After months of waiting, grating and anticipating the new parking at Naas & Sallins rail station finally opened this week. The facility is part of the overall complex in the Waterways which includes a supermarket and apartments but the underground piece is exclusively for rail users. The old car parks on both sides of the [...]
NASRUG (Naas and Sallins Rail Users Group) is a commuter lobby group serving the users of Naas and Sallins railway station. A strong advocate of public transport, and a daily commuter to Dublin myself, I have been involved with the group since its inception.
We lobby on a number of matters but primarily on timetable changes, [...]
The biggest headline in today’s budget was probably the reform of stamp duty and it seems to have drawn generally favourable reviews. Certainly the estate agents were happy as they expect the market to recover in the new year as a result and stimulate activity in what had been a dead calm for some months.
As [...]
Looks like the Minister has managed another crowd pleaser under challenging economic circumstances in his hot off the press 2008 budget..
Something for everyone and enough to go around – generous social welfare increases, increased income tax reliefs, ploughing ahead with capital spending, a review of stamp duty that simplifies and makes the market more equitable, [...]
Budget 2008 will be presented on Wednesday and for political anoraks there’s something terribly satisfying about the fact that Minister Cowen has restored the hallowed nature of the occasion and the air of revelation and expectation that surrounds it. In recent years the ceremony of budget day had begun to diminish as the month long [...]