Talk:Dunshaughlin railway station

Drumree railway station

This article is incorrectly titled. The station will be in Drumree, not Dunshaughlin. Anybody claiming otherwise is, quite simply, either lying or misinformed. 86.44.47.116 (talk) 01:26, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

And your evidence of this claim is....? The C of E. God Save The Queen! (talk) 16:07, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Em, basic cop-on, Einstein. Drumree is not Dunshaughlin, no more than Croydon is Epsom (to use analogies from your own country). 86.44.47.116 (talk) 16:15, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

That map proves nothing, we'll stick to the references. Canterbury Tail talk 16:34, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

The map proves that Drumree is not in Dunshaughlin. Drumree is where the train station is being built, on the same train line as existed until the 1950s. It is not being built in Dunshaughlin. Even this article concedes that there is local opposition to building the station outside the village and that there is an alternative proposal to build it in the village/next to it. Have you read the article yet? 86.44.47.116 (talk) 16:47, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Even if it is in Drumree do you know it won't be called Dunshaughlin. If so provide a reference. References that I find say it's being built at Dunshaughlin, here for example. Canterbury Tail talk 16:53, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

It would, in fairness, be a bit dim to call a train station in Drumree "Dunshaughlin railway station". Unless you're thinking in a Ryanair mentality. The penny doesn't seem to be dropping, so let me spell it out: Noel Dempsey is the Minister for Transport, the person in charge of this. He is also the Meath TD. He is, however, in effect the TD for the part of Meath where Drumree is located (due to voter management by Fianna Fáil whereby the party's three TDs divide the constituency between themselves in order to maximise the Fianna Fáil vote in their respective areas of Meath). Dunshaughlin, because it has 10-15 times the population of Drumree, is the natural choice for the new station. However, Dempsey is not the Fianna Fáil TD for Dunshaughlin; he is for Drumree. So, the station is going in an area where Dempsey gets votes and it is being dressed up as "Dunshaughlin railway station" in order to assuage the people in the area which should, by right of having a far greater population, have this station. "Dunshaughlin railway station" is a propaganda name. The reality is that any Dunshaughlin person who wants to use their eponymous station must travel 3km west of their village, pay for parking, and travel 3km back at night. Every day. In contrast, it's 20km south from Dunshaughlin to Dublin city centre. As I said: this is not 'Dunshaughlin railway station'. 86.44.47.116 (talk) 17:08, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

References then. Wikipedia is built on references. You need references to back that up, as all the others say it's a station to serve Dunshaughlin. Canterbury Tail talk 18:26, 24 May 2010 (UTC)