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FEEDBACK is covered in shame, and more confused than usual. Tom Roche was just one reader who posted a comment on newscientist.com to say that Dublin Ferry Port – which the UK’s National Rail online map located at 0° N, 0° W (on the equator in the Atlantic ocean, 1000 kilometres south of Ghana) – isn’t at Dún Laoghaire, as we asserted on 22 August, either. That was just the first result of our search on a famous web map service.

It is in fact at the mouth of the river Liffey, closer to Dublin itself.

Sometimes it…

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