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Unread 16-02-2009, 20:03   #1
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Default [16-02-2009] Morning Ireland - Navan Railway Piece

Anyone else hear this, this morning?

Around 7:20am, nice soft focus piece from RTE on the Navan railway.

Interview with Barry Kenny, the minister and a vox pop around Navan.

No mention of sewer lines, motorways in the way etc.
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Unread 16-02-2009, 20:20   #2
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http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0216/mor...92032,null,209
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Real probing in depth piece that. Is it any wonder the country is in the state it's in when RTE can't even do a proper news item on this fiasco.
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Real probing in depth piece that. Is it any wonder the country is in the state it's in when RTE can't even do a proper news item on this fiasco.
Having just seen a "news" item on 9 news encouraging people to pile back into the property market while the country goes down the swan with no advice other than from an estate agent, i'm not one bit surprised.
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Lazy piece. RTÉ only needs to go to Market Square in Navan to watch the double headers depart from 6am onwards to talk to commuters. You won't get them during the week in Navan Shopping Centre because they have been gone from the crack of dawn to work in Dublin. It's amazing how every such interview from the town seems to consist entirely of OAPs, or people that don't work in Dublin. On top of that, what might have been worth mentioning was that it was costed at €90m or so originally in 1998 and that price rose year after year to a dodgy total €450m in 2008 (which included billing AGAIN for rollingstock billed against Phase 1 circa €78m) and now RTÉ have inflated it themselves up to €600m! Never mind that land prices have collapsed which was the biggest cost attached to the project. Still, I don't think there is any real intention to deliver the line though I have to admit I am surprised that they actually seem to be progressing (in the loosest sense of the word) the project

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This is the second lazy piece on RTE in recent weeks on rail infrastucture, after Ecoeye's program on the WRC. I suppose its easier to be a road correpondent....
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