Maligned spire to makes its Dublin debut today

BEFORE construction work ever began, Dublin’s infamous Millennium Spike had already generated more conversation and criticism than any other monument in the capital.

Not to mention its fair share of traditional witticism and several legal objections.

But finally Dubliners will this morning get a teasing glimpse of what all the hullabaloo was about when the first 20 metre section of the 'stiletto in the ghetto' is raised into position.