Lots of mileage left in placename puzzle

IS IT Ennistymon or Ennistimon? Or should we forget the oppression and go back to Inis Díomáin?

Either way the west Clare town is the latest example of a nation’s refusal to standardise one language while claiming to have the mastery of two.

The new bypass sweeping through Clare declares the town on the west of the county to be Ennistimon — with an “i”.