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Originally Posted by eoin
While people who take an interest in rail transport have known about this for a very long time, the public at large has not. I had to rely on Platform 11 and Wikipedia to educate myself on what the Interconnector is. Iarnród Éireann have never bigged it up before now, and maybe if they had it would have been an election issue (even if only a minor one). Even when Transport 21 was announced, all of the media focus was on Metros and Western road and rail. There was a sense that the interconnector was secondary.
The name "interconnector" means nothing to the average member of the public. IÉ have been very clever today in renaming it DART Underground for PR purposes, and by spelling out exactly what it will mean. Hopefully now the public will get behind it.
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It was on the 9pm RTE news that night in 2004, remember it well. It cropped up last year this time it made the 6pm and 9pm RTE news
If anything the interconnector has had more media coverage that metro in recent years