Build it but will they come?
The passanger figures can be failr easily ascertained by someone standing there on a morning and counting.
According to the IE website todays trains are as follows:
707, 734, 802, 1032, 1546, 1813, 1946.
Departures from Portlaoise are:
645, 715, 724, 741, 807, (I'll stick to early morning commuter)
3 from Monastereven, 5 from Portlaosie. Given the respective sizes in population I'd say that's fair enough. When I lived in Maynooth in the late 90's early 00's there was a compartive service and even then the population of Maynooth was bigger than monesterevin, which also has an hourly bus service.
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