We arrived back from France, after two months away, just last Thursday and, as we heading up to Tearmonfeckin on Sunday, and thereby through the M 50, I determined to crack the intricacies before I went.

(perhaps I should add here that , due to constant complaints, they have decided to abandon the toll bridges on the M 50 and replace with tolls acquired by new fangled technology)

In the IT web page I accepted Conor Pope’s decision, as I would be a fairly infrequent user, to just register for video recognition rather than get a tag so I clicked on the Eflow site, gave them all the usual information about my mother’s maiden name, and then , checking back, found that I was registered.

So yesterday we passed the “toll free” point and very fast it was, I reckon it took about a half hour less to get on to the Belfast Road.
There were no obvious cameras, but lots of boxes about that could have been.

When we got back to Waterford last night I went into my account with eflow to see if we had been spotted.
Sure enough we had, once at 9.30 and again at 4.15.

Bit scary really to know that from now on Big Brother will know all of my movements north, how long before he knows all of my movements everywhere?