“There is no institution, enterprise, society or human achievement of any sort, no matter how strongly established and esteemed, that cannot be ruined.”  So wrote Martin Starr and John Ullman in their 1988 book Global Competitiveness: Getting the US back on Track.   Starr and Ullman were talking about the idea of US industrial preeminence, which in the 1980s took a bit of a knock thanks to the rise of Japanese manufacturing. Today I want to consider Ireland’s streets.  As an institution the street contains all the life of a city. Before the internet, as an enterprise the street was the…

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