Dublin is Ireland's capital city and my current home. Its population is something over a million, but rising very quickly. It has become reasonably cosmopolitan in recent years, but is generally not coping very well with the boomtime we're experiencing here in Ireland at the moment. There is no coherent public transport plan (well, to be precise, there is one, but nobody seems to be able to implement it). The result is traffic chaos, exacerbated by the increasing number and size of private cars on the road. We have been told to expect the first phase of a light rail system to come on stream within two years. We are not holding our breath.