Is it time for us to revert to true Ireland time?

That was a ‘timely’ letter from Maurice Fitzgerald, on Oct 30 (“It’s time to end summertime”).

It is a problem peculiar to countries in the higher latitudes.

Ireland experimented with permanent summertime, from 1968 to 1971. Teachers complained that children had to leave for school in the dark on winter mornings, frequently in bad weather. It was also much colder before daylight. It was difficult to begin a day’s work in darkness on building sites. Postmen, council workers and deliverymen suffered. Changing of the clocks resumed in 1972.