It has arrived, the first salvo in a campaign by the unions and other interested parties to stop Seamus Brennan’s privatisation plans in their tracks. For 24 hours, from midnight to midnight on Friday (18/07/2003), passengers will be able to travel for free on services provided by Dublin Bus, Iarnrod Eireann and Bus Eireann, as [...]

We’ve been unable to discover if it’s an urban myth or not, but one thing you often hear in Dublin’s drinking holes is that had Irish independence been put off for a few years, the British would have built an underground system for us to rival that of London or Paris. Of course, a cynic [...]