Scenery between Castlebar and Westport onboard the 09.08 Athlone-Westport train 🚆 on 20.3.2023 

Living in Manchester U.K. 23 years and being originally from Rural Ireland (Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath) myself, I’m most impressed by the high quality of Irish Rail’s trains in comparison to the U.K. - I eagerly look forward to the extension of the M3 Parkway line to Navan - in terms of rail expansion, as opposed to SailRail via Holyhead on TfW or Avanti Trains Wales, aside from a LUAS trams link from Dublin Port into Dublin City Centre, I also look forward to the high speed rail tunnel under the Irish Sea from Holyhead to Dublin - I personally dislike Bus Éireann’s and National Express Eurolines coaches - it is also very clear that the Irish government and Irish Rail are learning the lessons of the failure of the U.K.’s privatisation of the railways and most recently the failure of HS2