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The MetroLink plan for Dublin city centre “should concern us all”, environment journalist Frank McDonald has said. The project describes itself as a ...

“The outlandish cost - due to ‘unknown unknowns’ as the planners put it - could reach €23 billion which is really just off the scale in terms of the cost of public projects in this country.” “I just don’t think that the media revealed that this is part of the consequences of pursuing this scheme.” “The baseline figure is basically €9.5 billion for a 19km line - most of which is going to run in a bored tunnel beneath the ground. “The east side of the Green is going to be the location within the park itself of the MetroLink station,” he said. “That will require the displacement of the Wolfe Tone memorial right on the corner of the Green there. The project describes itself as a “transformative” piece of infrastructure that will link Swords with the city centre and construction work is