The planned new Metro line in south Dublin will create a “Berlin Wall” severing communities, forcing people to use cars and creating urban blight, residents have warned.

A singing Taoiseach, samba drums, and a slightly antisocial socialist confronted bleary-eyed commuters at St Stephen’s Green Luas stop.

The Green party leader John Gormley has said Fine Gael and Labour are "home and dry" to be the two largest parties after the election tomorrow.

The 7.5km extension to the Green Luas line in Dublin is now fully operational.

Rail chiefs predicted today that 100 million passengers would be travelling on the train network when a new underground line through the heart of Dublin opens in 2015.