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Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail) - The national provider of rail and related services in Ireland, including Intercity, DART (Dublin electric suburban) and other suburban services and the Rosslare Europort. Information covers planning a journey (including timetables), checking fares, corporate reporting and education.
Irish Railway Record Society - Journal, articles, programme, history, news and membership details for this organisation of Irish rail enthusiasts.
Irish Traction Group - Aims, work, picture galleries, stock details and tour outline are provided by this all-Ireland engine-preservation group.
Irish Railway News - Current and archived editions of this journal, along with photo galleries, a message board and links.
Railway Procurement Agency - Special State authority provides information on its development of Dublin’s LUAS tram system, plans for integrated ticketing and a heqavy rail metro, policies, procurement and career opportunities.
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We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun Railways Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundre It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous Railways Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Railways "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire Railways In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I Railways The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana Railways It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm Railways The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. -- Socrates Railways The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody Railways The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown Railways Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde Railways There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev "Are you bored with life? 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