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Thu 11 Nov 2002Launch date for unveiling of the Spike in Dublin still up in the airNobody seems to know when the spire for Dublin's O'Connell Street will be finally unveiled.Already over a year behind schedule, we were told in April that it would be ready by September. Still, however, the capital is "spikeless", and no one is quite sure when the "Monument of Light", as it is officially known, will see some light.