http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hStdiusCks6qajyKxJYHcS2EWUiA
>"Since I was concerned with this topic decades ago, almost every country in the British >Commonwealth, including for what it is worth the Republic of Ireland, has completed this process >absolutely fully.
While welcoming Lord Howe's comment above, it also displays the same curious British ignorance about Ireland already displayed in this forum. The Republic of Ireland is not (nor was) in the British Commonwealth.
Tom Wade