According to a coach driver source of mine in the Irish Republic, Wednesday 1 September 2004 is the Republic's 'K-Day', the day that the Republic changes all its 'mph' signs to 'km/h'.

Apparently hundreds of workers will be out a few days beforehand replacing all the mph signs and there is an advertising campaign being run over the next few weeks to explain it all.

Incidentally, my contact lives several miles south of the border with County Fermanagh but he and his family drive in each week to Enniskillen in Northern Ireland to do their weekly shopping, since the introduction of the euro has made things much more expensive in Eire than in N. Ireland

I wonder if some of the funds to pay for the pointless coversion is from their "net gain" from our "net contribution" into the EU pot.