It was Tom Moore, we believe, who suggested that the best of all ways "tolengthen our days" was to take a bit off the night, and his fellow-countrymen never have accepted advise with greater alacrity and enthusiasm. Mr Willet had not been born in those days and "summer time" had not been dreamed of by anybody, but the Irish people made their own "summer time" and carried it nearer to mid-winter than has been done by any recent legislation stimulated by war conditions. That old custom still prevails has been shown by recent cases at Ennis District Court which prompted District Justice Gleeson to remark: "I do not think anybody goes to bed in Ennis at a proper hour." In proof of his theory he mentioned that at that day's sitting of the Court they had one man who was out with a gun (for which he had no permit) at 4.15 a.m., a young lady out with an unlighted bicycle at 2.30 a.m., and a number of persons who were charged with having been drunk and fighting in the streets between 2 and 3 a.m. Certainly there does seem to be some reason for assuming that Ennis has its own night life and that the citizens are accustomed to sounds of revelry in "the wee sma' oors ayant the twal'," as Mr Robert Burns so brightly puts it.
The Irish Times, July 1st, 1940.