‘Health and safety’on the wrong track

IN recent years health and safety legislation has been called on more and more to explain away declining services from agencies that purport to serve the public.

Take a recent case that impinges on a good number of Waterford people.

For a start, I want to say I love travelling by train — it is comfortable, quick and very friendly to the environment. But almost every time I take the train to Dublin from Waterford, Iarnród Eireann conspires to do something new to diminish the pleasure.