Eircode is like something out of Monty Python

I got my Eircode this morning and it crossed my mind that life was all of a sudden much easier, until I thought of my Revenue PIN number for the Local Property Tax (put money away), MPRN number for electricity (put money away), WPRN number for water (put money away).

A deep depression ensued and I was useless for the rest of the day.

At least I now know that I don’t have to use the Eircode after my address, which begs the question why I got it in the first place?

I cheered up when I realized that based on an expenditure of some €27 million and 2.2 million addressess mine cost €12.27 and I don’t have to pay for it. Strange country!

I also noticed that any undelivered mail is to be returned to a PO box in Kilrush Co. Clare which has no Eircode – surreal, methinks!

Minister Alex White was correct when he said that having an Eircode would ‘add an extra dimension’.

More like a Monty Pythonsque dimension, I’d say!

Denis Moloney

Kilnagurteen

Macroom

Co. Cork