Weather watch

[James Howard]

Given that Limerick-Ennis has been closed intermittently for most of a month and from memory was closed for the guts of a month last year, that must put the viability of the WRC in serious doubt.

To me (struggling badly with delays on Sligo line for a month now) there appears to be little point in having a service if it is going to be closed or seriously delayed for a month each year.

It is quite normal for service to have a bad month in the autumn - it was much worse with leaf-slip on the old locomotive services but this year is taking the proverbial.