Eamon Ryan resigns before the General Election.

If you're a Green eggplant that might be how you imagined economics work.

The reality is airlines will not grow at Dublin. They will grow at Belfast and Manchester instead. Our rivals taking our dinner that we are giving them. They can't control their laughter at our stupidity. They are DELIGHTED. That will mean Job losses and higher fares in Dublin and permanently lost routes. Right now we are turning away routes.

Airlines will not remain in an airport they can't grow at. That means job losses and higher fares. That's inevitable.

You might be happy flying to Manchester to get a route. I don't think Irish passengers should accept that. For what? Climate? While we fcuk ourselves others are drooling at what we are throwing away to them.

The greens haven't collapsed recent governments even when there was overwhelming pressure to do so (remembering back to the last days of Cowen when they were trying to get dog breeding legislation through while the country went bankrupt).

I don't agree with many of their policies, the airport cap is dumb, they are all stick, no carrot, their energy policy is, scientifically, a mess (never looking at SMR, having a LNG depot, continuing to burn very dirty fuel rather than accept a path way through other, cleaner, fossil fuels).

Disagreeing with their policies is not the same as them being effective in government however.

And where is McHugh today?

Failed in the 2 elections she tried.

That would be like the really stupid shannon stopover again.

Well said Kermit. Also, I believe Emirates are chomping at the bit to do another Dubai/Dublin/Dubai daily. Also there has been talk ( albeit early stages ) of building a third terminal, which yes would increase numbers but also incoming money to line the government coffers.

But bah, just do our tiny little bit while the superpowers ( China, India etc ) grow and expand exponentially

Transport has been absolutely transformed over the last few years. He isn't to get credit for all of it in the same way he is not to blame for all of it.

Metro delay is not his fault and neither is the constant NIMBY crying over Busconnects.

But there has been frequency and capacity increases all over the country and local and rural link have put 100s of routes in places never had them before. Leap card and card payment also expanded to the now more accessible national bus/coach fleet. Loads of stations finally getting upgrades including marquee stations like Limerick, Galway and Waterford.

And it is 1000% correct that sport and tourism should be split from transport. Transport is one of the most important things in the country and has nothing to do with the other 2. Tourism is also a huge industry that deserves more respect than being lumped in with other stuff.

You understand it with what they have done surely?
Micheal should never have brought them in.

It was residents of Ranelagh which scuppered the Metro south plans unfortunately.

I think they'll revisit it though in future.

I think they just wanted to get the project through and took the hit.

Ideally the Metrolink should go from Sandyford to Donabate.

ABP is slowing though most things. DART+ is a good project but has been stuck there for 2 years plus I think.

Ah sure if we had elected Peter Casey, that problem would have been off the table ( he wanted to abolish ABP )🙄🤣

I may be getting on a bit but I do recall Pauline O`Reilly chair of the Green Party, Seanad member and Green Party spokesperson for Education and Higher Education saying on RTE radio that she favoured the greens collapsing the government if they didn`t get their way on culling cattle. A idological policy of the Irish Greens that would not matter one iota to global emissions.

Not that it did them any good in the recent local and E.U. elections and O`Reilly in particular. Her first preference vote was just 18 votes higher than the headcase John Waters and over 7,000 votes lower in another headcase Peter Casey. That is just embarassing.

That doesn`t mean they didn`t threaten do bring down this government. I believe some voted for the Green Party last GE thinking they were getting the previous Green Party that was in government. The opinion polls, and borne out by the recent local and E.U. elections, tend to show they weren`t long in seeing them otherwise.

I agree on the airport cap it`s dumb, and that they are all stick and no carrot, (while excise duty and taxes were reduced to aid households with rising bills due to Putin`s war, the greens still insisted on carbon taxes not being deferred) but their energy policy is more than just a scientific mess.

What they are proposing with this 37GW offshore plan is a financial albatross for the State. Not a figure in sight from them but from U.K. costings it would cost for just the offshore turbine capex alone €200 Billion and now Eamon Ryan has admitted that 25% of those turbines are not even technically possible. So there is no way that proposed plan will have us having carbon zero emissions by 2050, along with the penalties that will bring, it will not supply the demand eirgrid are predicting we will have by 2050. This from a prty that is supposedly so concerned over carbon emissions. But then their latest brainfart shows that they could care less about emissions. Importing wood from Brazil to be burned to generate electricity in a former peat burning plant in Offaly, and now 200,000 ton a year to be burned for the same in Killala in Mayo after being shipped to Killybegs in Donegal and then transported by road to Killala all on the pretence that the whole operation is carbon neutral where even their own green think tanks like Ember and the NSDC (Natural Resource Defence Council) have shown it to be worse than burning coal, the dirtiest of all fossil fuels. Culling cattle over methane emissions was nothing other than Irish Green Party ideology and would not reduce global emissions by one iota.

Each to their own, but I would not see any of that as an indication of them being effective in government

Carbon tax would be increased no matter who is in power - EU emissions targets mean carbon tax will continue to go up.

LOL. Did you actually listen to it yourself.

Pauline while doing the usual with politicians of not answering the question she was asked, still managed to make it clear that she was in favour of walking over an issue that would not make a blind bit of difference to the green party`s supposedly worries on emissions, but rather being nothing other than irish green ideology, or their bias against agriculture, pick whichever you wish.