This is brilliant news and a credit to all involved. In the present climate this makes sense as a model to apply on the more lightly used lines. It is certainly preferable to just shutting up shop and leaving the line to rot away until it is useless for all practical purposes without investing millions of euro per kilometre.
I feel that Irish Rail are leaving a lot of money in people's pockets in the way that they simply don't encourage rail travel where one of the source/destinations is not Dublin and this is something that can be addressed if the lines are being run locally.
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