What goes up must come down \u2013 unless it\u2019s a Palestinian flag at the top of Dublin\u2019s tallest monument that no one knows how to remove.<\/p>\n
The flag appeared on the 120-metre Spire on O\u2019Connell 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.<\/p>\n
City authorities have considered options such as climbing ropes, \u201cbespoke ladders\u201d and a 300-tonne crane, but rejected them as too dangerous, expensive or futile.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone could just come along again and drop another flag on the Spire,\u201d an engineer told Dublin<\/a> city council, according to internal correspondence reported in the Irish Times <\/a>this week. \u201cWe have probably taken the options for accessing the Spire from the ground up as far as we can at this stage.\u201d<\/p>\n The flag is hard to see from street level as it often becomes tangled. Photograph: Donopics\/Alamy<\/p>\n A brisk wind on Wednesday fluttered the small, green, red and black of Palestine<\/a> high above traffic and pedestrians. Media<\/a> interviews suggest many are oblivious to the flag as it often gets tangled and is difficult to see, but once notified of its presence, approve. Ireland is one of the EU\u2019s most outspoken critics <\/a>of Israeli action in Gaza and the West Bank.<\/p>\n