Minister Backs Efforts To Reopen Crusheen Railway Station

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A Government Minister says he gives "every encouragement" to those working to bring about the reopening of Crusheen Railway Station. Clare County Council has already given its commitment to plans for the defunct rail stop to be reinstated, having recently announced its purchase of lands to provide a strategic landbank to be used for the station. A socio-economic analysis of the benefits of reopening the station commissioned by the local authority and published this month states it would have a commuter market of between 1,100 and 1,700 people while its 15-year employment income impact would be in excess of €25 million. Responding to a contribution by Tulla Fianna Fáil Senator Timmy Dooley on the subject in the Seanad, Fine Gael Minister of State Neale Richmond says he sees merit in the arguments being put forward by the station's champions.