There are bags of spare platform capacity at Connolly - the terminal platforms are not heavily used.
I don't accept that a few trains in either direction from Connolly towards Drumcondra couldn't be accommodated without impacting on other services.
A service could be provided from Belfast to Cork supplementing the existing timetable (there are huge holes in the service on the Belfast route) and generating modest additional and potentially high revenue business. Prospects of anything happening in the near future are virtually nil as the various bodies concerned (particularly in the Republic) have zero interest in developing intercity traffic on the Belfast line as it is seen as a potential obstacle to DART expansion.
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