Dublin’s planned new metro system will need about 8,000 workers to construct. Photograph: metrolink.ie
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The total size of the Defence Forces is about 7,500 personnel. Yesterday, the Oireachtas transport committee was told that Dublin’s planned new metro system will need about 8,000 workers to construct: so, it’s no exaggeration to say that - at least in an Irish context - it will need an army of workers.
The mind-bending scale of the MetroLink, which is the focus of our lead story today is beginning to reveal itself, bit-by-bit. And, for a country with a dismal recent record in delivery and state capacity, it is dauntingly huge.
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