One other note on my missive on driving on the "different" side of the road in Ireland...The Irish don't alternate addresses between sides of the street.  In the US, odd numbers are on one side of the street and even numbers are on the other.  In Dublin, they go sequentially on each side of the street.  So and you can have businesses with a number of, say, 62...but across the street the the business can have a number of 8...or 250...very confusing.  They think it makes more sense this way.  Like driving on the unnatural side of the road...