Spiky symbol of a moral desert
An edifice that is 'non-functional, non-contextual and sterile' (An Taisce) reflects the political and moral desert that is modern Ireland. With economic success, many have lost self-respect, while few in authority feel a need to give good example. We are subjected to an insidious censorship a neutralising process known as 'political correctness' when to speak plainly, to be patriotic or overtly Christian is to invite censure.
The placing of this symbol of official Ireland's neutral value status close to the GPO a monument resonant with patriotic values marks a victory for the dictatorship of political correctness.
The spire is apt also in having been erected during the reign of Bertie Ahern when multi-nationalism replaced nationalism as Fianna Fail and Government policy, and the nation state was converted into a market economy.
Under his leadership, it also became a byword for official incompetence and bungling in dealing with immigration, with an acknowledged Government inability to protect the status of its own citizenship.
And, of course, this neutral edifice will also reflect the vacuity of leadership in the church of the majority, when it abandoned preaching the commandments, and its general war on sin, in a vain quest for popularity.
Liam Ó Géibheannaigh,
Áth an Ghainimh,
Co Átha Cliath.
