The Inquirer's Tony Dennis hilariously describes spending "a frustrating afternoon trying to connect via Wi-Fi at Dublin Airport in Eire"...

The Wi-Fi, operated by Eircom on behalf of the Dublin Airport Authority, seemed to work fine, Dennis writes -- it was just impossible to get the access cards that are required to connect to it. He says he "tried every shop listed on the Eircom Wi-Fi zone welcome page. Most hadn't heard of the cards. Others didn't have any stock, and only one bar claimed it had only recently sold out. Normally, it would be possible to enter credit or debit card details online, but that page just returns a server error."

One shopkeeper's oh-so-helpful advice? "Ah, just sit down and read a book instead, why don't you?"

"Luckily, the shops hadn't sold out of books," Dennis writes.