The postal code debacle is like e-voting shambles

We have a long and proud history in this country.

We like to share this history with our school-children, tourists and in full colour coffee table tomes. Running in parallel is another, less glorified history. In this version, corruption, willful ignorance and incompetence are blended together at all levels of the State to give us such shambles as the Beef Tribunal, the Hepatitis Scandal, and a shameful mix of abuse of the young and the old.

One of the latest slow motion car crashes involves the cobbling together of old technology and blinkered thinking at senior levels to give us Eircodes. The truth of the matter is that those involved in deciding how Irish post-codes might work seem to be simply incapable of understanding what is wrong with Eircodes.