Dublin - Metrolink (Swords to Charlemont only)

spacetweek · 01-03-2026 11:37PM

FFS!

Sam Russell · 02-03-2026 07:11PM

Well, they used to say that the only thing you can believe in the Indo is a good portion of chips, and even then you would need a pinch of salt.

Current journalists appear to take a range of figures and think they could do with a good bit of exaggerating and then add a bit more just for emphasis. I thought the projected cast was €9bn to €11bn.

The Black Oil · 03-03-2026 03:21PM

Saw a bloke on the Drogheda-Pearse train this morning wearing a Metrolink lanyard.

spacetweek · 03-03-2026 08:15PM

Where can those be obtained.

L1011 · 03-03-2026 08:44PM

I would assume he works for the delivery body, so by working for them!

The Black Oil · 04-03-2026 02:14PM

He had a Luas lanyard too.

DumbBrunette · 04-03-2026 05:32PM

https://youtu.be/T_Jz9xzOoO4?is=DpYYMB8l_DqfDhnT

The B1M is doing an episode on Metrolink. They're going with 27bn USD. It is a good channel though so looking forward to watching!

L1011 · 04-03-2026 05:33PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124284880#Comment_124284880

Interestingly they actually give the proper figures further in to the video; but they had to go for the ridiculous headline.

CatInABox · 04-03-2026 06:11PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124284880#Comment_124284880

It's actually a good enough beginners guide to Mertolink.

jwm121 · 04-03-2026 06:31PM

Just saw this and I'm very excited to watch. The 27 billion figure caught me off guard though. Usually a very good channel and I've been wanting them to go a video on Dublin for a while!

thosewhoknow · 04-03-2026 07:05PM

Hardly surprising. YouTube thumbnails have to contend with a lot of other similarly fantastical pictures, so I can forgive it.

Kermit.de.frog · 04-03-2026 07:34PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124284880#Comment_124284880

Usually a good channel. Bit too much paddywhackery in there for my liking and not much in depth detail of the project.

Also measuring Dublin traffic with three pints of Guinness, I mean seriously.

jwm121 · 04-03-2026 11:54PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124285183#Comment_124285183

Is it bad that that type of thing doesn't even phase me at this point?

Kermit.de.frog · 05-03-2026 01:20AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124286248#Comment_124286248

It won't change until more Irish people really start challenging these quite offensive stereotypes themselves especially around alcohol which are often very deliberate and very virulent in these things against Irish people compared to any other country. I don't think it's witty or charming or funny but maybe I'm in the minority.

You look at the comments on this video and the vast majority of Irish commenters actually egging it on and enjoying it.

I don't get it anyway.

I watch the B1M a lot btw. Their output is often top drawer, professionally narrated and presented. Somewhere between the junkie on O'Connell St and the Guinness memes this is the worst I have seen by some distance. Would they do a video like that on American, Middle Eastern, British or Chinese projects? I have yet to see one.

jwm121 · 05-03-2026 02:25AM

Someone commented this on the video, is this actually clearing works starting?

Thunder87 · 05-03-2026 02:53AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124286385#Comment_124286385

Fred mentions in the video their editor is Irish, clearly he just took the liberty to have a bit of fun with a "home" video, and I suppose playing into the popular discourse of the whole project being a farce/joke. They definitely overdid it a bit in the first half of the video but I wouldn't read too much into it

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124286440#Comment_124286440

They demolished a house by the crossroads at Airside opposite the new high(ish) rise apartment block over the past week, not sure if it's directly related to the metro works but it's definitely on the route as the Smyths & Starbucks directly across the road are also going

murphaph · 05-03-2026 11:20AM

If we are already CPOing property for metro it makes sense to demolish it quickly to avoid any potential squatter situations arising.

bk · 05-03-2026 11:30AM

I found this B1M video to be quite poor quality and a bit disappointing as I’ve watched many videos from them before. It was full of inaccuracies.

They claimed that the Western commuter line will be closed for two years and the SW for 6 months and there will be disruption to passenger services! While it is technically true that parts of these lines around Glasnevin will be closed, it won’t effect passenger services on these lines as trains from the Western line will be redirected to the SW line while the western line at Glasnevin is closed and vice versa.

They also mentioned that the original Metro plan was for it to be built using cut and cover and thus why it was originally cheaper and then went into a whole section about TBM’s. But that is simply not true, Metro North was originally designed to also use TBM construction, in fact dual bore TBM’d tunnels.

To be honest it felt like they might have researched this using AI slop, rather then a real understanding of the project. It might have been better if they had spent more time researching it then playing with silly diddly eye memes about Ireland!

ArcadiaJunction · 05-03-2026 12:46PM

The B1M video was Paddywackery because we are a Paddywackery nation. If we were not, we would already have some kind of metro. What is not Paddywackery about Foynes being relaid and the continuing psychotic waffle about the 'vital' WRC when Dublin still has very little in terms of rail? Navan has a line they can put passengers on to connect at Drogheda now and all we hear is 'maybe a new line by 2040…'.

I'll never forget the wagon with the art gallery on Harcourt Street stopping the inagural run of the Luas, CIE Management saying the PPT was not wide enough for modern communter trains, and on the first day of the Luas the TV finding some halfwit in a Dublin GAA jersey saying he'll only use 'deh Luas' for going to the seasoide! This following a scathing report by the Sunday Business Post right before calling the Luas the worst train in the world because it did not have toilets. Have you ever seen the 1973 Indo editorial slamming the announcement of the DART that had a fierce smell of gargle off it. I could go on and on.

The B1M was kinda making the point that we have no metro because we are a Paddywackey society in terms of rail infrastructure and I agree. Is that preist is Mayo still swinging his roasary beads at the DoT?

I am glad to see this mirror being held up. Embrass the PTB like the FT article on 'poorest of the rich' did in the 80s and got the PTB do something about the economy.

MJohnston · 05-03-2026 12:50PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124287177#Comment_124287177

Jesus christ are they just handing out free meth today?

ArcadiaJunction · 05-03-2026 12:52PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124287193#Comment_124287193

So none of what I stated actually happened and you only see it as a chance to score points on the Midwit League Table. Have you considered becoming an RTE audience member?

cgcsb · 05-03-2026 12:55PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124287203#Comment_124287203

🤣🤣 pmsl

MJohnston · 05-03-2026 02:16PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124287203#Comment_124287203

Mate, try the weed in future, because you need to chill out

murphaph · 05-03-2026 04:10PM

I was doubting my own sanity for a moment when they started saying metro north was supposed to be cut and cover! It was a poorly researched video in that regard. Also no mention of the possibility of extending ML south by repurposing the Green Line. The entire premise of a single line from Charlemont to Swords being able to solve Dublin's traffic problem is also obvious twaddle. Metro is a key part of the solution but alone will not solve everything. For completeness it should have mentioned the equally important DART+ upgrades IMO.

Heartbreak Hank · 06-03-2026 01:09PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124286452#Comment_124286452

I particuarly liked the cameo from "now that might be talking politics"/"and of course Celtic" man.

monument · 10-03-2026 12:55PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124286963#Comment_124286963

Agreed overall, but Metro North was to use more cut and cover south of the airport, on the Ballymun Road, and it was to be elevated above ground on the Swords bypass.

markpb · 11-03-2026 11:36AM

Another small milestone but it's great to see any kind of movement:

"MetroLink has stepped up its plan to deliver Dublin’s long-awaited metro system with an agreement for a new office headquarters in the city’s north docklands.

Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TFI) has signed a new long-term lease on Metrolink’s behalf for 49,500sq ft (4,599sq m) of space at Coopers Cross, the major-mixed use campus developed by US-headquartered real estate investment firm Kennedy Wilson.

Metrolink’s new offices in Building Two of the scheme is expected to provide it with sufficient space for more than 400 workers."

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/03/11/metrolink-in-deal-for-office-headquarters-in-dublins-north-docklands/

The Mathematician · 11-03-2026 12:24PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124303661#Comment_124303661

As someone who doesn't know anything about these things, it did surprise me that they will need over 400 office workers. Does anyone know what they will be doing?

CatInABox · 11-03-2026 12:37PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124303781#Comment_124303781

They're going to be managing over 8000 workers across dozens of major sites all over Dublin.

cgcsb · 11-03-2026 03:45PM

In contrast the DART+ programme has a small 2 storey prefab building at the Inchicore site, housing around 25 staff. Not saying that more are needed per say but there is a bit of a sense that metrolink is quickly becoming the golden child of infrastructure projects and rightly so. Its very much a new thing in an Irish context.

Dublin - Metrolink (Swords to Charlemont only)

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