Sir, – The introduction of Eircode and the complexity of accounting for “non-unique” addresses, mainly when there are several houses in rural townlands, highlights the abnormal costs and complex issues raised by the proliferation of one-off housing in the Irish countryside.
Today there are over 433,000 one-off rural houses in Ireland (25 per cent of national housing stock), triggering a range of environmental, economic and social problems and impeding the efficient delivery of services.
The implications of rural housing and the ongoing provision of viable services must be part of the discussion arising from the roll-out of Eircode. – Yours, etc,
MARY HUGHES,
President,
Irish Planning Institute,
Floor 3,
The Courtyard,
25 Great Strand Street,
Dublin 1.
Sir, – For years, I have waited for postcodes to arrive so that Ireland could finally take its place amongst the coded nations of the Earth.
No more, I thought, will I have to worry about purchasing something from Amazon and adding a fictitious postcode that doesn’t exist in order to receive something as important as a Daniel O’Donnell CD and then wait with bated breath so that the expected arrival isn’t sent back because no such code exists.
Imagine my shock when I discovered that the address I live at in Co Meath has suddenly moved 11 miles away and is now in Co Louth!
All those years of shouting for Meath at Croke Park have been nothing but deceptive and wasted when my loyalties should have been to the Wee County next door.
To add to this mess, if I want to drop a polite note to Eircode just to remind them that their address book is, let’s say, a county askew, there is no page with “contact us” on their website.
Eircode operates under the ironically titled Department of Communications. You couldn’t make it up! – Yours, etc,
KEN MURRAY,
Duleek,
Co Meath.