John Grenham on Irish Civil Registration

It's a joy to read John Grenham on The Weird and Wacky World of Civil Registration in the Irish Times Irish Roots blog. How many other organizations we could name are run by the "Ostrich School of Public Administration: if you don’t admit it exists, it can’t be a problem, can it?"
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/irishroots/2013/01/27/the-weird-and-wacky-world-of-civil-registration/