Its true, we’re not the same as France. In France there would have been riots on the streets and these lads would have been thrown out of Leinster House years ago.

The ban in France only applies when their is a rail alternative for the journey

Easy to ban flights in France as the air traffic controllers are usual on strike every other day.

A study by Sweden’s Linnaeus University found only 11% of the world’s population took a commercial flight in 2018 and just 4% of those journeys were overseas, and the frequent flyers who comprise just 1% of the world’s population generate half of the global aviation industry’s carbon emissions. Six thousand private jets used Irish airports last year the busiest route being between Dublin and London and they paid zero tax on aviation fuel while the government just increased excise duty on fuel for the rest of us to drive our cars. Dublin Airport was found to be the most polluting facility in Ireland by Climate Trace, but are planning to expand by millions of passengers per year. We only seem to be in a climate crisis when it suits the government or maybe it’s just easier to blame the cows.

Well with surplus 14 billion in Corp Tax, could be used for large capital projects like high speed trains in Ireland , or at last a metrô or tram to the airport and west Dublin and a circle line, around the city.

Read as… Don’t be asking for great rail connections….

Try driving to kerry or donegal from dublin. Faster to fly as you refuse to build motorways to every part of the country

Slowly slowly catch the monkey. These climate change numbskulls (with their Trojan horse agenda) won’t be happy till we are back in the dark ages

“building trains for 100 years”… in 100 years we tore up more than we built. We’re sort of reasonably well educated peasants really.

Read as. Ban on domestic flights is going to be implemented.
Varadkar says..
in fairness. We are a small country where you are never really more than a 5 hour drive from one point to another maximum. Unless you fell for the EV con job. Then you’ll have to stop to charge your car after a couple of hundred kilometres.

Perhaps Martin could contribute the money left in a will to FF to enhance our public transport system to the same grade as France. Last time a political party received money left to them in a will Martin and Varadkar went ape shit.

He says that now,but if the Greens want it, they will get it. Just like the return of excise on petrol and diesel the other day.

So we have started building high speed trains now then?

Yeah, I spend my waking hours being concerned about what ‘ An Taoiseach ‘ tinks.

We do need our domestic flights, so glad Varadkar has finally said something that I can agree with.
We aren’t the only small European country with domestic flights either, Iceland, Norway, Sweden have them too.
We are always looking at France, Germany and Britain to see what they’re doing while the Nordic countries are more in line with us, geographically and demographically.
Domestic flights should continue. In fact, we could probably be doing with more too, like Dublin – Aran Islands, Cork – Belfast.
I’m saying that…our rail infrastructure is a joke. Two congested lines, Dublin – Cork and Dublin to Belfast with a few feeder lines from the west essentially.
A country like Ireland could easily have high speed lines. Atleast connecting our major cities like Cork, Belfast, Dublin and Galway. I always find it funny that countries that our actually not as wealthy as us, can have some of the worlds best transportation infrastructure.
Even Kyiv has a metro.
Why can’t we??

We have almost no domestic flights on routes which can be done by train inside 2.5 hours.

Of course we’re not.

France has working healthcare, ample housing, a functioning education system, more than one party rule for the last 100+ years, national puic transport, etc.

Varadkar has no mandate to be in charge. Klaus’s puppet would have went into coalition with the devil to make sure he stayed in power. He was voted out of office remember but there he is.

LOLing that anyone thinks Varadkar gives a sh!t about rural Ireland.

Hardly worth a comment ffs

Wasn’t it Mary Harney that took the Government jet to fly up the country to open an off license for a friend of hers ?
And DIck spring, who used Government jet to fly down the country to go home ?
Doesn’t Eamon Ryan fly Business class, even though the carbon footprint for first class travel is far higher (he claims he has to use first class as he is working while travelling, which might explain why he falls asleep in the Dail Chambers every now and then). Maybe grab 40 winks on you flights Eamon, you might stay awake then for important discussions and debates in the Dail.
I know a guy that got a verbal warning in work for falling asleep in his office job at his desk.
But there ya are, one rule for them, one rule for us common folk.

The trains here are not good. The enterprise to Belfast is so slow. It takes well over two hours and crawls along for most of the trip. That journey time should be cut in half. Same for lines to Cork and other areas. When it’d just as fast or sometimes faster to drive what’s the point? The train isn’t cheap either.

It’s frustrating every post on the Journal always has some reference to voting for The same Policital party’s All the time.Yet when it’s a general election only something like 60+% of people that are lucky to have a vote,do.
Please vote next time, otherwise, Shut up.

Varadkar says, he has no mandate to be in charge. Klaus’s puppet would went into government