Some of the comparisons are unfair to IE: the Examiner contrasts London-Darlington with Dublin-Waterford: to anyone who knows anything about railways, the WCML in the UK cannot be compared with anything in Ireland, especially a route which is largely over single track. Also the Sligo line now has 8 trains each way compered with 3 until quire recently: this means much more crossing at loops, which does not come without a time penalty.
On the other hand, some of the times on the Dublin-Cork line are quite inexcusable when compared with the situation 20 years ago.
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