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1. Article · Aug 11, 2026 · Garry Miley

   Garry Miley: Cork City's light rail is not a national project — it should be decided locally (opens the original)

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   Last month, the Government announced a list of infrastructure projects that it intends to fast-track under the new Critical Infrastructure Act. The Cork Area Commuter Rail Programme is among them. Should Cork be pleased? Certainly. Should it be rejoicing? No, not really. Let me explain. A crude but useful analogy is to think of the Irish planning system as an animal skeleton. Dublin is the skull. Villages are the finger bones. Cork is perhaps a rib close to the heart. Each component has a pred

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2. Article · Jul 7, 2026 · Garry Miley

   Cork has Ireland's best city centre, but needs to avoid making the same bad decisions as Dublin (opens the original)

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   At the Irish Examiner's Future Cork event last February, the Metropole itself could barely contain the exuberance. Because on that day, by some real metric that everyone could sense but no one could quite put their finger on, Cork had officially surpassed Dublin. Not by size. Dublin has the highest population (at least 2.5 times Cork's, whichever way you draw the boundaries), the biggest economy and the largest air and sea ports. It is the centre of most media and the hive of the chattering clas

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