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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Postcode System - Eircode: Loc8 Code Limited (30 Jun 2015)

Eamonn Coghlan: ...west of Ireland last month looking for a particular location, but GPS was sending me in the wrong direction. I met a young man who works for An Post in Clifden and we were talking about the new Eircode system coming in. He said they will be depending on the postmen to clearly identify homes. I asked him what he meant and he gave the example that in a small area in Clifden on the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Postcode System - Eircode: Loc8 Code Limited (30 Jun 2015)

Eamonn Coghlan: ...with the code 19085, if I put it into my GPS, it will take me there. If I am in the UK or Northern Ireland and I put in BT4 1PN or whatever, it will come up and I will be taken there. Surely with Eircode, if I put in D21 US4 as the unique identifier, the system will have to be built into GPS for GPS to accept it. I am sure Capita Ireland, which is building the new system for us, will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Postcode System: (Resumed) Discussion (19 Nov 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: I welcome the witnesses and having lived in the United States with zip codes, I certainly welcome the Eircodes. When people ask me for my address in Ireland, I tell them it is in Dublin. When they ask me what is my zip code, I reply it is Dublin 15 and they often express surprise and ask if that is all. We also have found it difficult to buy online from the United States to Ireland in...