RTÉ Radio 1 news (the bulletin on air right now, the midnight news) has the new station opening as the LEAD STORY. Isn't this all a little disproportionate? Yes, the new services are great, and yes it's great that there's a functioning passenger station in an area that needs it (let's ignore that whole demolish-in-ten-years thing for a moment, mmkay?), and yes it's good to see it come in without too much trauma over time and money..and even, it's cool that that bit of rail track along the canal is being used while we think of where to put new bits of track. And sometime this week I'll go and have a look around it and maybe even hop on a train to Broombridge and back.
But seriously. It's hardly a high-speed electric line from Dublin to Cork with 15-minute service. And yet RTÉ are awfully excited. Are our expectations this low?
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