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The newspaper reaction to the Millennium Spire has been quite extraordinary. The supposedly balanced Irish Times prints letters from objector Michael O’Nuallain on an almost weekly basis. O’Nuallain should be given no credit whatsoever for slowing up what is a magnificent project. And every time, he is given either column inches in a newspaper or camera time on TV, there should be a graphic beside him showing what his suggestion for the site should be i.e. a tower with a flying saucer on top. For grand projects like this or something like LUAS or Metro, the government should have a special fast track to bypass our disastrous planning system. Horrible Lego buildings pop up every single day because nobody knows enough about them to object. But worthwhile projects which have a high profile end up on the backburner because of lunatics like O’Nuallain.