Sir, – I share Pat McArdle's amazement (September 17th) at the apparent need to call a postcode an "Eircode". I blame in part the framers of the Constitution and the utterly pointless double naming of the country in Article 4. Had they called the country Ireland and left Éire to the Irish-language text, many things would be a lot simpler.
Mr McArdle is right to suspect the appeal of “uniquely Irish” names for the Eircode mess; to that, I would add a uniquely Irish addiction to ambiguity. – Yours, etc,
IAN Mac EOCHAGÁIN,
Väinölänkatu,
Helsinki, Finland.
Sir, – “The mountains labour and a ridiculous (and confused) mouse is born”.
It is distressing to read that after such a long wait we are to be saddled with a system that will be more unhelpful to business and the man in the street than that which already pertains. Imagine asking directions to four random numbers?
The fact that it will require the purchase of special equipment to interpret implies the protection of vested interests. Surely we deserve something simpler and better. – Yours, etc,
EDMOND KENNY,
Montpelier Parade,
Monkstown, Co Dublin.
A chara, – Pat McArdle asks, “Why do we have to insist on giving everything a ‘uniquely Irish’ name?” Whatever about the name, to reflect both languages, the postchód/postcode could have omitted the letters JKQWXYZ. –Is mise,
EILÍS NÍ ANLUAIN,
An Pháirc Thiar,
Bré,
Co Chill Mhantáin.