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    • November 5, 1999 at 11:38 am #704680
      Patrick
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      Gentlemen: Friday, November 05, 1999

      As an Irishman from Dublin currently working in Asia I think that the 120M rod of stainless steel will only make everybody laugh. I am sure that the joke will be on us. With our dynamic talent and culture that we have in our country and this is the best that we can do. We are now so-called Europeans and that term alone should tell everyone that yes we have beauty and history woven in our very skin. Was the idea of a circular sandstone fountain with bronze statues showing the struggle that the Irish people have had for the past 300 years just too much to accept? I don’t mean anything related to violence either, just something pleasing to the eye, something to spearhead our youth’s imagination in to the next millenium.

    • November 5, 1999 at 3:37 pm #712834
      Anonymous
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      cannot think of anything better to ‘spearhead’ than a spire.

    • November 5, 1999 at 4:45 pm #712835
      Anonymous
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      Patrick,

      What could be less ‘dynamic’than a poxy circular sandstone fountain’?

    • November 6, 1999 at 1:57 pm #712836
      J Caulfield
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      I am currently researching for a documentary on
      the history of monuments in Dublin’s O’Connell
      Street. I am particularly interested in the previously
      proposed Millennium Arch and Ian Ritchie’s design
      for the Millennium ‘Spike’. If anyone has information
      that they feel would be relevant, I would greatly
      appreciate it if they would e-mail me at
      jcwexford@yahoo.ie

    • November 6, 1999 at 2:29 pm #712837
      Jas
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      http://www.archeire.com/onsite/spike/index.html for information on the spike.

    • November 7, 1999 at 4:21 pm #712838
      john_wheatley
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      Patrick,
      a circular sandstone fountain with bronze statues?….yawn

    • November 8, 1999 at 12:21 pm #712839
      Anonymous
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      J. Caulfield. There was quite a good article in FX Design Magazine (few months ago)about the ‘Spire’ and other monuments proposed for that site. Interesting read on why a ‘monument’.

    • November 10, 1999 at 10:23 am #712840
      Anonymous
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      Is there any news on this – how long can an EIS take? What’s the current estimate of when
      it goes up (if it does go ahead?).

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