{"id":406396,"date":"2026-04-19T09:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T09:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406396\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T09:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T09:15:16","slug":"these-things-confuse-me-internal-emails-reveal-outgoing-metrolink-chiefs-frustrations-with-red-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406396\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018These things confuse me\u2019 \u2013 Internal emails reveal outgoing MetroLink chief\u2019s frustrations with red tape"},"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\">Se\u00e1n Sweeney cited personal reasons for decision to leave the role\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Programme director of MetroLink Se\u00e1n Sweeney. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GM Sean Sweeney 004.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)\">Programme director of MetroLink Se\u00e1n Sweeney. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/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)\">Internal emails show how the outgoing MetroLink programme director was frustrated by layers of bureaucracy associated with aspects of the 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)\">Se\u00e1n Sweeney is due to leave the role, which carried a \u20ac550,000 salary, at the end of June, after serving a three-month notice period. He announced his resignation earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Se\u00e1n Sweeney cited personal reasons for decision to leave the role Programme director of MetroLink Se\u00e1n Sweeney. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,25746,61,60,29093,35727],"class_list":{"0":"post-406396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-darragh-obrien","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-metrolink","13":"tag-wayne-oconnor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406396","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=406396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}