Luas Finglas

Does make you wonder if Metro will ever get built. I would take 2040 as a win.

Lol🤣 wtf is wrong with you man you’re so angry!

Just admit you haven’t got a link that shows where ESB or Eirgrid have said that they won’t be able to connect any of the major infrastructure projects due to grid constraints.

Simple ask don’t get snarky.

Wow the arrogance is strong with this one- you’ve corrected my posts over the years 😂

Best of luck I won’t engage with you any further and I’ll appreciate if you don’t engage with me.

After reading the last dozen or so posts, I'm astounded that you would post this without a supporting link, has to be non-paywalled apparently.

(Don't bother providing a link, I don't actually want one)

Oh I’ve a very good source that this is the case 😉😂

Ok Strait of Hormuz "difficulties" aside, how can the grid issues delay the construction of major infrastructure like this? Finglas Luas' construction will mostly be done using diesel as the primary energy source. What electricity would be used beyond that used in the site offices for making cups of tea? (ok and maybe a computer or two). I imagine LED lighting for the various sites will consume relatively little power.

Metrolink will obviously consume more power because all the underground equipment will be powered by electricity I suppose BUT they are currently upgrading the Berlin-Hamburg railway line while one of the local temporary works' sites has a connection to the grid, the other has had a big fat diesel generator running 24/7 since August. Surely we can deploy one or more diesel generators if the grid isn't able to support construction. By the time of opening of course, the grid issues need to be sorted but I cannot accept that the grid could prevent construction starting on any of these projects if we really wanted to make a start on them.

We have an iceberg economy..propped up by a handful of US Multinationals. 3 companies (Apple, Microsoft, Eli lily) pay almost 50% of all corp tax receipts.

Because of such we have shambolic infrastructure deficits, housing, rail, healthcare yada yada yada

It’s that our fiscal model is unusually concentrated and fragile. That makes sustainable, long-term capital investment more complicated — especially in housing, rail, and health systems that require decades-long funding certainty.

But most importanly and crucially, the capital investment wasn’t put in place to attract or accommodate that scale of multinational presence in the first place. Housing, transport, energy and public services weren’t expanded in parallel with corporate growth. So the tax base surged without the underlying infrastructure keeping pace…thats how we end up being the only country in Europe where the capital city has no direct rail connection.

There was one of those economic score things out recently that had Ireland as the second richest country in the world according to their metrics, which even factored out the distorted GDP.

Whatever one may think of that, there's no disputing we are a very rich country with clever people in it. It's not rocket science to build a bloody 2.5 mile tramline and connect it to a grid. Housing plans already in the works.

It's never been about funding. We have money falling from the sky and our political classes just don't take infrastructure and public investment seriously. We could have the best of everything if we wanted. I hope the people in Finglas kick up a fuss about their public transport being defunded while farmers get bribed.

The airport link is hardly irrelevant and hardly an afterthought of a line to Swords.. it's I would assume the biggest transport hub on the whole island, including for buses, and according to some of the planning projections it's expected it'd be by far the busiest station on the line