365/24 - so expect support for only 15.208333 days a year
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Irish to close duplicate €500,000 web site
CELTIC TIGER, the Irish Republic has shut down a public service web site after it found that it already had one doing the same job that had been set up and run by the same department.
It was discovered that the four year old reachservices.ie site was providing information already available on citizensinformation.ie despite both being run by the Department of Social and Family Affairs. Reachservices.ie managed 18,000 visitors in one year while citizens information.ie got 2.5 million.
Reachservices.ie will close after the Irish Public Accounts Committee said it was a "total waste" to have both sites running. Proving that cost overruns in the public sector are universal, the committee said that the cost of the Broker system, on which the un-needed web site was based, had gone from €14 million to €37 million.
Still, why have one when you can have two at twice the cost? µ
L'inq
www.independent.ie
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*cough* inefficient bloated civil service *cough*
geeze, that's so typical - i have been in this country for several years now and every few days I see sth new like this beautiful example pictured in the article, recently started actually asking myself - how many irish do you need to install light bulb? (usually correct answer is: more than one, usually 3 to 4... unlike in rest of the world where 1 is more than enough).
There was an English man, a Scottish man and an Irish man.

The English man did direct.gov.uk and was very successful after millions of pounds spent on Google AdWords...

I can't be bothered to finish off the rest of the joke.