No, at the moment Ireland is mostly metric but not totally metric. For instance, they have signposts in kilometres but speed limits are measured in MPH!!!!
I believe they intend to address the above anomaly in the near future. Regards, Steve. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 3:06 PM Subject: [USMA:36236] Re: St. Patric's day - Is Ireland all Metric? > Up until last year I worked at Guinness, and they (my Irish collegues) spoke > "mixed". > > > >From: David King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > >Subject: [USMA:36235] Re: St. Patric's day - Is Ireland all Metric? > >Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:00:11 +0000 > > > >I cannot comment on what is happening in Ireland, but here in London, I did > >overhear some Irish men talking on a train recently, and they were using > >metric, talking of distances in metres. No imperial was used at all. > > > >David King > > > >Buy UKMA's report "A Very British Mess" ISBN 0750310146 > >http://www.ukma.org.uk/Docs/pubs.htm > > > >Avoid confusion with conversion, just learn to think metric! > >http://www.thinkmetric.org.uk > > > > > > > > > >Ivan Kochnev wrote: > >> > >>Dear Metric Fellows, > >> > >>I just recently started editing a newsletter of the company I work for. In > >>the "Did you know" section I publish 1 mertic fact a week. The week after > >>next week is St. Patric's day. I will publish a short article about that. > >>My question to everyone here is: > >>Is Ireland ALL Metric? How hard was the metrication conversion and when > >>was it started and completed? Are the road signs (often discussed here) in > >>km/h ?3 > >> > >>Your help will be highly appreciated! > >> > >>By the way: I discovered dual units tape measures on the flea market for a > >>dollar. I buy yhem there and resell them at work with no markup/profit. > >>People seem to like them, and I think this is a very simple practical step > >>to make people more familiar and used to the metric units of length. > >> > >>Since I do not post here very often, may I suggest the following: > >>Some of the postings have aconfidentiality notice at their ends. Could you > >>please skip those? > >> > >>Have a nice day! > >> > >>Yours, > >>Ivan Kochnev > >> > >> > >>-- > > >
