Dan Boyle (Green Party)

In the 1940s, writing in his Cruiskeen Lawn column in The Irish Times, Brian O'Nolan, probably writing as Myles na gCopaleen or one of the other vast array of characters he used, talked about road development. He was writing satirically at a time when the tram services had stopped in all the Irish cities and rail lines were being ripped up left, right and centre. His argument was that one only really needed to build one new road, which did not even have to go to any particular location. One just waited until the traffic filled that road and then one built a new one parallel to it and one kept building new roads parallel to it, indefinitely. It was a very prescient column because it seems we now have that road. It is called the M50.