@anon67715551 the king of rural ireland is enraged that there are 67 new routes for rural ireland
I know nothing about Buncrana, except that it’s a good sized town
It kept me awake half the night, I’m in a seriously briary mood today.
But as they’re providing the mudguard to the governing parties I’m happy enough to see them having the occasional moment in the sun.
He’s not driving all his advisers are pushing him😏
Wolves are yesterday’s men
The lynx effect
Eamo is after the boats now.
Ships burn filthy bunker fuel.
He’s dead right on all counts there. I bet the windfall corporation tax this year would comfortably build a new harbour below in rosslare, no need for Dublin port then. Enough land to solve the housing crisis and restructure Dublin city and thousands of heavy vehicles taken out of the city, and city centre access to cleaner seawater all at one stroke.
Eamo Eamo Eamo!!!
Makes sense landing all the produce into the biggest population area.
Eamon won’t want a new motorway out of Roslare either.
We have to feed the people and get @Fagan_ODowd’s cheap Lidl and Aldi junk into the country somehow.
How are you moving the freight to Rosslare? By rail? You’d have to build a new rail line the entire way to Dublin. The current track is subject to speed restrictions and is single line only after Greystones. It takes three and a half hours to get to Dublin and you’d drive it in two.
There is no functioning rail line to anywhere else. The Waterford Wexford rail line was single line only and also shut down years ago. Assuming you rebuilt that freight would have to go up to Limerick Junction and and back down to Cork or Limerick. God knows how it would get to Galway. On the Trainline that only the pensioners use?
If you go by road you have to build a new motorway from Cork to Wexford and you have to link in motorways from Limerick and Galway. You also increase the journey times and consequently pollution from Limerick and Galway.
On the other side of the Irish Sea you have a long journey from Fishguard to the nearest industrial centres and bad roads til you hit England. Do you think the Brits would upgrade their road networks in Wales because we have decided to move port? From what I remember of Fishguard it’s a tiny port with minimal freight storage facilities. Again would the Brits upgrade it to suit us?
I think the notion of moving the port to Rosslare is well intentioned but is wishful thinking.
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All future investments should be in either Foynes or Shannon
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Genuinely correct. Dig out the red mud, deposit it in askeaton and we are onto a winner
Move it to north Dublin or Dundalk so. Or build a build a train line, that’s hardly revolutionary thinking?
It seems ridiculous to have it in Dublin city centre when obviously the land could be put to such better use. If it has to be kept whybis it being expanded, expand the other ports and take the land off Dublin port to build houses and reintroduce wolves.
He added: “We are investing, and I got great Government support for investing, in Cork, Rosslare, Shannon Foynes, Waterford ports, so that we don’t just see all the development of the east coast of the country.”
The railway to Foynes is currently being restored, but his statement conflicts with his continuing blocking of the road improvements for the region. Foynes won’t work without better road connections.
he is 100% correct on this
“The ongoing reliance on trucks, taking all that massive increase – up to 77 million tonnes from 35 million tonnes today – on to an M50 that’s already at full capacity, and relying on a truck-based system, rather than looking to the future as other countries and other ports are doing to decarbonise.
I think I saw in an article that moving Dublin port was considered in 2010. Not much point considering moving it then when we hadn’t and arse in our trousers, we should consider again now when money is no object.
Pity they dug up all the railways to make greenways