No individual or group has claimed responsibility for flag, which appeared on 120-metre Spire last September
What goes up must come down – unless it’s a Palestinian flag at the top of Dublin’s tallest landmark that no one knows how to remove.
The flag appeared on the 120-metre Spire on O’Connell Street last September and for seven months it has defied every proposed measure to take it down. Who installed it and how remains a mystery.
City authorities have considered options such as climbing ropes, “bespoke ladders” and a 300-tonne crane and rejected them as too dangerous, expensive or futile.
“Someone could just come along again and drop another flag on the Spire,” an engineer told Dublin city council, according to internal correspondence reported in the Irish Times this week. “We have probably taken the options for accessing the Spire from the ground up as far as we can at this stage.”
