19 thoughts on “A Limerick A Day

  1. pat harding

    Yes, I saw this in the Irish Times this morning, that a company by the name of Rail Investments Ltd which are registered in Malta have bought a warehouse on Sandwith Street which Iarnród Éireann had hoped to acquire in order to locate the sub station.

    The question is who are Rail Investments Ltd.

      1. brownbull

        we do as the line under the phoenix park is not a through route connecting the lines – the big plus of this line is that it will allow a train run from Belfast to Cork through Dublin city centre without turning back on itself twice

    1. Turgenev

      The question indeed is who are Rail Investments Ltd, and are any of its owners or investors Irish patriots… by which of course is meant Irish developers.

  2. Junkface

    Ireland had an opportunity to build a metro system under Dublin during the boom, I think it was offered by a Japanese underground construction company. They rejected the plan, think of how well Dublin would be running now if it had happened. Traffic in Dublin is now unbearable.

    1. pat harding

      The Japanese plan would have meant somebody somewhere would not have been making a killing out of the contracts. Hence the idea was killed at birth.

      There is no reason why a private organisation cannot build and operate an underground in Dublin without recourse to taxpayers money. After all the original railways and tram lines were largely funded by private enterprise.

      1. Cian

        Yes, a private organisation could build and operate an underground in Dublin, but then the usual suspects would bitch and moan that this should not be outsourced.

        Remember the M50 toll bridge? build and operated by a private organisation? and all the giving out about it and how it was a cash cow and a disgrace that the government let this private organisation rip off Dubliners?

          1. Cian

            I’m not sure what you mean by “2 billion for a £40 million bridge.”

            My point is that we have already done the “private organisation could build and operate [infrastructure]” and this doesn’t make the general people happy because then the private organisation is accused of milking the population.

          2. Deluded

            The company built the bridge for about £40 million with an estimated return of €1.2 billion, not €2 billion, sorry about that, my point is we expect our representatives to make the kind of business deals they claim to be experts on.

  3. Mysterybeat

    This planning app is just to boost the ‘market’ price of the land so that IE will pay a fortune more for the CPO they’ll eventually have to get. This was the same crp that happened in Carrickmines when the M50 was being built.
    As was then, the question is who knew what and when, and who gains from the deal.

    1. Bob

      Can the council not just reject the application or rezone the land. The CPO could then pay the correct price for the land if required.

      1. Mysterybeat

        Yes, but this would go straight to an Bord Pleanala and the high Court. even the delay would scupper the project for 10 yrs

        1. Cian

          sounds like a great idea then – the underground won’t happen within 10 years! and we get the land at its correct value!

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