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    I honestly shocked this hasn't been done yet. We're probably the only capital in Europe not to have a rail link to the airport.
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    I honestly shocked this hasn’t been done yet. We’re probably the only capital in Europe not to have a rail link to the airport.

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    1. Shamrocksf23 on

      Will be done as soon as the Children’s Hospital station is completed 😀

    2. dearg_doom80 on

      There’s actually an underground station in the airport ready to go, it just needs a rail link

    3. peadar87 on

      Nah we’re waiting until that bit of green belt is built on, so we can spend ten times as much CPOing people’s houses to tear them down.

    4. Bigbeast54 on

      You are going to be shocked for a second time now but you are not the first to have this idea. It is apparently a lot more difficult than it looks due to inadequate capacity on the northern line and at Connolly

    5. StrangerExistingFact on

      It will be done worry not we just need to finish one hospital first

    6. Intelligent-Aside214 on

      The railway out of Connolly is at capacity so we could build it but we couldn’t run any trains from Dublin airport to Connolly

    7. Money-Nail7386 on

      Priorities. Let’s get the Adare station for the Ryder Cup built first.

    8. TheodoreEDamascus on

      I’m as hopefully as a metro to the airport as anyone else.

      The dart couldn’t handle the extra capacity of an airport line.

      The metro would have to be it’s own thing.

    9. DarwinofArabia on

      Wow, he’s done it, this guy has solved everything and all it took was drawing a line from the airport to the green line.

      I don’t know if you have kids but if you do could you get them to spend a few minutes tomorrow solving the housing crisis by drawing a few pictures of houses?

    11. Different-Class1771 on

      It hasn’t been done because it’d be pointless diversion on a slow rail link. You’d be looking at well over an hour to city center on a line that’s already at max capacity.

      Dublin Bus / Aircoach / Taxi takes 30/40 minutes.

      Metrolink will take 20 minutes.

      They need to get the finger out an get it fucking built. No more delays or cutting corners with half arsed solutions like this.

    13. JellyfishScared4268 on

      Prague is another European capital without a rail connection to the airport. Though they’re supposed to be building one soon.

      Bit like us then

    14. VersaillesRoyal on

      That’s what the metro is supposed to achieve if it gets built 🤞

    17. Agusfresin on

      Been suggested many times and long ago, problem is the connecting mainline is at capacity more or less and very constrained so difficult to expand.
      I’ve also seen a similar suggestion to build a heavy rail connection to Ashtown area of main Sligo line which would be longer but potentially more viable and could be extended further to the main line out of Heuston.

    18. Bluewolf9 on

      Loads of European capitals dont have rail links, i just checked Sarajevo, Belgrade, Riga don’t and then i stopped looking.

      Hyperbole benefits no one

    19. francescoli on

      Pointless.

      The metro is the obvious option ,they need to get the TBM in the ground asap

    20. Top-Art1730 on

      Just as bad up north. All that money building the new train/ bus station/ announcing the development of high speed trains and it doesn’t connect to either airport. We just love a bus.

    21. Garry-Love on

      And get this, they’re building one connecting Adare and Limerick junction for some reason

    22. shadyspecks on

      The Minister for State at the Department of Transport – from Cork – has come out against his own departments design for the Cork Luas.

      If a new railway, metro or tram line can so much as be seen from a GAA club, it will not happen in this country.

    23. tummy1o on

      Ah because politicians are busy padding their pockets and those of their friends rather than helping Irish people.