A year late
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Whatever the Gaelic revivalists might say, the Irish economy • and the future of the Republic is absolutely dependent on British prosperity. Now before the " bhoys " over there reach for their shillelaghs, I'm merely repeating what I was told by one leading Irish transport man earlier this week.
He went on with commendable Irish logic : " Whatever you do in Britain, we do pretty well the same thing twelve months later. Take your transport laws, for example. When you put them in we watch them in operation and then a year later, after we've seen where you've gone wrong, we alter it and introduce it here, so that really we get a better law than you and at very little cost."
Why, I asked him, did the Irish not keep journey record sheets ? After all, I pointed out, we have been using them since the Thirties, "Ah well, he said that's out of consideration for the garda—they'd never be able to read them,"