The water meters may be blithely and silently ticking under our very noses, but the Irish Water doomsday clock is relentlessly ticking down towards tonight’s deadline.
From midnight, you will be slapped with a default €260 charge, should you fail to register with the good people meandering through Irish Water HQ.
According to their own official figures, more than 1.065 million people have sent back their registration details. If the remainder of the estimated 1.9m households do not bow down and toe the line by midnight, they will face the default charge come April.
Several thousand people marched down Dublin and many other cities across Ireland last Saturday to protest against the charges, with further mass demonstrations scheduled for the next few weeks.