Now that is smart...

ok.. so I had a bad morning but I'm over it now.

I got a letter from the Revenue this morning. My default thought when I get any letter with a harp on the envelope is that it contains some sinister document from the government.

I've been wrong every previous time and was wrong again this time.

It was an information brochure from the Revenue, the department responsible for all taxation matters in Ireland. They have a new online service. That's good.

What was clever though was the fact that the letter now contains information in Polish, Lithuanian, Mandarin and Cantonese.

This is needed given the huge populations of people from these particular countries now living and working in Ireland, with an estimated 120,000 people of Polish origin in Ireland alone. A very positive and smart step.

Now it's time to start putting messages about road safety in multiple languages too.