Dublin way behind the metro timetable

WITH reference to the discussion about a metro for Dublin, this is a brief quote from the 1986 Michelin Guide to Paris:

"Parisians first took the metro in July, 1900, 37 years after Londoners first took the tube (1863)... Since then other capitals and major cities have followed suit: Berlin (1902), Madrid (1919), Tokyo (1927), Moscow (1935), Rome (1955), Lisbon (1959)..."

Obviously this list is not complete but it is time we had our Dublin metro.