{"id":383710,"date":"2026-04-05T21:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383710\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T21:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:03:18","slug":"metrolink-officials-rushed-to-reassure-investors-as-project-director-sean-sweeney-headed-for-early-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383710\/","title":{"rendered":"Metrolink officials rushed to reassure investors as project director Sean Sweeney headed for early exit"},"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\">New Zealander had spoken of difficulties in getting firms to believe Ireland was serious about building a metro for Dublin\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sean Sweeney's sudden departure as MetroLink project manager came as a shock to many\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SN Sweeney 2.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)\">Sean Sweeney&#8217;s sudden departure as MetroLink project manager came as a shock to many<\/p>\n<p>Wayne O&#8217;Connor &amp; Maeve Sheehan<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/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)\">From the outset, MetroLink boss Sean Sweeney vowed to throw in the towel if he did not get the political support he needed to deliver the mammoth project.<\/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)\">\u201cIf my minister doesn\u2019t trust me, I would need to go,\u201d he told Niamh Horan last July in the Sunday Independent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealander had spoken of difficulties in getting firms to believe Ireland was serious about building a metro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,6134,29093,35727],"class_list":{"0":"post-383710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-maeve-sheehan","12":"tag-metrolink","13":"tag-wayne-oconnor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383710","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=383710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}