Everybody accepts that Dublin is a mess. It is congested with people, housing, traffic and even crime in certain areas. However, it has been a mess for about 20 years. It was patently obvious that it had to be disentangled in the interest of Dublin and the regions. Year after year, instead of long-term planning, more money was poured into perpetuating the mess by building a series of concentric road circles, each supposed to relieve its inner and now inadequate and redundant predecessor. The result is that Dublin has become more bloated and uncontrolled.