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Western Rail Corridor will cost more than €154 million – Eamon Ryan

MINISTER for the Environment Eamon Ryan has suggested that the Western Rail Corridor will cost more than the previously estimated cost of €154 million. Minister Ryan re-affirmed his support for reopening the Claremorris-Athenry railway but said it ...

14 Jul 2023 at 08:58

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Report to recommend reopening of Western Rail Corridor as part of Atlantic 'railway spine'

A MAJOR report into the future of rail is set to recommend the reopening of the Western Rail Corridor between Athenry and Claremorris. According to the Irish Times, the Island Strategic Rail Review is expected to recommend that the line be ...

24 Jul 2023 at 14:59

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West on Track welcomes recommendation in rail review to re-open Mayo-Galway rail link

West on Track has warmly welcomed the news that the Mayo-Galway railway has been recommended for re-opening in the draft report of the first All-Island Strategic Rail Review, which Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan will bring to Cabinet ...

25 Jul 2023 at 13:43

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Irish Rail support keeping Claremorris to Collooney line for rail traffic only

The Chair of the Western Inter-County Railway Committee has welcomed comments from the Chief Executive of Iarnród Éireann that the Claremorris to Collooney line will remain for rail traffic and ‘not for anything else’. The Chief ...

26 Jan 2024 at 17:00

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‘WRC will be Fr Michéal’s legacy’ - Ó Cuív

CAMPAIGNER Western Rail Corridor campaigner Fr MicheΡl Mac Gréil speaking to the press at Claremorris Train Station in 2007 following the announcement that the Western Rail Corridor was going to be extended to Claremorris by ...

25 Jan 2023 at 15:25

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West-on-Track claims

West-on-Track claim insidious campaign afoot to derail project Michael Commins WEST-on-Track representatives are reacting with fury to what they perceive as an ‘insidious campaign’ by outside commentators to undermine the ...

07 Oct 2008 at 12:08

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‘Everyone needs to get behind this’

URGENCY NEEDED Rose Conway Walsh believes the need for the Western Rail Corridor has never been more obvious. Conway-Walsh calls for cross-party support on WRC Michael Gallagher The need for the Western Rail Corridor has ...

06 Jul 2022 at 09:23

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Campaigners confident Western Rail Corridor will come to Mayo

Campaigners confident WRC will come to Mayo in near future Michael Commins IF Johnny Cash was still around, he could well have launched into “I hear that train a comin” yesterday. For all associated with the West on ...

30 Mar 2010 at 06:15

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Calls for rail link to Mayo as Galway to Limerick service opens

Calls for rail corridor into Mayo continue as Galway to Limerick service opens Michael Commins THE first passenger train service between Galway and Limerick in 30 years will commence next Monday, March 29. It will ...

23 Mar 2010 at 12:21

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Cross party support for Western Rail Corridor in Dáil debate

SEEKING BALANCED REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Tabling a DΡil motion on the issue, Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh said successive governments have ‘failed rural Ireland’ by failing to negecting to extend the Western Rail ...

16 Nov 2021 at 12:15

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NWRA backs Western Rail Corridor

Pic: Irish Rail Edwin McGreal Extending the Western Rail Corridor from Athenry to Tuam, onto Claremorris and onto Sligo is a key objective of the Northern and Western Regional Assembly (NWRA). They ...

23 Jun 2020 at 10:00

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Candidates commit to Western Rail Corridor

A LONG CAMPAIGN Jonathan Healy, Kiltimagh was pictured on the tracks at Kiltimagh Train Station during a visit to stations proposed for the Western Rail Corridor by then Minister, Seamus Brennan, ...

28 Jan 2020 at 12:32

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