Dennis Leonard

Well, to be totally and completely honest with you, Ciarán, I'm absolutely appalled, but not surprised.

Because this is Irish way we're dealing with.

It's the same Irish rail that refused to open our local station here in Caluchan for the last 22 years, where the train stops eight times a day on the Sligo-Dublin line.

It refused to open the Mullingar to Edlone line, which actually would cut journeys from Dublin to Galway by about 30, 40 minutes and actually give a straight run across the country.

It's the same Irish rail that actually promised a metro so many years ago and has spent 200 million on actual consultants' reports.

And that would open 20 times our station, which would cost 10 million to reopen.

It closed in 1963.

We have a town of Kinnagad going to 4,000 beside it.

Caloocan on the other side going to 2,000.

That's 6,000.

And I'm delighted for Brian and everyone and me that they're looking at the Navan line long overdue.

but they're opening because Dunchalkin has 6,000, the same population as us, Kilmesson has 900, and then Navan, of course, has a large population.

There's no problem doing that.

They had no problem as well announcing for the Ryder Cup, they're going to put 5 million between the report and actually a station for a week.

for the Ryder Cup in Adair in County Limerick.

So this is what we're dealing with.

And we could have our station open 24 years ago for two and a half million.

We had the consultant's reports done.

We had all the US reports done.

We had plans done.