It's not a bad journey from Euston to Dublin nowadays, a month ago I got a t 11.45am train & was in Dublin port at 19.00 with the fast ferry for £52.00 return pay on the day fare. There's still plenty of passengers from N England Wales & the Midlands going the Dublin ferry routes.
By the time I would have got a train from central London to Stanstead & waiting about at the airport & travelling into Dublin city from the airport I doubt that it would have been much faster? Plus I don't get on planes unless I really have
to for much longer trips abroad. If I'm travelling to Western Europe I get the Eurostar over connecting with the high speed services. Usually the plane is very expensive if you book late so rail can still be much cheaper.
Waterford airport fares are very expensive, so I have in the past usually got the train & ferry to SE Ireland although the trains times don't seem to meet up with the fast ferry on the Rosslare route
And it is a much longer journey. I think in most cases in the future I would just get the Dublin fast ferry & meet up with friends in Dublin & get a train to Waterford or Wexford later on .
I was talking generally about the expanding Kilkenny side of the river regarding stations & transport links as I've read that some more of the area is up for redevelopment, it would be a long way into the future sometime after the new river bridge / city bypass is built at least before anything happens.
Friend of mine living in Helsinki for 11 years tells me that the nearby airport rail link took 5 years to build from inception, being from Cavan he's saying that the Navan rail link has been talked about for much longer & doubts if it will be built even in the time scale currently being mentioned
Would like to see Waterford win Liam & I think they have a good chance if they get used to Croker, would be cheering for the Yellowbellies as family is from SW Wexford first though! Hoping to be over for the Leinster semi against the Dubs if time permits.