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[email protected] · January 1st 12, 10:09 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Martin Rich) wrote:

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
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(In 1992, when my Irish host drove us to Ulster for a day trip -- we
stopped at Downpatrick to see St. Patrick's tomb, and the most
unfortunate restoration of St. Patrick's Cathedral to its Victorian
splendor, as opposed to something approaching its original
appearance
-- I rather doubt that they would have welcomed Irish pounds. He was
desperate to get back into Ireland before dark.)

As it happens I also visited Ireland in 1992 and spent time on both
sides of the border. My recollection was that retailers close to the
border did tend to accept both currencies, but after twenty years I
could well have misremembered

It wouldn't have been that long then since Ireland had left the Sterling
Area. Until then the two sides of the irish border had the same currency.

--
Colin Rosenstiel