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Sat 07 Jul 2009A Dart that goes straight to the heart
Moody Celtic Tiger cubs, stony suits seated in silence and carriages that wait politely for tardy travellers: it’s all part of the Dart
NEW YORK has its subway, Paris its Metro, London its Underground and Dublin its Dart. It is pointless to compare them, really. All those trains rushing through tunnels underground, the settings for thousands of movies, their cavernous stations in the bowels of the earth, home to armies of the lonely and the outcast . . . and then there’s Dublin, with its little, green trains hugging the coast, chugging along in the sunshine, with hardly a hint of menace.
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