Sir, - Eoin Neeson (March 24th) is correct when he describes the proposed millennium spire as a "meaningless vulgarity", but he is hardly correct when he says it is "devoid of any significance". Unlike Eoin Neeson, I believe it should be built, for I can think of no other representation of our cultural identity and traditions which is likely to contain one tenth of the truth of this spire.
If art holds a mirror to us then we must complete this work of art and let it stand for the time when we as a people reflected on ourselves and chose this vacuous gesture as the most fitting expression of what we saw. Build it now and build it well. It tells us what we are. - Yours, etc., Denis Healy,
Devon Park, Galway.