I was just thinking as I was coming into work, that the best Christmas gift I'll get this year will be the opening of the Port Tunnel. At last, that endless stream of slow moving, road-clogging trucks will be diverted out of the city. At last I'll finally be able to get from home to office in less than half an hour for a journey that should really only take 5 minutes.
But as I was thinking that, I recalled a news item that was on a few weeks ago where the government had announced that following due investigation of Dublin's traffic situation, they had concluded that the problem lay essentially in the location of Dublin Port.
Dublin Port, they concluded, is located in the heart of the city and this is the main cause of all our woes. The solution, they decided, was to move Dublin Port to a location outside the city limits!!
So, just as we reach the point where the Port Tunnel finally opens on the 20th December 2006, the government realise that its actually the port that they should have moved in the first place!! Is that Irish or what?!