Sorry but the records demonstrate just how much EU money has gone into Iarnród Éireann.

I suspect, like many situations in the UK, much more attention is paid to the needs of the capital city than the outlying regions.

The UK too has had potentially and actual fatalities as a result of poor rail management/maintenance but I wouldn't lay these at the doors of the EU!

I'm well aware that the Premier Line by rail from Dublin to Cork is, and always has been in the 30 years plus I've been a regular visitor to friends in the West Cork area, via Limerick Junction.
I think a truly major operation would be required to change this route which has been in operation since the middle of the C19th and upgraded to continuous welded rail since 1977; a bit like rerouting all the West Coast UK line away from Crewe!

Nothing whatsoever to do with the EU, but the apparent incompetance of some authorities in the West never ceases to amaze me; how's the Skibbereen Sewage fiasco going?