The MetroLink, planned since 2000 ... has consumed €200 million of public money
Amateurs, the UK's HS2 is estimated to cost £100 billion
Actually worst-run European nations would be, what, probably Hungary if you're only counting EU and Russia if you're not limited to EU?
There are worse things than expensively and slowly upgrading a station. Such as not doing that even though it will obviously be needed by, at latest, 2028 or so.
(I _think_ maybe Irish Rail's rationale is that people on the western and south-western commuter lines will transfer to Metrolink a few stations before Connolly, but see above; Metrolink stubbornly persists in not existing.)
ireland, like all independent african states, doesn’t know what statehood is, its people (aka elite) not practiced in statecraft. but its the configuration of the world that they also get a god-given right to atrociously run and mismanage some god-given resources. it’s a terrible thing to experience from within. a nightmare!