Unofficial rail dispute - This strike must not go nationwide

THERE is a long and unhappy history of poor industrial relations at Iarnród Éireann.

No issue seems too petty not to fight over, no agreement is worth the paper it’s written on until its strictures are tested to the very limits of the protagonists’ imaginations.

For a while yesterday this sad situation seemed set to deteriorate with the prospect of the train strike in the south spreading nationwide. If that had happened Dublin’s commuter services, including DART, would have been hit.