Episode 7: Why can’t you take a train to Donegal? With Alan Fernihough

Andrew and Lloyd were stuck on Irish trains recently, and wondered why the Irish rail system has such a bad reputation. We sat down with Alan Fernihough (Queen’s University Belfast) to discuss the history of Irish rail transport and answer once and for all why there is no train to Donegal.

Link to paper: https://ceph.ie/article-re/transport-infrastructure-and-the-irish-economy/

Link to map: https://ceph.ie/data-set/data-set-1/