Couple buy house next to railway track which is scheduled to re-open. Railway re-opens. Value of home increases. Couple sue because the trams make noise. It must be just awful living next to a clean, frequent and fast mode of public transport able to get you into the city centre in approximately 6 minutes.

Nicola Cooke of the Sunday Business Post writes:

The operator chosen to run the planned Metro North system in Dublin will forfeit an annual fee of tens of millions of euro if it does not achieve the highest standards in the world in key areas such as passenger numbers, punctuality and breakdowns.
Documents sent to the four [...]

Consultants continue to swallow up our transport budget
The RPA have published a report explaining why a line it is proposing would cost lots of money, require the purchase of 10 buildings and 150 gardens and wouldn’t make enough money to justify itself (their criteria, not mine). To make matter worse, it would mean the removal [...]

Anne-Marie Walsh of the Indo writes:

THE Luas tram ground to a halt for an hour and a half yesterday morning after a man blocked the line with his jeep before jumping into the Liffey.
It is understood that the man parked his car across the tram tracks at Heuston Station around 11.30am before making for the [...]

An article has appeared on rte.ie, announcing the building of a “Luas bridge” between Hawkins Street on the southside of Dublin with (cough cough) Hawkins Street on the northside. The theory goes that this would carry the Luas between the red and green lines (aka Luas line BX).
Now, a bridge was announced previously for the [...]

Cash Saved To Be Apparently Used To Build Motorways
Future generations are going to look back and wonder a lot of things about post-boom Ireland. They’re going to wonder about the billions wasted on consultants and reports, reports on consultant reports and inquiries into why a tribunal was set up into the cost of consultant reports. [...]

Seamus Brennan’s plans are flawed, they display a total ignorance of how an economy functions and they are doomed to failure, costing taxpayers an awful lot of money in the process. We would like to take this opportunity to explain his plans and why they cannot work.
The minister proposes to build the metro plan favoured [...]

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 [...]

From iol.ie:
The company awarded the contract to operate the LUAS system in Dublin has been stripped of a multi-billion pound rail franchise in Britain.
French firm Connex, which operated trains in south-east England, lost the franchise after failing to meet targets for improving its service.
The company’s heavy dependence on subsidies from the British taxpayer was also [...]

From ireland.com
At a meeting with Government ministers, the newly created Rail Procurement Agency (RPA) has been given permission to establish a competition with a view to appointing a company that will build, operate and finance the new system.
The 70km system, twelve to fourteen kilometres of which will be underground, is expected to eventually carry over [...]