Future Spike damage

I always thought of that ……….Could be done in a day too

Yeah, what if a member of some nut organization hijacks an articulated truck and rams the bloody thing into the spike?!! I doubt the truck would have much difficulty in toppling the thing. 🙁

I’m sure they thought of it. And all you have to do it fill the base with concrete to fix a truck good and proper. Although how it would be repaired is beyond me.

The greatest threats are kids with markers. They can just write and run.

fjp

To put it bluntly people…… .if it were to happen …..I’d break the ignorant bastards necks.

the base is elevated isn’t it?
that would stop ram raiders (unless they set up a dukes of hazzard style ramp)

Not in any of the pictures I’ve seen. It does seem a bit vulnerable, but then so does the London Eye where it’s held in place at ground level.

This is the base……..

hard to tell from that (pic), since nothing seems to be elevated (median, pavements etc).

I’m not sure I like all this shotblasting talk as well. why couldn’t they just leave it as a simple reflective surface for the whole height? Shotblasting leaves the door open to kitsch, and all this celtic spiral stuff on the plinth/base isn’t a good omen.

When I was speaking with the project manager (as you do) Anne Graham, one of the first things I asked her was about the maintainance of the Spire, surprisingly, the CC have shown some foresight by organising a dedicated crew ie, a man with a bucket, to clean the base once a week.

Maybe the Corpo should employ some of those Neandarthalish Boucers that ye get at clubs and place them at the base of the column to keep guard as part of the installation……just like Landseers Lions at the base of Nelson Column in Trafalgar Square.

If the Spire gets damaged, after all the tax payers money ploughed into the project, the Coppers aka gardai should be run out of a job and Dublin and the culprits should be hanged by their scraggy necks until dead from a Judas Tree. Would make a wonderful Xmas Tree….well with Haughey, McCreevy and other politicians (not forgetting the Green Party TD’s too) and characters of the same ilk dangling in the breeze.

Bollards … to you all.

Surely a few bollards will keep the Al-Quida/Skanger element at bay

What about positioning a few crack shots on buildings either side of O’Connell street.
From their vantage points, they would then be able to shoot them before they could inflict any damage. If they manage to keep it unblemished untill Christmas, the council could then reward them, by providing them with free Dublin Bus sightseeing tours, or free admission up the Smithfield chimney!