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  • January 21, 2003 at 12:28 pm in reply to: The Spike #721884
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    and she’s there! Wahey!




    January 21, 2003 at 12:05 pm in reply to: The Spike #721881
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    They’ve added a second more spire-centric picture on ireland.com

    http://www.ireland.com/weather/cam.htm

    January 21, 2003 at 11:23 am in reply to: The Spike #721876
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    looks like the baby crane has started moving
    http://www.ireland.com/weather/cam.htm

    January 21, 2003 at 11:03 am in reply to: The Spike #721870
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    some audio reports here from RTE
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/0121/spire.html

    January 21, 2003 at 11:01 am in reply to: The Spike #721869
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    Good man John Bowman! And I’m sure the same sceptical folk interact with those painting on a daily basis themselves. Point well made.

    And as for the question of building something that people can climb up upon and view the city …
    having it as a viewing tower would be terrible in my opinion.
    1. Do we really want huge queues all day down O Connell Street. Not a good idea, especially with tram queues, a non-pedestrianed street, and the retail tenants.
    2. Tawdry stalls hawking awful replicas, ashtrays and tshirts to queuers.
    3. Theres feck all to see apart from the Dublin Mountains. And you can see them better by going to Sally Gap.

    January 21, 2003 at 9:55 am in reply to: The Spike #721863
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    Yes and yes.

    January 21, 2003 at 9:42 am in reply to: spire speak #723799
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    Another guy was actually thrown into the back of a police van for his vociferous dissing of the Spire!

    Overall the tone of the evening was quite positive I thought!

    welcome sherrioverseas by the way!

    January 21, 2003 at 8:44 am in reply to: The Spike #721857
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    was down there at 7:30 this morning. They had the wrapping off the final ‘long section’ and were giving it a good cleaning. Also, it looked as if they had already hoisted up the bolts to secure the final sub assembly. SIAC told me hopefully up for 10-ish. The tai-chi guys merely hummed.

    January 21, 2003 at 7:24 am in reply to: The Spike #721854
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    10am – hmmm – best go to work so 🙁

    January 20, 2003 at 11:17 pm in reply to: The Spike #721849
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    Great piece of action as piece 4 was slotted in, with the guy inside the tube riding up on the crane and piece 3 and 4 slotting together eclipsing the torchlight from within.

    Seeing the swaying of the bucket full of bolts going up on the crane on a relatively calm night like tonight gave me much more empathy with the guys not attempting it on windier days.

    Overall, cold but essential viewing 🙂

    January 20, 2003 at 5:43 pm in reply to: The Spike #721843
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    Going down for 7:30 tonight for a look myself.

    Tonights forecast: Slack winds, extensive mist and fog patches, frost in places. Risk of an isolated shower. According to Met Eireann, but then again, they always say that 😀

    http://www.weather.ie/forecasts/regional.asp?Prov=Dublin

    January 20, 2003 at 3:42 pm in reply to: The Spike #721832
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    Originally posted by DavidF
    some pics of that flagpole can be seen here – http://www.usflag.com/poles/monsterInstall_400.html

    wow … they make it look so simple 😉

    January 20, 2003 at 3:41 pm in reply to: The Spike #721831
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    Purely for speculation, anyone know why the settled on it’s current height. Is it a function of the width of the base due to having to fit on the median between the roadway?

    January 20, 2003 at 3:37 pm in reply to: today #723793
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    Might be intersting to summarise some of the more salient points from the main Spire thread. https://archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1412

    January 17, 2003 at 12:13 pm in reply to: Spencer Dock #722730
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    no intergrated affordable housing? tut tut tut. isn’t that flying in the face of one of the directives of what the DDDA are supposed to be doing?

    January 16, 2003 at 8:52 pm in reply to: The Spike #721781
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    lol fjp.

    January 16, 2003 at 6:36 pm in reply to: The Spike #721776
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    good picture on http://www.recirca.com from Peter Fitzpatrick
    http://www.recirca.com/artnews/151.shtml

    January 16, 2003 at 5:46 pm in reply to: The Spike #721775
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    Yes, the Bertie Bowl thread notched up a very respectable 103 replies whereas this one has a rather amazing 317 nuggets of collective wisdom and has been viewed 14025 times.

    January 16, 2003 at 4:11 pm in reply to: Cork 2005 #723758
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    surely they must have submitted detailed plans to be granted the award in the first place?

    January 16, 2003 at 4:10 pm in reply to: Cork 2005 #723757
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    in fairness now lads, as one of my colleagues on another bulletin board pointed out, it does have the longest corridor in Ireland 😉

    http://www.p45rant.com/boards/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35053

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