Britain makes a beeline for insect recovery

Rail is a reliable way of getting goods to customers and ‘is right for the business, for sustainability and for servicing our customers better every day’, Tesco said when the supermarket chain and Direct Rail Services celebrated 20 years of the movement of the company’s goods by train. Tony Miles reports from Daventry International Rail…

Labour’s transport spokesperson, Ciarán Ahern, said public transport users would be feeling “let down”.

Labour’s transport spokesperson, Ciarán Ahern, said public transport users would be feeling “let down”.

Western Rail Corridor campaigners have said that the move towards a greenway on the disused railway track is an “appalling mistake”

A number of MEPs have confirmed their support for the completion of the Western Rail Corridor to Sligo.

A NUMBER of MEPs have confirmed their support for the completion of the Western Rail Corridor to Sligo.

Rates of peat burning have dropped to less than a sixth of what it was in 2010.

West-on-Track campaigner met with MEPs in Brussels to reaffirm the commitment for the Western Rail Corridor from Mayo to Sligo

Tanaiste Simon Harris has told the Dail a proposed greenway – cycle lane development along part of the disused rail line between Claremorris and Sligo will be adjacent to the tracks, and won’t affect ...

A Mayo councillor claims that it's common knowledge that Taoiseach Micheál Martin instructed Irish Rail to reverse a decision which now leads to allowing the pr...

There is a growing and understanding sense of frustration that Sligo and the region is being left behind because of the failure of government to address issues relating to the rail service and infrast...

A report that the railway from Collooney to Bellaghy/Charlestown may be ripped up and replaced by a cycle path beggars belief, according to a statement by West on Track, the organisation heading the c...

Minister tells Seanad that pre-construction work is under way on major rail project linking Mayo with Galway

The report also found the number of primary teachers in Ireland increased by 27 per cent over the last seven years, which is much higher than the OECD average

Tanaiste Simon Harris has told the Dail a proposed greenway – cycle lane development along part of the disused rail line between Claremorris and Sligo will be adjacent to the tracks, and won’t affect ...

‘Almost perverse’ measure conflicts with aim to transfer freight movements to rail, says John Smith of GB Railfreight

We need a better way.

Sullenberger landed a disabled passenger plane safely in the Hudson River in 2009 without any loss of life

Instead of sending staff to walk the tracks and inspect them by eye, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) uses specially equipped diagnostic trains and artificial

A Sligo based Junior Minister has hit back at criticism levelled at local Government TDs over their stance on the future of the Western Rail track from Colloo...

ON Septem­ber 8, Iarnród Éir­eann green­lit the pro­posed Gre­en­way from Col­looney to Bel­laghy by licens­ing out the dis­used rail­way. While the news drew sup­port from many, oth­ers felt it would...

Campaigners say plan marks notable shift away from oil and gas as previously pledges were only for carbon neutrality

‘They left us with nothing,’ says owner of olive grove in West Bank

Councillors voice strong opposition to Sligo greenway plan - news - Western People

After years of calling for greater political support, rail is entering a period of increased investment, with many European governments placing the sector at the centre of wider policy priorities. Yet speakers at the InnoTrans Rail Leaders Summit warned that the harder challenge now is turning political ambition and funding into a railway that works.…

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