Mary Considine

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Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam · The new CEO of Iarnród Éireann, Mary Considine · 7 Nov 2025 podcast

Yes, as he said there, I had the privilege of leading a great team of people in Shannon Airport to reposition it as a vital gateway for the country.

And now I have the opportunity to join Eireann with Eireann and lead the team there at a really exciting time for rail.

And I suppose, Tom, there is huge alignment between the roles.

It's about moving people and goods.

So we're seeing...

Record growth in Irish Rail at the moment, carrying over a million passengers a week.

A really exciting time because the team there are not only dealing with today's railway, but building out significant capacity for tomorrow.

So a really exciting time.

So delighted to be joining.

As you say, we're about to place a contract to replace the enterprise fleet there.

So that's very exciting.

There's a huge programme underway to what we call DART Plus, and that's bringing new capacity into the DART around Dublin Airport, the Greater Dublin region.

So what that will do will double the capacity there and triple the electrification of the Greater Dublin Rail Network.

Really big project happening in the Cork area.

Well, what we're looking at is bringing in 185 new carriages there and we'll start to see those coming into service in summer 27.

So that should replace some of the existing fleet.

And importantly, what that will do will be free up some of the fleet that's currently operating there to move it around the country.

Because you'll hear, you know, Tom, from customers,

that we are operating at certain times at peak capacity at the moment.

And you can't just switch on that tap overnight to introduce new capacity.

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