sentences:  The case did not raise any important point of law, but is still remembered as the basis for French's celebrated song Are Ye Right There Michael, which ridiculed the railway company's poor timekeeping and general inefficiency.Palles was named in the Irish Universities Act 1908, s. 6, as one of the founding Commissioners of the National University of Ireland and was chairperson of the Dublin Commissioners established under the Act.In that role, he was involved in making the first appointments of professors and lecturers in the new colleges.