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Kishoge Train Station, the 146th on the network, is due to open on 26 August. Iarnród Eireann

Kishoge Train Station, dormant since its construction in 2009, to open later this month

The station was completed in 2009 but the economic crash meant that it didn’t open.

KISHOGE TRAIN STATION, which has been dormant since its construction in 2009, is set to open later this month.

The station was completed in 2009 but due to the economic conditions of the time, it did not open.

Anticipated housing developments around the station were halted due to the economic crash and this in turn prevented the station from opening.

It will be the 146th station on the network and is due to open on 26 August.

Kishoge Train Station is located on the Portlaoise commuter line between Adamstown and Clondalkin Fonthill stations.

It will serve the communities of Clonburris, as well as existing communities in its hinterland.

The train station is also on the Heuston Commuter line and will be available for the DART+ South West service when it is completed.

Ahead of its opening, work was needed to provide a deep clean to the station that was completed 15 years ago.

Repair work also had to be carried out to the platforms and concourse, as well as upgrades to the mechanical and electrical equipment and to the lifts.

New signage also had to be installed.

Dublin Mid-West TD Mark Ward welcomed the announcement and said the redevelopment of the station is something he has been raising in the Dáil since he was elected.

However, Ward remarked that this is “not the first approximate date that I have received from the National Transport Authority”.

“Last year I was told that it would be open in Q2 of this year, a month previous to that I was told it would open in the Spring of this year,” said Ward.

He added that back in February 2023, he was informed that it would be in operation by the end of that year.

However, Ward acknowledged that this is the “first time that I have received a precise date, so I expect this to be the date that it opens”.

He said it will be a “vital transport link” and noted that the crash halted the opening of the station.

“We are now seeing the delivery of these homes in Clonburris and, rightfully, these new residents will have a train route into the city,” said Ward.

Meanwhile, Ward stated that the “next stage of this process is delivering affordable prices for our public transport”.

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    Mute Eileen Kelly
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    Dec 5th 2024, 6:56 PM

    The planned hotel is totally out of character for this historic street. I understand the area needs redevelopment but another box on box building is just awful. Pity the city planners have no concept of what could be achieved with a thought out plan and which would bring people in to this much neglected area of Dublin. I doubt any other planning authority would have allowed the destruction of such historic buildings from the “dutch billy houses” , the markets etc,. If this street were anywhere else, I think so much more effort would be put in to developing it as an upmarket , living and recreational area.

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    Mute Frank Mc Carthy
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    Dec 5th 2024, 7:02 PM

    @Eileen Kelly: 100% Eileen, The redevelopment and employment are great but that image of the proposed hotel….well, it’s kinda ‘meh’ being honest

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    Dec 5th 2024, 7:24 PM

    @Frank Mc Carthy: my god what a bluffer you are – your comment below “really great to see Harry Crosbie getting permission to build this much needed hotel”

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    Dec 5th 2024, 7:31 PM

    @Kevin Kerr: ?? Delighted to see this gentleman getting permission to build needed hotel ./ NOT too keen on the look of the proposed hotel ( if it’s like the picture)— surely a 1st year architecture student in UCC could come up with something more attractive?

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    Mute Kevin Kerr
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    Dec 5th 2024, 7:41 PM

    @Frank Mc Carthy: ah right yea, so you’re delighted for Harry that he got his planning permission, but you agree 100% that the building itself is “just awful”. Of course, these two statements were made to different people. As I said, you’re a bluffer

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    Dec 5th 2024, 7:46 PM

    @Kevin Kerr: surely it’ll look a wee bit more appealing/ attractive than what’s in the picture— it’s 2024, we can surely do better than a ‘box’ ?

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    Dec 5th 2024, 7:55 PM

    @Frank Mc Carthy: ah now come on, we’re not actually debating the merits of the application here (for the record, I think it’s an eyesore), it’s you being a troll and talking out both sides of your mouth

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    Dec 5th 2024, 8:46 PM

    Anything modern is going to be an eyesore. We need to to build more victorian red bricked terraced housing.
    Nobody says anything about bungalowitis. McMansions …
    Lost cause.

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    Mute Meh Meh
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    Dec 5th 2024, 9:02 PM

    @Eileen Kelly: I’d imagine Merrion Square Conservation Quarter would have something a lot nicer. Whereas Liberties, meh. Cork Street is more like the m50 nowadays. It’s all gone downhill since the Roads Windening Commission. Steamrolled. Unfortunately.

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    Dec 5th 2024, 9:05 PM

    @Frank Mc Carthy: SketchUp warehouse model. Free download. Like the EXO building was. I’m sorry to say it but, AI could design a lot better.

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    Mute Marc Power
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    Dec 6th 2024, 12:16 AM

    @Eileen Kelly: historic ?

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    Mute Donna Fallon
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    Dec 6th 2024, 1:05 AM

    @Eileen Kelly: Too true Eileen… The amount of hotels that have popped up in North Inner City Dublin too is kind of gross. Thinking of Dominic Street, Parnell Street and Liffey Street. Not exactly the ultimate tourist destinations to be fair not being a snob.

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    Dec 5th 2024, 6:34 PM

    Hopefully it will not get repurposed

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    Dec 5th 2024, 6:44 PM

    @Oh Mammy: hey William the pervy pervert

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    Dec 5th 2024, 7:36 PM

    @D. Peado: it was more fun thinking you jumped off a cliff in the aftermath of Madame Predidents humiliating defeat.

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    Dec 5th 2024, 7:51 PM

    @Oh Mammy: why do you keep shying away from your pedo conviction?

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    Dec 5th 2024, 8:32 PM

    @D. Peado: certainly showing your left wing credentials

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    Dec 5th 2024, 6:35 PM

    Not a great advertisement for newly elected SF TD Marie Devine.

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    Dec 5th 2024, 7:01 PM

    @Frank Mc Carthy:
    90% of Sinn Fein TDs are forbidden from given interviews or releasing social media posts by the Elders.
    You can see why.

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    Dec 5th 2024, 7:06 PM

    @H Woo: she’ll probably ger ‘invited’ to an interview after this shambles, lol

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    Dec 5th 2024, 8:03 PM

    @H Woo: Ha ha, more rubbish from the usual

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    Dec 5th 2024, 6:58 PM

    I have no issue with the modernisation of the city but I’m sick of god awful eyesores like this getting planning permission. It’s just so ugly

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    Dec 5th 2024, 9:37 PM

    @Mark Nolan: they’re like giant cardboard boxes. Definitely not in keeping with the local surroundings.

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    Dec 5th 2024, 8:06 PM

    Thomas street was proposed by Dublin City council and an taisce to be an ACA(architectural conservation area), it’s one of the few historic streets left in the capital, and among other things includes the oldest house in the city, number 130. This being good old Ireland though, everything is for sale. Developers paradise. At the very least build housing, but here we are with another hotel.

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    Dec 5th 2024, 6:35 PM

    Hahaha sinners TDs incompetentcy highlighted here. “The rules need to be revised” to suit me and my agenda. Comical toys out of the pram stuff.

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    Dec 5th 2024, 6:38 PM

    @Tomas O sullivan: kinda worse than that….’the rules need to be revised ‘ because I fxxded up big time & want another bite of the cherry

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    Dec 5th 2024, 6:48 PM

    @Frank Mc Carthy: nah, she accepts that it was a stupid mistake and that she has lost this particular battle – her hope for a rule change relates to any future appeals, not this particular one. That cherry you refer to has been eaten

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    Dec 5th 2024, 6:59 PM

    @Kevin Kerr: like yourself on that article about the beautiful school in Inchicore winning the architectural award, a simple apology & ‘hands up’ would have sufficed.
    Anyhow really great to see Harry Crosbie getting permission to build this much needed hotel & all the employment that creates

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    Dec 5th 2024, 7:02 PM

    @Tomas O sullivan:
    Rules need to be dumbed down more like.

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    Dec 5th 2024, 7:15 PM

    @Frank Mc Carthy: arguable, but that’s not what you said originally, far from it. As for the application itself, I don’t think a hotel is a priority for this particular community

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    Dec 5th 2024, 7:18 PM

    @Kevin Kerr: & What does the puppet master brenny say?

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    Dec 5th 2024, 7:27 PM

    @Frank Mc Carthy: give it up Frank/Kevvy – you’re a fraud

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    Dec 5th 2024, 7:34 PM

    @Kevin Kerr: seriously, does the 24/7 trolling satisfy you in some kinda way?

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    Mute Brian D'Arcy
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    Dec 5th 2024, 8:05 PM

    @H Woo: A bit like you?

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    Dec 5th 2024, 9:03 PM

    @Frank Mc Carthy: it satisfies you anyway.

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    Dec 5th 2024, 7:19 PM

    The area is zombie land and in need of a lot of redevelopment to attract in people that would be role modals for the local kids, Employed people that will keep shops and restaurants open, people with skills to be of benifits to the local area. For to long the area has being infested with inafective hard left wasters. sorry I mean community activists, not interested in improving the lot of the locals just brainwashing them with victimhood and dispare.
    Having said that the proposed hotel is just another ugly red brick building, needs a modern outer cladding.

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    Dec 5th 2024, 9:32 PM

    Will end up as a wet hostel or asylum seeker accommodation at some point. Harry makes money regardless but the locals take the pain. No locals demonstrating or putting up objections though, do they not care at all?

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    Dec 6th 2024, 10:30 AM

    @Mr “JonnieBoy” Johnson: you don’t know what your talking about .evey second shop on meath street had posters in the shop windows demonstrating about this hotel.

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    Dec 6th 2024, 10:13 PM

    @Mr “JonnieBoy” Johnson:
    Might welcome it.
    Last thing the locals need is middleclass do gooders turning up and telling the locals what’s best for them.

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    Dec 5th 2024, 10:45 PM

    An here, Thomas St is not derelict when Vicar St is closed – Crosbie is completely waffling.

    It’s a pity the design of the hotel is so austere looking. A lot of buildings like that going up on the area.

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    Dec 5th 2024, 9:41 PM

    Ffs there’s enough hotels its houses that we need janey mack!!!!

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    Dec 5th 2024, 9:13 PM

    What’s more of an eyesore are all of Maire Devine’s election posters still zip tied to every lamppost all along the length of Thomas St and James’ St and surrounds….a week after the election…when most others have taken theirs down.

    If Cole Devine is so concerned about how the area looks…well ‘nuff said..

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    Dec 5th 2024, 9:14 PM

    @UK Hurling Bloke: *Cllr

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    Dec 6th 2024, 12:16 AM

    Another ugly, unimaginative squat box to pollute the Dublin urban environment. Do architects in this county have imagination bypasses to qualify?

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    Mute Stellahickey27@icloud.com
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    Dec 5th 2024, 8:24 PM

    Harry Crosbie has done the city proud to date and I cannot see him doing anything but building a great addition to the City

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    Dec 5th 2024, 9:57 PM

    @Stellahickey27@icloud.com: Spot on comment!

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    Dec 5th 2024, 8:03 PM

    Dublin needs to be Bulldozed and started again.

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    Dec 5th 2024, 11:09 PM

    Another hotel. Ffs. When will it end

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    Dec 5th 2024, 6:38 PM

    SO, it was a lone wolf SF councillor who objected , wonder how many more of them do this, they have form too.

    And her to admit her mistake was stupid perhaps adds credibility to the election results?

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    Dec 5th 2024, 7:03 PM

    @Paul O’Mahoney: wha?

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    Dec 5th 2024, 7:26 PM

    @Pork Hunt: You still haven’t learnt to spell but you’re getting closer….well done

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    Dec 6th 2024, 7:32 AM

    Something with more character and tradition would be more appropriate for Dublin. They look to towns in the uk, they have buildings that are in keeping with the surroundings. They don’t just fire up some prefab style build in amongst old style streets and buildings. We on the other hand always run with overpriced cheap crap!

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    Dec 5th 2024, 9:54 PM

    Oh that is the funniest article I have read here in tears. Back to school for the poor objector and good luck Harry with the project!!!!!

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    Dec 5th 2024, 8:09 PM

    Will the theatre be incorporated into the new development ?

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    Dec 6th 2024, 1:12 PM

    Let’s green-light a brown, brutalist, eyesore of a building that looks like a shoebox, that is completely out of keeping with the surrounding area and visually clashes with a grey old church nearby. Dublin is full of such ugly buildings. Why can we not do new buildings and infrastructural projects like other modern European countries? Is it our poor, agricultural background? Or just plain old incompetence?

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    Dec 5th 2024, 9:21 PM

    Great to see the total incompetence of this Sinn Fein TD totally ignored in favour of focusing on the architectural merits or demerits. Bufoon.

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    Dec 6th 2024, 1:12 PM

    Well done Harry Crosbie for in a small way dragging the kip of an area in to the 21st century, Dublin is the most run down shit hole so called city in Europe, North Korea has better Infrastructure, a minority of the usual stupid objectors always trying to block badly needed modernization, no wonder 70.000 thousand young people emigrate from this country each year to countries with modern cities and 21st century infrastructure, eg an underground rail system that is built no 40years talking about it being built

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    Dec 6th 2024, 8:25 AM

    I see someone sent A letter BP ABD they want to be in Government

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