‘You’re talking about 6am to 6pm door-to-door’: How motorway congestion in Dublin is getting worse
There has been a 40% increase in M50 traffic on its busiest stretches, between Finglas and Blanchardstown
MetroLink
Advisers concerned by lack of funding commitment for nature restoration plan
Plan is to be published in draft form for public consultation early next year
Ireland is brilliant at identifying problems and terrible at solving them
This week’s infrastructure plan sounds transformative until you realise we don’t have the workforce. It is like buying a faster car when the problem is you never learned to drive
Eurovision Israel boycott hits right note, but renaming Herzog Park feels tone deaf
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Jack Chambers needs to tackle the culture issues in his own department
Department of Public Expenditure seems to consider procrastination as a virtue. It is penny wise and pound foolish
Ranelagh residents willing to enter mediation on efforts to challenge MetroLink, court told
Nineteen people living in Dartmouth Square West have filed judicial review proceedings over ACP’s grant of permission for 18.8km project
Legal fees could be capped at €41,000 for standard judicial review cases
Move comes amid wider plans to stem legal actions that can hold up projects as part of accelerating infrastructure plan
Can the infrastructure plan tackle Ireland’s packed trains and traffic gridlock?
It’s convenient for the Government that the new proposals lands just as Ranelagh residents take a judicial review against MetroLink
Ranelagh’s latest MetroLink objection highlights bananas nature of hyper-minority rule
Ireland is moving from a democracy to ‘vetocracy’, where governance is paralysed because someone, somewhere holds a veto
‘Christ, I’m angry’: Ciara Doherty’s striking interview with Andrew McGinley
Radio: Stand-in host is comfortable with tough topics, while Ciara Kelly courts controversy on Newstalk Breakfast
‘You have a traffic problem,’ Hans Zimmer tells Dublin before a mesmerising evening with the movie maestro
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‘I think they’re very brave’: Ranelagh residents react to legal challenge on MetroLink
Those living around planned terminus offer mixed feelings – convenience, but at too high a price?
Transport Minister says MetroLink plans could be derailed for two years
National Development Plan transport funding ratio tilts back toward road infrastructure
Coalition warned about fiscally ‘flying blind’
Government was supposed to update medium-term expenditure plan last summer but still hasn’t done so
MetroLink facing ‘inevitable delay’ following legal challenge from Ranelagh residents
Review proceedings taken by 19 individuals living next to proposed site for station in south Dublin suburb
Ireland’s economic miracle is like someone riding two horses on a surfboard
Now we are caught in a Catch 22 of our own making on migration and infrastructure
MetroLink: ‘Olympic village’ could be built for project workers, says transport expert
Accommodation housing some 8,000 workers could later be returned to State, TCD professor suggests
Dublin’s MetroLink challenge as army of 8,000 workers will be needed
The mind-bending scale of the MetroLink is beginning to reveal itself
Dublin MetroLink construction will need 8,000 workers, committee told
Project expects to ‘exhaust’ local workforce, with overseas contractors bringing some of their own personnel
Extension of Luas line will add four new stops and could be completed by 2031
The new line in Dublin is expected to cost about €600 million
John Collison is only half right. Ireland’s problem isn’t just process, it’s psychology
We have money, talent and trust, but to cross threshold into action demands something rarer: courage
OPW spent €180,000 on advice on potential impact of MetroLink
State body says it had sought specialist planning and engineering advice on effects metro system may have on its properties
Emergency laws to fast-track key infrastructure projects like MetroLink being considered
The new laws would identify projects of national importance and allow some planning processes to be bypassed
I want MetroLink, but must it be at the expense of St Stephen’s Green?
In years to come, people will wonder why we agreed to put a station in the city’s most beloved public space
Imagine if Ireland could lay rail tracks as quickly as it builds roads
If Luas Finglas is delivered on time, there will have been a 15-year gap since the last Luas extension
Train line closures to cause disruption of up to 21 months during Dublin Metrolink construction
Passengers face disruption from Maynooth and Dunboyne to Dublin
‘Enabling’ works on MetroLink could start in 2027, says Minister
Darragh O’Brien says two consortiums have confirmed they will bid for the project
‘It’s been going on for as long as I can remember’: Swords residents on MetroLink approval
While granting of planning permission has generally been welcomed, some remain sceptical on timeline for delivery
MetroLink will have adverse effects across Dublin, planning commission acknowledges
Locations set to feel ‘significant’ impacts include St Stephen’s Green, O’Connell Street Upper and Carroll’s building in Dublin 6
Little doubt MetroLink would get the green light, but what will be the bottom line?
Cost of largest infrastructure project in the history of the State will be far north of €3.5bn estimate back in 2010
Two consortiums will bid to build long-awaited MetroLink
Dublin line expected to begin operating in mid-2030s, providing 20-minute airport-to-city journeys
Planned Dublin Metro linking city centre with airport and Swords could open in stages
Testing and starting services on railway in phases could cut multi-billion euro project’s costs
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