Bertie’s fast-track approach is sending the country off the rails
Yet I'm sure many people will share what for me is one of those annoyances the frequent sight of the abandoned and derelict fragments of our once extensive railway system.
That these remaining (and now near useless) fragments are silent, compelling evidence of the engineering ingenuity and the hard labour that Irishmen put themselves to in order to provide a system of communication arteries for their country makes the subsequent govern-mental (and I do mean govern-mental) decision to discard and destroy such a system all the more galling. However, I can console myself that such dreadful errors of strategic thought and action by government are now in the realm of history.
