Mr. Joseph Nugent:

The Irish passport design was changed in September 2013 and launched in October 2013. I would like to read from a brief letter that was published in The Irish Timesa couple of years later. I will not name the individual who wrote the letter, which states:

In a queue at Dublin Airport last week, my daughter Alex was curious about music notation on successive pages of her passport and asked me to read the music. To our surprise and delight, it was the music of our National Anthem. Whoever imagined this subtle celebration of Irish musicality should be congratulated.

There is a sense of beauty and art in the audible symbol of our nation.