"Ireland could have easily been mourning its worst rail disaster last month when the cross-border Dublin-Belfast rail line fell into the sea near Malahide last month.

This week, senior Irish Rail executives stand accused of playing with thousands of people's lives by not closing the busy rail line when safety concerns were raised five days prior to its collapse."

I was in Dublin when this happened, and I distinctly remember that the big scandal had to do with the fact that the engineer responsible for inspecting the bridge to ensure its safety gave it a clean bill of health.

I listened to interviews on the radio in which the relevant authourities were given a grilling about how reliable their inspection procedures were.


So it was in fact a story of possible incompetence, and therefore nothing whatsoever to do with EU finance.