{"id":276068,"date":"2026-02-01T23:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/276068\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T23:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:30:17","slug":"the-trains-are-late-again-but-new-irish-rail-ceo-needs-cash-for-a-21st-century-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/276068\/","title":{"rendered":"The trains are late again, but new Irish Rail CEO needs cash for a 21st-century infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nA lack of funding holds back the rail network, says Mary Considine\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mary Considine of Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann, below the Dargan portrait. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ef2355ea-3514-4028-9563-c4e3a0bd3cf8.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Mary Considine of Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann, below the Dargan portrait. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">If Mary Considine fulfils the ambitions she has inherited in her new role in Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann, it will arguably involve the biggest improvement in Ireland\u2019s railway since the days of the master engineer William Dargan, the father of the Irish railways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Clare woman says she is up for the challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lack of funding holds back the rail network, says Mary Considine Mary Considine of Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann, below&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,84468,10725,25746,4478,6353,10969,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-276068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cie","10":"tag-daa","11":"tag-darragh-obrien","12":"tag-dart","13":"tag-fearghal-oconnor","14":"tag-iarnrod-eireann-irish-rail","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}