Hybrid workers in Leitrim regularly use the train

The Sligo Dublin service needs to be included as part of the public consultation on new services across the rail network that has “excluded the Dublin Sligo rail line,” Cllr Enda McGloin said at a recent meeting.

He called on the Council to “formally call on Iarnród Éireann to include the Sligo-Dublin route and examine additional commuter trains and extra services from Carrick-on- Shannon/Dromod and Longford to ensure this section of the country gets a similar rail commuter service to other regions.”

Cllr McGloin said there was no mention of increasing journeys from Dromod and Carrick-on-Shannon and asked the council to make a submission calling on Irish Rail to “ensure this section gets similar rail commuter service to Sligo from a student point of view but also to Dublin that other services seem to be offered in this particular public consultation. There's no mention of the Dublin Sligo rail line,” he stressed, saying the service shouldn't be “ignored.”

He said many people in the area engage in “hybrid working” e.g work in Dublin, but work from home maybe three days a week, “so they use the rail network a lot.”

He was supported by all his fellow members.