Sir, - John Moran (Irishman's Diary, March 15th) and Fr Placid C. Nolan (Letters, March 20th) should take heart. The Millennium Spire is a trinity of Christian symbols.
The shape is borrowed from God's creation. It will suit all Ireland, rural as well as urban. It will suit anyone who has chopped ingredients for an Irish stew. The shape is that of an onion's flowering stem, full of promise for the future. Very tall, tapering, glossy and smooth, it thrusts up high above the earth, disproportionately high above the bent-over leaves below. The bulge at the top is the calyx over the flower-head, ready to burst into a globe of tiny onion flowers. In years ahead some creative genius may be able to use fibre optics, lasers or pyrotechnics to create the effect.
For the time being, the small light can remind us of Jesus's claim to be the light of the world.
And when we speak of the spire, we are already using the stem of the word spirit.
It gives a modern pointer to God by shape, light and name. - Yours, etc., Muriel Taylor,
Portland House, Greystones, Co Wicklow.