The former acting chief executive of the Railway Procurement Agency, Mr Donal Mangan, has not received an invitation to tomorrow's opening of the Luas system. Mr Mangan, a former managing director of Dublin Bus, oversaw the placing of the contracts for the trams and line construction.
He became acting chief executive of the Railway Procurement Agency, into which the project office evolved in 2002.
Following the appointment of Mr Frank Allen as RPA chief executive that year, he took legal action and settled his case in the last month.
Mr Mangan said yesterday he did not know why he had not been invited. It was "a matter for the board", but he was looking forward to "paying my fare and travelling on it like everybody else".
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