The Spire, not as high as you think!
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I’ve been reading up on high structures in Ireland recently and I found out the Spire is 120m. This seems fairly tall until I was looking at a cling film container in the house. It said it was a 60m roll, it seemed amazing that half the Spire’s worth of height was rolled up in that little cardboard box. It really did scale down the Spire to something more human.
Sorry, what spire are we talking about?
what were you smoking when you reached this epiphany? 😀
j/k
Just Gauloise!
Haha no its just that we think of these buildings as really high and impressive, but when you think of it they’re still fairly small. You know in a relative sort of way.
try unrolling 2 of those metal foil rolls and getting them to stand up straight beside the spire and support their own weight.
Justtry unrolling one fullstop!!
This letter appeared in today’s olim Cork Examiner
28 September 2006
Replace unsightly Spire with a fitting monument
I AGREE with the reader from Canada about the loss of Nelson’s Pillar in O’Connell Street, Dublin (Irish Examiner, September 25).
Rebuilding a tower people could visit would have been much better than the monstrosity we have today. The Spire is filthy and ugly. What were we thinking of? How can we get rid of it?
Kevin Farrell
Ardmore Park
Artane
Dublin 5I cannot find the letter of 25 September 2005.
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