Lines crossed for commuter train timetable

IT was supposed to be about connectivity – but Iarnród Éireann has its lines crossed again.

Unfortunately, the planned new Cork-Midleton train timetable – launched last week in a blaze of photograbbing opportunism by Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey – isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

On Monday week last, the minister produced the timetable but, farcically, couldn’t say exactly when the €75 million service would start.