Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan has launched an all-island Strategic Rail Review which will consider expanding train networks to connect cities and regions across the island. To discuss the idea further we heard from  Dermot O'Leary, General Secretary of the National Bus and Rail Union and Conor Skehan Former chair of the Housing Agency and Lecturer in Planning at Technological University Dublin.

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