Two signs that tell many stories

A reader came across these two signs within

Heuston Station, Dublin

the last 24 hours.

The top picture is at the Luas rail/pedestrian/cycle bridge at Dublin’s Heuston Station. It’s difficult to know what it means. The idea of a directional sign is to help the traveller get to a place. Maybe the sign is for tram drivers, but most unlikely.

Heuston Station is called after John Heuston who was excecuted by the British for his role in the 1916 Rising; John had worked with the rail company. His brother Michael Heuston was a Dominican priest. He was a wise, kind and gentle person, eccentric too, but a great character, someone never to be forgotten. I said to him once that he was ahead of his time. He looked at me and quipped: “No, the church is behind the times’. What at all would Fr Michael Heuston say about the sign? He had much to say about his brother’s bust in the main concourse at Heuston Station.

The second picture is on a farmyard gate in West Kerry.

It says it on the tin

And it’s saying exactly what it means. Clear and precise. It leaves the reader in no doubt about what to do.

The top sign was probably designed by an expensive agency and cost the taxpayer a few bob.

No comment on expense of lower sign.

Good to be able to laugh.