We all know the concept – or perhaps myth – that the Inuit people have 50 words for snow, reflecting its central role in their lives. Ireland may be more familiar with an alternative concept: the endless talking about ideas which reflects the absence of these concepts, not their presence, in all our lives. There is, perhaps, a longing in the amount of time Irish people can talk about structures and planning given the absence of infrastructure and planning in our lives. Ireland is a country which tends to operate on the assumption that the infrastructures are not effective, a…

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