Eircode advert: Standards must be upheld by all

LIKE Irish Water, Eircode was thrust upon an unsuspecting Irish public with great fanfare, promising much but creating more heat than light.

In July of last year, every home in the country was given a seven-digit code that was supposed to make exact locations easier to find.

By the end of 2015, neither the gardaí, the National Ambulance Service, nor the country’s fire services were using the €38m navigation system. One senior fire officer described it as “worse than useless”. Many state agencies still don’t use it and many private delivery services use their own codes for street and area addresses.