MetroLink
Dublin 4’s version of Marie Antoinette’s ‘let them eat cake’? Let them get the bus
The northside is a different country – especially when it comes to transport options
The spiralling projected cost of the Metrolink brings the NCH to mind
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Metrolink property deals, Grinds 360’s losses and All Together Now
Early Edition with Aideen Finnegan
MetroLink spends €2m per home on Dartmouth Square houses
Legal challenge to rail project dropped last year by Ranelagh residents after agreement to buy properties
MetroLink: Can the public trust the State with another project of this scale?
The national children’s hospital project has seriously damaged trust
MetroLink: A vanity project? Think of what else we could spend €20bn on
We need politicians in Government and Opposition with vision and courage to challenge railway line
MetroLink: The decades-long journey towards Ireland’s first underground rail service
Previous efforts for the infrastructure project have stalled, including after the financial crisis
MetroLink could cost up to €19bn, say senior Coalition figures
Cabinet set to consider plans in autumn to put out to tender the proposed 19km Dublin rail link from Swords to Charlemont
No Israel boycott for Irish football team – but elite frisbee-throwers see things differently
Plus: mixed signals on Metrolink, taking back placenames and wine-testing at the Abbey
Emergency infrastructure laws ‘may be at extremity’ of what is constitutionally permitted
Minister for Public Expenditure says aspects of Climate Act weaponised by those who want to stop projects
Ban on using nuclear power for infrastructure around Ireland should be repealed
Shared electric fleets charging overnight are the ideal customer for always-on nuclear power. The technologies belong together
A building in Dublin 4 is the only office to be approved for social housing conversion
Apartments on Fitzwilliam Quay seen as template for new council-owned company regeneration of vacant buildings
Will the State’s plan for the Carlton Cinema site revitalise O’Connell Street?
Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock
Not on board with MetroLink
I am sceptical because there are so many areas other than Dublin transport that require improvement
McDowell gets it wrong on MetroLink again
North Co Dublin deserves infrastructure that matches its population, its contribution to the economy and its potential
For 18 years nothing happened - now the State will try to revive Dublin’s O’Connell Street
A key test of infrastructure and housing ambitions is about to take place in the north inner city
Carlton site purchase offers chance to honour men and women of the 1916 Rising
State has bought O’Connell Street plot as part of MetroLink railway project
The Irish Times view on MetroLink: the train has left the station
The moment for counsels of despair has passed
There needs to be something for people to see when they step off MetroLink
The capital is deficient in cultural infrastructure for a city of its size
MetroLink makes its biggest property purchase yet
Inside Politics: State acquisition of O’Connell Street site for Dublin transport project part of €725m pre-construction spend
MetroLink paid €80m for prime Dublin city site. But was the deal necessary?
State spends up to €80m acquiring half of controversial derelict ‘Carlton’ site
State will have spent €725m on MetroLink before construction begins
UK property group Hammerson sells beleaguered central Dublin development to State as part of €80m divestment
State buys O’Connell Street site from UK property group for MetroLink as part of €80m deal
Plot which included area occupied by former Carlton cinema was to have been developed as a shopping centre by Hammerson
Former Ballymun shopping centre site to be redeveloped into 564 apartments
Land Development Agency to build cost-rental homes up to 12 storeys tall
MetroLink: Are we are setting in motion another financial runaway train?
MetroLink resonates deafeningly in cost terms with what went wrong with the children’s hospital project
Department of Transport ‘wants to avoid’ MetroLink costs spiralling like children’s hospital
Official says cost of project connecting city centre to airport will cost ‘well north’ of initial €9.5bn estimate
Owners of 40 Dublin apartments agree to sell homes to MetroLink for close to €550k each
City centre residential block earmarked for demolition to accommodate underground station for €18bn project
‘Pennywise and billions foolish’: Infrastructure chief criticises historic State approach to big projects
Climate legislation was well-intentioned but ‘just gave rope’ to serial objectors, says Sean O’Driscoll
Are there lessons for Ireland from Andy Burnham’s Manchester?
City has ‘been the star performer of the UK economy since 2008′
Hints about a two-phase MetroLink should ring alarm bells
This will be one of most expensive infrastructural projects in the history of the State. Failure is not acceptable
MetroLink legislation may be fast-tracked by Minister
Minister for Transport looks to waive pre-legislative scrutiny on new Bill to establish State agency
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