too. Especially the view of it on a bright day when you walk up Henry street.

The money would have only been spunked into other stupid shit anyway so why not a monument.

Azureus

http://www.stpatricksfestival.ie/index.php/home/news/dublin_goes_green_for_st._patricks_festival_2011

Some sites are going green for Paddys, would be deadly if the Spire did too considering its the mian monument. At least it would KINDA be a use for the thing...

Aka Ishur

Cian A wrote: »

We shall repel all giant city crushing feet with our big green thorn

Doubt they'd notice another prick in that city tbh...:P

Lapin

Lapin wrote: »

Whats The Spire ?

chin_grin wrote: »

That big eyesore\urinal\her'oin needle on O'Connell Street that I still don't 'get' the meaning of.

How exactly does a big pointy thing sticking out of the ground sum up the feeling of Irish pride and our history and blah blah blah blah rabble rabble etc.

But turn it green? F*ckin stick Twink (insert any annoying Irish "celebrity") at the top of it and see how far she goes down. RED. Turn it REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDD!

Ah, that thing.

Now I know what OP is on about.

If they called it the Big Prick I would have copped it straight away. :rolleyes:

To me it looks like an expensive TV transmitter in the heart of Dublin. Nothing more, nothing less. At least if it was a mast it would serve some purpose.

It symbolises nothing more more than a monument to our lack of taste during the so called Celtic Tiger bollox. A useless piece of nothingness representing nothing.

By all means paint turn it green next week and take some photos of it. Then attach a few booster rockets to the base of it and launch the bloody thing into orbit once and for all.

With or without Twink on top of it.

whiskeyman

The Festival Committee should arrange to hand out little green food dye tablets to all the pub goers.
We'd then have a lovely natural green stained footpaths and alley ways and a river of green around temple bar the next morning...

FatherLen

i dunno about you guys but the spire helps me out quite a bit. there has been many a drunken night in our fair capital when i realised i didnt know where the fook i was. then i look to the skies and see the spire and then i know where i am.


the spire.


helping drunk people get home since 2002.

Squirm

I don't mind The Spire that much. I think there were better proposals for what to build but The Spire was chosen and it's quite nice. Maybe not as nice or useful (with no possibility of generating any income), as a revolving restaurant...observation deck etc etc, but it's there, it's better than nothing (I think) and, I would have thought all the moaning and b*tching about it would have ceased all these years later!!
It would be nice to illuminate it green for Paddy's Day. Why not sure. Sounds less likely to fail and waste loads of money, than that ill-fated attempt to dye the Liffey green that year.
I think the council put on a good festival on Paddy's these days though, so I don't mock. Would like to see Skyfest back in Dublin though, where it suits me!!

Eathrin

The spire is useless. Yes yes it is. So why don't we put it to a decent use and turn it green. It is after all one of the main symbols of our city

Yakult

Did they try colouring the liffy green? hahaha That river is so brown and dirty Id say it would be impossible to do.

Redlion

Yakult wrote: »

Did they try colouring the liffy green? hahaha That river is so brown and dirty Id say it would be impossible to do.

It's possible, because it was died red/pink before..would love to see something similar to this over here: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7fjPQ0A-4kI/TOs0s0STnzI/AAAAAAAAC-o/p1OaxO5mIfA/s1600/800px-Chicago_River_dyed_green%252C_focus_on_river.jpg

Captain_Generic

Redlion wrote: »

It's possible, because it was died red/pink before..would love to see something similar to this over here: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7fjPQ0A-4kI/TOs0s0STnzI/AAAAAAAAC-o/p1OaxO5mIfA/s1600/800px-Chicago_River_dyed_green%252C_focus_on_river.jpg

That looks positively radioactive

de Roiste 13

interesting....i'll do what I can:D

Redlion

Captain_Generic wrote: »

That looks positively radioactive

Ah, a bit of radioactivity never hurt nobody :P

Sir Gallagher

Always found the "it doesn't do anything" criticism levelled at the spire, what do people expect from it? There's a couple of observation decks already around the city. Must every new monument consist of having an observation deck?

It's a monument which is quite impressive looking imo it's pretty imposing but it's in no way gaudy or tacky. I like it's sleek modern and simplistic design and anybody i know who's visited from abroad liked it it's seems as though it's only the Irish that have a problem with it.

When you talk about an eyesore which was a waste of time and money,

this sh1te instantly springs to mind

Diabhal Beag

When I go up to Dublin I know where O'Connell street is from a fair distance because of the spire. People will hate anything nowadays.

strobe

stovelid wrote: »

I love it too. Especially the view of it on a bright day when you walk up Henry street.

Or if you look at it from a certain angle and it looks like demonic Jim Larkin is summoning it up out of the ground and firing it into the heavens.

http://img2.photographersdirect.com/img/12753/wm/pd1556152.jpg

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/256/f/b/jim_larkin_dublin_spire_by_sookiesooker-d2yo4y8.jpg

papermaker

what about sticking a big green "fireman's helmet" on the top...seein as how the county's f*cked:D

Lapin

Sir Gallagher wrote: »

Must every new monument consist of having an observation deck?
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Yep.

Lapin

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

When I go up to Dublin I know where O'Connell street is from a fair distance because of the spire.

Hmmm, thats interesting.

So then you know if you're walkin towards it you're heading the wrong way.

Maybe it does have some uses after all.



Nah, get a map.:rolleyes: