Taoiseach needs to realise rail is the future

Reports regarding the increase in passengers on the Galway-Limerick rail route in recent months are refreshing.

By contrast, the Taoiseach’s recent comments on the future of the Western Rail Corridor can only be seen as a catastrophic failure of imagination.

Is he unaware that rail freight from Ballina is making an increasingly significant contribution to Iarnród Éireann and Ireland’s recovery?